Declaring that children inhumanely separated from their asylum-seeking parents “are not innocent” is alarmingly on nazi, authoritarian levels, not on par with U.S. democratic values or the presidency. We are living through the second coming of Hitler with the Trump administration sanctioning state-violence against immigrants by planning military concentration camps for children, (unlawfully) separating migrant children from parents, and facilitating egregious ICE abuse of detainees by allowing the destruction of it’s paper-trail. If you ever wondered how nazi ideology rose to prominence in 1940s-era Germany, this is how. This is the context for the “animals” comment – Trump’s routine dehumanization of immigrants has been militarized most recently culminating in the murder of 20-year-old, unarmed Guatemalan migrant Claudia Gonzalez and 1,475 lost migrant children as young as 53 weeks. Some of released to human-trafficking rings and others with convicted sexual assaulters. These draconian, morally abominable, unlawful policies serve as “deterrent” according to John Kelly.
What did Trump have to say about his victims of family separation after backlash? “Phony stories of sadness and grief.”
When you dehumanize a people, it’s easy for the “family values,” “evangelical,” “pro-life” and even “Pizzagate” party to treat brown children as livestock. It’s easy to completely disregard their human rights, physically abuse them, and separate them as slave families were in the 18th century, because of a legal status irrespective to their intrinsic human rights. Thus, 18-month-olds are easily ripped from their mothers screaming, the 4-month-old premature baby and her 16-year-old mother are left without medical care, the 16-year-old sexually abused, all without accountability. Losing 1,475 children – some to human trafficking, opening up military concentration camps, and shooting 20-year-old unarmed migrant Claudia Gonzalez.
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
-Nelson Mandela
As a nazi propaganda minister once said, “Blame the other side that which you are guilty of,” — and that’s precisely what Trump is doing in response to outrage over his own policy. A policy announced at a press conference by Jeff Sessions. Separating children from parents isn’t only a mark of America’s institutionally depraved core, but it’s also not legal. Our due process law does not have the power to separate children for no reason unless there’s abuse. This is an unprecedented new policy from the Trump administration to punish asylum seekers.
We’re rejecting migrants that are seeking asylum after fleeing death threats and violence – presenting themselves to officials at the border, just as we did Jewish refugees during WW2 — Anne Frank was denied a Visa. FDR claimed this ethno-religious group fleeing genocide was a “threat to national security.” Sound familiar? That’s because the Trump administration runs on this brand of politics of fear. After much dehumanizing generalizations of Latinos as “drug-traffickers,” “rapists,” and animals, they recently lamented that America’s asylum laws are “dangerous loopholes” and placing “our communities at risk,”
ICE Is Disproportionally Targetting Latinos in their Ethnic-Cleansing Campaign
Pew Research estimates the number of unauthorized immigrants as follows: 1.6 million Central Americans, 1.5 million Asians, 0.6 million South Americans, and 0.5 Europeans/Canadians.
Central America (1.6) and Asia(1.5) have similar numbers of illegal immigrants. Despite this, 97.2% of ICE’s deportations are of Latinos (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador,etc.), while the number is only 0.5% for Asia (China, India, Philippines, South Korea, etc.) This makes it clear that this is about race. America’s Gestapo is actively engineering the racial makeup of this country as nazi Germany did through genocide.
It’s also not about economic status of immigrant populations — poorer Asian and European countries are ignored.
Populations of immigrants: China: 2,420,000, Philippines: 2,080,000, Vietnam: 1,410,000, Honduras: 600,000
ICE Deportations: China: 525, Philippines: 182, Vietnam: 71, Honduras: 22,381
Repeat it with me — ICE is a fascist, extrajudicial, terrorist organization with the sole purpose of purging Latinos from America while ignoring similar illegal immigrant populations of other races. It has zero accountability to due process, hence their rampant abuse of children, sexual assault, and carelessness in releasing children to abusers and trafficking rings. It unlawfully detains legal residents and terrorizes immigrant communities.
Children As Young as 18 Months Are Being Separated
What does Trump have to say about the crying 18-month old children of asylum seekers being ripped from their parents, the abused children? “They’re not innocent.” The Charlottesville white supremacists however? “ Very fine people.” No word on the myriad of white mass shooters like the Florida one who’ve sported MAGA apparel online. We are officially living in the time of history future generations will look back on in bewilderment over how the country which fought against fascism, arrived at it. Since October, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has taken 700 children from their parents.
Under Trump’s new policy children as young as 18 months are put into government run shelters to serve as “a tough deterrent against illegal immigration according to John Kelly. A 7-year-old was kept away from her asylum-seeking mother for several months in a Chicago jail. Whereas before, parents were processed with the child. This is absolutely reprehensible and undemocraticv.
A person’s legal status does not negate their basic human rights and separating children from their guardians violates the Administrative Procedure Act, the Asylum Statute, and the Due Process Clause. The U.S. government doesn’t have the power to conduct such inhumane, senseless actions unless there’s abuse. Trump hiding from these inhumane policies and blaming Democrats is ludicrous considering they’ve asked him to reverse his policy and Republicans control Congress.
Rest easy though, John Kelly said “The children will be taken care of – put into foster care – or whatever.”
1,475 Lost Children – Many Released to Human Traffickers
Oh wait, 1,475 children have been lost track of by federal agencies with many being released to human traffickers by HHS. With a 2016 congressional committee report finding that it failed to protect minors from traffickers and other abusers. These are crimes against humanity – but they’re the scapegoated minority so nothing will be done.
Murder of Unarmed Migrants by Border Agents
As if this wasn’t disturbing enough, our recently-militarized border patrol shot and killed 20-year-old unarmed Guatemalan migrant Claudia Gonzalez. This is the latest among the 97 fatal shootings of migrants by border agents. If these extrajudicial, senseless murders of brown people don’t count as ethnic-cleansing then I don’t know what does.
Trump Administration is Opening Military Detainment Camps for Children
After releasing children to traffickers, losing 1,475, and having open-season on immigrants the next phase are military detention camps according to the Trump administration. Here comes the concentration camp portion of republicans’ ethnic cleansing program. Right after cancelling Indian’s HB-1 visas, curbing legal immigration, and wanting to ban migration from “shithole countries.” The moral depravity bar has reached hell.
ICE Records of Abuse Authorized for Destruction
ICE will start destroying immigrant abuse records including “sexual assault and deaths in custody. A paper trail for constitutional abuses will be destroyed.
Records of the tens of thousands of children beaten, deprived of food and medical care by federal border agents will be destroyed. ICE-Gestapo left a 4-pound premature baby and her minor mother in an overcrowded and “dirty cell full of sick people, against medical advice.” They’ve violated a 16-year-old girl, ran over a 17-year-old then beat him up, denied a pregnant minor medical attention, preceding a stillbirth.
In response to this ACLU report detailing the countless abuses, DHS nazis which systematically enable physical, sexual, and psychological child abuse dismissed the complaints calling them “baseless allegations.” In response to these institutional crimes against humanity, the White House called them “fake news.” Allegations which “span multiple years..states..different backgrounds.”
The Legal Case for Abolishing ICE
This has all gained mainstream attention after a long barbaric history of their heinous actions including prolonged detention, no due process that has culminated with thousands of U.S. citizens deported, 7-year-old asylees jailed, 10-year-olds with cerebral palsy arrested at the hospital.
ICE should not only be abolished, but prosecuted for their unlawful prolonged detention of lawful residents and citizens, an egregious 97 killings along the border, separation of children, and appalling sexual abuse of detainees – many among them, children. This is an undemocratic, criminal, ethnic-cleansing organization operating above the law. Illegal immigration cases should go back to being dealt with by the courts as it was before the reprehensible undemocratic Patriot Act (2003.) This authoritarian force operates extrajudicially with zero accountability to due process – a breeding ground for abuses of power. We must prosecute these cruel, lawless officials and go back operating through the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) an agency of the DOJ.
We lived in a country pre-ICE for 2___ years. If those concerned with individual liberty look back on the 2003 Patriot Act and Iraq war in shame — this ethnic-cleansing organization established in 2003 should be no exception.
These heinous, unlawful actions are of course no surprise coming from the Czar who campaigned and won on politics of fear by characterizing all Mexicans as “drug dealers, criminals, rapists,” who’s called white supremacists “fine people,” but immigrants “animals,” and Africa and El Salvador “shitholes.” When someone shows you who they are – by starting the birther movement, being sued by the DOJ for housing discrimination twice, calling hispanic Miss Universe “miss housekeeping,” and throwing out hispanic names and potential crimes they’d commit – believe them. It starts with rhetoric and ends in 1,475 lost children, with children at the hands of human traffickers, and military concentration camps.
We must demand answers from Congress (202-224-3121), from ICE (1-866-DHS-2-ICE), and E. Scott Lloyd, the Director of The Office of Refugee Resettlement in DHS (202-401-9246) about #WhereAreTheChildren. We must support the institutions fighting for human rights by donating to the ACLU, and contacting the UN. These barbaric monsters must be held accountable for their systematic abuses of power.
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