Immigrants are not your bludgeon to use against Democrats

[DonViejo]

ARUN GUPTA
18 JUN 2018 AT 08:47 ET

Immigrants are not your bludgeon to use against Democrats. Immigrants are not an object for your history lessons. Immigrants are not numbers in your game.

Your argument that “it happened before” is utterly inhumane and shows complete contempt for solidarity for millions of immigrants in peril.

What is happening now is unprecedented. Trump promised a war on immigrants from the moment he began his campaign three years ago. That is exactly what is going on now.

Here is what is unprecedented:

Concentration camps for children.

The rescinding of DACA for 800,000 Dreamers.

Removal of temporary protected status for 248,000 refugees.

Administrative closure has been revoked for 350,000 more immigrants.

Refugee admissions have dropped from 95,000 in 2016 to less than 11,000 in the first half of 2018.

Domestic violence is no longer grounds for asylum.

Asylum seekers in general are being illegally turned away at the U.S. border.

Green card holders — legal residents — are being advised by immigration lawyers not to apply for any government aid, even Medicaid for an injured child, or their application will be refused.

Even more breathtaking, the Trump White House is moving to strip naturalized U.S. citizens of their citizenship and deport them.

You know what happens when people are deported? They die. Many die right away. Go spend some time in Tijuana among the armies of homeless deportees being preyed on, going mad, and being killed there by cops and criminals alike. Others die slowly, like the man in Tijuana who told me within a year of being deported, his wife got cancer and died because she was so devastated. Nearly all will see their life expectancy cut short because of a lack of healthcare, of basic services, of food, or from violence.

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[Initech]

1. This administration would commit genocide if they knew they could get away with it.