Family Separation Is Torture, According to Physicians for Human Rights

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Family Separation Is Torture, According to Physicians for Human Rights
According to a new report by PHR, the Trump administration’s treatment of asylum seekers “constitutes cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.”


https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-immigration-torture-coronavirus/


By Sasha Abramsky Today 5:45 am



Protesters hold signs including ones that say

Protesters in Denver, Colorado, demand the closure of inhumane immigrant detention centers in July 2019. (Tom Cooper / Getty Images for MoveOn.org Civic Action)

The Signal this week—and probably for many weeks to come—is the relentless global spread of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, and the accompanying economic panic that is threatening to take down global stock markets and tank entire industries. The Noise is the incoherent mix of boosterism and skepticism about scientific expertise emanating from the White House.

Another Signal is the almost equally relentless march of xenophobic politics. With fear of outsiders intensifying as the coronavirus pandemic gathers pace, it’s likely that Trump’s brutal anti-immigrant policies—which a new report says amounts to torture—will only pick up steam.

Just this past week, SWAT teams and snatch squads were deployed in sanctuary cities to surveil immigrant targets in their homes and


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