During a border security conference in Phoenix earlier this week, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons stated that he wanted to see our deportation process be "like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings."
This succinctly describes how the Trump Administration views immigrants, legal and otherwise.
Immigrants are viewed not as human beings, but as chattel to be shipped around the country before being deported.
It is because of attitudes such as this that ICE has no compunction about forcibly removing people from the streets with the White House openly contemplating sending incarcerated American citizens to El Salvador. Should this come to pass then the Trump Administration will be perfectly happy to deport American citizens who express opinions contrary to their own.
The only way such a policy can be implemented is when the government denies the humanity of those they dislike while we accept their actions or simply look the other way.
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