The Trump Administration Is Escalating an Immigration Crisis It Promised To Resolve
During last year’s presidential campaign, Donald Trump and his allies promised to take swift action to resolve what they termed the “Biden border crisis”—the flow of asylum-seeking migrants across America’s southern border.
Whether or not you agree with the premise that the border was a “crisis” under President Joe Biden, there’s pretty compelling evidence that many Americans did. Polling shows that Trump’s focus on the border and his promise to stop the flow of immigrants was a major factor in convincing voters to give him another try at the presidency.
Four months after Trump returned to the Oval Office, that crisis appears to be over. The number of migrants crossing the southern border in recent months has been a fraction of what was seen over the past few years—a fact that the Trump administration has touted as evidence of “the most secure border in history.” Mission accomplished, right?
But Trump—and his anti-immigrant advisors, like White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller—are still in crisis mode. The border is no longer the focus, however. Now, the administration seemingly believes that the crisis extends to nail salons, hardware stores, farms, and restaurants across the country, where undocumented immigrants who are peacefully exchanging labor for dollars are being targeted. Some of the immigrants scooped up in raids this week have already been deported, The Washington Post reports.
In practice, these workplace raids are dystopian. Here’s how The Wall Street Journal summarizes what’s happening: “Federal agents make warrantless arrests. Masked agents take people into custody without identifying themselves. Plainclothes agents in at least a dozen cities have arrested migrants who showed up to their court hearings. And across the U.S., people suspected of being in the country illegally are disappearing into the federal detention system without notice to families or lawyers, according to attorneys, witnesses and officials.”
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