Post by Logan on Feb 23, 2017 15:51:55 GMT -6
THE DEPARTMENT of Homeland Security (DHS) released two memos on February 20 laying out measures to implement Donald Trump's anti-immigrant executive order, issued under the misleading title "Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States."
In reality, Trump's order is a clear-and-present threat to the safety of millions of people, undocumented and not--and DHS officials have drawn up a battle plan for carrying it out.
The DHS memos are chilling because of the directives they contain that could destroy the lives of so many people--but also for their language that directly imports the racist right-wing myth of immigrants as a menacing horde directly into official government policy.
"Criminal aliens have demonstrated their disregard for the rule of law and pose a threat to persons residing in the United States," one memo declares, as if it was cut-and-pasted directly from a rant at Breitbart News.
Read more: socialistworker.org/2017/02/23/declaration-of-war-on-11-million-people
In reality, Trump's order is a clear-and-present threat to the safety of millions of people, undocumented and not--and DHS officials have drawn up a battle plan for carrying it out.
The DHS memos are chilling because of the directives they contain that could destroy the lives of so many people--but also for their language that directly imports the racist right-wing myth of immigrants as a menacing horde directly into official government policy.
"Criminal aliens have demonstrated their disregard for the rule of law and pose a threat to persons residing in the United States," one memo declares, as if it was cut-and-pasted directly from a rant at Breitbart News.
Read more: socialistworker.org/2017/02/23/declaration-of-war-on-11-million-people