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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Making Sense of the Deportation Debate How Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Laid the Groundwork for Trump’s Immigration Policies

Making Sense of the Deportation Debate
How Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Laid the Groundwork for Trump’s Immigration Policies
By Aviva Chomsky
Ever since he rode a Trump Tower escalator into the presidential race in June 2015 and swore to build his “great wall” and stop Mexican “rapists” from entering the country, undocumented immigrants have been the focus of Donald Trump’s ire. Now that he’s in the Oval Office, the news has been grim. A drumbeat of frightening headlines and panicked social media posts have highlighted his incendiary language, his plans and executive orders when it comes to immigrants, and the early acts of the Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents when it comes to round-ups and deportations.  The temperature has soared on the deportation debate, so if you think we’re in a completely unprecedented moment when it comes to immigration and immigrants, you’re in good company.
Click here to read more of this dispatch.http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176271/tomgram%3A_aviva_chomsky%2C_the_criminalization_of_immigrants_from_clinton_to_trump/#more

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