The Don's anti-immigration policies have always been punitive -- punishing people for wanting to come to the Great Again. This report by the Marshall Project, in cooperation with The New York Times, shows that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the official ouster agency, has accepted, as part of its mission, punishing whole countries. It has exported COVID-9 to at least 11 countries that closed their borders but couldn't keep out infected deportee flights. That'll teach them to send their huddled masses and wretched refuse!
That is in addition to the way ICE spreads the infection by aimlessly flying sick detainees hither and yon. Checking for the coronavirus is not part of ICE's job.
Of course, this country always treated some immigrants as pests. Here is an example from 1948. But it does seem as if we are currently reaching depths that make the Mariana Trench look like high ground.
Joe Biden reportedly wants a 100 day moratorium on deportations. Here is a link to the immigration reforms he favors. Which were supposedly worked out with the input of Bernie Sanders' supporters. I don't quite trust the link, since it is from the Washington Times, which I am sure is not supportive of Biden.
ReplyDeleteFrom the link: "The unity platform, developed by backers of Mr. Biden and one-time chief rival Sen. Bernard Sanders, would wipe clean every major immigration policy of the last three and a half years, replacing them with more legal immigration and eliminating the controls that have tamped down on illegal immigration....It would also set a new cap for refugees at 125,000 a year, which would be the highest since the mid-1990s. By contrast Mr. Trump has set a cap of just 18,000 this year."
I'm sure all this will just make Trump's base froth at the mouth, but too bad, I find it very pro-life.