[Opinion] : Opinion: Mass deportation doesn’t make us safer, but makes private prison owners richer - El Paso Matters

: Opinion: Mass deportation doesn’t make us safer, but makes private prison owners richer - El Paso Matters

By U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar In the lead up to last year’s elections, Republicans made two major promises: to lower costs on “day one” and secure the border. Voters endorsed both of those ideas, went to the polls, and gave Republicans total control of our federal government.  Veronica Escobar Yet, not only have Donald Trump and congressional Republicans failed to lower costs, but “securing the border” has morphed into mass deportations that ha…

Mass Deportation Is Happening

Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s commitment to mass deportation was never in question. They were always going to try it, however unfeasible a goal it is to forcibly expel 20 million people. Of course, such attempts were always going to run into problems with costs and logistical feasibility. By mid-June, ICE was $1 billion over their budget and claimed they would be out of money entirely within a month. Moreover, even with adequate funds, it ta…

Keeping it Real: Mass Deportation and the Rebirth of Eugenics

ICE agents' actions in Huntington Park have sparked fear among the immigrant community, while Trump's immigration policies align with Eugenics philosophy, creating an "America of the well-born" and controlling and containing immigrants and others deemed undesirable. The post Keeping it Real: Mass Deportation and the Rebirth of Eugenics appeared first on Black Voice News.