Pogroms, American Style

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The Trump administration's immigration policies are characterized by the author as 'pogroms', aimed at driving out all immigrants—both legal and undocumented—through systemic cruelty.
Administration actions include cutting off immigrants from jobs, health care, housing, and even federal day care subsidies for American-born children of non-citizen parents, with the goal of compelling them to leave.
Immigration enforcement extends beyond legal measures to include terror tactics, such as inhumane conditions in ICE detention centers, obstruction of investigations, and transfers to hide detainees from families and lawyers.
The campaign is described as driven by racism and sadism, with refugee admissions largely ended except for white South Africans, and cruelty seen as an intrinsic goal for some supporters.
Economic justifications for anti-immigration policies are debunked: falling immigration hasn't boosted native-born employment, and immigrants are not more crime-prone, with low crime rates in high-immigrant cities.
Public opinion opposes these harsh measures, with polls showing majority support for pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, including children brought illegally.
The article draws parallels to abandoned allies, like those in Afghanistan, arguing that such cruelty reflects a broader loss of moral authority and human rights disregard by the government.

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