How Trump Radicalized ICE
A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy, by @FranklinFoer theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy, by @FranklinFoer theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Immigration enforcement has been handed over to a small clique of militant anti-immigration wonks that - this group knows that the best strategy for accomplishing its goal of driving out undocumented immigrants is quite simply the cultivation of fear.
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ice consistently ranks among the worst workplaces in the federal government - Even as Trump smothered ice with praise and endowed it with broader responsibilities, ice still placed 288th last year on a list of 305 federal agencies in a satisfaction survey
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"It’s one thing for a city to require cops to issue a minimum number of parking tickets; it’s another for the federal government to proscribe a daily goal for the number of human beings it will deprive of liberty."
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"...it’s easy to lose track of the smaller changes that have been taking place. But with them, the administration has devised a scheme intended to unnerve undocumented immigrants by creating an overall tone of inhospitality and menace."
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This article provides insight into the historical context and current workings of ice and also shares the heartbreaking human story of some of the people impacted, a must read piece by @FranklinFoer
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Kris Kobach is the intellectual architect of Trump's immigration policy
