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The shocking mistreatment of immigrants by ICE—so unnecessarily inhumane—is the banality of evil in America. This story reveals the depth of the normalization of cruelty under Trump: A pregnant woman about to get married, arrested, denied meds thedailybeast.com/ice-jailed-pre…
The shocking headline only scratches the surface of cruelty. ICE agent enters a couple’s marriage interview w/ handcuffs & arrests Carmen. She’s pregnant. Her hypertension meds are in her purse. ICE took the purse but assured she’d get her meds. She didn’t, endangering her life. 
We can’t marry immigrants anymore? Is that how desperate racists are? Carmen’s lived here for a decade—is married to a US citizen! They’re @ CIS immigration interview. But Trump reversed Obama policy against detaining pregnant women—normalizing gratuitous cruelty. #BanalityofEVIL
