Behind The Criminal Immigration Law: Eugenics And White Supremacy
ProPublica
June 25, 2018 4:50 am
Amid a bipartisan backlash, President Trump has tried repeatedly to shift blame to Democrats for his own administrations zero-tolerance immigration policy, which has resulted in more than 2,300 migrant children being taken from their families along the U.S.Mexico border. The Democrats have to change their law thats their law, Trump told reporters on Friday.
The president didnt specify which law he was talking about. But the statute at the center of his administrations policy is the work of Republicans with origins dating back all the way to World War I albeit with substantial Democratic support along the way. Known originally as the Undesirable Aliens Act, the statute would not exist without support from, respectively, a eugenicist and a white supremacist.
The law in question was the foundation of a memo Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued in early April that laid out the administrations new, zero-tolerance policy. In the memo, Sessions instructed federal prosecutors in the southwestern United States to file criminal charges against any adults caught entering the country illegally. His order stripped officials of discretion over whether to place migrant families seeking asylum into civil proceedings, which allow families to stay together. (Court rulings limit how long the government can detain migrants in civil proceedings. Theres also no guarantee theyll return for future hearing dates once theyre let out, a phenomenon that has prompted the presidents complaints about catch and release.)
On Monday, ProPublica published audio recorded at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility in which a Border Patrol agent mocks the wails of migrant children as young as 4. Liberals and conservatives alike have condemned the policy, calling it cruel, an atrocity, and inconsistent with our American values.
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