Demonstrators in Los Angeles were joined by activists in dozens of other cities across the country on Thursday evening to protest the separation of migrant families under President Trump’s zero-tolerance crackdown on illegal immigration.
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Reports of the forcible separation of parents and children at the border by U.S. immigration authorities tell only part of the story of the violence now being directed against hard-won norms of civil society.
Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly said that kids would be placed in foster care “or whatever,” and explained that seizing children was intended as a “tough deterrent” against those trying to cross the border without papers.
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Ten years ago nearly 400 immigrant workers at a meatpacking plant in Postville Iowa were detained and subject to deportation. Trump, with bipartisan support, pardoned the plant's owner Sholom Rubashkin, who had been jailed for financial fraud. The victim's of the raid received no justice.
‘How convenient and profitable for wealthy private prisons to exploit detained immigrant labor rather than hire regularly waged employees.’
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