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| Boston protest, 1981. Photo: John Tlumacki/Boston Globe via Getty |
At the margins of the mainstream discursive stalemate
over immigration lies over a century of historical U.S. intervention that
politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle seem determined to silence.
By Mark Tseng-Putterman, Medium
June 20, 2018
A national spotlight now shines on the border between the
United States and Mexico, where heartbreaking images of Central American
children being separated from their parents and held in cages demonstrate the
consequences of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance policy” on
unauthorized entry into the country, announced in May 2018. Under intense
international scrutiny, Trump has now signed an executive order that will keep
families detained at the border together, though it is unclear when the more
than 2,300 children already separated from their guardians will be returned.
Trump has promised that keeping families together will not
prevent his administration from maintaining “strong — very strong — borders,”
making it abundantly clear that the crisis of mass detention and deportation at
the border and throughout the U.S. is far from over. Meanwhile, Democratic
rhetoric of inclusion, integration, and opportunity has failed to fundamentally
question the logic of Republican calls for a strong border and the nation’s
right to protect its sovereignty.[…]
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