[The Trump administration says mass
deportation raids will start on June 23. This article from shortly
after the 2016 elections seems relevant now. It explained that as a government
with only minority support, Trump’s administration would need raids as a way to
distract attention from its failures to fulfill the president’s populist
promises.
In fact, the White House has
carried out a number of mass
raids in cities and has restarted the huge
workplace raids from the George W. Bush era, although the 2016 article
overstated the White House’s ability to carry these raids out. Partly this has
been due to the administration’s own incompetence, but a more important factor
has been popular
resistance—which may have a major impact on this new round of raids.
(The article also has a factual error: John Kelly was the third general to head
up immigration services, not the second.)—TPOI editor.]
Trump’s
Deportation Machine
By David L. Wilson, Jacobin
December 19, 2016
Like so much about the incoming
administration, president-elect Donald Trump’s intentions for undocumented
immigrants remain unclear. But he seems likely to go forward with a substantial
program of “getting them out of our country.”[…]
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