06/01/2026
Racism and sa**sm running amok.
“According to one detainee, a guard told him that
‘It’s part of my job. I have to make your life miserable so that you request your own deportation.’
Everything we know suggests that this quote is an accurate description of what’s happening….
The truth is that none of the claims made by anti-immigration hardliners about the benefits of driving the foreign-born away has survived contact with reality.
The virtual end of net immigration hasn’t led to a boom in jobs for the native-born. Growth in the working-age population has stalled, but so has job creation, and the employment rate for native-born adults is lower, not higher, than it was before the pogroms began….
And the idea that immigrants are, as a group, especially crime-prone, has been extensively debunked….
The atrocities being perpetrated by ICE — atrocities that are almost surely far bigger and worse than we know about — are in part instrumental, a way to frighten immigrants into self-deporting. But is there any real doubt that mistreating and terrorizing people, especially people of color, is for some MAGA types a goal in itself — something they always wanted license to do?
As The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer wrote in a justly famous essay, ‘The Cruelty Is the Point.’ And what does it say about us as a nation if we accept this?”
The Trump administration’s attack on immigrants isn’t about rule of law, crime or jobs. It’s racism and sa**sm all the way down
