Wow, this is powerful. The article did not go where I expected it to. I thought it would be more about how the rounding up of immigrants from our towns and cities would impact the people in those places. I had not thought it would be about the process of what deportation looks like.
Thanks for your comment, Karel. Yeah. The rounding up and corralling of real people tears families and communities apart. We've seen its destructive force. We've felt it. The violence it unleashes and trauma it causes has been documented and shared with the world. But once our neighbors and family members are trapped under the cruel knee of ICE??? That's when the black out curtains fall. And while there is sufficient evidence to prove that what people experience in ICE "detention" (aka high-security prison) is a brutal violation of human decency -- never mind the law -- ICE Air planes are torture chambers in the sky. And no one knows.
The Deportation Machine has been with us for decades. But the number of resources documenting what actually happens on ICE Air can be counted on one hand. My book is one of them. This story comes from my book.
Whenever a law enforcement agency is allowed to act with such impunity, it is never good for democracy and the rule of law. People suffer. Communities suffer. Society suffers. Now one of our current presidential candidates is promising to make mass deportations -- and the raids and concentration camps that accompany them -- a daily US reality. We should all be horrified. Thanks so much for reading.
Wow, this is powerful. The article did not go where I expected it to. I thought it would be more about how the rounding up of immigrants from our towns and cities would impact the people in those places. I had not thought it would be about the process of what deportation looks like.
Thanks for your comment, Karel. Yeah. The rounding up and corralling of real people tears families and communities apart. We've seen its destructive force. We've felt it. The violence it unleashes and trauma it causes has been documented and shared with the world. But once our neighbors and family members are trapped under the cruel knee of ICE??? That's when the black out curtains fall. And while there is sufficient evidence to prove that what people experience in ICE "detention" (aka high-security prison) is a brutal violation of human decency -- never mind the law -- ICE Air planes are torture chambers in the sky. And no one knows.
The Deportation Machine has been with us for decades. But the number of resources documenting what actually happens on ICE Air can be counted on one hand. My book is one of them. This story comes from my book.
Whenever a law enforcement agency is allowed to act with such impunity, it is never good for democracy and the rule of law. People suffer. Communities suffer. Society suffers. Now one of our current presidential candidates is promising to make mass deportations -- and the raids and concentration camps that accompany them -- a daily US reality. We should all be horrified. Thanks so much for reading.