August 14, 2019
It is easy to feel as though we all have plummeted, en masse, to Dante’s 10th circle of Hell. We are subjected, on a daily basis, to acts of unspeakable depravity, cruelty and violence, led or inspired by this administration. There appears to be no level to which this administration will not sink.
Mere days after watching Latinx people murdered in cold blood in racially targeted mass shootings, this administration carried out a raid on chicken processing plants in Mississippi on the first day of school, in keeping with their guiding principles of governing through “fear, cruelty and chaos.”. The DHS raid rounded up nearly 700 undocumented workers, some of whom have been in this country for 19 years. To this regime, though, there was no escape from the crime of being Brown. A callous federal prosecutor responded to multiple tales of traumatized children by analogizing crossing the border with drug abuse or tax evasion and claimed that the government had no choice, (Source: “Their parents were taken in Mississippi immigration raids. For these kids, the trauma is just beginning,” by Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN.com, 8/11/19). Continue reading “Fear, cruelty and chaos”