There is an ongoing DHS investigation into the forced hysterectomies performed on ICE detainees; an act of genocide with deep roots in US history. It was confirmed that the Georgia doctor performed two hysterectomies on detainees at the Irwin County Detention Center who allege they did not consent to such an abhorrent procedure. ICE — an extrajudicial organization created in 2003 — has a documented history of human rights violations including 4,556 complaints of sexual abuse of immigrant children in four years, 2,700 child separations, and release of many of 1,500 lost children into trafficking rings. ICE-Gestapo should be abolished and tried at the World Court at The Hague for their rampant heinous crimes against humanity. Could this DHS investigation set a new precedent for oversight over an organization with virtually zero accountability to due process?  

Allegations made by the Georgia nurse and multiple migrant women mean the number of women who were medically abused could be much higher. Dawn Wooten alleged that many were taken to a gynecologist whom she labeled the “uterus collector” because of the amount of hysterectomies he performed.  Rep. Pramila Jayapal who wrote a letter signed by 173 lawmakers (and opposed by 157 republicans), has stated, “There may be at minimum 17 to 18 women who were subjected to unnecessary medical gynecological procedures from just this one doctor, often without appropriate consent or knowledge, and with the clear intention of sterilization.” Citing from the number of clients of attorneys she had spoken to. Women at the Irwin Detention Center allege that 

The 27-page whistleblower complaint filed on Sept. 14, 2020, by Project South on behalf of Dawn Wooten, a practical nurse who works at Irwin County Detention Center deals with medical negligence and a lack of safety measures against COVID-19.

Forced Sterilization – A 100 Year Old Practice

These unchecked racist abuses of power should come as no surprise when the U.S. inspired nazis in the 1930s. Yale Law professor James Q. Whitman’s book Hitler’s American Model examines how the Third Reich gained ideas from the United States’ racial laws. 

ICE’s latest human right abuse — forced sterilization — is a practice that began in the U.S. almost 100 years ago when the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 encouraged the sterilization of institutionalized people in Virginia. Forced sterilization was upheld by a 1927 Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell which  resulted in 70,000 sterilizations of people deemed “unfit” to reproduce, due to mental illness, disability, poverty, or race. This continued well into the 1970s when the U.S. sterilized 70,000 Native American women through the Indian Health Service Act. Then from the 1920s-1950s when the U.S. sterilized thousands of Mexican women for being deemed “immigrants of an undesirable type.” Again in the 1960s and 1970s, Mexican women had having non-consensual sterilizations in order to receive medical care or give birth. In a mass eugenics campaign from the 1930s-1970s, about a third of women in Puerto Rico were sterilized. In 2010, California prisoners were sterilized against their will. 

History of ICE Crimes Against Humanit

This all stems from a long-accepted history of physical abuse of detained immigrants under the hands of ICE-Gestapo. The federal government received more than 4,500 complaints in four years about the sexual abuse of immigrant children outlined in this report. And 2,700 caged children as young as 18 months separated from many asylum-seeking parents that Trump has declared “are not innocent” to justify his continuing family-separation “deterrence” policy. Trump described them as, “Phony stories of sadness and grief.”  ICE has even sought to destroy it’s paper trail of their abuse against detainees in the past. It’s no surprise WWII-era Germany was inspired by the US in its _________. These draconian, abominable, unlawful acts must be prosecuted if we’re to defeat fascism again, this time, on our own home front.

An ACLU report exhumed migrant abuse cases of children beaten, deprived of food and medical care by federal border agents. ICE-Gestapo left a 4-pound premature baby and her minor mother in an overcrowded and “dirty cell full of sick people, against medical advice.” They’ve violated a 16-year-old girl, ran over a 17-year-old then beat him up, denied a pregnant minor medical attention, preceding a stillbirth.

In response to this ACLU report detailing the countless abuses, the DHS sdismissed the complaints of child abuse as  “baseless allegations.” In response to these institutional crimes against humanity, the White House called them “fake news.”  Yet the allegations which “span multiple years..states..different backgrounds.

Furthermore, 97.2% of ICE’s deportations are of Latinos, despite the number of illegal immigrants being as follows: 1.6 million Central Americans, 1.5 million Asians, 0.6 million South Americans, and 0.5 Europeans/Canadians. Central America (1.6) and Asia (1.5) have similar numbers of illegal immigrants, and deportations are 0.5% for Asia (China, India, Philippines, South Korea, etc.) 

It’s also not about the economic status of immigrant populations — poorer Asian and European countries are ignored. Populations of immigrants: China: 2,420,000, Philippines: 2,080,000, Vietnam: 1,410,000, Honduras: 600,000.  ICE Deportations: China: 525, Philippines: 182, Vietnam: 71, Honduras: 22,381.

ICE-Gestapo’s heinous actions are about ethnic cleansing, not the rule of law that they’ve violated tens of thousands of times according to all these frightening reports. Their racial profiling,  prolonged detention, and zero due process has culminated with thousands of  U.S. citizens deported, 7-year-old asylees jailed, 10-year-olds with cerebral palsy arrested at the hospital.

ICE is a fascist, extrajudicial organization with zero accountability to due process, hence their rampant abuse of migrants, sexual assaults, and carelessness in releasing children to abusers and trafficking rings. It unlawfully detains legal residents and terrorizes immigrant communities.

ICE should not only be abolished, but prosecuted for their unlawful prolonged detention of lawful residents and citizens, an egregious 97 killings along the border, separation of children, and appalling sexual abuse of detainees – many among them, children. This is an undemocratic, criminal, ethnic-cleansing organization operating above the law. Illegal immigration cases should go back to being dealt with by the courts as it was before the reprehensible undemocratic Patriot Act (2003.) This authoritarian force operates extrajudicially with zero accountability to due process – a breeding ground for abuses of power.

We lived in a pre-ICE nation for 200 years. Many legal advocates support the measure. If those concerned with individual liberty look back on the 2003 Patriot Act and Iraq war in shame — this ethnic-cleansing organization established in 2003 should be no exception.We must prosecute these cruel, lawless officials and go back operating through the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) an agency of the DOJ.

Prosecuting ICE for Crimes Against Humanity

Genocide is an international law crime that includes acts of forced sterelization according to the UN Genocide Convention. Article II defines genocide as including the following acts (that ICE has committed):

 “Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group “

It’s time for DHS to prosecute every agent involved in the forced sterilization against migrant women. It’s time for ICE to be tried for their crimes against humanity at an international court at The Hague. 

Despite previously accepting the most refugees globally, the U.S. has a dark history of denying asylum to those fleeing human rights abuses — from the Jewish refugees in the 1930s, to the Haitians during the Duvalier dictatorship, and Salvadorans fleeing political violence in the 1980s. Many times these crises have been caused by U.S.-led regime changes that have bolstered dictators and left behind violent instability. This year, the Trump administration  has blocked asylum for Latin Americans fleeing persecution at the southern border. Previously stating these children “are not innocent.” With his interim order, ‘life-or-death’ migrants fleeing gang violence in their home countries (the effect of the United States’ disastrous, interventionist foreign policy) present themselves at a point of entry and are denied. Those that aren’t detained for prolonged periods of time in cramped camps are sent back to often face the death they escaped from. Yet the UN has found that in 58% of cases children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, warrant international protection as refugees.

The United States once stood as the beacon of freedom and equal opportunity, but now stands as the place which sends 5 year old migrant children to court alone with no lawyer, and runs for-profit camps with human rights violations. During 2018, we fell second to Canada for the first time as 22,500 refugees settled in the U.S., in 2017 we granted asylum to 26,568 individuals.

Central American Migrants are Not Economic Migrants but Life-or-Death Migrants

Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras are experiencing record levels of violence. With El Salvador and Honduras ranking among the top five most violent countries in the world. The UN Refugee Agency reports that the violence and persecution faced by this Latin triangle is so extreme children would rather embark on a treacherous long journey to the U.S.  Subsequently, the total number of migrants apprehended at the border is on the rise again after reaching near its lowest level since the ‘70s. UNHCR  documented a 1,185% increase in the number of asylum seekers from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, in Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Belize,from 2008- 2014. The U.S. has received 85% of the total new applications from these three countries in 2012 Additionally, the number of unaccompanied children, has doubled annually since 2011. The U.S. will reach an estimated 60,000 child asylum seekers this year.

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Migrant Children and Families Warrant International Protection per Asylum Law

The 120 page UN report found that 58% of (the 404) children interviewed were forcibly displaced by harms warranting international protection. A statistically significant finding. 72% of those children from El Salvador “raised potential international protection needs.” With 66% citing organized violence as reason for migrating. They witnessed “extortion..murders..threats to themselves and their families, friends and neighbors.”

Of the children from Guatemala, 38% raised international protection concerns, 64% for Mexico, and 57% of Honduran children “raised potential international protection concerns.”

The Courts Discriminate Against Asylum Seekers and Deport Them to Their Deaths

According to U.S. asylum law, protection is issued to those who can prove persecution “on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.” However, the generalized violence targeted at women and children doesn’t easily fit into one of these groups. Thus, U.S. immigration courts grant asylym to those mirgants who  demonstrate “a well-founded fear of persecution”, or who qualify for protection under the UN Convention Against Torture.

Nonetheless, the U.S. doesn’t apply the law free of racial bias, much less with this administration’s restrictions on asylum for vulnerable children and families.  Asylum is granted in over 75% of the time in NY while only 10% in Atlanta. Life and death decisions are made arbitrarily. A 2017 report found that the asylum law isn’t applied justly — two Honduran women fled for their childrens’ livelihood, and yet only one was granted asylum while the other deported. In fact, we deport victims of terror — the U.S. government denied a literal slave asylum in the U.S. because she provided “material support” to a terrorist organization – as its SLAVE!

Unsubstantiated fear-mongering about these vulnerable populations who are fleeing violence, actually being the violence contribute to these human rights violations. When in fact, only 0.02% (56/250,000) of minors at the border since 2011 were suspected or confirmed to have gang affiliations to their home country according to USBP Acting Chief Provost. Furthermore, MS-13 makes up less than 1% of U.S. and Puerto Rico gang members.

To deny children and families asylum is to literally send them to their deaths. Central Americans deported have been killed from gang violence. A man was recently deported after pleading before the judge that he would be killed if sent back, and he was killed in his home country.

Inhumane Policy: Profiting $775 Per Asylum Seeker Per Day While Abusing Their Fundamental Human Rights

We not only deny asylum, but inflict needless suffering to 5-year-olds in court alone with no lawyers, detain legal citizens, ,run for-profit detention centers rampant with human rights violations under agencies like ICE with little accountability to due process, and separated children. Operating these shelters is a billion-dollar business that runs on the suffering of brown families.

A 7-year-old asylee girl being locked up by ICE for four months at a Chicago jail has become America’s  heralded “rule of law.” With the new Supreme Court ruling stating that immigrants, even permanent residents, and asylees, can be held indefinitely, internment camps have become the law of the land.

Then there’s the 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who was detained while on an ambulance to an emergency surgery. These depraved, scoundrel of the earth literally staked outside of the 10-year-old girl’s room after surgery to send her back to a country she only resided in until she was 3-months-old. T

There’s also the 43-year-old janitor at MIT whose three children are U.S. citizens and mother, a permanent resident who planned was going to sponsor him for a green card. He didn’t have a criminal record, ran a business, and paid taxes – a model American. But instead of focusing all our efforts on the criminals, they’re detaining children and hard-working, contributing members of society.

These are just a few of too many senseless, inhumane arrests being made in the name of an imaginary threat – the asylum seekers, the 10-year-old brought here as a baby with cerebral palsy, the green card applicants, the Visa holders,  and the quintessential hardworking immigrant doing the jobs nobody else will to provide for his family. (No, they don’t take jobs away.) All because there is no path to citizenship and the barriers for the poor, non-English speaking masses which Anglo-Saxon Americans’  poor ancestors fleeing persecution and famine didn’t face, simply exist now.

Children were inhumanely separated from their asylum-seeking parents because Trump said they “are not innocent” is alarmingly on nazi, authoritarian levels, not on par with U.S. democratic values or the presidency. This administration has separated migrant children from parents, and facilitating egregious ICE abuse of detainees by allowing the destruction of it’s paper-trail. If you ever wondered how nazi ideology rose to prominence in 1940s-era Germany, this is how. This is the context for the “animals” comment – Trump’s routine dehumanization of immigrants has been militarized most recently culminating in the murder of 20-year-old, unarmed Guatemalan migrant Claudia Gonzalez and 1,475 lost migrant children as young as 53 weeks. Some of released to human-trafficking rings and others with convicted sexual assaulters. These draconian, morally abominable, unlawful policies serve as “deterrent” according to John Kelly.

What did Trump have to say about his victims of family separation after backlash? “Phony stories of sadness and grief.” 

When you dehumanize a people, it’s easy for the “family values,” “evangelical,” “pro-life” a party to treat brown children as livestock. It’s easy to completely disregard their human rights, physically abuse them, and separate them  because of a legal status irrespective to their intrinsic human rights. Thus, 97 fatal shootings of migrants occur at the hands of border agents, 18-month-olds are easily ripped from their mothers screaming, the 4-month-old premature baby and her 16-year-old mother are left without medical care, the 16-year-old sexually abused, all without accountability. Losing 1,475 children – some to human trafficking, opening up military concentration camps, and shooting 20-year-old unarmed migrant Claudia Gonzalez becomes business as usual. As easy as it was to commence violence against Germany’s Jewish scapegoat.

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”

-Nelson Mandela

How U.S. Backed Authoritarian Governments Destabilized Central America and Created the “Caravans”

Those who lack the ability for sympathy, to love their neighbor, will say “why doesn’t their government protect them?” They’d be hitting the core of the problem. International protection for asylum seekers is precisely aimed at those whose governments are unwilling or unable to protect their citizens.

However, governments don’t become oppressive authoritarian ones who deny their citizenry protection under the law without political intervention — or a good U.S. led regime change. The U.S. has intervened in all not only Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, but also in Argentina, Brazil, Nicaragua, Haiti, Paraguay, Chile, Indonesia, Hawaii, Iran, and Iraq. It takes an entire history book to list all the regime change wars and authoritarians the U.S. has bolstered, but it all has led to instability in Latin countries.

If the U.S. doesn’t want refugees maybe it should stop creating them. In 1954, a covert CIA operation overthrew the Democratically elected Guatemalan president during the Guatemalan Revolution for introducing leftist reform such as a minimum wage and land reforms. While the US saw this as just another communist insurrection and part of Domino theory which had to be stopped, there ended up being other implications. In the process of fighting for democracy, they installed a military dictatorship and left the region destabilized. Four decades of civil war followed, as leftist guerrillas fought a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian regimes whose brutalities included a genocide of the Maya peoples. The US wasn’t taking a hardline stance for democracy, but for their own interests by instilling a deferent pawn to promote them.

During Guatemala’s and El Salvador’s civil wars rampant with human rights abuses from governments backed by the U.S., the U.S. rejected almost all asylum claims. Only three percent of the asylum cases from these countries were granted, compared to higher numbers for other countries like Iran and Afghanistan when they fled Soviet invasion. and Afghans fleeing the Soviet invasion); an outcome which had more to do with political decisions rather than assessing the merits of the claims themselves.

The military industrial complex overthrows democratically elected governments, bolsters authoritarian oppressive regimes in Latin America and the Middle-East then absolves itself of the responsibility of the suffering inflicted by those regimes.

Therefore, there should be no surprise there has been a sharp rise in asylum seeking children and mothers from Central America’s Northern Triangle when their countries have remnants of U.S. backed governments that won’t protect their human rights amidst violence and destabilization. With more seeking asylum in the United States from 2013 to 2015 than in the previous 15 years combined. Nevertheless, Trump’s interim order ignores UN international protection law, and insists these children must be rejected by a third country before being eligible to apply in the U.S. A policy ignoring the imminent danger faced by those 58% of children eligible for international protection.

The Third Reich didn’t begin with supporters of a nationalist demagogue bombing places of worship, killing worshiping Jewish people, vandalizing Jewish property, targeting political opponents, running opponents over with a car, violently attacking ethnic minorities on trains and shooting them in grocery stores, it rose in prominence through hateful rhetoric. These acts of violence conducted by white supremacist supporters of a fuhrer didn’t occur in 1939, but since the 2016 Presidential election. Are people who want universal-healthcare meant to coddle the white supremacist brown shirts and their sympathizers in unity? Quiet tolerance in the face of state-sponsored, violent intolerance is consent for the dozens of lives taken by an ideology of hate.

Radicalized  by self-proclaimed nationalist President Trump’s cabinet of nazis, affirmations calling the Charlottesville nazis “very fine people,” repeated incitement of violence with promises to pay their “legal fees,” scapegoating of the media as “the enemy of the American people,” repeated spats with political opponents , “sh*thole countries” comments, immigrant child internment-camps, scapegoating of all immigrants as “drug traffickers and rapists,” and anti-semitic rhetoric, the ideological vermin of this country have been emboldened to carry out domestic terror attacks against American minorities and political opponents.

The tragic terrorist attacks on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania aren’t isolated, they follow a pattern of deathly attacks by avid conservative supporters of President Trump. While Trump didn’t pull the trigger, he created an environment where supremacists were emboldened to act on beliefs shared by the president. An environment built by “the second-amendment people” stopping 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, by all Mexicans being “drug-traffickers and rapists,” by Muslim bans, and a “very fine people” pat on the back to the neo-nazis who murdered Heather Heyes.

The problem isn’t immigrants who commit crime at lower rates than native-born Americans, it’s not Muslims, or other minorities it’s the:

Domestic Right-Wing Terrorist Attacks on Muslims, Jews, Minorities, and Democrats:

• Between 2014 and 2016, hate crimes rose 10 percent.
• White supremacists committed the largest share of domestic-extremist related killings in 2017.
• On August 19, 2015, two men attacked a homeless man in Boston who they wrongly believed to be an undocumented immigrant. He was quoted saying “Donald Trump was right.illegals need to be deported.”
• On October 14, 2016, the FBI arrested three men for plotting bomb attacks in Kansas (Two of them, Trump supporters.)
• On January 29, 2017, a man opened fire on worshippers at the Islamic Cultural Center in Quebec City, Canada, killing six and wounding 19. ( He was obsessed with Trump and searched for him more than 800 times. )
• Jewish cemeteries were vandalized across the country, including  Philadelphia, Seattle, and Missouri.
• Arm-bearing neo-nazis with MAGA hats terrorized the streets chanting “Jews will not replace us,” & “blood and soil,” at a “Unite the Right” rally.
• A white supremacist Trump supporter killed Heather Heyer, a woman protesting white supremacism. But “both sides.”
• A xenophobic conservative man yells “Get out of my country,” and lethally shoots two Indian men in Kansas.
• Three members of a conservative militia bomb the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota on August 5, 2017.
• On January 9 and 10, 2018,  a19-year-old threatened to kill employees at CNN’s Atlanta headquarters. He idolized Hitler like Trump reportedly does, and viewed them as the “enemy of the American people” as Trump does.
• February 14, 2018, Nikolas Cruz, pictured wearing a MAGA hat on his social media, shot and killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.
• Jeremy Christian, who allegedly stabbed two people to death on a train in Portland, Oregon, and wrote, “If Donald Trump is the Next Hitler then I am joining his SS”;
• “Proud Boys”- an anti-Muslim, proto-fascist, Trump-supporting group of beta brown shirts,  assaulted peaceful protestors on Manhattan streets while the NYPD protected  them.
• A Trump supporter in Kentucky murders shoots and kills two black men in Krogers. He’d tried to previously enter a black church.
• A Trump supporter sends pipe-bombs to 14 Democrat targets of Trump’s attacks.
• A Trump supporter kills 11 Jews in a synagogue.  He blamed Jews for helping “evil” Muslim immigrants come to this country. “All these Jews need to die,” he told police on scene at Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.

This large rise in hate crimes post-2016 election is no coincidence. Trump’s scapegoating of immigrants (including legal immigrants), Muslims, anti-semitic dog-whistles (“America First”, attack ad against only Jews, “globalist” attacks) creation of an immigrant-children human rights crisis at the border, admiration of Hitler speeches, calling neo-nazis “very fine people,” 1970s housing discrimination, and appointment of white supremacists such as Stephen Miller, former Breitbart-owner Steve Bannon, Hungarian nazi Sebastian Gorka, and Sessions – man deemed too racist to pass a Reagan-era confirmation in the South, has radicalized right-wing terrorists.

This all, on top of his incitement to violence of course, telling his supporters he’ll pay their legal fees, and that he’d like to punch a protestor himself.

Trump of course, victim-blames the media and synagogue: “If the press was fair, I’d have a much different tone all the time. But I’m fighting the media, I’m fighting — the media is not being honest & I’m fighting that lack of honesty so I have to have that tone.

When asked about gun laws, he said the synagogue should have had armed security and the gunman wouldn’t be able to do what he did. This callous comment completely ignoring the three officers that were shot, and not condemning the perpetrator. Trump’s thoughts and prayers provide zero solutions. An AR-15 was used in Aurora, Orlando, Parkland, Las Vegas, Sandy Hook, Waffle House, San Bernardino, Sutherland SPrings, and the Pittsburgh Synagogue, but we must uphold the right for Republicans to blast deer into a million pieces with weapons of war.

Tolerance in the face of domestic-right-wing-terrorism and their party of sympathizers who can overlook the state-sponsored hate and incitement to violence, is consent. Hate isn’t just a differing opinion. The dichotomy has switched from ‘big versus small government,’ to either supporting a fascist regime and its hateful minions, or being a country for all Americans upholding the values that brought non-English speaking migrants fleeing religious persecution or poverty to the land of the free. We must not forget our own history, German immigrants once faced discrimination for their cultural differences.

There have been more bombs sent to kill Americans from Trump supporters than from ISIS. This isn’t how it started in Germany in the 1930s, it’s several phases into the fascist agenda. The fascism alarms should be ringing when over 35,00 people signed a letter to President Trump from the leaders of a Pittsburgh-based Jewish saying he won’t welcome in the city unless he denounces white nationalism and stops “targeting” minorities.

There’s no reason for right-wing extremists to be emboldened enough to target people for their faith and ethnicity 75 years after the Holocaust. Make racists afraid again – vote, protest, and stand up for vulnerable communities under attack.

The extremist side of child-drugging internment camps, Obama effigies, Roy Moore, sexual assault, and mocking the disabled doesn’t care about civility; what they want is compulsory compliance, and dissent silenced in their administration’s persistent crimes against humanity. There is something seriously wrong with a nation showing more concern for wealthy operatives of administration rampant with human rights violations being kicked out of restaurants than said human rights violations. There can be no civility — no silence — in the face of caged babies, Muslim bans, and SCOTUS-approved gerrymandering thanks to a stolen seat. Civil disobedience is free speech that fights against hate and injustice. Tolerance of intolerance only empowers the intolerant to carry out their crimes. There is no reasoning with people like Trump who think abused, caged immigrant children’s stories are “phony stories of sadness and grief.” 

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

-Albert Einstein

To Trump’s America, civility isn’t defined by the civil disobedience of publicly questioning public officials, it’s defined by complacently standing silently in the face of oppressors. Also, defined by sending death threats to a restaurant unaffiliated with the one who asked a neo-nazi operative to leave (after employees democratically voted.) Republican civility involves Trump’s White House adviser calling for journalists to be gunned down.

We do not have to offer an olive branch to an administration that burnt down the tree. To an administration who’s made it its grounding philosophy to target immigrants , Muslims, the media, and Democrats while embracing nazis as “fine people” qualified enough to run our agencies and craft policy oppressing the lives of millions. The masters of spin have made the problem not the policies themselves, but the targeted groups not gleefully jumping into internment camps and embracing their oppressors.

There exists a cognitive dissonance between what those more outraged by oppressive administration’s propaganda minister being asked to leave a restaurant, than children being beaten and drugged in concentration camps, consider “civil.”  Asking a customer to leave your restaurant is civil. Publicly confronting public officials by questioning their baby concentration camp policy is civil. What’s uncivil is the 45th President and his klan’s character, dehumanization of immigrants, and oppressive, unjust policies. We are asked to coddle an administration who has marginalized every non-white group in America for the sake of a ‘civility’ ideal severely lacking on the morally bankrupt right.

It starts by silencing protest against police brutality by making the argument about the flag while calling players “sons of b-tches.” Their agenda involves making semantics the argument over the definition of concentration camps, instead of, the policy of jailing 3-month-old babies after ripping them from their breastfeeding mothers. It’s lambasting the “lugenpresse” for showing images illegally obtained of crying children, instead of blasting the policy of detaining immigrant children. 

Respect is earned. We are expected to respect a man who’s mocked the disabled, called countries with majority brown citizens “sh-tholes,” called murderous neo-nazis in Charlottesville “fine people,” endorsed pedophile Roy Moore, bragged about sexual assault on tape, or called his daughter a “piece of ass.”

A man who has called Mexicans rapists, was sued twice by the DOJ for housing discrimination against blacks, pardoned Arpaio, a barbaric, convicted racial profiler who ran concentration camps, attacked a Mexican judge for his ethnicity, enacted bill curbing legal immigration, retweeted neo-nazi false crime statistic reports about blacks, rolled out voter suppression commission, hired nazi Gorka and white supremacist Miller, threw out Latino names and hypothetical crimes they’d commit, described immigrants as invaders, constantly touts immigrant crime and claims “it’s not true” that immigrants are “better people” than others.

Trump has encouraged his supporters to “rough up” protestors and they did cheerfully, he told cops to “rough up suspects,” and  “second amendment people” to get Hillary, made a thinly-veiled threat to Maxine Waters, and endorsed Greg Gianforte who body slammed a reporter.

Republicans do not only support the most vile, racist, misogynist monster, but they claim false moral high-ground. Where was all this “civility”  talk when birther, “anti-PC,”  MAGAs: sent death threats to the Red Hen D.C., when a WH adviser affiliate called for journalists to be gunned down., when they were burning Obama effigies, started an “anti-Obama” campaign in Congress the night of his inauguration, called the Obamas monkeys, started the birther movement, used Seth Rich’s death to smear Hillary Clinton.

They’re upset that a member of a racist administration destroying the environment, sabotaging healthcare, slashing the educational budget, and dividing America, can’t eat out in public. Well, guess who hasn’t been able to even breathe out in public since the fuhrer’s inauguration? America’s ethnic minorities. The U.S. citizens unlawfully detained by ICE-Gestapo.

They’ve all suffered racist harassment from Trump conservatives after being emboldened by the President and even nazi-retweeting U.S. congressmen. When a white woman cited Trump while attacking a college-educated Latino man as a “rapist, animal, and drug dealer.” When a New York City lawyer berated and threatened two Spanish-speakers for holding a conversation in Spanish accusing them of being illegal welfare leeches. After he previously hunted down a man through the streets who he called the police for being an “ugly, f-cking foreigner.”    When a Hispanic woman was told to “go back to Mexico.” When a Trump supporter shot up a mosque in Quebec killing 6 people.When another set fire to a Florida mosque. Is it a mark of civility for hate crimes to have risen to a 5-year-high after the election of Trump?

There is no tolerating those who unlawfully lock brown children of asylum-seekers up while claiming “civility.” Republicans gleefully ignore these human-rights crises, even rejoice in them, and expect us to sit quietly without peaceful protest. We can’t hold hands and sing kumbaya with an administration who empowers an extrajudicial, authoritarian force who’s killed 97 migrants beaten and sexually abused children,and released them to abusers and trafficking rings. We can not stand by idly while Trump seeks to turn ICE’s de-facto practice of prolonged detainment – without legal counsel or due process – de-jure. We can’t coddle and serve the propaganda-artist gatekeepers who gaslight America while children are given psychotropic drugs, beaten, locked in solitary confinement nude, shivering in concrete cells. While the sick are neglected and chickenpox is spreading like a wildfire, all whilst the Red Cross is being denied access their detention centers.

Silence in the face of oppression is complicitness. Compromise in the face of injustice is defeat against injustice. There is no compromising with the hypocritical “pro-life” crowd who take joy and show indifference to the suffering of innocent children at the hands of the U.S. government. This isn’t politics as usual. We can’t tell the oppressed to treat their oppressors with a respect they don’t hold for them. To a 10-year-old girl with Down Syndrome Trump’s former campaign manager says “womp womp,” Trump calls asylum-seekers crisis actors, and  Laura Ingraham says the abusive detention centers for children are “basically summer camps.” While Fox and Friends says, “Like it or not, these aren’t our kids. Show them compassion, but it’s not like he’s doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas” But it isn’t just top conservative figureheads, it’s the public. A public so blinded by their hatred and indoctrinated by Trump’s dehumanization of immigrants campaign

These are the inhumane cretins we’re supposed to be civil with?

Declaring that children inhumanely separated from their asylum-seeking parents “are not innocent” is alarmingly on nazi, authoritarian levels, not on par with U.S. democratic values or the presidency. We are living through the second coming of Hitler with the Trump administration sanctioning state-violence against immigrants by planning  military concentration camps for children, (unlawfully) separating migrant children from parents, and facilitating egregious ICE abuse of detainees by allowing the destruction of it’s paper-trail. If you ever wondered how nazi ideology rose to prominence in 1940s-era Germany, this is how. This is the context for the “animals” comment – Trump’s routine dehumanization of immigrants has been militarized most recently culminating in the murder of 20-year-old, unarmed Guatemalan migrant Claudia Gonzalez and 1,475 lost migrant children as young as 53 weeks. Some of released to human-trafficking rings and others with convicted sexual assaulters. These draconian, morally abominable, unlawful policies serve as “deterrent” according to John Kelly.

What did Trump have to say about his victims of family separation after backlash? “Phony stories of sadness and grief.” 

When you dehumanize a people, it’s easy for the “family values,” “evangelical,” “pro-life” and even “Pizzagate” party to treat brown children as livestock. It’s easy to completely disregard their human rights, physically abuse them, and separate them as slave families were in the 18th century,  because of a legal status irrespective to their intrinsic human rights. Thus, 18-month-olds are easily ripped from their mothers screaming, the 4-month-old premature baby and her 16-year-old mother are left without medical care, the 16-year-old sexually abused, all without accountability. Losing 1,475 children – some to human trafficking, opening up military concentration camps, and shooting 20-year-old unarmed migrant Claudia Gonzalez. 

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”

-Nelson Mandela

As a nazi propaganda minister once said, “Blame the other side that which you are guilty of,” — and that’s precisely what Trump is doing in response to outrage over his own policy. A policy announced at a press conference by Jeff Sessions. Separating children from parents isn’t only a mark of America’s institutionally depraved core, but it’s also not legal. Our due process law does not have the power to separate children for no reason unless there’s abuse. This is an unprecedented new policy from the Trump administration to punish asylum seekers.

We’re rejecting migrants that are seeking asylum after fleeing death threats and violence – presenting themselves  to officials at the border, just as we did Jewish refugees during WW2 — Anne Frank was denied a Visa. FDR claimed this ethno-religious group fleeing genocide was a “threat to national security.” Sound familiar? That’s because the Trump administration runs on this brand of politics of fear. After much dehumanizing generalizations of Latinos as “drug-traffickers,” “rapists,” and animals, they recently lamented that America’s asylum laws are “dangerous loopholes” and placing “our communities at risk,”

ICE Is Disproportionally Targetting Latinos in their Ethnic-Cleansing Campaign

Pew Research estimates the number of unauthorized immigrants as follows: 1.6 million Central Americans, 1.5 million Asians, 0.6 million South Americans, and 0.5 Europeans/Canadians.

Central America (1.6) and Asia(1.5) have similar numbers of illegal immigrants. Despite this, 97.2% of ICE’s deportations are of Latinos (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador,etc.), while the number is only 0.5% for Asia (China, India, Philippines, South Korea, etc.) This makes it clear that this is about race. America’s Gestapo is actively engineering the racial makeup of this country as nazi Germany did through genocide.

It’s also not about economic status of immigrant populations — poorer Asian and European countries are ignored.

Populations of immigrants: China: 2,420,000, Philippines: 2,080,000, Vietnam: 1,410,000, Honduras: 600,000ICE Deportations: China: 525, Philippines: 182, Vietnam: 71, Honduras: 22,381

Repeat it with me — ICE is a fascist, extrajudicial, terrorist organization with the sole purpose of purging Latinos from America while ignoring similar illegal immigrant populations of other races. It has zero accountability to due process, hence their rampant abuse of children, sexual assault, and carelessness in releasing children to abusers and trafficking rings. It unlawfully detains legal residents and terrorizes immigrant communities.

Children As Young as 18 Months Are Being Separated

What does Trump have to say about the crying 18-month old children of asylum seekers being ripped from their parents, the abused children?  “They’re not innocent.” The Charlottesville white supremacists however? “ Very fine people.” No word on the myriad of white mass shooters like the Florida one who’ve sported MAGA apparel online. We are officially living in the time of history future generations will look back on in bewilderment over how the country which fought against fascism, arrived at it.  Since October, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has taken 700 children from their parents.

Under Trump’s new policy children as young as 18 months are put into government run shelters to serve as “a tough deterrent against illegal immigration according to John Kelly.  A 7-year-old was kept away from her asylum-seeking mother for several months in a Chicago jail. Whereas before, parents were processed with the child. This is absolutely reprehensible and undemocraticv.

A person’s legal status does not negate their basic human rights and separating children from their guardians violates the Administrative Procedure Act, the Asylum Statute, and the Due Process Clause. The U.S. government doesn’t have the power to conduct such inhumane, senseless actions unless there’s abuse. Trump hiding from these inhumane policies and blaming Democrats is ludicrous considering they’ve asked him to reverse his policy and Republicans control Congress.

Rest easy though, John Kelly said “The children will be taken care of – put into foster care – or whatever.”

1,475 Lost Children – Many Released to Human Traffickers

Oh wait, 1,475 children have been lost track of by federal agencies with many being released to human traffickers by HHS. With a 2016 congressional committee report  finding that it failed to protect minors from traffickers and other abusers. These are crimes against humanity – but they’re the scapegoated minority so nothing will be done.

Murder of Unarmed Migrants by Border Agents

As if this wasn’t disturbing enough, our recently-militarized border patrol shot and killed 20-year-old unarmed Guatemalan migrant Claudia Gonzalez. This is the latest among the 97 fatal shootings of migrants by border agents. If these extrajudicial, senseless murders of brown people don’t count as ethnic-cleansing then I don’t know what does.

Trump Administration is Opening Military Detainment Camps for Children

After releasing children to traffickers, losing 1,475, and having open-season on immigrants the next phase are military detention camps according to the Trump administration. Here comes the concentration camp portion of republicans’ ethnic cleansing program. Right after cancelling Indian’s HB-1 visas, curbing legal immigration, and wanting to ban migration from “shithole countries.” The moral depravity bar has reached hell.

ICE Records of Abuse Authorized for Destruction

ICE will start destroying immigrant abuse records including “sexual assault and deaths in custody.  A paper trail for constitutional abuses will be destroyed.

Records of the tens of thousands of children beaten, deprived of food and medical care by federal border agents will be destroyed. ICE-Gestapo left a 4-pound premature baby and her minor mother in an overcrowded and “dirty cell full of sick people, against medical advice.” They’ve violated a 16-year-old girl, ran over a 17-year-old then beat him up, denied a pregnant minor medical attention, preceding a stillbirth.

In response to this ACLU report detailing the countless abuses, DHS nazis which systematically enable physical, sexual, and psychological child abuse dismissed the complaints calling them “baseless allegations.” In response to these institutional crimes against humanity, the White House called them “fake news.”  Allegations which “span multiple years..states..different backgrounds.”

The Legal Case for Abolishing ICE

This has all gained mainstream attention after a long barbaric history of their heinous actions including prolonged detention, no due process that has culminated with thousands of  U.S. citizens deported, 7-year-old asylees jailed, 10-year-olds with cerebral palsy arrested at the hospital.

ICE should not only be abolished, but prosecuted for their unlawful prolonged detention of lawful residents and citizens, an egregious 97 killings along the border, separation of children, and appalling sexual abuse of detainees – many among them, children. This is an undemocratic, criminal, ethnic-cleansing organization operating above the law. Illegal immigration cases should go back to being dealt with by the courts as it was before the reprehensible undemocratic Patriot Act (2003.) This authoritarian force operates extrajudicially with zero accountability to due process – a breeding ground for abuses of power. We must prosecute these cruel, lawless officials and go back operating through the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) an agency of the DOJ.

We lived in a country pre-ICE for 2___ years. If those concerned with individual liberty look back on the 2003 Patriot Act and Iraq war in shame — this ethnic-cleansing organization established in 2003 should be no exception.

These heinous, unlawful actions are of course no surprise coming from the Czar who campaigned and won on politics of fear by characterizing all Mexicans as “drug dealers, criminals, rapists,” who’s called white supremacists “fine people,” but immigrants “animals,” and Africa and El Salvador “shitholes.” When someone shows you who they are – by starting the birther movement, being sued by the DOJ for housing discrimination twice, calling hispanic Miss Universe “miss housekeeping,” and throwing out hispanic names and potential crimes they’d commit – believe them. It starts with rhetoric and ends in 1,475 lost children, with children at the hands of human traffickers, and military concentration camps.

We must demand answers from Congress (202-224-3121), from ICE (1-866-DHS-2-ICE), and E. Scott Lloyd, the Director of The Office of Refugee Resettlement in DHS (202-401-9246) about #WhereAreTheChildren. We must support the institutions fighting for human rights by donating to the ACLU, and contacting the UN. These barbaric monsters must be held accountable for their systematic abuses of power.

A Trump-supporting New York attorney with a documented history of launching unhinged, racist tirades against strangers was recently caught on camera again verbally assaulting two bilingual people for speaking Spanish in public. Aaron Schlossberg berated an employee and a customer for conducting an order in Spanish saying, “Your staff is speaking Spanish to customers when they should be speaking English,” and, ”My guess is they’re not documented, so my next call is to ICE to have each one of them kicked out of my country.. I pay for their welfare; I pay for their ability to be here. The least they could do, the least they could do is speak English.” Such an unprofessional, racially biased individual can not uphold his oath as an attorney and must be disbarred.

This stain on our legal system was immensely triggered over two bilingual women minding their business in a city with a 55.4% ethnic population, with the highest Latino population where, 49% speak more than one language, in the land of free of speech and no official language. Not only that, but he assumed all Spanish speakers are illegals. And in all his nazi legal expertise conceived that a woman at work was on welfare and that illegals can somehow collect it.

The bigotry runs deep. This deranged cretin has also berated fellow Jews for being pro-Palestine and is a bilingual speaker himself. Apparently you can’t speak another language unless you’re paying him for biased, wrong-counsel.  And has also harassed another stranger raving, “What country are you from? I’m gonna call the police. You’re not a citizen, you’re an ugly f****** foreigner.”

All these irrational conditions aside, the U.S. has no official language. This is not a dictatorship, so it’s not only socially but legally acceptable for two women to place a damn sandwich order in one of the the other 799 languages spoken in New York City.  Any  insecure, racist, xenophobic imbecile who lives in America and doesn’t want to hear other languages should go back to where they came from because this country was founded on the work of immigrants.

Hopefully he doesn’t go through Greenpoint and encounters Polish speakers. Or through Williamsburg, Brooklyn where everything’s written in Yiddish and English is seldom spoken. Oh wait, it’s not about linguistic abilities, it’s about hating the scapegoat – brown people. Someone as depraved and pathetic as he is, can only gain a false sense of superiority through the biologically-meaningless virtue of skin color. One that runs with the blood of 6 million genocided jews persecuted by an immigrant-hating nazi like the one he donated $500 to.

Nevertheless, this unabashed vitriol is never about linguistic ability, it’s about race. European languages and accents are romanticized not scorned while Latin ones are ridiculed. While Native Americans were once slaughtered for refusing to assimilate and their population, decimated. All for doing things like the “Ghost Dance” because cultural differences threatened the white psyche which was once an immigrant in this country. During the slave trade religious and cultural practices were banned against and a culture was erased.

It looks like those who forget history, are doomed to side with the oppressors. This Jewish man not only has attacked other Jews, but also has the audacity to be a white supremacist whilst being part of the ethnic minority which was genocided on the basis of ethnicity. Just how

The racist language police force quickly forget about 1920s-era anti-German sentiment marked by discrimination and violent attacks for practicing the German language. Their newspapers were run out of business, books burned, and German speakers threatened.

Still, I digress. It was not enough for this lawyer to command people to cease their free speech, he also burst his superiority complex by making the claims that one, the women were illegal because they’re bilingual. Two, illegals can collect welfare. Finally, three, that illegals don’t pay taxes when they actually pay $13 billion a year in payroll taxes for benefits they can not receive – because they’re – wait for it – illegal. Such logical argumentation. Incredibly fit and mentally stable for the job in the country’s most diverse city.

The reason our judicial system is so corrupt with an astonishing sentencing racial disparity is because of individuals like him. Those with such a clear racial bias can not uphold their oath as an attorney while calling someone an “ugly f****** foreigner” and stating Spanish-speakers are welfare-using illegals. This type of legal misconduct must be reprimanded before more New Yorkers are at the mercy of wrong counsel from a second-rate bigot.

A 7-year-old asylee girl being locked up by ICE for four months at a Chicago jail has become America’s  heralded “rule of law.” With the new Supreme Court ruling stating that immigrants, even permanent residents, and asylees, can be held indefinitely, internment camps have become the law of the land. As if the violation of human rights wasn’t already rampant within this terror organization full of prolonged detentions, lack of due process protections, and the wanton breaking up of families, this administration just launched a war against the 10-year-olds with cerebral palsy, the asylum refugee children, and the people showing up for green cards. So much for ‘bad hombres,’ this is the Gestapo of a fascist oligarchy (which, has pardoned actual concentration camp runner Arpaio.) ICE, a terror instilling, ethnic cleansing organization, must be defunded now.

Standing against inhumane mass deportation, which operates by violating human rights and targets tax-paying, hardworking families seeking refuge from their homeland violence, does not mean being for open borders.  No one is for illegal immigration despite what alternative-facts media propaganda artists might say. Felons should be deported, tighter border control and immigration reform should be enacted. What people miss in this polarizing debate is the moral argument; that is, there is no plausible reason to leave children without their mothers literally on the side of the street. There’s no plausible reason to mass deport people already here who pose no economic or national security threat, much less arrest children indefinitely and illegally.

President Trump’s actions (surprisingly) don’t match his rhetoric. He’s repeatedly vowed to focus on, “getting gang members out [and] drug lords out.” That “bad hombres” would be the target for deportation.  However, the reality is jarring and dystopian.

Most recently, political asylum refugees fleeing violence from the Congo – a 39-year-old mother and her 7-year-old daughter – were arrested and separated. The 7-year-old has been held in a Chicago prison for the past three and a half months for no legitimate reason. There’s been zero evidence or accusation of abuse. This traumatic and unjust separation is in violation of due process protections according to the ACLU, who is taking the case up. These, are your “bad hombres.”

Then there’s the 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who was detained while on an ambulance to an emergency surgery. These depraved, scoundrel of the earth literally staked outside of the 10-year-old girl’s room after surgery to send her back to a country she only resided in until she was 3-months-old. This lack of basic humanity is obscene. The lack of distinction between an adult crossing the border illegally and a child – a baby in this case – being brought here illegally without any jurisdiction, is egregious. This follows of a pattern of detaining asylum seekers.

It’s not just the children who had no jurisdiction over coming here who are targets or just the asylum seekers, it’s also the green card applicants. ICE recently arrested a dad of four with zero criminal records as he went to finalize legal residency. And the mother married to a U.S. citizen, with no criminal record who was pursuing legal status who was arrested.

There’s also the 43-year-old janitor at MIT whose three children are U.S. citizens and mother, a permanent resident who planned was going to sponsor him for a green card. He didn’t have a criminal record, ran a business, and paid taxes – a model American. But instead of focusing all our efforts on the criminals, they’re detaining children and hard-working, contributing members of society.

Their malevolence knows no bounds – this Gestapo-like organization has even gone after Visa holders. A chemistry professor named Syed Ahmed Jamal was arrested outside his home while he was getting ready to take his daughter to school. Surely an “economically anxious” deplorable will be stepping in to take the job of a man holding degrees in molecular biosciences and pharmaceutical engineering. Isn’t this man the poster-child of Trump’s “merit-based” immigration system? I suppose he’s no Melania Trump, who immigrated to the U.S. under an “elite EB-1 program.. designed for renowned academic researchers, multinational business executives or those in other fields, such as Olympic athlete…”

These are just a few of too many senseless, inhumane arrests being made in the name of an imaginary threat – the asylum seekers, the 10-year-old brought here as a baby with cerebral palsy, the green card applicants, the Visa holders,  and the quintessential hardworking immigrant doing the jobs nobody else will to provide for his family. (No, they don’t take jobs away.) All because there is no path to citizenship and the barriers for the poor, non-English speaking masses which Anglo-Saxon Americans’  poor ancestors fleeing persecution and famine didn’t face, simply exist now.

Why target the most harmless, contributing members of society as a scapegoat instead of focusing limited resources on crime? Was arresting the dangerous mother married to a U.S. citizen and pursuing legal status the most effective use of time and resources?  Was locking a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy just as valuable as investigating a human smuggling ring or tracking down drug trafficking? Arrests are supposed to be made for the collective good of American society. What collective good does it serve in kicking out the most harmless, hard-working, and vulnerable?

It serves the white supremacist collective good.  It’s all apart of a long-growing ethnic cleansing campaign – per Trump advisors such as Stephen Miller – that operates on the basis that immigrants as a monolith are an inherent threat. That all Mexicans are “rapists,” “drug traffickers.” That all “Haitians have AIDS,” and Africans come from “shitholes,” and by that measure should be barred from entering the land of poor, huddled immigrants.  A government hijacked by actual white supremacists and nazis (like Sebastian Gorka) is against all immigrants period – tremendous efforts are already being made to curb legal immigration.

White supremacist agendas fueled by politics of fear and control do not care that illegal immigrants have lower incarceration rates and crime rates than native-born Americans. (People fleeing violence from economically stagnant countries actually come to the US in search of a better life for their families? Shocking!) They care about protecting white conservative interests in the face of an impending minority-majority, which so far they’ve done through gerrymandering. After all, conservative talking-head Rush Limbaugh said what they’re all thinking thereby proving this theory:

“I would be willing right here to support an effort to grant permanent citizenship to whatever number of illegal immigrants there are in the country, tomorrow, if you will make as part of the deal they can’t vote for 15-25 years.”

I wonder what’s there to fear about becoming a minority, could it have something to do with the way minorities are treated in this country?

While such brute, senseless actions are nothing new, this administration is amping up their ability to violate basic human rights opening the way up for internment camps with the new Supreme Court ruling and conducting arrests outside of schools, in courthouses, in hospitals and homes like modern-day brown-shirts. It is heinous enough that even lawful residents and U.S. citizens have been incorrectly detained for months or years before being able to prove their legal status.

Such actions perfectly conform to the 14 characteristics of fascism Trump has exhibited since his candidacy.  They’re the brown shirts of a kleptocracy that wants to control the media, wants police to “rough up” suspects, wants to end term limits, that wants the death penalty for non-violent drug offenses. The brown-shirts of a Wall-street deregulating, Muslim-ban creating, immigrant crime tracking misogynist who praises dictators.

so bad that ICE spokesman resigned

The war against immigrants has gotten so harrowingly abysmal that an  ICE spokeman resigned, saying he could “no longer spread falsehoods for the Trump administration.”  Fortunately, many are seeing through the fear-mongering: illegal immigration isn’t an all-time high epidemic – it’s net negative. In fact, legal immigration has soared. They have lower incarceration rates and crime rates than native-born Americans, and American cities with more illegal immigrants do not have a higher crime rate. They don’t “take” jobs in our full-employment economy. And they pay $13 billion a year in payroll taxes for benefits they can’t receive.We don’t need a 2,000 mile, 30-foot high, $30 billion wall.

We must arrest criminals and strengthen the already secure border for the collective good of U.S. citizens, but there’s no economic or national security reason to target children, Visa holders, or green card applicants.