You are a ice lawyer. Collective deportation does not make us safer Veronica Cardinas

This month is 22 years since the creation of migration and customs enforcement (ICE).

It was created in the aftermath of September 11 under the guise of national security, ICE was supposed to target real threats. Instead, a collective monitoring machine, random arrests, and influence based on fear has become not mentioned to maintain our safety. Over the years, the harshest post -11/11 policies have been deported after it has proven ineffective. But today, we see history repeating itself.

Donald Trump’s immigration policies refer to a serious return to a failed strategy – which gives priority to the public scene on public safety, confuses civil violations with criminal threats, and vigilance disappears to the police migration situation as if they were their duty.

I saw this directly during the 13 -year -old as a great assistant to ICE consultants. The migration system in the United States has not been designed to grant legal procedures or guarantee fairness; Instead, it was built to determine the priorities of the deportation as a celebration when criminal prosecutions were not political or possible.

History has shown us that the application of mass immigration does not make us safer. George W Bush monitoring programs after 9/11, such as the national security login system (nseersIt failed to prevent terrorism and instead feed the racist stereotype. The Bush administration was implemented Simplification To prosecute the criminal border retirees and the federal courts with non -violent immigration cases. Resources were wasted on the trial of asylum seekers instead of targeting real security threats. These policies were finally canceled because they did not succeed. However, we see them crawling to “make America safe again.”

ICE used social media to turn non -citizens to entertainment. Pictures similar to Mugshot for detained immigrants overwhelming ice feedingGathering civilian violators, such as exaggerating visa along with serious crime perpetrators such as drug traffickers. The message is clear: For ice, all non -citizens are criminals. But this is not the application of the law – it is advertising aimed at fueling fear and justifying the random dragnet that moves even those who do not have a criminal record at all. With the lack of clarity of the lines between civil and criminal violations, the ice feeds the wrong narration that the citizens are not dangerous by nature. In reality , Almost half Among the detainees they do not have a criminal record – but the ice is betting that the public will not care about verifying the facts.

Beyond social media plays, Trump’s decision to cancel 2011 Sensitive Sites Memorandum It represents a dangerous return to the application of immigration without deterrence. The memorandum requires supervisory approval or urgent conditions before the authorities conduct arrests, inspections, or monitoring in schools, hospitals, places of worship and other sites. It has been implemented to achieve a balance between the application of immigration with basic human rights – ensuring that the fear of deportation will not prevent people from seeking medical care, sending their children to school or practicing their faith. But now, with Caesar border, Tom Human declares publicly that non-citizens “must be afraid”, as immigration has moved away from recognition of human rights-transformation instead into a strategy of fear in every aspect of daily life, pushing non-citizens to shadows and leaving them vulnerable to exploitation. We already see the consequences.

Take an 11 -year -old issue Jooslin Rojo KarranzaShe died due to suicide after studying classmates to report her family to ice. Her death is a reminder that the migration agenda in Trump does not only enable officers to impose the law – that it encourages ordinary people to work as the perpetrators themselves. By stripping critical guarantees such as the memorandum of sensitive sites, the government punishes the culture of fear, where teachers, neighbors, and even classmates feel justified in the deportation of weapons. This transforms the state of immigration into a tool for exclusion – those that not only separate families, but also lead to the erosion of the same institutions that aim to serve and protect societies.

This reckless approach based on fear not only encourages vigilance in our societies-it dismantles the enforcement of federal law as we know it. TrumpThe executive thing that protects the United States from foreign terrorists and other national security threats and public safety claims to enhance security, but in reality, courage agencies such as the FBI and DEA. The resources are withdrawn away from Critical tasks They are redirected towards a comprehensive immigration campaign. Studies indicate that accuracy -based enforcement effectively removes threats, while the blanket police waste resources and weaken public safety. Instead of strengthening national security, Trump sends critical law enforcement and withdraws it away from fighting terrorism, drug trafficking, and violent crimes. By throwing a random network, it makes its method more difficult, not easier, adhering to real threats, such as searching for a needle in a straw pile during the flame of the entire field.

We have seen this playing book before: policies that embody humanity and divide it and erode the confidence of the audience. But history should not repeat itself. We know that these policies do not work. The question now is not only the amount of damage they will happen – whether we will stop them before it is too late.

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