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The , shows at least two Border Patrol agents physically tearing Perla Morales-Luna out of her daughters鈥� arms and pushing her into a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle.

The family was on a street corner in National City, California, when Morales-Luna was taken. After the daughters watch the van with their mother disappear down the street, their screaming turns to hyperventilation, and the video cuts off.

It is a chilling window into the Trump administration鈥檚 anti-immigrant agenda 鈥� an agenda they鈥檝e hardly sought to conceal.

Last month alone saw President Trump comparing immigrants to snakes, as 鈥渢oo lazy to get off their asses,鈥� and the House Immigration Subcommittee entertaining testimony from the representative of an anti-immigrant hate group.

The administration鈥檚 cruelty on the question of immigration is well-documented. But its zeal to deport anyone from south of the border fails to take into account the region鈥檚 history.

That鈥檚 what Betty Lyons, president of the American Indian Law Alliance and a citizen of the Onondaga Nation, this week.

As she points out, 鈥淸t]he U.S.-Mexico border is not an indigenous border.鈥� Many of the same people whom the Trump administration is intent on deporting have had relatives on both sides 聽for far longer than the United States 鈥斅爊ot to mention the Immigration and Customs Enforcement 鈥� has even existed.

As Lyons :

As Indigenous Peoples, we know our history and we know our relatives. Many so-called 鈥渦ndocumented鈥� people are in fact Indigenous Peoples, children of Original Nations with a millennial history of travel across the continent to trade and engage in ceremonial obligations at sacred sites of their traditional territories before the U.S. existed. 鈥�

Dividing families is something we cannot imagine doing to others, because we have been through this pain many times at the hands of the same government.

To deport people who are 鈥渦ndocumented鈥� is to fail to recognize that we are a settler nation; that many of the families our government would split up actually predate our contemporary system of documentation; and that to deport them now is to blithely repeat the sins of our past.

鈥淔or us,鈥� Lyons , 鈥淒ACA is not an immigration crisis. It is a human rights crisis.鈥�

But on Monday, to create a legislative replacement for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that Trump ended in September.

A day later, over its laws limiting ICE鈥檚 ability to find, hold and deport undocumented immigrants.

And as the screams and sobs of Perla Morales-Luna's daughters remind us, no human being is illegal. Our policies should reflect that truth 鈥� and our own American history.

The Editors

P.S. Here are some other pieces we think are valuable this week:

• by Laura Dorwart for Pacific Standard
• Richard Spencer had a very bad, terrible, no-good weekend capped by a sparsely attended speech by Brett Barrouquere for Hatewatch
• by Gene Demby for NPR
• by Andrew Yawn for Montgomery Advertiser

Photo by David McNew/Getty Images

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