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It effectively broadened the scope of who was at risk of being deported:聽鈥淲e cannot faithfully execute the immigration laws of the United States if we exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement.鈥�

And so, Trump鈥檚 war on immigrants began as he set in motion an enforcement machine long dreamed of by the聽聽during his campaign.

In fact, the administration鈥檚 policies mirror the published聽聽of the聽聽a hate group that鈥檚 part of a聽聽created by the late聽, the white nationalist who founded the modern nativist movement. It鈥檚 no coincidence that White House aide聽, the architect of Trump鈥檚 immigration policies, is a close ally of the Tanton network.

Now, on any given day, some 55,000 immigrants are packed into ICE聽听补飞补颈迟颈苍驳听聽proceedings that can take months or even years to resolve. Another聽聽are held inside Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) facilities.

Many of these individuals have lived and worked in their communities for years. Many others simply came to the border seeking asylum in the exact way our laws require. The people held in ICE custody are not being held on criminal charges 鈥� yet this civil detention mirrors the punishing conditions of U.S. prisons and jails in nearly every way.聽聽

Nevertheless, this administration has chosen what appears to be a strategy of deliberate, unrelenting cruelty. In 2018, journalists revealed that the administration was聽聽at the border and putting children in kennel-like cages.

The tragic fact is, families and communities are being shattered not only at the border but all across America. Children, including U.S. citizens, are losing mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters to an uncertain fate. People are being deported to countries they hardly know 鈥� or where they face grave danger.

And Trump is not just targeting the people he calls 鈥渋llegal aliens.鈥澛�

Just this week, he once again floated the idea of using an executive order to聽聽for the children of noncitizens, calling it 鈥渇rankly ridiculous.鈥� This 鈥渞idiculous鈥� right is聽, which guarantees citizenship to 鈥渁ll persons born or naturalized in the United States.鈥澛�

Nowhere is the administration鈥檚 depravity on display more than in the facilities used by ICE and CBP to imprison immigrants.聽

Near El Paso, a university professor encountered what he called a 鈥�,鈥� where as many 150 men were held outdoors, behind a chain-link fence, in temperatures exceeding 100 degrees. The men said they had been there for a month, were hungry and had not been able to change clothes the entire time.

In May, a Department of Homeland Security inspector found聽聽into a space designed for no more than 125.

There have been numerous other reports of the聽聽that immigrants in detention are enduring, with聽. We know that at least 26 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. And there is unseen suffering by tens of thousands of men, women and聽who are living in repurposed prisons and jails, deemed dirty and unsafe聽.

Earlier this summer, lawyers who visited a facility in Clint, Texas, found hundreds of children living in聽聽鈥� hungry, deprived of basic needs and sleeping in concrete prison cells designed for adults.

: 鈥淭he conditions 鈥� were shocking: flu and lice outbreaks were going untreated, and children were filthy, sleeping on cold floors, and taking care of one another because of the lack of attention from guards. Some of them had been in the facility for weeks.鈥�

聽that three girls were taking care of a 2-year-old boy 鈥渨ho had wet his pants and had no diaper and was wearing a mucus-smeared shirt.鈥�

What hasn鈥檛 received as much attention is ICE鈥檚 shocking聽聽medical and mental health care as well as their disability needs.

This past Monday, in partnership with the Civil Rights Enforcement and Education Center (CREEC) and Disability Rights Advocates (DRA), we filed a聽聽on behalf of 15 detained immigrants who are being denied the care they need.

We filed this case as a class action because the experiences of our clients offer examples of the inadequate care and inhumane conditions that individuals in ICE custody endure on a daily basis. It鈥檚 clear that systemic change is needed to prevent further abuse.

One of our plaintiffs is聽聽who suffers from PTSD. Others are聽, and those who are deaf or mobility-impaired face discrimination on the basis of their disability and are denied access to accommodations.

In one heartbreaking case, an asylum seeker from Jordan lost his eyesight from a preventable condition. A doctor recommended surgery, but immigration officials denied him the care he needed and irreparable injury resulted.

Many of ICE鈥檚 158 facilities are operated by private, for-profit prison companies that are paid an聽聽for each person in their custody 鈥撀犅爐hat the Federal Bureau of Prisons spends to incarcerate people convicted of federal crimes.

鈥淭his administration has functionally given ICE a blank check, with no accountability for how taxpayers鈥� money is spent,鈥� says 澳彩开奖 Deputy Legal Director Lisa Graybill. 鈥淧rivate contractors and local jails are making millions imprisoning immigrants in these conditions.聽Detained people are treated as pawns in this money-making scheme, and the consequences for them can聽be deadly.鈥�

Our suit is vitally important.

If we don鈥檛 hold this administration accountable for its inhumane conditions, this situation will only worsen. Just this week, the administration announced聽聽under which it would be able to detain children and their families indefinitely.

That鈥檚 a recipe for more tragedy.

The plaintiffs in our case do not seek monetary damages for themselves. Instead, they aim to reform immigrant detention system and ensure our nation treats the human beings who have come to our shores, in many cases to escape violence and persecution, are treated with dignity and respect.聽

It was Hubert Humphrey who, in 1977, said that 鈥渢he moral test of government is how that government treats those 鈥� who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.鈥�

Today, our federal government would unquestionably fail that test.

The Editors

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

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