Florida farmers plow under tomato crops

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22. It has been going on for a long time

This has been going on for a long time, under every administration. The Trump administration is more "in your face" about it, and is escalating it. But it is nothing new.


US: 20 Years of Immigrant Abuses

Under 1996 Laws, Arbitrary Detention, Fast-Track Deportation, Family Separation

President Bill Clinton signed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, known as AEDPA, on April 24, 1996. The legislation, passed in the aftermath of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, greatly expanded the grounds for detaining and deporting immigrants, including long-term legal residents. It was the first US law to authorize certain now-widely-used fast-track deportation procedures.

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), signed in September 1996, made further sweeping changes to immigration laws. It eliminated key defenses against deportation and subjected many more immigrants, including legal permanent residents, to detention and deportation. IIRIRA defined a greatly expanded range of criminal convictions – including relatively minor, nonviolent ones – for which legal permanent residents could be automatically deported. IIRIRA also made it much more difficult for people fleeing persecution to apply for asylum.

Over the last two decades, Human Rights Watch has documented how these laws rip apart the families of even long-term legal residents via the broad swath of criminal convictions considered triggers for automatic deportation or detention.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/04/25/us-20-years-immigrant-abuses

Mexican Lynchings, Segregation, and Mass Deportations

The history of systemic mistreatment, lynchings, segregation, and mass deportations of Mexican-Americans and Mexican Immigrants is a forgotten one in the United States of American. This history, sadly, isn’t being taught nor talked about like it should be due to the black-white binary, respectfully.

Often times, the history of Mexican-Americans and Mexican Immigrants is placed under the rug as a history that’s important, but not as important as the history between Whites and African-Americans. And I get it–not one group has experienced the pain and exploitation as my African-American brothers and sisters, and this must be acknowledged and brought to light often.

However, what’s often overlooked–and shouldn’t be anymore, is that lynchers targeted many other racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, including my people—Mexicans-Americans and Mexican Immigrants.

Many are largely unaware that Mexicans were frequently the targets of lynch mobs, from the mid-19th century until well into the 20th century, second only to African-Americans in the scale and scope of the crimes.

https://theimmigrationcoalition.com/mexican-lynchings-segregation-and-mass-deportations/

Mexicans in U.S. routinely confront legal abuse, racial profiling, ICE targeting and other civil rights violations

More routine civil rights violations happen to Mexicans in the U.S. every day, our report found.

Though children born in the U.S. are entitled by law to American citizenship regardless of their parents’ immigration status, hundreds of undocumented Mexican women in Texas have been denied birth certificates for their U.S.-born children since 2013, according to a lawsuit filed by parents. In 2016, Texas settled the lawsuit and agreed to expand the types of documents immigrants can use to prove their identity.

And in both Arizona and Texas, so-called “show me your papers” laws allow police to demand identification from anyone they have a “reasonable suspicion” may be undocumented, which may lead to discriminatory targeting of Latinos.

Once in government detention, surveys conducted in Mexico of recently deported immigrants show, Mexican deportees are often badly treated.

https://dornsife.usc.edu/eri/2019/08/13/fitzgerald-mcclean-lopez/