Extraordinary Cruelty, Ordinary Policy.
Immigration and Deportation Under Trump 2.0.
Given the turmoil and disgust surrounding Trump’s shock and awe deportation campaign, we thought it a good time to dig back into the immigration issue and update some of our findings from prior episodes. There’s no question Trump’s ICE is more brutal and seemingly indiscriminate, so we tried to put these efforts in context with prior administrations. Then we zoom out to look at root causes of immigration and the failure of U.S. foreign policy toward the LAC.
Show Notes
Clips
Episode Timestamp + Link | Clip Link
- 00:01:46 | CBS New York: ICE operation in the Bronx leads to nearly 2 dozen arrests
- 00:21:48 | Anchorman: That Escalated Quickly
Resources
- Texas Tribune: Trump promised mass deportations. Here’s one way they could quietly happen.
- Vox: Removals vs returns: how to think about Obama’s deportation record
- Migration Policy Institute: The Biden Administration Is on Pace to Match Trump Deportation Numbers—Focusing on the Border, Not the U.S. Interior
- Migration Policy Institute: The Obama Record on Deportations: Deporter in Chief or Not?
- Migration Policy Institute: Net Number of Migrants by Country, 1950-2020 (by Five-Year Intervals)
- U.S. Department of Justice: Executive Office for Immigration Review Adjudication Statistics
- Washington Post: Deportation at ‘light speed’: How Trump’s crackdown could unfold
- House of Representatives: Laken Riley Act
- U.S. Department of Agriculture: Child Nutrition Programs - National School Lunch Program
- Center for Immigration Studies: Mapping the Impact of Immigration on Public Schools
UNFTR Episode Resources
- Fox in the Outhouse: Invasion, Immigration & Inflation
- Over The Borderline
- Housing First: Non-Negotiable #1.
Image Source
- Peg Hunter, CC BY-NC 2.0, via Flickr. Changes were made.
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