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Jun. 19th, 2018 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogRegarding the separation of families at the border:
"“I don’t know how this could be justified either legally or morally,” said Napolitano, who led the Department of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013 during the Obama administration. “The notion that you’re going to somehow create a deterrent to illegal immigration through this kind of policy – we’ve seen this before and it just doesn’t work. And it’s cruel.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/19/janet-napolitano-family-separations-653306
I agree. The things is, while this kind of deterrent doesn't work, deterrent policies contingent on high risk of death have been in place for some time. This podcast series talks about the fact that funneling illegal immigrants though dangerous land where some significant number will die is intentional. A government report noted that one metric of program success is an increased number of illegal immigrants dying in the desert.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/border-trilogy-part-1/
I'm not saying these things are directly comparable. Just that immigration policy has been morally bankrupt for a long time. This is just a new kind of moral bankruptcy.
"“I don’t know how this could be justified either legally or morally,” said Napolitano, who led the Department of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013 during the Obama administration. “The notion that you’re going to somehow create a deterrent to illegal immigration through this kind of policy – we’ve seen this before and it just doesn’t work. And it’s cruel.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/19/janet-napolitano-family-separations-653306
I agree. The things is, while this kind of deterrent doesn't work, deterrent policies contingent on high risk of death have been in place for some time. This podcast series talks about the fact that funneling illegal immigrants though dangerous land where some significant number will die is intentional. A government report noted that one metric of program success is an increased number of illegal immigrants dying in the desert.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/border-trilogy-part-1/
I'm not saying these things are directly comparable. Just that immigration policy has been morally bankrupt for a long time. This is just a new kind of moral bankruptcy.
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Date: 2018-06-19 03:22 pm (UTC)A good idea that ended in mass murder. :o(
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