[Edgewise] Racially slanted Trump immigration scheme bared
On the morning of May 6, armed ICE agents clad in black woke up, detained, and questioned a group of teachers from the Philippines and their family members at a home on Maui, Hawaii. There were no arrests, but the intrusion terrified the women who were recruited on legal J-1 visas to fill a teacher shortage.
It was another instance of the harsh treatment of immigrants of color through racially profiled ICE raids, roundups, detentions, and deportation, even on the flimsiest grounds. The message to immigrants...