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Mass Deportation Is Fascism
We need to recognize the plan for what it is and call out its likely horrific consequences.
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Of all the things I’ve seen come out of the Republican convention, these placards are the most chilling.
They refer to one of Donald Trump’s key promises: mass deportation of all undocumented immigrants in the U.S. That’s at least 10, maybe even as high as 20, million people.
It’s hard for the human brain to wrap itself around such a huge number, which is partly the point. To put some context to this, the policy would impact some 1 in 20 households in America where there is at least one undocumented immigrant living there.
This policy, if implemented as promised, would cause massive disruptions to our economy, a subject I am covering later in a video with Prof. Robert Reich. Suffice it to say here that undocumented immigrants make up a huge percentage of the essential workers in our economy, performing jobs few Americans want, from picking our crops, to caring for our sick, to hauling our trash. Deporting them or forcing them into hiding would disrupt our supply chains, our food distribution, our construction and manufacturing, and critical services, just as we are recovering from the impact of the pandemic.
In today’s piece, I want to discuss the humanitarian nightmare this would create. Specifically, I will highlight how Trump is using “mass deportation” as part of a fascist playbook. If implemented, mass deportation would create a dystopian hellscape that few would recognize in modern America.