The form of the Trump administration’s technique for policing immigration is at this point acquainted. Since January 2017, federal agents and officials were under orders to implement a harsh interpretation of immigration laws without restraint. The result has maximum maximally manifested in the pressured separation of immigrant dads and moms from their kids and, more recently, a series of terrible reports detailing situations in border-place detention facilities.
Though undocumented human beings have continually been the middle target of this marketing campaign, the blast radius of the government’s hyper-politicized crackdown has, step by step, multiplied over the years. A new report published by Amnesty International on Tuesday info a two-year-long attack on human rights defenders, lawyers, and newshounds working alongside the U.S.-Mexico border, calling out a pattern of escalating enforcement in violation of domestic and global law.
The U.S. “authorities have completed an illegal and politically influenced campaign of intimidation, threats, harassment, and crook investigations against those who protect the human rights of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers,” the file said, including that both the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice “has increasingly more misused and leveraged the criminal justice device to deter and punish those people for challenging — or even truly documenting — the systematic human rights violations through US authorities against migrants and asylum seekers.”
Brian Griffey, a lead researcher on the file, wrote to The Intercept: “These attacks on human rights defenders are an imperative part of the Trump administration’s broader campaign of human rights violations against people in search of asylum on the U.S.-Mexico border.” “The Trump management’s contempt for attorneys, reporters, and suitable Samaritans indicates its greater contempt for the rule of thumb of regulation and the judiciary, as it continues to use human rights-violating rules widely and as fast as it can, to do the most damage to vulnerable communities,” before courts can rein them in and restore order, he added.
