Imagine a government that kidnaps, tortures, rapes, and kills. Now imagine one that forces people into slavery.
These horrors sound like things that happen to people who live in far away countries impoverished and ravaged by corruption — lands of lawlessness where human rights count for nothing. Countries where you are on your way to work one minute and, in the next, arrested in front of your children, jailed, and held without access to an attorney for years.
But this isn’t a distant country. This is the United States.
And these horrors are happening every day to some of our most vulnerable victims — Latinx immigrants.
A culture of contempt against Latinx people permeates not only mainstream culture but ICE agent culture under Trump as well — from racial profiling and hate crimes to midnight arrests and mass deportations of brown-skinned people.
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