Trump gleefully sends a sadistic message to Latinx people
by digby
“I want people to know that if they come into the United States illegally, they’re getting out, they’re going to be brought out,” Mr. Trump said at the White House. “And this serves as a very good deterrent.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials rounded up more than 650 suspected illegal immigrants this week at seven food processing plants in six cities in Mississippi. More than 300 of them had been released by Thursday, an ICE spokesman said.
Mr. Trump said deterrence is “a big factor” in the sweeps, to warn people in Central America against traveling in caravans to surge the U.S. border.
“They may get in, although we’re being very tough, but they may get in, but it doesn’t matter,” Mr. Trump said. “Because they’re going out. And when people see what they saw [Wednesday], like they will see for a long time, they know that they’re not staying here.”
I’m not sure why Trump doesn’t take his “deterrence” argument all the way. If you think this senseless cruelty in the wake of the worst massacre of Latinos in history is a good deterrence, it’s not much of a leap to saying this is an even better one:
Authorities say the 21-year-old man accused of carrying out the deadly mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart confessed after surrendering and said he had been targeting Mexicans.
I am absolutely sure that Trump and his sadistic henchman Stephen Miller mentally (if not literally) cheered. It certainly sent the same message they are trying to send: Latinos should leave the United States or risk — everything.
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