In January, an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report revealed not only did the U.S. government separate thousands more children from their parents than previously thought; it was separating them before authorities admitted a child separation policy was in place, which former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen initially denied existed.
February, we learned ICE is nasally force-feeding at least half a dozen detainees engaged in hunger strikes to protest conditions at the Texas facility in which they have been imprisoned.
This past April, we learned U.S. immigration officials are penning in hundreds behind chain-link razor wire fencing and forcing them to sleep on the ground in a temporary outdoor detention camp beneath the Paso Del Norte International Bridge linking Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas.
And those cheering all this on are Trump's personal "brown shirts."
Donald Trump officially kicked off his re-election Tuesday night in Orlando, Fla., and the far-right white supremacist group, Proud Boys, were there to confront an anti-Trump demonstration.
According to The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), white supremacist violence and overt bias have surged the past two years over fears of immigration and the nation's shifting cultural landscape.
And about those mass deportations.
While still a candidate for president, Donald Trump insisted he would create a deportation force.
Well, he's got it.
It's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and in September, the administration transferred $9.8 million to it from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) disaster relief budget in order to build more migrant detention camps.
February also saw a Salvadoran transgender woman's death after she was denied asylum and deported.
As The Guardian reported, as many as 2,000 families in Houston, Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles are target for "mass roundup" in pre-dawn raids on Sunday.
No matter how we look at it, we have become "that country."
This should be the daily headline for every major media outlet in the nation.
Sadly, our corporate media would rather we not know about any of this, thus setting up the fait accompli that will one day cause future generations to shake their heads and vow "Never again."
And then it will happen again.
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