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It also increases racial discrimination and hate violence against people of color "perceived to be foreign born or 'illegal," media reports heightening tensions. Over 100 accounts of documented abuse show how immigration policy reigns terror across America from rural New Mexico and North Carolina to New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
Affected are women, children, indigenous people, Latinos, African Americans, and South Asian communities and workers. They're unfairly targeted by America's rage to vilify, target, persecute, imprison and deport. NNIRR cites four troublesome pillars:
(1) Criminalizing immigration status, increased use of incarceration and state terror tactics.
(2) Linking immigration politics to national security, relying on "racial, ethnic/nationality and religious profiling."
(3) Militarizing border communities, reinforcing policies that force immigrants to cross dangerous Southwestern areas, especially in extreme summer heat that kills. In 2010, record numbers were recorded, 254 near Arizona's border alone. Other data confirm at least two migrant deaths daily, and for every body found "at least ten others are believed to have disappeared."
(4) "Scapegoating immigrants for the economic crisis, and leveraging anti-immigrant sentiment (for) laws and policies that cut (or) eliminate public services," civil rights, environmental, labor and other social protections.
America's repressive immigration agenda targets, detains and deports immigrants in record numbers, devastating communities as a result. ICE uses harsh tactics, prolonged/indefinite detentions, and coercion to force immigrants to wave due process and be deported. Local police collaborate. Militarized immigration control violates border communities' rights and causes numerous migrant deaths.
Audited employer workplace files result in labor rights violations and mass firings. In addition, repressive local, county and state anti-immigrant laws and policies fuel hate, fear, and abusive policing with impunity, perhaps exacerbated when federal policy is enacted.
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