Trump’s Immigration Policy Is Designed to Stoke Crisis

Without a perceived crisis at the border, there’s no pretext for ICE raids, family separation, and concentration camps

Shoes are left by people at the Tornillo Port of Entry near El Paso, Texas, June 21, 2018 during a protest rally by several American mayors against the US administration’s family separation policy. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

The most inhumane aspects of our current immigration system — concentration camps, ICE raids, family separation, and indefinite detention — are all by design.