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One of the most profound aspects of the Trump administration is its rhetoric surrounding immigrants. President Trump repeatedly refers to immigrants using negative and dehumanizing language, often portraying them as criminals, drug dealers, terrorists, and rapists. This language has a dangerous ripple effect, encouraging extremist groups and individuals to target immigrant communities more aggressively.
Detention conditions are notoriously poor, with reports of physical and sexual abuse, inadequate medical care, and even deaths in custody. These facilities are not equipped to handle the mental health or medical needs of detainees, and vulnerable populations, such as pregnant women or individuals with disabilities, are at greater risk of harm.
Profit-driven motives often lead to the overcrowding of facilities, lack of oversight, and inhumane treatment. Detainees may be subjected to unsafe working conditions, substandard food, and inadequate legal resources, all of which exacerbate the trauma they experience.
Family separation is emotionally and psychologically damaging, especially for children, who often face long-lasting trauma from being separated from their parents. The lack of clear communication and the bureaucratic inefficiencies in reunification efforts exacerbated the situation, leaving many children stranded and at risk of neglect or abuse.
he trauma caused by prolonged detention can have lasting effects on children’s mental and physical health. There are also instances of abuse by detention staff, as well as exploitation by other detainees. The stress of detention increases the likelihood of mental health crises, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The blending of immigration enforcement with criminal law enforcement increases the risks of racial profiling, police harassment, and detentions for minor offenses. Immigrants who have no criminal history are swept up in a system that sees their very existence as criminal, leading to unnecessary arrests and escalations.
Immigrant communities living in sanctuary cities or states are more likely to face disruption of their lives when ICE conducts raids. Fear of deportation makes many immigrants reluctant to report crimes, seek medical help, or go to schools, which further marginalizes them.
"The Colorado Rapid Response Network (CORRN) is committed to responding to raids, deportation, and any Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity happening across the state in our communities. Our network is made up of multiple immigrant advocacies and activist groups."
First we must understand what kind of systems we are looking at?
Patriarchy has been founded on the preconceived notion to sex differences at birth and assumed placement in breeding or procreation for future generations, and the assumed placement of a labor source or provider. While this notion has been getting very old by this time, we have let it up hold several households and leave many spending years in emotional aguish over their true wants and the systems' need to stay alive. If men are home bodies who take care of the young, as their female partner have a larger corporate jobs that provide for the family you are actively breaking this norm. However, don't misguide your sense of praise for breaking away from the norm. The praise goes to those who also teach their children not to rely on a specific sex or gender to provide for emotional needs etc. There is a lot in this world that caters to the male ideology, but in many ways it dis-serves the male population the most by inappropriate expectations and emotional strangulation. This does not negate that the tole the Patriarchy has put on AFAB people and/or women is unattainable by most, and has caused death, abuse, and manipulation in the name of gender superiority. Sexual domination has always been apart of this historical fantasy, but the patriarchy uses this assumed domination to abuse and silence women all the time. Rape and abuse culture is an egregious act and it's important that we take the energy to deal with our biggest predators in the community.
However our systems journey does not lead us just to Patriarchal Systems, but also Racist Systems that further upheld the white male agenda for power and profits. We saw this throughout the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Fugitive Slave Laws, Emancipation Proclamation, and Jim Crow Laws that have only evolved in their ability to access black communities and gerrymander their counties. Racism has many different ways of manifesting itself in the psychology of white individuals. Racism is something every white person faces, because our environment inherently works for us. It makes sure that we are safe; instead of fearing us and therefore endangering us. Racism and Slavery gave white men with power the ability to control and manipulate the ways in which voting and many other forms of freedom were withheld. Black Communities have faced the most extreme of attacks in our nation's history. It's our job as people today to combat our learned racism and other social systems, so that people can be in this place of freedom with the feeling of actually feeling safe, protected, and free to do so as they please (with reason).
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