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Trump’s Making Good on One of His Many Campaign Promises: Promoting Unfettered Police Power
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
As the world focuses on state violence from Syria to Iraq to Yemen to North Korea, the groundwork is being laid in the United States for unchecked state violence here at home. Donald Trump is making good on at least one of his many campaign promises: promoting unfettered police power. His point person on these goals, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is leading the Justice Department through a tectonic shift, abandoning Obama-era efforts to protect civil and voting rights, threatening more deportations and resuscitating the decades-old, failed “War on Drugs.”
This week, Sessions told the International Association of Chiefs of Police, “Unfortunately, in recent years … law enforcement as a whole has been unfairly maligned and blamed for the crimes and unacceptable deeds of a few bad actors.” Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said on the “Democracy Now!” news hour, “What we see with Attorney General Jeff Sessions is an effort to basically take us back in time … this is a person who’s stuck in the ‘80s, and in some instances, stuck in the ‘50s.”
Refugee Caravan 2017
On Sunday, April 9th, a caravan of Central American refugees will set foot from the Guatemala-Mexico border and make their way north to request asylum in the United States. Along the way, they will raise their voices to defend their right to seek refuge.
While European nations put up barbed wire to keep out Syrians fleeing civil war, the US Government refuses to recognize that there is a refugee crisis in Central America. All around the world, refugees’ rights are under attack. One of the Trump administration’s first actions was a refugee ban, alongside the promise of 3 million deportations in his first year in office. It solidifies a transnational deportation regime developed under Obama, and increasingly harmful for immigrant families seeking refuge.
In 2015 and 2016, Mexico deported twice as many Central Americans than did the United States for the first time in history. This shared system of border control has led to an extremely dangerous passage for refugees on the run.
More information (press release, map, calendar, reports, etc.): http://www.pueblosinfronteras.org/actions-.html




