Jean Guerrero on How the US Border is Invading America

The Border's Internal Encroachment

• 🇺🇸 The US Mexico border is no longer a static line but a "roaming force" operating deep within the country, impacting cities, schools, and workplaces.
• 🎯 Border Patrol and ICE are enforcing a "Wild West mentality" and racialized logic, treating US cities as hostile frontiers.
• 💔 This internal border creates divisions between white and brown communities, families, and neighbors, eroding the rights of citizens.

Bipartisan Complicity in Immigration Policy

• 🤝 Both Democratic and Republican administrations have normalized and sustained anti-immigrant cruelty for decades.
• 💔 The Clinton administration militarized the border, leading to tens of thousands of deaths, while the Obama administration deported millions.
• ⚖️ Both Obama and Biden administrations upheld policies that allow for racial profiling in immigration enforcement, creating a two-tiered justice system.
• 🎭 Democratic leaders' selective outrage and hypocrisy on immigration issues have fueled the current crisis, making it seem like Trump's policies were unique horrors.

Steven Miller's Role and Democratic Failures

• 🧠 Steven Miller, architect of Trump's immigration policies, exploited the perceived hypocrisy of Democratic leaders who defended immigrants performatively but normalized indifference and cruelty in practice.
• 🗣️ Democratic leaders are now largely silent or adopting a more restrictive tone, believing they need to channel hostility towards immigrants to regain voter trust.
• 💰 Examples include California Governor Newsom cutting healthcare benefits for undocumented immigrants, indicating a delusion that the party's failure is over-compassion rather than inhumanity.

A Call for Reckoning

• ⚠️ A deep reckoning with the structural abuses embedded in the US immigration system and the bipartisan role in sustaining them is urgently needed.
• 💥 Without this reckoning, the border's violence and impunity will continue to encroach inward, destroying collective rights for all Americans.