Literary Hub Article The Struggle for Empathy Within the Border Patrol’s “Culture of Cruelty”

Considering this Lexis development

Lexis Signs Off On $16.8 million contract to sell information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

 

We thought this article published on Literary Hub via City Lights books was a very well timed piece and should hopefully make any Lexis user’s blood boil.

 

5 April 2021 …Todd Miller on the Foundational White Supremacy That Guards America’s Borders

 

Here are a couple of snippets from the piece that get to the core of the problem, not the agents on the ground but……. I began to see that the agents were the most visible elements, yet only a small part of a much bigger system that included paper pushers, policy-makers, politicians, and private corporations that sell bullets and weapons and high-tech cameras for a profit.

And through taxes, my own connection to this apparatus is direct. I pay the agents’ salaries, I pay for the drones, I pay for the groundsweeping radar systems and aerostats, I pay for the detention centers, I pay the administrators who sign into policy the most heinous treatment of our fellow human beings. 

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The Struggle for Empathy Within the Border Patrol’s “Culture of Cruelty”