It feels like every day, there is more news about how the Trump administration is mistreating migrants. The article in the Aug. 21 Herald, “Trump wants no limits on immigrant child detentions,” is another example of how atrocities like refugees being held in cages and families being separated are a direct result of deliberate, but unnecessary, decisions being made by this administration. These conditions are not due to a lack of resources; they are due to Congress allowing the resources that exist to be used to maximize cruelty, instead of meet real humanitarian needs.
The underlying connection for all of these abuses is the runaway funding that Congress provides to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection for detention and deportation. Congress must use this year’s Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill to defund hate by cutting spending on ICE and CBP, and holding them accountable for their chronic mismanagement of funds and even longer-running rights abuses.
Michele Egan
Seattle
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