As ICE terrorizes the U.S, institutions are failing us. Citizenry must take the initiative
Tactics and strategies the U.S. helped develop as tools to fight terrorism abroad are being used again on the domestic population
*The Ship’s Log, for paid PWS subscribers, are the behind-the-scenes notes from our crew’s work as freelance journalists in an unpredictable region. If you’re a subscriber, thank you, and read on! If not, please consider supporting our work for just $5/month*
I cannot help but feel that a nation has lost its mind. Even after nearly a decade on borders or covering migration, I don’t understand the fear, hatred, xenophobia, and cowardice that is sweeping the land where I was born, and once called home.
Masked men, too ashamed and afraid to show their faces, hide their identities behind masks as they sweep children off the street. Students are sent to detention centers by jackbooted ATF agents who have been repurposed as kidnapping squads that arrest and disappear migrants.
Forty-five billion dollars has been assigned to build detention centers, filtered through private prison companies of course, for the “expedited processing and holding” of the hundreds of thousands of human beings the United States government plans to snatch from their homes, schools, and churches this year.
Hundreds of Venezuelan and El Salvadoran men, the vast majority of whom have committed no crime, currently sit in one of the most infamous prisons in the Western hemisphere in El Salvador— CECOT.
I can’t help but notice that tactics that were developed outside of the country, on borders across Latin America, and in counter-insurgency efforts against dissidents abroad, are now being turned on the domestic population.
