Just as the public was initially led to believe that the War on Drugs was focused on “drug kingpins” or “violent offenders”—when the opposite was true—our nation’s current war on immigrants has been advertised as necessary to rid us of “terrorists, gang members, or violent criminals,” when in fact the overwhelming majority of immigrants detained and deported have no criminal record and pose no threat. In 2014, The New York Times found in an investigation of government records that two-thirds of immigrants deported during the Obama administration committed minor infractions, including traffic
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