Breaking ICE / Sonali Kolhatkar

Somebody trying to emigrate to the United States twenty years ago with the exact same circumstance would today be considered an outsider. What's happening today is the fight against immigrants is a two-fold battle. One is that it is a fight against demographic change in the United States: this idea that we're becoming too democratic. Our democracy is welcoming and including too many people who go against the project of white supremacy. The other is that it's the most convenient distraction from the true perpetrators of climate change, colonialism, inequality--you name it--who are the billionaires.