Sitemap

Member-only story

Mass Deportation Isn’t Policy — It’s Punishment for Not Being White

A punishment for being brown, Black, Indigenous, poor — and above all, not white.

3 min readJun 17, 2025

“The cruelty isn’t a flaw in the system. It’s the point of the system.”

Every time the United States rounds up immigrants in pre-dawn raids…
Every time children are torn from their parents at the border…
Every time an asylum seeker is shackled denied a translator, or dies in detention…

The pundits say: “It’s a broken system.”
But the truth is harsher — and far more deliberate:

Mass deportation in the U.S. isn’t a misguided policy. It’s a punishment.
A punishment for being brown, Black, Indigenous, poor — and above all, not white.

The Myth of “Lawful” Deportation

The right loves to insist: “We’re just enforcing the law.”

But let’s pull back the curtain:

  • Immigration “violations” are overwhelmingly civil, not criminal.
  • There is no mass mechanism for legal entry for most people fleeing violence or poverty.
  • Many undocumented immigrants were brought here…

--

--

Libby Winkler
Libby Winkler

Written by Libby Winkler

Freelance writer who loves exploring the messiness of humanity, while poking around in nooks of life and shining light on all the things that make us complex..

Responses (1)