{"id":366265,"date":"2018-06-21T23:39:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T22:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-working-class-and-the-global-war-on-immigrants\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T23:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T22:39:51","slug":"the-working-class-and-the-global-war-on-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-working-class-and-the-global-war-on-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"The working class and the global war on immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>The working class and the global war on immigrants<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    21 June 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Faced with a firestorm of outrage both within the US and internationally, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday rescinding his administration\u2019s policy of ripping children from the arms of parents seeking refuge in the US as a means of terrorizing migrants and halting their entry into the country.<\/p>\n<p>Audiotapes of interned children sobbing and crying out desperately for their mothers and fathers, only to be mocked by their guards, and reports of infants literally torn from their mothers\u2019 breasts\u2014and mothers seeking to hold onto their babies physically restrained and handcuffed\u2014have provoked disgust and horror around the world.<\/p>\n<p>That these scenes of children in cages have been unfolding in what has long been referred to as the \u201cmost advanced capitalist country\u201d in the world has immense political significance. No less significant is the defense of these policies by the American president and his aides in language that is borrowed directly from the rhetoric of fascism. Immigrants have been called \u201canimals\u201d seeking to \u201cinfest\u201d the United States\u2014words that are all too reminiscent of the speeches of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s order implies no retreat from his administration\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy toward immigrants. Those coming across the border without documents will still be treated as criminals, with families to be imprisoned together in internment camps until they are prosecuted and either jailed or deported.<\/p>\n<p>The Gestapo-style hounding of immigrant workers within the United States is only escalating, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raiding a meatpacking plant in Ohio Tuesday, detaining 146 immigrant workers, who were shipped&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/06\/21\/pers-j21.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The working class and the global war on immigrants 21 June 2018 Faced with a firestorm of outrage both within the US and internationally, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday rescinding his administration\u2019s policy of ripping children from the arms of parents seeking refuge in the US as a means of terrorizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-366265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}