What is a ‘criminal’ immigrant? The word is an American rhetorical trap | Jonathan Ben-Menachem

Allegations of criminality have always been deployed to justify state violence but even ‘imperfect’ victims deserve basic rightsUS politics live – latest updatesLast month, the Trump administration flew 238 Venezuelan immigrants to a brutal prison in E...

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