A coalition of immigrant advocates recently criticized the Joe Biden administration for distributing videos of people being deported.. This was reported by the news portal The Hill.
According to the complaint from 11 immigrant rights defense organizations, The Biden administration, through the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE), sends audiovisual material to the media in which it is possible to observe how immigrants are deported by plane.
This material, according to The Hill, is sent to the news media as “Additional material on repatriation flights.”
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) He published a statement in which he denounced that these types of videos are “dehumanizing.”
“The use of this material is shocking and dehumanizing. ICE should discontinue it,” the organization said, according to information from The Hill.
The NIJC stated that this material does not allow viewing “the complexity of the human stories behind each family, including the love, devotion and courage that led those families to leave their homes in search of safety, and the trauma of being forced back into dangerous situations“.
“Blurred faces, militarized facilities, and police escorting parents carrying their children dehumanize them and portray them as threats,” the NIJC concluded.
For his part, Tom Cartwright, an immigrant advocate and member of the Witness at the Border group, assured that this type of practice was something he would have expected from the presidency of former Republican President Donald Trump, but not from the current one. .
“There are people who, in many cases, have fled to the United States for safety. And we just look away and dehumanize them to prove a point about our immigration or about our immigration policies.. This is something that I would have expected under the previous presidency, but not under this government administration,” Cartwright said, according to The Hill.
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