A deranged comparison.
There are no bounds to leftwing progressives’ Trump Derangement Syndrome. They are triggered by virtually everything that President Trump does, especially by the hard line he is taking to strictly enforce the nation’s immigration laws.
Some pro-illegal immigration fanatics have even compared enforcement of the immigration laws to enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law in the 1850s. According to proponents of this bizarre theory, ICE agents are today’s version of the pre-Civil War slave catchers. In their minds, militants who obstruct ICE agents from apprehending criminally violent illegal immigrants for deportation are heroes just like the abolitionists who tried to rescue runaway slaves from being recaptured and returned to their lives of servitude.
For example, MSNBC contributor and Princeton University professor Dr. Eddie Glaude accused Trump supporters of enjoying seeing ICE agents act like “slave catchers” as they carry out their law enforcement duties.
Garrett Epps, the legal affairs editor at the Washington Monthly, wrote that “The federal government is now committed to treating immigrants almost precisely as the antebellum South treated slaves.”
Charles M. Blow, an MSNBC analyst and former New York Times op-ed columnist, claimed that “the visual echo between today’s ICE raiders and yesterday’s slave catchers is eerie.”
Newark’s Democrat Mayor Ras Baraka said last spring that “black folks” have “come from a whole lot of undocumented people.” In an obvious allusion to the Left’s slave catcher comparison, Mayor Baraka added, “And if they knew you didn’t have your papers, you going back to the plantation. They have people chasing, catching you. It wasn’t called ICE then.”
The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS ), the self-described online publication of the world Trotskyist movement, the International Committee of the Fourth International, and its affiliated sections in the Socialist Equality Parties, minced no words:
“The US and global population is currently witnessing vicious raids carried out by heavily armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and various other organs of state repression. These agents are the widely despised ‘slave catchers’ of our time, directed by the would-be dictator Donald Trump.”
U.S. District Court Judge Trina Thompson, a Biden appointee, used the slavery analogy when she ordered the interim suspension of the Trump administration’s planned elimination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 60,000 migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal. In addition to playing the race card against the Trump administration, the judge shamelessly compared ending TPS for migrants from these three countries to the transatlantic slave trade! --->READ MORE HERE
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