'Raids targeting workers and families are a waste of public resources that should instead be used to combat white nationalist terrorism,' said Óscar Chacón, the executive director of Alianza
A network of immigration advocacy groups has called on the Trump administration to divert the funds being used to support the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's raids on immigrant communities to efforts to combat"white nationalist terrorism" instead.
Calling ICE's operation an"act of terror committed against working families by the Trump administration," Óscar Chacón, the executive director of Alianza Americas said raids targeting workers and families"are a waste of public resources that should instead be used to combat white nationalist terrorism."
"Raids targeting workers who are fighting every day to care for their families are a waste of public resources that could otherwise be spent combating the white nationalist terrorism that has claimed the lives of so many over the years, including last week in Texas," ChacónICE's raids came just four days after a suspected terrorist opened fire on shoppers at a WalMart in El Paso in a mass shooting that left 22 people dead.
However, some of the language used in the author's post appears to reflect that deployed by the U.S. leader, including his use of the word"invasion" to describe the influx of arrivals of asylum seekers at the southern border. in U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border for the second month in a row since May's record-breaking levels.
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