21 Savages detainment by ICE is emblematic of the broader experiences of undocumented Black immigrants in the US

Donald Trump’s campaign for Presidency has been set and shaped through the tactic of moral panic manufacturing, utilising the threatening image of “dangerous classes” to illustrate the common sense behind his ultra-conservative solutions to alienation and anomie caused by economic deterioration and political apathy.

The deportation regimes complexity ensures the continuity of a neoliberal economy predicated on flexible labor, wage retraction and the exclusion of vast swathes of the polis.

Migrants fleeing of domestic violence and people trafficking are having their protections slowly eroded by the Trump administration, leaving them susceptible to gender based violence. These protections need to build upon, rather then dismantled.

President Trump has declared war on the transnational gang MS-13, promising more measures and powers to deport members. Long Island’s considerable Salvadoran population is at risk of being swept up in this political gamesmanship by Trump, caught between the violence of the State’s deportation regime and the violence of MS-13