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Immigration control: Trump's mass deportation system is rooted in racism

Immigration control is the least constitutional and most racist realms of governance in US law, life

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Demonstrators at the concourse of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport where more than 1,000 people gathered on Saturday to protest the order restricting immigrants’ entry to the US (Photo: AP/PTI)

Kelly Lytle Hernandez | The Conversation

A rowdy segment of the American electorate is hell-bent on banning a specific group of immigrants from entering the United States. Thousands upon thousands of other people – citizens and immigrants, alike – oppose them, choosing to go to court rather than fulfill the electorate’s narrow vision of what America should look like: white, middle class and Christian.

Soon a series of US Supreme Court rulings could grant unrestrained power to congress and the president over immigration control. More than 50 million people could be deported. Countless others might be barred from entering. Most of them would be poor, non-white, and