Trump causes “moral panics” to produce “villains” of the demographics.
In a subsequent article, two University of Southern California researchers claim that President Trump is “laying the foundations” for” containing” minority Americans and refugees.
According to Professor Brittany Friedman and PhD member Raquel Delerme, self-declared experts in” cultural control” and surveillance, governments have generally” surveilled”” certain groups— such as spiritual minorities, particular races, ethnicities, or migrants,” and then use what is collected to “arrest” and “imprison” them.
Because the senator “has vowed to pin his social enemies” and was “weaponize” knowledge agencies to carry out the plan, the authors claim,” we anticipate that Trump’s next White House expression may usher in a wave of spying against people of color and immigrants.”
Friedman , ( pictured ) and Delerme claim Trump is inflicting “moral panics” on the southern border, referring to immigration as an “invasion” and the historical pattern in the U.S. of creating “moral panics”
Immigrants are deemed “villains” in the wake of these declarations to support widespread security.
Through rules calling African Americans” barbarians” and “political enemies,” as well as the establishment of slaves patrols, that pattern started even before the U.S. became a state.
In the 1950s, President Johnson launched the “war on crime” and a century after President Nixon launched the “war on drugs” movement. In the 1950s, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover used COINTELPRO to monitor statistics like legal privileges images Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis.
Less: More than 950 law professors call Trump’s actions a” legal problems.”
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We anticipate a increase in spending on integration centers and other mass surveillance tools under Trump as he steps up his pledges to mobilise border enforcement and grow U.S. jails and prisons. Since he’s been stoking off social commotions since 2015, he’s suggested that the targets of authorities surveillance may be Black people and immigrants.
Large surveillance victims occasionally go missing, according to Wikipedia.
The Chicago police have been “disappearing” persons at local and federal authorities “black sites” for a while, according to The Guardian’s report from 2015, and that Chicago police have been doing so since at least since 2009. Under the pretext of national security, officials interrogated prisoners without attorneys and held them for up to 24 hours without any outside email at these secret jails. Many of the victims were Black.
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, the CIA , detained and secretly interrogated suspected terrorists , at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba.
Trump appears to be returning to the Guantanamo , black site after bringing about 150 Venezuelan migrants to the base since January 2025.
Friedman” sees into the heart of our , societal issues ; , exposes dirt; and reimagines what ‘s , possible” according to her personal website. She studies” cover-ups,” “institutional violence &, economic predation,” and “black feminism” at USC.
According to her USC bio, Delerme “uses qualitative methods to study race, gender, and class in the context of the criminal justice system.” Her PhD dissertation addresses” the impact of California prisons ‘ climate crisis.”
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