Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

Over the past eleven months, the White House has enacted many questionable, if not contemptible, policies. They include the pardoning of convicted criminals (most recently, the Honduran drug king Juan Orlando Hernandez), the indiscriminate firing of federal employees, the on-and-off again tariffs, the revenge prosecutions of the President’s alleged enemies, the destruction of the White House East Wing to build a ballroom for 1,000 guests, and blatant conflict of interest and corrupt dealmaking.

Yet three ongoing activities of the Trump administration warrant universal condemnation and criminal accountability: the kidnapping, detention, and deportation of immigrants; the lethal attacks on unproven “drug boats” off the coasts of Venezuela and Columbia; and the continuing complicity with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

1. Immigration. What we’ve been witnessing in Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte and now New Orleans over the past several months are violent raids that mimic the thuggish kidnappings common in brutal dictatorships. Masked men (and women) who refuse to identify themselves or their agencies alight from tinted glass SUVs to hunt down and forcibly arrest men, women and children who appear to be immigrants. Some wear military garb. Some carry guns. And at in one recent incident........

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