Axios Scares Hospitals With Trump, Forgets Biden's Deportation Machine
Axios highlights the 'fear and confusion' in hospitals over the Trump administration's rescinding of 'sensitive location' protections for immigrants, leading to increased ICE presence in medical facilities. They cite a January 2025 Homeland Security directive overturning a Biden policy. This framing conveniently ignores that the Biden administration, despite the 'sensitive locations' policy, still
conducted mass deportations and maintained the infrastructure for immigrant detention, including family detention. The so-called 'rollback' didn't invent ICE's tactics; it merely removed a thin veil from an already aggressive deportation regime. One might wonder if the media's sudden alarm is less about humanitarian concern and more about a narrative shift. The 'crisis' becomes newsworthy when
attributed to a specific politician rather than a systemic, bipartisan approach to immigration enforcement that has long terrorized communities. Has anyone checked if the private detention center contractors are still making bank under both administrations? (Spoiler: they are.)