Mainstream Media 'Discovers' Trump's Immigration Policy, Ignores Precedent
The Financial Times asks, 'Can states stop Trump's immigration raids?' as if mass deportations and federal interventions are a unique feature of one administration. The piece centers on protests responding to a federal agent killing a woman in Minnesota. One might recall similar escalations and federal-state tensions during previous administrations, but those 'nuances' rarely make headlines. The
US government has a long, bipartisan history of aggressive immigration policies, including mass raids and family separations, under both Republican and Democratic presidents. The real question isn't whether states can push back, but why the media consistently frames immigrant hostility as a 'Trump' phenomenon. This selective historical amnesia sanitizes the records of previous administrations,
suggesting a return to 'normal' would fix a system designed to be punitive. It's a convenient narrative that skips over the fact that the architecture for these raids was built, expanded, and utilized long before Trump's name appeared on a ballot.