Trump Administration is "marking every brown or Black body as potentially foreign"

Sunday Commentary: The Real Target of Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Every Immigrant Community in America

Days after the Times report, The Washington Post described another mass rupture: more than 600,000 Venezuelans in the United States lost their Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Overnight, people who had built stable lives—who worked, paid taxes, raised children, and contributed to their neighborhoods—became deportable. They lost work permits, driver’s licenses, and access to health care. Activist Adelys Ferro called it “the largest mass illegalization of a group in this country’s history.”


Together, these stories capture a core truth about the Trump era’s immigration strategy: it is not only a campaign against undocumented immigrants. It is a campaign against immigrant belonging itself. It weaponizes uncertainty, turns lawful presence into temporary privilege, and sends the message that no immigrant—regardless of status—is truly safe.


Trump’s immigration agenda has always relied on performance. The mass raids, the footage of families separated at the border, the declarations of “invasions” from Latin America—all serve to create an atmosphere of siege. The Salvadoran prison operation and the revocation of TPS for Venezuelans are extensions of the same logic. They transform policy into theater, where punishment substitutes for problem-solving and fear itself becomes the instrument of control.


For millions of immigrants—documented and undocumented alike—the impact has been pervasive and personal. 

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Fear works not only on the undocumented. It seeps outward, marking every brown or Black body as potentially foreign. Immigration enforcement has become inseparable from over-policing in communities of color. 



https://davisvanguard.org/2025/11/venezuelan-deportations-trump-tps/