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An author from the New York Times editorial board wrote an article about Trump's immigration policy's called "Mr. Trump’s ‘Deportation Force’ Prepares an Assault on American Values". Because the author starts off the editorial by calling Trump's policy's an "Assault on American Values" you can already presume a bias in place against President Trump. The reasoning behind this bold title is because Trump's homeland security secretary, John Kelly, is making "practically every deportable person a deportation priority". In-fact, targets don't even have to have charges simply having a ICE agent or police officer believe you might face charges is enough to get you deported. This is different from the Obama administration which recognized that "millions of unauthorized immigrants  especially those with citizen children and strong ties to their communities and this country, deserved a chance to stay and get right with the law". The author states that this opens up a door for untrained and unspecialized police officers to increase abuse and racial profiling and ultimately creating profound injustice in the justice department. However this is not everything that John Kelly plans to do, he also plans on publishing data on crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants.

By only publishing crimes committed by illegal immigrants he's clearly influencing the negative biases towards immigrants as a whole, regardless if they're allowed to be in this country or not, with fear. Because of all the "backlash" against these policy's it's obvious that the authors intended audience for this article is those who seek to better understand the new policies of the trump administration and how they will regress our progress on civil rights.

A nation of immigrants

Yesterday on February 9 the federal appeals court voted to maintain the freeze on the immigration order put by President Donald Trump which put a ban on refugees from seven majority-Muslim counties from entering the United States. The ruling was made by three judges which "flatly rejected the government’s argument that suspension of the order should be lifted immediately for national security reasons" The ban itself was considered controversial by many and a “contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy.” 

Something interesting during the ruling however was the fact that the judges "forcefully asserted their ability to serve as a check on the president’s power", something that in my opinion seems like President Trump has a hard time grasping since he went on a rant on Twitter questioning the judiciary branch's power after the initial ruling. 

This article is important to many because its viewed as a direct discrimination against a particular religion which would go against the first amendment. Although some argue its a necessary security issue, there is no evidence that any terrorist came from the 7 countries listed on the ban.