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on this great article on US persecution of Walter Cruz-Zavala:1. It shows how the US produces the conditions+conduct that it uses to criminalize people.
-US imperialism shaped his childhood traumas
-immigration law trapped him w/ his father in US b/c leaving=one-way ticket https://twitter.com/rdevro/status/1388480326062596099
-"Organized abandonment and organized violence" produced the gang he joined.
-A fed inducted him by tattooing "MS" on his chest, ensuring he faced death in El Salvador or life in prison in the US.
-The trauma of years in solitary led directly to his later re-criminalization
-A fed inducted him by tattooing "MS" on his chest, ensuring he faced death in El Salvador or life in prison in the US.
-The trauma of years in solitary led directly to his later re-criminalization
2. It exposes the grotesque, racist violence of using past criminalization as the justification/pretext for further violence at the hands of ICE.
This guy's past criminalization should entitle him to *reparations* from the gov't, not more criminalization/torture.
This guy's past criminalization should entitle him to *reparations* from the gov't, not more criminalization/torture.
3. It shows how ICE deliberately tortures people for fighting against deportation by locking them up while doing an "unlimited number of appeals." ICE can make it so that someone's choice to continue fighting for their right to stay = a choice to continue being tortured.
... And this is after this guy won his case! Multiple times! *Years* in a cage, after winning multiple times.
Until eventually this sham court re-did his whole case top to bottom because the gov't didn't like the result.
4. It shows how the ICE "priorities" are totally bogus.
Until eventually this sham court re-did his whole case top to bottom because the gov't didn't like the result.
4. It shows how the ICE "priorities" are totally bogus.
5. It shows how profoundly dehumanizing the court system is.
This is evident throughout, but comes through most strongly where the article centers Cruz-Zavala's words + analysis, contrasted w/ the court's *literal refusal to let him speak* (& ICE's refusal to let him see family)
This is evident throughout, but comes through most strongly where the article centers Cruz-Zavala's words + analysis, contrasted w/ the court's *literal refusal to let him speak* (& ICE's refusal to let him see family)
Anyway, read this piece. https://theintercept.com/2021/05/01/ice-detainee-deportation-walter-cruz-zavala/
SEE ALSO this thread from someone who has witnessed *extremely up close* the entire cycle described in this article in the course of fighting to #FreeOusman (I’m not kidding when I say everyone should really read this piece/it lays it alllllll out) https://twitter.com/s_phia_/status/1388556654686478349
