Deportation from Freedom to Cruel Imprisonment and Slavery: Violations of Basic Constitutional Principles

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1. # Naming What We See in American Cities Today: Slave Capture

   What we are seeing in many American cities today is **slave capture**. This is why so many people, including those who do not normally follow immigration law, react with shock and anger when they witness these scenes. They see peaceful people, many fully enculturated, employed, raising families, suddenly singled out, often by ethnicity, pushed to the ground, handcuffed or zip-tied, and then disappeared from their homes and neighborhoods. What they are witnessing is a primal event that we Americans recognize from our own past, from films, from school lessons, from family histories and ancestral studies and books, even if they have never had a single word for it. Naming it clearly, ***slave capture***, explains why it feels so un-American, so repugnant, so deeply at odds with what we teach our children is wrong.

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