Trump’s attacks on immigrants are relentless
The cruelty of Trump’s deportation machine knows no end. Recently, at a naturalization ceremony in Boston, agents from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) pulled immigrants out of line as they waited to take the oath of allegiance and officially become citizens. Why weren’t they allowed to proceed? Due to their country of origin. 1 Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years. Background checks, extensive interviews, taking classes, and passing a citizenship test, not to mention obtaining a green card. The last step in the years-long process is taking your oath of allegiance to the United States, and dozens of people were prevented from taking that final step. This halting of citizenship ceremonies isn’t just happening in Boston; it’s happening across the country as the Trump administration has implemented full or partial immigration bans to 19 countries. 2 This is undeniably xenophobic and un-American, but that’s been the hallmark of Trump’s mass deportation machine. An...