6/17/2023 0 Comments Trump old black lady photo policeLike the disturbing images of children and toddlers in cages, footage and photographs of tear-gassed asylum-seekers prompted numerous Democrats to decry the situation as somehow un-American. It is for good reason that the photographs and footage from the border on Sunday produced outrage, but it would be a mistake to presume this to be some sort of watershed moment for the government’s racist and brutal immigration policy. The violent optics of tear gas, then, represent the affirmation of an existing state of affairs and the strengthening of an anti-immigrant agenda by means of the administration asserting a state of crisis. Or the photos of caged children and toddlers separated from their parents by the Trump administration - and why media access to those detention centers has been under fierce government control. Think of the images published by The Intercept of migrants’ dead bodies found in the desert borderlands. When they do emerge, the photos are extremely affecting. The deployment of tear gas, however, provided a visual representation of violence at the border that has proven rare. ![]() Swartz claimed that the teen, José Antonio Elena Rodríguez, had been throwing rocks, but José Antonio was found with bullets in his head and back. Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz was found not guilty of second-degree murder for fatally shooting an unarmed Mexican 16-year-old through the fence with Mexico in 2012. Violence against immigrants at the border is not new and has been far deadlier than Sunday’s tear gas attacks. border agents reaffirmed America’s willingness not only to act as a repressive anti-immigrant state, but to embrace the optics of fascistic cruelty while doing so. In firing tear gas at asylum-seekers at the Mexican border on Sunday, U.S. Since the shift from its deployment as a chemical weapon in World War I to its use in putting down anti-colonial uprisings from Ireland to India to Palestine, to its ongoing deployment by domestic governments against dissent, this is how states use tear gas - for repression. ![]() It also produces a violent spectacle, which is why the deployment of tear gas so often constitutes a media event. The logic behind it is one of torture: to render a situation unbearable. It causes choking, gagging, and temporary blindness. The logic behind tear gas is one of torture: to render a situation unbearable. ![]() The razor wire border fence stretches behind them as they run away. Captured by Reuter’s photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon, the photo shows a woman wearing a Disney princess T-shirt running from plumes of white gas, dragging two young children with her, both little girls in diapers, one wearing no shoes. 25, 2018.Īs the weekend’s brutal drama unfolded at the U.S.-Mexico border, with American authorities firing tear gas across the border fence at would-be asylum-seekers, an iconic image emerged. Maria Lila Meza Castro, center, a 39-year-old migrant woman from Honduras, runs away from tear gas with her 5-year-old twin daughters Saira Nalleli Mejia Meza, left, and Cheili Nalleli Mejia Meza at the border wall between the U.S.
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