Trump’s Executive Orders Promise Systemic Detentions, Deportations

By Human Rights Watch

In a nondescript parking lot in Tucson, Arizona, a fifth-grade boy waited in a car while his mom, Natalie Burke, went inside a US government office to sign some paperwork. Natalie, a Black woman from Jamaica with legal immigration status, did not come back to the car. Without warning, immigration officials had taken her to a detention center. She was locked up for more than a year in miserable conditions, all due to 20-year-old marijuana convictions that made her deportable and even though marijuana is now legal in her state.This was in 2009, sixteen years before President Donald Trump signed the…

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