Far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos said he is "very ashamed" for supporting President Trump after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers detained and deported him back to the United Kingdom. Yiannopoulos told British commentator Piers Morgan on his talk show "Uncensored" on YouTube that he believes the Trump…
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Trump's immigration policy costs a Haitian student his life and turns one of its loudest fans against it.
As it ran on the front
They've got two words for what happens when you lose your immigration status: 'processing' and 'removal.' Neither word has a body count built into it, but this week one of them got one anyway. A Haitian-born student in Ohio lost his status and, according to the wire, took his own life. That's not a paperwork story. That's a kid who trusted a form more than the country trusted him.
Meanwhile, on the other coast of the culture war, Milo Yiannopoulos is telling reporters he's 'very ashamed' of ever backing the guy — after his own encounter with deportation. I'm not in the business of feeling sorry for a man who spent a decade making a living off cruelty toward exactly the kind of people this policy is built to remove. But I am in the business of noticing when a machine eats its own operator. That's not forgiveness. That's a receipt.…
…(cont) Here's the thing about immigration enforcement no podium wants to say plainly: it doesn't check your politics at the door. It doesn't care if you voted for it, cheered for it, monetized it on a book tour. The Ohio student didn't build this system and it still took him. Milo helped sell this system to half the country and it came for him too. Different outcomes, same machine, same paperwork, same letterhead.
That's the tell. When a policy is genuinely about security, it has edges — it explains who it's for and who it's against, and those edges hold up under pressure. When a policy is actually about control, the edges disappear the minute it's inconvenient, and it starts eating people regardless of which side of the microphone they were standing on. This week, in one news cycle, we got a demonstration of both directions that machine runs.
These two stories won't share a debate stage. One is a tragedy, the other's a punchline with a passport stamp. But they ran through the same office, on the same forms, under the same signature. The kid in Ohio and the guy who spent years cheering for this didn't get different systems. They got the same one, at different speeds. Somebody ought to ask what happens to the rest of us when the machine's done eating the people who used to defend it.
“The same paperwork that killed a kid in Ohio caught up with one of its own cheerleaders. It doesn't ask who you voted for before it takes your status away.”
“Immigration enforcement applies the law equally, that's the whole — well, obviously the Ohio case is a tragedy and shouldn't be mentioned alongside a public figure's visa issue, actually I probably shouldn't have brought up either one in the same breath.”
The receipts
A Haitian-born student in Ohio reportedly took his own life following the loss of his immigration status as part of the Trump administration’s termination of temporary protected status for immigrants around the country. The Ohio State Highway Patrol stated in a Monday press release that 20-year-old Pierre Damas Bel died Monday when he…
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