A pair of University of Southern California sociologists claim in a recent article that President Trump is “laying the groundwork” to “contain” minority Americans and immigrants.
Professor Brittany Friedman and PhD candidate Raquel Delerme, self-proclaimed experts in “social control” and surveillance, write in The Conversation that governments historically surveil “specific groups — such as religious minorities, certain races or ethnicities, or migrants,” and then use what’s collected to “arrest” and “imprison” them.
“We expect Trump’s second White House term may usher in a wave of spying against people of color and immigrants,” the authors say, because the president “has vowed to target his political enemies” and could “weaponize” intelligence agencies to carry it out.