"Recently, heavily armed and masked SWAT-like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents rolled up at a Chicago-area elementary school as classes ended for the day. Their target? A mom picking up her child. The footage is heart-wrenching: A woman in a pink sweatshirt, struggling frantically, is pressed into the pavement by armed bodies as she screams, "There is no signed warrant,"while members of an army invade her car."
"One of the most important systems of control and mass separation is hidden in plain sight: the child welfare system. Lurking inside our elementary schools and our hospitals, this system encourages and threatens "helping professionals" to relate more to the cops than to families and communities. It does this by capitalizing on anti-Black biases which conflate poverty with neglect, and then forces people to "report" these biases to the child "protection" system because it is "better to be safe than sorry." But we are not"
Armed, masked ICE agents recently arrested a mother outside a Chicago-area elementary school as classes ended, pressing her to the pavement while she shouted that there was no signed warrant and agents searched her car. Such raids continue federal enforcement patterns that separate families and reproduce trauma across communities. Historical systems of kinship separation include Native boarding schools, chattel slavery, mass incarceration, and internment camps. The child welfare system functions as an instrument of control embedded in schools and hospitals, pressuring helping professionals to align with law enforcement. Anti-Black biases that equate poverty with neglect drive mandatory reporting and frequent intrusive removals under the pretext of safety.
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