Posted on 07/29/2025 8:11:33 PM PDT by lightman
Not only is this New York Times op-ed insulting to black people, it’s historically illiterate. It does accomplish the catchy soundbite initiative, which was probably the objective here, but it’s beyond laughable. Behold, folks, we’re in the ‘Juan Crow’ era. That’s right—enforcing generations of immigration laws is now ‘Juan Crow.’ I mean, if you can get through this insanity, power to you:
In its merciless pursuit of people without papers — most of them Latino — and its demonization of asylum seekers, refugees, holders of temporary protected status, Muslims and Palestinian rights activists, the Trump administration is accelerating toward a new, modern nadir of Juan Crow, just downstream of Jim and Jane.
When a sitting U.S. senator refers to New York immigrants as “inner-city rats,” when a Florida governor waxes rapturously about the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention center, when a presidential administration takes two months to dismantle decades of civil rights law, we must admit that these are acts in a feature presentation of neo-Confederate revanchism targeting brown and Black people. The targeting of the undocumented has a name, after all, based in ugly history and shameful tradition: Juan Crow.
The phrase was popularized by the journalist Roberto Lovato to describe the “matrix of laws, social customs, economic institutions and symbolic systems” that isolate and control undocumented immigrants. The domestic policies of the Trump administration have taken this legacy to a more dangerous place.
The policies of this administration reinstate an era in which the rights conferred to all people in the United States by the Constitution are subject to a sliding scale of extralegal violability depending on one’s race, ethnicity or assumed immigration status. Tom Homan, the so-called border czar, has said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents don’t “need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them and question them.” The administration has created a hostile, systematic stripping of basic dignities that works in concert with stymying official methods people are meant to use to seek relief and redress for governmental abuse.
The rest is pseudointellectual drivel. It truly goes off the rails, which you could likely guess when these people whine about how our laws and systems are hell for those who shouldn’t be here.
It’s supposed to be harder for illegal aliens, you clowns. It’s nothing new. History did not begin in 2024, and to equate immigration enforcement to institutionalized racism of the Jim Crow era that targeted Black Americans, who were citizens, is beyond outrageous. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with other law enforcement agencies, are booting people who aren’t citizens, who broke the law coming here illegally, and they’re going. One way or another, they’re going. It’s not Juan Crow—it’s the enforcement of the law in this area, which has been an ongoing exercise since forever.
The line “a sliding scale of extralegal violability depending on one’s race” shows the depths of how insane the Left has become on this issue. No one has the right to come here. They can rant all they want, but white progressives are mad that their pool of slave labor is being deported, and their political life’s blood is being desanguinated from our shores. We all know the deal: Democrats want unfettered open borders to overload our country, increase the population, which means increased congressional apportionment, represented by liberals of the same ethnic background. It’s why at least one-third of the entire House Democratic caucus comes from three states.
Just truly amazing stuff.
Dipsh*ts.
CC
The people who are the most pissed off about illegal immigration are Hispanics. Cesar Chavez actually formed armed groups to patrol the border in California to keep them out.
Ay carumba.
It sounds so terrible they should take the free ticket and 1000 bucks and go back home.
Juan Aloha.
They’ll just be on vacation.
People have got to get over the idea that coming into the country illegally is anything but legal.
I’ve always felt that a more Ominus attack is Overloading USA’s Economy.
Cloward-Piven Writ LARGE.
Our College’s Embrace This.
Rat Bastid Commies.
Another reason to not read the NYT!
The Times has always been a piece of crap.
I was forced into being a subscriber when I was taking an “International Politics”
course in my Senior Year. As a future Air Force Officer, ROTC required that we take the course. The Professor, not very happy to have a larger group, took it out on us. All “C” grades....
My first taste of the NYT, during the Cuban Revolution, was that they were left wing commie bastards, rooting for Castro and Che!
I’ll never forget!
>> “matrix of laws, social customs, economic institutions and symbolic systems” that isolate and control undocumented immigrants.
“Undocumented” (some including me would say ILLEGAL) “immigrants” need to be isolated and controlled and booted the hell out of MY country! PRONTO!
Thank you President Trump for working on this vital issue!
Historically illiterate drivel as well.
The Bill of Rights “confers” nothing, it enumerates rights and and denies government the power to infringe on those rights.
Our rights are inherent to us as humans, endowed by our creator and are unalienable, privileges are conferred and can be withdrawn at will.
Typical govt worshipping Leftist codswallop.
Duranty would be proud.
“Juan Crow”
That, of course is “John Crow”. My Spanish isn’t very good, but Jaime, Diego, or Tiago would be better, I think. Maybe even Jacobo.
But the racists at the NYT probably think all illegals are named Juan.
Isn’t that cute of them. 🖕
These people are a truly baffled lot. Beyond hope.
Good point.
(But Jaime Crow doesn’t ring the same cowbell tones to the NY Times ignorant readers. )
NY Slimes trying to be cute but failing miserably.
Is that not ironic in the extreme. Cesar Chavez was a union organizer trying to get descent wages for Hispanic American Citizens and any citizens that worked the fields. Those workers were exploited.
Cesar Chavez was not ignorant of economics 101 nor all economics. He knew importing low wage workers from Mexico would drive down the wages of his union workers. If alive today he would be working for Trump.
Odd is it not that he is revered by liberals and he supported policies they hate today.
I must admit in my youth I was anti Cesar Chavez as I was anti union period. Those workers needed a union. In those days past the union served a noble and useful function. Today they have become totally political and no longer represent their workers but left wing ideology. Proof of this is many unions and union strong areas voting Republican.
PS
Me = white boy raised on the Tex-Mex border, speaks Spanish and comfortable in both societies. Wife person is a Mexican National now an American citizen the legal way with degrees from universities here in Texas. She is now living the American dream by merit not welfare.
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Alinsky Rule 13: "13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
Using the term "media" without identifying individuals won't cut.
“rooting for Castro and Che!
I’ll never forget!”
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NYTs wrote at the time, “Castro and Che were ‘Agrarian Reformers’”.
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