The proliferation of 287(g) agreements under Trump has expanded the deportation machine exponentially. There’s no better case study for what this future of anti-immigrant crusading looks like than the state of immigration & deportation in Ron DeSantis’ Florida.
The Public Eye Magazine
The Public Eye, Fall 2025
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As ICE raids tear people from their communities and the Supreme Court clears the way for racial profiling in immigration enforcement, The Public Eye is in solidarity with all im/migrants. Our Fall 2025 issue scrutinizes the movement driving these attacks from the White House: the A term used to describe organizations, movements, ideas, and policies that oppose immigrants and immigration. Learn more Right.
Together, our contributors place today’s policies in a long history of reactionary efforts to make the U.S. a White-majority country; they also reveal how immigrant Blaming a person or group wrongfully for some problem, especially for other people’s misdeeds. Scapegoating deflects people’s anger and grievances away from the real causes of a social problem onto a target group demonized as malevolent wrongdoers. Learn more and criminalization is central to Trump 2.0’s authoritarian consolidation of power.
Journalist and lawyer Jessica Pishko probes Florida’s efforts to be the “tip of the spear” of Trump’s “mass deportation” agenda by expanding participation in 287(g), a program that empowers state and local officers to act as de facto ICE agents.
Anthropologist Sophie Bjork-James examines the White nationalist ideas behind the administration’s admission of White Afrikaners as “refugees” to the U.S., revealing the racial anxieties that fuel today’s anti-immigrant politics.
Scholar Anita Say Chan connects the history of 19th century anti-immigrant eugenics to DHS’s tech-driven surveillance of immigrants, revealing how today’s anti-immigrant regime builds on an old playbook to design a system for wider political Repression occurs when public or private institutions—such as law enforcement agencies or vigilante groups—use arrest, physical coercion, or violence to subjugate a specific group. Learn more .
PRA researcher Ethan Fauré speaks with Silky Shah, author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, about the history of the U.S. detention and deportation system, recent anti-immigrant escalations, and insights for resistance drawn from two decades of organizing.
In The Art of Activism, cover artist Rob Liu-Trujillo speaks with PRA about art as a medium for resistance and global solidarity.
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