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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

New Homeland Security Task Forces Target Immigrants Over Sex Work

The Trump administration claims that its new Homeland Security task forces are here to protect Americans from an "invasion" by undocumented immigrants and thwart terrorist organizations, foreign cartels, and transnational gangs. So why are they targeting immigrant asylum seekers—who are in the country legally—over sex work?

To be fair, this seems to be a minor part of the task forces' business. Much of the time, they've been waging a drug war against American citizens, as I reported last month.

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