This is apropos three letters to the Editor from this writer carried by the newspaper on Thursday, Friday and yesterday. This writer would like to add that detention centers overflowed; protests erupted in California, Illinois, Michigan, and New York; and civil-rights groups accused the administration of orchestrating what they called “state-sponsored social division.”
Even Republican mayors in Texas and Florida warned that the crackdown had disrupted local economies dependent on migrant workers. The plan to “secure America’s borders” has instead fractured its communities, producing social tension, moral outrage, and economic stagnation in key industries like agriculture, construction, and services.
Adding to the domestic crisis was Trump’s repeated deployment of the National Guard in Democrat-led states, ostensibly to maintain order amid protests and labour unrest. Governors and constitutional lawyers called it an unprecedented intrusion into state sovereignty. Several state legislatures passed resolutions condemning the federal overreach, while civil-liberties groups filed lawsuits accusing the administration of violating the Posse Comitatus Act.
(Qamar Bashir)
Copyright Business Recorder, 2025
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