50 years after war in Southeast Asia, US is criminalizing, displacing our communities

Dorchester Reporter

In early September, the Department of Homeland Security launched Patriot 2.0, a mass enforcement initiative that has already escalated arrests of immigrants across Boston and Massachusetts.

In our neighborhoods, families have been torn apart, workers have been detained at their workplaces, and entire communities are living in fear. These are deliberate acts of state violence, designed to displace immigrant families from their homes, neighborhoods, and livelihoods.