An Undocumented War: Inside Deportation’s Machinery of Violence

If a body is undocumented, should we be surprised if the war against that body is undocumented too? The ugly truth of deportation is it is a war. An American war predicated on the same things as previous American wars: genocide, white supremacy, and body counts. Always the body counts. As was the case in Vietnam—and Iraq and Afghanistan—the most important thing for America is this metric of progress: their dead versus ours. A metric of territory lost and gained, of shock and awe, of humiliation