The conflict goes beyond the immigration issue; it is a sadistic racial and class struggle. And although it is premature to predict its impact on US social and labor policies, one thing is certain: it reveals a wave of dissatisfaction.

Mockery eliminates any urgent reflection we should have on deportations. In the end, laughter only exposes our indifference to the pain of others.

The Wall became a national obsession, a sort of institution of the American state, capable of overcoming the differences between Republicans and Democrats.

The deportation of Brazilians on U.S. chartered flights to Minas Gerais, with all its abuses, continues. We know nothing about those returned to other countries.

Why are the federal and Minas Gerais governments silent about how people migrating to the United States are being deported?  

This year Brazilians will go to the polls to decide whether we will continue to deepen social misery in defense of the deregulated market, or whether, once again, we will return to the fragile class pact and its supposed progressivism.