Reposted by mommy cass
I’ve spent the better part of this year saying “This can’t be legal” only to find out it is and no one was a big enough cunt to try it until now. We were the most vulnerable nation ever and shouldn’t have put a con artist who’d found every tax loophole in power to do the same with our democracy.
![At the Santa Fe International Bridge, Mexican immigrants coming into El Paso to work were forced to go through a humiliating process that was put in place due to the mayor’s fear of a typhus epidemic. Mexicans were forced to strip and put their clothes into a bath filled with gasoline and formaldehyde to kill lice. Then, their clothes were returned to them, doused in the hazardous mixture of chemicals. Mexicans’ naked bodies were also sprayed with toxins including gasoline, kerosene, sulfuric acid, DDT, and Zyklon B. Zyklon B is notably infamous for being a major agent in the gas chambers used by Nazi Germany during World War II.
In fact, in 1938, Dr. Gerhard Peters published two photos of the El Paso “Disinfection Plant” in a German pest science journal that advocated the use of Zyklon B in German Desinfektionskammern. Peters, who became managing director of the company that supplied Zyklon B to the Nazi death camps, was convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg trials.
Mayor Lea’s irrational fear of typhus was part of Americans’ larger fear of immigrants. Also in 1917, the U.S. Public Health Service published its Manual for the Physical Inspection of Aliens. The manual targeted populations which the Nazis also later targeted including, “imbeciles, idiots, feeble-minded persons, persons of constitutional psychopathic inferiority [homosexuals], vagrants, physical defectives…anarchists, persons afflicted with loathsome or dangerous contagious diseases…all aliens over 16 who cannot read.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3qydk2zg25crp4yalkdvbzc4/bafkreiga2oejv6n5yykz5xzsqesnsc22skqa3syd2iqkuvmpbse4pvycge)
