ABC Legal Drama Compares ICE Detention Centers to Japanese Internment, 'Torture of Children'
By Elise Ehrhard | October 4, 2019 12:48 AM EDT
ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder tends to push a left-wing agenda. The final season’s second episode on October 3, “Vivien’s Here,†went over-the-top in lecturing audiences about immigration enforcement.
Third year law students Asher and Connor are assigned to a case involving an illegal immigrant child seeking asylum. When they meet with the little boy, Hector, they ask him through a translator if he has experienced any gang violence, hoping to make it the basis for their case. The translator asks Hector if he came here to escape “bad people in his country†who scared him. With a sketch pad, Hector draws an angry ICE agent with a gun. Asher says, “We got a gang, just not the right one.â€
The show not only compares Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to criminal gang members, it also compares illegal immigrants willingly crossing our border to U.S. citizens of Japanese heritage forcibly interned during World War II. In a later scene, Connor causes Hector to react traumatically to a fake ICE agent through a courtroom stunt. He references the U.N. Convention on Rights of Children to claim that Hector is subject to torture in the detention centers and the Supreme Court case of Korematsu v. United States to claim that conditions are "morally repugnant."
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