According to the Human Right Watch (HRW) foundation, Donald Trump‘s second term as President of the United States already places the North American country as “a country that no longer has rights” and that also “poses a serious threat to human rights not only in the United States but the rest of the world,”
This onegé’s concerns are based on Trump’s history of rights abuses during his first term. Furthermore, HRW says that “the ideology and supporters of white supremacy, the extreme anti-democratic and anti-rights policies that have been proposed by think tanks led by former collaborators, and the campaign promises, which include raids and deportations against millions of immigrants and reprisals against political opponents,” the organization reported.
“Donald Trump has made no secret of his intention to violate the human rights of millions of people in the United States,” said Tirana Hassan, executive director of Human Rights Watch.
“Independent institutions and civil society organizations, including Human Rights Watch, must do everything in their power to hold Trump and his Administration accountable for abuses,” Hassan added.
According to the Human Right Watch report, during Trump’s first term as president, from 2017 to 2021, this entity documented his repertoire of human rights violations. HRW denounced that “policies and initiatives to expel asylum seekers and separate families at the US-Mexico border, promote racist ideas against black communities and other people of color, adopt policies that punish low-income families income and deprive them of medical care and encourage a violent insurrection to nullify the results of a democratic election,” the report says.
Human Right Watch questions Trump’s international policies
One of HRW’s “concerns” is “the promises expressed by Trump during his 2024 campaign deepen concerns regarding a second term, both domestically and internationally,” the organization says.
For example, they point out that in 2023, Trump indicated that he would not be a dictator, “except for the first day” of his administration. Well, HRW rejects that Trump has repeatedly praised autocrats such as Viktor Orban, Xi Jin Pin, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.
They say Donald Trump has proposed policies that would weaken democratic institutions that protect fundamental human rights and reduce controls on presidential powers. For them, the threat of abusive executive office is even more troubling, given a recent decision by the United States Supreme Court granting presidents broad immunity from the possibility of criminal prosecution for official acts performed in the position, says HRW.
For them, Trump’s Project 2025 is a government plan drafted by Trump’s former advisors and political allies. One of the dangerous sides is that it “lays out in detail many other abusive policies, in many cases racially discriminatory, that the new administration could adopt.” Although Trump has denied having links to Project 2025, many of his statements replicate premises of this plan, the organization detailed.
On the other hand, HRW says that migrants “are in danger” due to the discourse of “discrimination” that Trump has launched at them. Likewise, the growing “misinformation” campaigns such as Haitians eating pets is a point of concern for the organization. For this reason, Human Right Watch warns that Trump would use the military to repress and deport migrants regardless of their immigration status.
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