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The U.S. has turned to its southern neighbor for help blocking migrants since at least the Obama administration, when Mexico agreed to increase deportations and dramatically militarize its border with Guatemala.

“From the get-go, they are using fentanyl and the overdose crisis as a reason to criminalize immigrant communities, militarize the border, and pursue high-level criminal charges,” Medina told Salon in a phone interview.

“Trump’s promise to use militarized raids against our state will have devastating consequences for our communities and our economy,” said Hamid Yazdan-Panah, advocacy director for Immigrant Defense Advocates.

He’s the conflicted architect of a militarized theocracy that took root in America after a second civil war where the Constitution did not prevail.

If elected, he also promised a militarized campaign of deportation that would entail arresting and detaining millions of people in internment camps.