Sorry to sound like a broken record but:
Think it can’t get worse? Just wait 24 hours (or less).
It’s why there is a need for people like me who nitpick the small details. The transfer of monies to ICE from other agencies under DHS instead of asking Congress for money. The expansion of the tent city. The reason why ICE isn’t going after the “bad hombres” as Trump promised. The instructions to newly hired Immigration Judges and quotas for all judges of 700 cases a year. Remember the names Nielsen DHS, Wagner,and Scott Lloyd in HHS. All these folks are making life harder.
And don’t forget they just announced that the gov’t is cutting back to 30,000 refugees accepted into the US in 2019.
We know ICE et al are as**hole*. I would like them to quit reminding us so often.
Children are not bait.
I hang my head in shame. I don’t believe this is who we really are.
Maybe to normal people … but you need to remember we are talking about the tRump led GOP here
Our country, our Republican-run government, purposely inflicts the deepest, most long lasting trauma upon children to discourage families in danger from seeking safety here.
Unless we vote to change our government, our nation — and therefore each of us living here — we will be known as the people who tortured children to change the behavior of adults.
It sounds as if every time people show themselves willing to take yet another risk to reunite their families, ICE sets up a few more.
And when they’re talking about revoking the citizenship of people born in the US, because not enough proof, anyone would have to think twice before acting as a sponsor.
Ilya Ehrenburg was a Soviet-era Russian journalist who wrote about the atrocities the Germans committed on the civilians in Russia, and it’s all horrific, but the thing I remember most in his writing was the image of an elderly woman whose house had been burned down and granddaughter taken away. As she told him about it she kept repeating the word “conscienceless.”
With this administration, children are not JUST bait:
They are bargaining chips being used to try to force Democrats to agree to fund tRump’s wall and other draconian immigration policies.
They are hostages because they were brought here as babies and know no other country, so tRump thinks he can again force Dems to support his stuff by holding Dreamers hostage.
They are political tools that can be used to make tRump look tough on immigration to his base.
They are reasons for the administration to have bigger contracts with and give more money to private companies to house and care for these kids.
They are pawns being used to bolster tRump’s cred with White Nationalists, because he wants America to be that White Homeland, not some European country.
They are exhibits that prove this administration doesn’t give a shit about what the Judicial Branch thinks or says, they will hold those kids, and more, as long as they want.
They are warning lights flashing that people should not try to come here, or else.
They are all the reason we need to vote these fuckers out as fast as we can. tRump is killing every once of humanity left in his party, and they seem to be gleefully going along with it. Since they can’t seem to want to stop themselves from destroying us, we better use our first best option for restoring some sanity to our government. Each of us needs to vote. We need to make sure everyone we know and love does the same. We need to call people, drive them to the polls, get them food and drink if the lines are long. Let them borrow a cell phone if necessary, because getting out of line at the polls isn’t an option. We have to vote like our futures depend on it.