Not truthiness, just truth.
Yeah well perhaps they should have figured out what a border is first. Because their parents broke the law by Crossing ours and better than spend the time in these facilities than a prison with grown adults who made the human traffickers not even their parents
Actually, let me enlighten you.
These people in detention have not committed a crime.
– I don’t mean that in a moral or a figurative sense. I mean literally. It is NOT a crime to ask for asylum.
– These people didn’t jump a fence, they didn’t sneak into the backyard. They are knocking on the front door and saying “People are trying to kill me in my home country, will you let me in?”
– Now, I didn’t fall off the turnip truck. Some of these people are lying. That’s why you have a hearing. And because they might wander off, these people are held in detention until the hearing.
– This hearing is NOT in a criminal court. It’s in an immigration court. Because these people have not committed a crime.
– Immigration court is not like criminal court. You don’t have a right to an attorney.
– So these people are waiting around, separated from their children, with no attorney, until they get a hearing.
– In 2015, the median wait for an immigration hearing was 404 days.
– Here’s where it gets even more twisted. If people plead guilty to asylum fraud, they get their kids back and get deported.
– So these people knock on the front door, which is perfectly legal, and we take their kids, and tell them the quickest way to get the kids back is to confess to fraud.
– If someone committed a crime (ie. shoplifting, armed robbery, murder) and you took their kids away to make them confess, that confession would be thrown out.
– But these confessions are lawful, because this isn’t criminal court.
– Because these people haven’t committed a crime.
– Now some people think that if we make it so unpleasant for these people, they will stop trying to cross the border.
– But the message this sends isn’t “Go Home.” The message it sends is “Sneak in.”
– If they go home, they think they will be murdered. If they request asylum, they are separated from their children.
– If they sneak in successfully, they’re safe. If they sneak in and get caught, they are no worse off than if they sought asylum legally.
– And remember, these people haven’t committed a crime.
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It’s REALLY Important That You Show Up This Time!
If America didn’t have the Electoral College, which now must be abolished, we wouldn’t have had any Republican Presidents since George H. W. Bush.
Since there is very little likelihood of the Electoral College being abolished (which it absolutely does need to be), please remember that a Democrat vote is, in some places, one third of a Republican vote. We need more, a lot more, to win because the system is so messed up.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN
Families Belong Together – Freedom for Immigrants March Los Angeles | June 30, 2018
Another one where it just keeps getting better. They need to stop doing this to me.
me, looking at the current state of the world, crying:I wish none of this had happened…
Gandalf, materialising in my conscience, smiling kindly: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, besides the will of evil.
This is wonderfully helpful.
If Democrats take the House, their current ranking member of the Financial Services Committee becomes the chair of the committee, and has the power to subpoena Trump’s bank records. That member is Maxine Waters. Vote.
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What Must We Do Now?
My friends, this is a dark hour. Intolerance, cruelty, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and environmental destruction have been let loose across the land.
Trump controls the Republican Party, the Republican Party controls the House and Senate, and the Senate and Trump will soon control the Supreme Court.
Republicans also control both chambers in 32 states (33 if you count Nebraska) and 33 governorships. And in many of these states they are entrenching their power by gerrymandering and arranging to suppress votes.
Yet only 27 percent of Americans are Republican, and the vast majority of Americans disapprove of Trump. The GOP itself is now little more than Trump, Fox News, a handful of billionaire funders, and evangelicals who oppose a woman’s right to choose, gay marriage, and the Constitution’s separation of church and state.
So what are we – the majority – to do?
First and most importantly, do not give up. That’s what they want us to do. Then they’d have no opposition at all.
Second, in the short term, if you are represented by a Republican senator, do whatever you can to get him or her to reject Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, or, at the least, postpone consideration until after the midterm elections. Urge others to join with you. Senate switchboard: 202-224-3121
Third, make a ruckus. Demonstrate. Engage in non-violent civil disobedience. Fight lies with truth. Join the resistance. @IndivisibleTeam @swingleft @UpRiseDotOrg @MoveOn @Sister_District @flippable_org.
Fourth, don’t succumb to divisive incrimination over “who lost” the 2016 election (Hillary loyalists, Bernie supporters, Jill Stein voters, etc.). This will get us nowhere. We must be united.
Fifth, vote this November 6 for people who will stand up to the Trump Republican outrage. Mobilize and organize others to do so. Contact friends and relations in “red” states, and urge them to do the same.
Sixth, help lay the groundwork for the 2020 presidential election, so that even if Trump survives Mueller and impeachment he will not be reelected.
Finally, know that this fight will be long and hard. It will require our patience, our courage, and our resolve. The stakes could not be higher.
Why You Need to Say No to Civility
Complaining about incivility assumes a level playing field between individuals. That is not the case here. When most people say something negative to someone, it carries with it little consequence beyond briefly hurting that person’s feelings. That does not hold true when the supposed leader of the free world—or his agents—do it.
However, editorials like “Let the Trump Team Eat in Peace” and “Incivility Infests Life in the U.S. On Trump’s Cue” seem to feel that people being impolite to Trump and members of his team is as much of a problem as Trump separating thousands of families.
That outrage seems to ignore the fact that, for instance, calmly asking someone to leave your restaurant harms absolutely no one but Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a woman who, by her actions, has assisted in harming a great many.
Most of the ways that the GOP and its members are being protested aren’t remotely violent. We’re not talking about violent resistance. The debate has gone from “Can you punch Nazis?” to “Must you serve Nazis a lemon meringue pie with no objection?”
If you stand by and stay silent and civil in the face this kind of behavior, here is what will happen: people working for the opposing side will say you’re very polite. They will pat you on the head. Then they will, unopposed, go out and institute policies that will hurt thousands of people.
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