No One is Illegal

KathyPartdeux · September 27, 2020, 12:28pm

“ “It’s a reiteration of family separation,” Sarah Valdes, a lawyer for RAICES told CBS News. “She’s only unaccompanied because they showed up at the hospital and they arrested her adult family member.”

ficuswhisperer · October 4, 2020, 3:44am

This seems to have been buried in the news tsunami of this week:

DukeTrout · October 4, 2020, 3:52am

No worries. We can finish it in 2021. Had to get the court ruling in now to put a pin in it.

Wanderfound · October 9, 2020, 9:51pm

Thank Bill Clinton for this one:

Wanderfound · October 10, 2020, 2:40am

twitter.com

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (ReichlinMelnick)

! We just learned that after the Border Patrol “assisted” this woman, they took her to the hospital where her baby went into the NICU. Then, hours after she gave birth, the Border Patrol threw her in a jail cell and are threatening to send her to Mexico without her baby—tonight! twitter.com/usbpchiefdrt/s…

Chief Patrol Agent Austin Skero @USBPChiefDRT

All in a day’s work: From #LawEnforcement to humanitarian aid, our agents adapt to any situation. Last night, #EaglePass Station agents assisted a pregnant woman who had gone into labor while walking through the brush. Agents rendered critical care to the mother and newborn. https://t.co/t0Vvw8CeMP

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Wanderfound · October 14, 2020, 4:52am

Following a blistering hot summer — in Phoenix, the hottest in recorded history — more human remains have been recovered in the Arizona desert this year than at any point since 2013. On top of the rising death toll, the expulsions have come at a time of escalating tension in the desert, with the Border Patrol executing two militarized raids on a humanitarian aid station in the region in three months, federal agents arresting and tear-gassing Indigenous activists protesting border expansion on sacred lands, and the state’s for-profit immigration detention centers becoming some the nation’s leading hot spots for Covid-19.

Generally lasting no more than a couple hours from encounter to removal, the so-called Title 42 expulsions have radically altered the shape of migration and immigration enforcement along the border. The Border Patrol has long relied on a deterrence strategy that funnels migrants into the border’s deadliest terrain, pushing its land checkpoints deeper into the interior of the country and forcing migrants to walk further into the desert in the hopes of linking up with a ride. Agents will sometimes track a group of migrants for days before making an arrest, allowing physical exhaustion to assist in their apprehension efforts. Now, with the expulsions in effect, those exhausted migrants can be swiftly booted from the country. According to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the government has expelled more than 147,000 people along the southwest border using the order.

knoxblox · October 15, 2020, 6:40am

KathyPartdeux · October 17, 2020, 9:53am

Wanderfound · October 22, 2020, 11:40am

anon29537550 · October 24, 2020, 3:50pm

Excellent examples of Christian values, caring for “the least of these,” “the immigrant and the wayfairer in your country.” Evangelicals must be so proud. Sadly, they actually seem to be fine with this kind of shit. “Begone, I never knew you.”

anon73430903 · October 24, 2020, 4:17pm

You could remake the parable of the Good Samaritan for 2020 America, with Donald Trump and Pat Robertson walking by, and Ilhan Omar stopping to help.

I expect Trumpist Evangelicals would misunderstand though

Wanderfound · October 26, 2020, 1:17pm

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The context does not improve it:

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I’m reminded of this:

KathyPartdeux · October 30, 2020, 1:25am

What goes around…

ficuswhisperer · October 31, 2020, 2:50am

ficuswhisperer · November 3, 2020, 7:06am

knoxblox · November 8, 2020, 10:57am

The ACLU and the kids in cages…

Wanderfound · November 14, 2020, 11:31pm

Remember when libs were responding to every criticism of the Dems by chanting a mantra of “kids in cages”?

See this thread:

Or, to summarise:

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If you are confronted with two evils, thus the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Those who denounce the moral fallacy of this argument are usually accused of a germ-proof moralism which is alien to political circumstances, of being unwilling to dirty their hands.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

— Hannah Arendt

ficuswhisperer · November 15, 2020, 1:26am

KathyPartdeux · November 15, 2020, 12:19pm

Guess he’ll have to give back his paychecks too?

knoxblox · November 17, 2020, 1:45pm

“Even as deadly hate crimes increase, fewer law enforcement agencies are electing to report data to the FBI,” said Nikki Singh of the Sikh Coalition. “Especially given the dangerously divisive political climate of the past four years, we should be reckoning with the problem of hate in America – not continuing to sweep it under the rug.”

I dunno, maybe recognizing that many police forces in the USA aid and assist in systemic racism and hire members who support the prevailing bigoted attitudes?

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