Undocumented Americans

[ChuckV]

Hell, people who’ve taken a piss outside have been classified as “sex offenders.”

[MalevolentPixy]

This is how it starts. Think why this office is being expanded while others are being dismantled.

APNewsBreak: US launches bid to find citizenship cheaters

First they go after people who lied. Then the mistakes. The bit at the bottom? About Hispanics having multiple surnames? That will be the pretext. The crimes that have denturalisation as an option will expand. Oh, there were problems with your great-grandfather’s naturalisation? I guess you never really were a citizen. Boom. Constitutional rights gone. Welcome to the camps.

The window of opportunity to stop the horror from getting worse is narrow and closing fast.

[Wanderfound]

https://mobile.twitter.com/rustbeltrebel/status/1007032896417337344?s=21

Copied from the following thread:

Here’s the thing. You don’t start with going to tear down prison brick by brick. A single person can’t do that. You start with organizing.

And when u start with organizing, u look around first, see whose already there, and then move forward. Finding other people to move forward with.

Right now, the poor people’s campaign is out there putting their bodies on the line. From what I can tell, there’s groups in most of not all states.

If putting ur body on the line is ur thing, that would be a great place to start. There’s also a pro family march happening at least in Michigan- this Thursday. There’s many cities it’s happening in, check if there’s one close to you.

I saw somebody out today, standing with a sign that said honk if u hate govt departing children. That may not be safe to do alone, but it’s another thing that u can do if it’s ur thing.

Point being. We need to stop asking why nobody is burning down these detention centers and instead assume there is a reason why, like people haven’t been organized yet.

Just a year ago, nobody, including leftists, had a problem with these centers or children being detained. As we’ve seen with many many cases where detentions have been stopped or limited- It’s happened because organizing has been going on for years. Decades sometimes.

One of the best most important lessons I ever learned from Detroit organizers- don’t assume anything, not solidarity, that people will just automatically show up to ur march, not even that people have even heard of ur issue.

You can have a one person march, one person attempting to tear bricks down, one person doing speeches…but power comes from thousands, millions.

And I don’t mean thousands out at some march that police have quarantined off. Or millions in dc then everybody turns around and goes home. I mean thousands surrounding ICE trucks so they can’t snatch anybody.

Or thousands of union members surrounding fellow workers so they can’t be taken. Or thousands surrounding restaurant so ICE can’t enter. Etc.

The civil rights marchers weren’t just marching, they were desegregating public spaces and roads, sidewalks were a part of that. I mean. They could’ve marched in their own sections of towns where whites didn’t go and whites would’ve been just fine with that.

But the CRM recognized that to do the dangerous work of desegregating public sidewalk, they needed thousands. And so they spent decades organizing.

If u don’t feel like holding a meeting, u don’t have to. Join an existing march or action. If u don’t want to march, the work of organizing is essential mandatory work.

And as @prisonculture has said so many times she probably recites it in her sleep- there’s a TON of work that needs to be done across multiple arenas.

[Wanderfound]

More in thread.

Jacob Soboroff (jacobsoboroff)

Keep in mind that this is the facility that journalists were invited into. Fresh paint, Potemkin.

[Wanderfound]

California woman ‘in shock’ after ICE agents detain father, a legal resident,...

Garcia said she was woken up at about 7 a.m. Sunday by the sound of her father yelling her name. She initially thought he was experiencing a medical emergency, but when she came out of the house, she saw eight agents who she did not yet know were from ICE, arresting her father.

Garcia tried to get more information and asked to see the arrest warrant and if they had read him his rights. She said the agents responded rudely, did not answer most of her questions, and told her they did not have to show her the warrant. They told her that it was not a criminal warrant, but an administrative one.

“I didn’t know they were ICE at that moment,” Garcia said. “It just happened so fast and there were so many of them. I was so confused.”

After the agents had left with her father, it was only then that she saw the coffee cup that he had dropped when he was being arrested. She then looked down at the card the agents had given her and finally realized the agents were from ICE.

[ficuswhisperer]

The more I think of this the more I wonder what the motivation is for this “tough” immigration stance. The economy is doing well, unemployment is down, and the vast majority of these immigrants - legal or not - are contributing to society.

Oh, yeah, it’s because racism.

[Wanderfound]

@ficuswhisperer

Oh, yeah, it’s because racism.

Firing up the fascist base; they need a scapegoat.

And, possibly, forced labour and the private prison industy. Trump has connections to prison owners, and cotton doesn’t pick itself.

[emo_pinata]

It’s not important to think about fresh paint, they showed the living quarters of 4 people without the people inside, and only showed areas you expect over-crowding (like a cafeteria) full of people. There’s a reason people buy homes without furniture or people inside when touring.

You don’t need to try hard to get people to look at the conditions and say “that’s not so bad.”

[Wanderfound]

Haymarket Books (haymarketbooks)

[Wanderfound]

[Wanderfound]

A thread full of context. With receipts.

https://twitter.com/roqchams/status/1005276537103441920?s=21

[Wanderfound]

A good thread on the theory and practice of immigration policy.

Thread:

Ryan Devereaux (rdevro)

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Hasan Piker (hasanthehun)

[ChuckV]

How could the driver not see the guy he hit?

[Wanderfound]

@ChuckV

How could the driver not see the guy he hit?

Why do you assume he didn’t? They would have heard the thump of the impact, as well.

Keep in mind that Native Americans are the only ethnic group that US police murder at an even higher rate than Black Americans.

[ChuckV]

The answer is in the question.

[Wanderfound]

Maine. This ain’t just a Mexico border thing.

NowThis (nowthisnews)

[ficuswhisperer]

The Trump Administration Is Taking Children as Political Hostages

Sickening. And who’s the party in power right now?

[Wanderfound]

Jeff Paul (Jeff_Paul)

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Eric Umansky (ericuman)