Undocumented Americans

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Calling it ‘the new normal,’ feds arrest 200 undocumented immigrants in NC this...

Will Doran (will_doran)

Mark Joseph Stern (mjs_DC)

Aylett Colston (EveryVoiceNC)

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Matt Fuller (MEPFuller)

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So, in other words, the Democrats caved because they said they wanted to REDUCE the number of beds, not INCREASE them!

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Some history:

RL33659.pdf

The USBP first began erecting physical barriers in 1990 to deter illegal entries and drug smuggling in its San Diego sector. The ensuing 14-mile-long San Diego “primary fence” formed part of the USBP’s “Prevention Through Deterrence” strategy, which called for reducing unauthorized migration by placing agents and resources directly on the border along population centers in order to deter would-be migrants from entering the country. In 1996, Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act which, among other things, explicitly gave the Attorney General (now the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security) broad authority to construct barriers along the border and authorized the construction of a secondary layer of fencing to buttress the completed 14-mile primary fence. Construction of the secondary fence stalled due to environmental concerns raised by the California Coastal Commission. In 2005, Congress passed the REAL ID Act that authorized the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to waive all legal requirements in order to expedite the construction of border barriers. DHS has announced it will use this waiver authority to complete the San Diego fence. The Secure Fence Act of 2006 directed DHS to construct 850 miles of additional border fencing. This requirement was subsequently modified by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (P.L. 110-161), which was enacted into law on December 26, 2007. The Act requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to construct fencing along not fewer than 700 miles of the southwest border.

While the San Diego fence, combined with an increase in agents and other resources in the USBP’s San Diego sector, has proven effective in reducing the number of apprehensions made in that sector, there is considerable evidence that the flow of illegal immigration has adapted to this enforcement posture and has shifted to the more remote areas of the Arizona desert. Nationally, the USBP made 1.2 million apprehensions in 1992 and again in 2004, suggesting that the increased enforcement in San Diego sector has had little impact on overall apprehensions.

As always: this didn’t begin with Trump, and it wasn’t just the Republicans.

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unfortunately this is nothing new, we did this to detainees at guantanamo as well.

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Tomthunkit™ (TomthunkitsMind)

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Jessica Valenti (JessicaValenti)

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Veterans for Bernie Sanders #vets4bernie (vets4bernie)

ACLU says records show racial profiling, mocking of Marine detained by ICE

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MuckRock

Inspectors found numerous violations during an unannounced July 2018 visit to the Essex County Correctional Facility, which has a capacity of 928 male detainees. Some of the transgressions the facility was obligated to report to ICE but never did.

The report revealed that in April, a loaded firearm was found unattended by an inmate worker cleaning the staff bathroom. Facility staff admitted during interviews with the inspectors that at the time, they had instructed the individual who found the weapon refrain from mentioning the incident to anyone else.

According to the report, the event represented “the fourth time in less than a year that the facility failed to notify ICE of incidents involving detainees and raises serious concerns about the facility’s ability to handle security issues.”

The IG also confirmed reports by Human Rights Watch of rotting food and unsanitary kitchen conditions, including leaking bags of raw chicken, stockpiles of moldy bread intended for future use in bread pudding, and hamburgers that were unidentifiable as food.

Though the facility began housing individuals in 2010 and has been subject to an ICE requirement for available outdoor recreation space, the Essex County facility has never had such an open-air area. “Based on our review of the contract and ICE inspection records, ICE officials have never documented concerns regarding outdoor recreation in their weekly inspections or cited the facility for failure to meet this detention standard since it began housing detainees,” the report said.

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Border Patrol Fed Pork To Muslim Detainee For 6 Days

Despite holding a permit entitling him to work in the United States, Adnan Asif Parveen found himself lying on the cold floor of a Border Patrol detention facility with an aluminum sheet for a blanket.

Even if he hadn’t been crammed into a gated room with three dozen migrants recently arrested at the border, it would have been difficult to sleep. His wife didn’t know where he was. And he had barely eaten. For the six days he spent in Border Patrol’s custody last month, he said the only food he received was a pork sandwich every eight hours. He explained that as a Muslim, he had to refuse. When the guards offered nothing else, he picked off the meat and ate just the bread.

Customs and Border Protection declined to comment on the case, citing privacy concerns. A spokeswoman referred HuffPost to the agency’s detention standards, which require its officers to “remain cognizant of a detainee’s religious or other dietary restrictions.”

A few days after Asif’s arrest, two officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement came to interview him about possible terrorist ties, he said. They took his phone and searched his contact list and social media. “They asked if at the mosque they say anything against the USA government,” Asif told HuffPost. “I said, no, the mosque is where you go to pray.”

It’s unclear what could’ve prompted the questioning, other than Asif’s national origin and religion. ICE declined to comment on the case. Asif has no criminal record in the United States, where he’s lived since 2014, according to his lawyer Cathy Potter. He says he has no record in Spain, where he was raised, or in Pakistan, where he was born.

[anon29537550]

But he is openly and unquestionably both brown and foreign so…

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As always: this didn’t begin with Trump, and it wasn’t just the Republicans.

Intercepted Podcast: One Wall, Supersized, Extra Racism, Hold the Wars

Greg Grandin interview begins at 33:30.

S: But to go into the real world here explain how you see this particular moment that we’re in with this shutdown and the so-called battle over the border.

GG: I see it as a long climax of what I call the bordification of national politics or the nationalization of border brutalism. Just the way that the violence, and xenophobia, nativism that has long been marginalized or concentrated on the border has become nationalized. Trump is the outcome of decades and decades of policy and he’s not wrong when he blames the Democrats. The Democrats have bought into a security first framework going back to at least Bill Clinton, but you can even make the case to Jimmy Carter, that has led to this current moment.

Bill Clinton: Not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country people are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That’s why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.

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Weird, but Grandin just popped up today, for his new book on slavery and freedom:

Slavery, in Fact and Fiction

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kade (onekade)

Is Boston truly looking out for immigrants? Not in this case. - The Boston Globe

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Thread:

RAICES (RAICESTEXAS)

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Mothers Detained by ICE Describe 'Horrible Treatment'

According to Al Otro Lado, some of the separated mothers who were detained at the Regional Detention Facility in Calexico, California, had also described “horrible treatment” from members of ICE and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.

“When Al Otro Lado went to see four of the separated mothers this weekend, all were sobbing from the horrible treatment they received from ICE and CBP,” Al Otro Lado said in a statement.

“One mother was accused of lying, and told she should go back to her country. Another was placed in solitary, and told she would be put in ‘the hole’ if she kept crying. Both have been separated from their children for about a year,” the immigration legal services organization said.

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Themme 🇭🇳 (themermacorn)

Themme 🇭🇳 (themermacorn)

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If he thinks he might get himself deported by claiming to be a member of the IRA, not only won’t it work but this famous Congressional opponent of Muslim immigrants will likely throw him a parade:

Peter T. King | Irish republicanism

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History thread:

Liam Hogan (Limerick1914)