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What the hell have we become? Our supreme leader pits us against each other, encourages tribalism, and fuels the fire of hate.
I lifted the following copy from an email sent to me by Anna Chu of the National Women's Law Center:
"Like all decent people, I find it gut-wrenching to witness the rapidly escalating moral crisis unfolding in our country’s immigration system. Especially as a mother and as a child of immigrants, it pains me to see our government deliberately separating families as punishment for the “crime” of seeking better lives and escaping horrific violence. And as an advocate for women’s rights and freedom, it’s infuriating to watch the Trump-Pence administration—which has tried to force young immigrant women to carry unwanted pregnancies to term—snatch children from their parents’ arms at the border and within our communities, then neglect and abuse the kids they’ve taken. Though these public officials compare immigrants to animals, immigration agents have reportedly run children over with vehicles, held them with inadequate food and water in deplorable conditions, ordered them to undress before questioning, and threatened them with further sexual violence.
These hateful actions, and the dehumanizing rhetoric and policies that have enabled them, echo some of the ugliest moments in our history, including the abuse and forced separation of enslaved Black families, the dispossession of Native American families, and the internment of Japanese American families—to say nothing of the actions of authoritarian regimes worldwide. We must be better than this. We must act now to end human rights abuses happening right here, in a country that is supposed to be a model for the world of respect for human rights."
By the way, the subject here is inhumanity. Seeking a more promising life than the one she was running from, a young woman with two small kids gets caught by ICE. The screaming kids are hauled off by a Border Patrol van and the mom is incarcerated for a year or more pending trial -- at which time she'll plea for political asylum.
Worse yet, you and I both know enforcement of the currant degrading policy wouldn't be happening if the illegal refugees were white.
Roseanne Barr represents some 45% of the alt-right end of the Republican Party.
Reality.
Reality.
I lifted the following copy from an email sent to me by Anna Chu of the National Women's Law Center:
"Like all decent people, I find it gut-wrenching to witness the rapidly escalating moral crisis unfolding in our country’s immigration system. Especially as a mother and as a child of immigrants, it pains me to see our government deliberately separating families as punishment for the “crime” of seeking better lives and escaping horrific violence. And as an advocate for women’s rights and freedom, it’s infuriating to watch the Trump-Pence administration—which has tried to force young immigrant women to carry unwanted pregnancies to term—snatch children from their parents’ arms at the border and within our communities, then neglect and abuse the kids they’ve taken. Though these public officials compare immigrants to animals, immigration agents have reportedly run children over with vehicles, held them with inadequate food and water in deplorable conditions, ordered them to undress before questioning, and threatened them with further sexual violence.
These hateful actions, and the dehumanizing rhetoric and policies that have enabled them, echo some of the ugliest moments in our history, including the abuse and forced separation of enslaved Black families, the dispossession of Native American families, and the internment of Japanese American families—to say nothing of the actions of authoritarian regimes worldwide. We must be better than this. We must act now to end human rights abuses happening right here, in a country that is supposed to be a model for the world of respect for human rights."
By the way, the subject here is inhumanity. Seeking a more promising life than the one she was running from, a young woman with two small kids gets caught by ICE. The screaming kids are hauled off by a Border Patrol van and the mom is incarcerated for a year or more pending trial -- at which time she'll plea for political asylum.
Worse yet, you and I both know enforcement of the currant degrading policy wouldn't be happening if the illegal refugees were white.
Roseanne Barr represents some 45% of the alt-right end of the Republican Party.
Reality.
Reality.
