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1st, I’m a progressive.
But come on progressives, are “Medicare For All,” “The Green New Deal,” or “Ending Citizen’s United” the hills you want to die on? If you do, there will be no living to fight another day.
#VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
#Blue2020
#BidenHarris
@DemCast
But come on progressives, are “Medicare For All,” “The Green New Deal,” or “Ending Citizen’s United” the hills you want to die on? If you do, there will be no living to fight another day.
#VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
#Blue2020
#BidenHarris
@DemCast
We need to defeat tRump if we are going to have a chance to live to fight another day. We cannot afford the luxury of being purists, arguing about whether or not the party will or won’t move completely away from fossil fuels or will or won’t embrace Medicare for all.
#VoteBlue
#VoteBlue
If we hold out for those demands we will find ourselves living in a dictatorship with zero freedoms. We can fight for the other things later. If we don’t take a stand against tRump right now, there won’t be anything left to save.
#TrumpHoaxedAmerica
#TrumpHoaxedAmerica
There are little things in #ImmigrationNation that are just infuriating, but also a window in to how ICE officers lie to themselves about the impact of their work. An example is the decision about whether to detain the Salvadoran, former police officer towards the end of ep 2.
Officer asks supvsr about detaining given that the man fears return. Then he says “so should we detain him so his case can be heard quickly?” Supvsr quickly says yes. They seem to be trying to convince themselves (or the audience) that they are somehow helping him by detaining.
But the truth is not only does detaining him rip him from his family causing lifelong trauma, but also means he is less likely to win his asylum/protection case & less likely to get representation.
As a immigration attorney, I am at minute 2:08 on #ImmigrationNation and I am sick and furious. Watching these @Ice agents lie to families so they can rip them apart is infuriating but just business as usual for @ICEgov See below for the list of lies by minute:.
He's all done" (not true, reentry cases can be won) - he has no case.
We just want to talk, Just let us in
We definitely have a warrant - would not come in here without that...(bullshit, they do it all the time...)....
"just let us in, we want to talk (an obvious lie...).
We just want to talk, Just let us in
We definitely have a warrant - would not come in here without that...(bullshit, they do it all the time...)....
"just let us in, we want to talk (an obvious lie...).
We don't pick people based on race or religion when the laws are almost exclusively biased against Central Americans.
Their DESPICABLE counting of people "how many we got today..." is so gross, because each of those people represents a human being
Their DESPICABLE counting of people "how many we got today..." is so gross, because each of those people represents a human being
#ImmigrationNation is a damning indictment of the labyrinthe systems that make ICE so powerful, and a wrenching examination of the human cost its policies have wrought bit.ly/2XojW4l
#ImmigrationNation includes provocative evidence of human devastation at the hands of ICE employees, as well as bosses obsessing over their arrest numbers to the point that they instruct officers to go back out and find more people to bring in bit.ly/2XojW4l
Beyond its sheer depth of information, what makes #ImmigrationNation so effective is how much it lets its subjects and situations speak for themselves bit.ly/2XojW4l
