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This happened yesterday, relayed by someone from a shelter here in #Tucson:
"We had at least three men come to the shelter tonight whose wives or partners, one of whom is seven months pregnant, were separated from them by immigration officials and dropped at a 1/
This happened yesterday, relayed by someone from a shelter here in #Tucson:
"We had at least three men come to the shelter tonight whose wives or partners, one of whom is seven months pregnant, were separated from them by immigration officials and dropped at a 1/
gas station in a US border town - with no money, no phones, and not a clue as to how to reunite with their husbands/partners. It’s hard to imagine such cruelty - to leave the women alone and with no resources while their husbands will go on to their sponsors. 2/
The men were absolutely beside themselves in their desperation. This is what we do to legitimate asylum seekers. This behavior is leftover from the last administration. It is evil incarnate."
This behavior is not just left over from the last administration. /3
This behavior is not just left over from the last administration. /3
At this point, the article-a-day on what terrible new violence is happening in detention centers feels very similar to me to the sharing and resharing of viral videos of police assaulting Black people #AbolishICE #AbolishBorderPatrol #AbolishAllPrisons
The detailed descriptions of these intentional and violent abuses aren’t moving many of the readers/viewers. In fact, there are millions of people who are GRATIFIED by this violence, because it’s exactly what they WANT to see #AbolishICE #AbolishBorderPatrol #AbolishAllPrisons
We all know at this point how ugly and cruel the treatment of Black/Brown immigrants by ICE and Border Patrol is. Documenting the cruelty matters, but not as much as clarifying and committing to how we are going to take action #AbolishICE #AbolishBorderPatrol #AbolishAllPrisons
