Feels like we're living in an alternative reality. Or it's opposite day. A few things:
1) The immigration bill Trump would veto is not a "compromise" - it's a deadly attack on immigrants and asylum seekers that would, among other things …
...give DHS the power to jail asylum seeking families indefinitely; promote racial profiling by giving DHS sweeping authority to arrest and deport young people for being brown; and further dismantle our asylum system by setting impossibly heightened evidentiary standards. 2.
2) The administration can and must end family separation now. No law or policy requires it. The bill Rep. Ryan is supporting does NOT end family separation, it just gives the government more power to jail the families it doesn’t separate. 3.
3) While D.C. is debating these ridiculous falsehoods, children are alone and scared, parents are crying out for their children in the midst of mass prosecution proceedings, and our country is losing its soul. #FamiliesBelongTogether #NotOneMore slate.com/news-and-polit…
4) Yesterday Attorney General Sessions invoked a biblical passage to justify his immigration policies, one that historians tell us was used to defend slavery. washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost…
5) The combination of this institutionalized policy of family separation and the Attorney General's decision in Matter of A-B- this week makes our country no longer a safe refuge for those fleeing harm. We can't turn away. 6 (and last in this thread). slate.com/news-and-polit…
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