Thread by @DavidBorrelli74

Let’s clear this up, shall we?

1: Seeking Asylum is legal, yet many of the children have been taken from people who reported to border agents and petitioned for asylum. That’s right... they didn’t try to elude authorities...

2: They sought them out and reported to them and then had their families ripped apart!
Border agents are actively closing legal checkpoints to force asylum seekers to wait in the desert with no food or water for days on end until desperation wins out and they cross “illegally”...

3: Because how dare they try to fucking not die. Non Asylum seekers: most are coming to work like slaves for $4.00 an hour under the table because AMERICAN BUSINESSES ARE EAGER TO HIRE THEM. Why are there no penalties for them?

4: And while we are at it, AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY as well as AMERICAN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS actively suppress their domestic labor force and economy to ensure a plentiful supply of cheap labor to fuel the factories they move there after laying off Americans.

5: Thus leaving most in abject poverty and struggling to not see their children starve to death.
Meanwhile we spend more on our military than the next ten countries combined (and it all goes to “defense” contractors and the military industrial complex, not our service members)..

but can’t give veterans proper medical care or make sure they are not homeless. We can’t make sure working class people can make a decent living and be able to afford basic necessities. We can’t guarantee everyone medical care or a decent pension and we are cutting...

7: Social Security and Medicare while giving hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to the richest few, who then make a show of handing out some bonuses and then handing out hundreds of thousands of pink slips and moving production to Mexico and China.

8: This is the same dehumanizing and debasing rhetoric that was used against black people (and quite frankly STILL is) , German immigrants, Polish Immigrants, Irish Immigrants, Italian Immigrants, Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Korean Americans, Vietnamese Americans...

9: Middle-eastern Immigrants and of course Native Americans who were here before us all.
So if you think that dirt poor immigrants who risk their lives, their families and all their possessions to come here because they believe in America and are willing

10: to sweat on your vegetables for $4 an hour 14 hours a day 7 days a week are the problem and that inhumanly ripping their children away from them and incarcerating them in fucking kiddie prisons is an acceptable solution to a systemic problem...

11: caused by the ruling corporate elite then you have a seriously delusional grip on reality. All this talk about MS-13 (which is a catchy phrase that the imbecille orangutan can actually understand) when it doesn’t even amount to a drop in the bucket compared to the crimes...

12: committed by American citizens and corporate hucksters. How many schools and night clubs and office buildings and hospitals as MS-13 shot up? It is all American citizens doing that, and nearly every one of them is a white male as well. Certainly not a half starved...

13: man/woman desperately trying to make a living at half or less of minimum wage so their kids don’t go to sleep hungry. And last but not least this is just a test. Pushing the envelope. Right now they are testing the waters with a marginalized group of people who encompass...

14: “the other” in order to get us accustomed to it, just like “the war on drugs” got us used to jackbooted thugs dressed like Storm Troopers battering down doors and throwing grenades and beating the shit out of people while screaming “STOP RESISTING”.

15: As if you won’t flinch and reflexively defend yourself when someone, without warning, breaks into your house and starts beating you with a truncheon! Once they have us used to this, they will go after muslims, and atheists, and gays, and workers rights advocates, and...

16: black people (even more than they already do) and anyone who “ain’t Murican ‘nuff” and they will take our kids away and lock them up in tent prisons in 100 degree heat and converted abandoned Walmarts, in cyclone fenced cages with hard mats and space blankets...

17: a few ratty toys and books (if they are lucky). First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist...

18: Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

“First they came for..." written by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).

19: And lastly for you pious and self aggrandizing Christians (who make me sick most of all by your vile hypocrisy) who support this sick and vile act against the poorest weakest and most vulnerable amongst us (by using the same scrap of scripture which was used to justify...

20: slavery and the Nazi rise to power in Germany) I have a few words of scripture for you to chew on. For those of you who are not Christians, this is not aimed at you. I do not hold you to the standards of my faith. This is for those claiming to be Christian...

21: and supporting the monstrous atrocities taking place right now.
Exodus 22:21 – Moses gives God’s law:  “You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien; for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.”

22: Leviticus 19:33-34 and 24:22 – When the alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien.  The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt”

23: Deuteronomy 6:10-13 – The people of Israel are made aware that the land had come to them as a gift from God and they were to remember that they were once aliens.

24: Deuteronomy 10:18-19 – “For the Lord your God...loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.  You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”

25: Deuteronomy 27:19 – “Cursed be anyone who deprives the alien of justice.”

I Chronicles 29:14-15 – David praises God:  “We are aliens and transients before you…”

II Chronicles 2:17-18 – Solomon took a census of all the aliens and assigned them work.

26: Psalm 105 – Remembering their sojourn:  “When they were few in number, of little account, and strangers in it, wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people”

27: Psalm 137:1-6 – “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wept…How could we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?”

Psalm 146:9 – “The Lord watches over the strangers…”

Ecclesiastes 4:1 – “Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them.”

28: Isaiah 16:4 – Be a refuge to the outcasts of Moab.

Jeremiah 7:5-7 – “If you do not oppress the alien…then I will dwell with you in this place…”

Jeremiah 22:3-5 – Do no wrong or violence to the alien.

29: Ezekiel 47:21-22 – The aliens shall be to you as citizens, and shall also be allotted an inheritance.

Zechariah 7:8-10 – Do no oppress the alien.

Malachi 3:5 – The messenger will bear witness against those who thrust aside the alien.

30: Matthew 25:31-46 – “…I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”

Luke 3:11 – “Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none…”

Luke 4:16-21 – “…Bring good news to the poor…release to the captives…sight to the blind...let the oppressed go free.”

31: Romans 12:13 – “Mark of the true Christian: “…Extend hospitality to strangers…”

II Corinthians 8:13-15 – “It is a question of a fair balance between your present abundance and their need…”

32: Ephesians 2:11-22 – “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God.
Hebrews 11 – “By faith Abraham…set out for a place…not knowing where he was going.”

33: Hebrews 13:1-2 – “…show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels…”

James 2:5 – “Has not God chosen the poor in the world…”

There is plenty more where that came from. For example (painting with a broader brush, the Beatitudes:

34: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

35: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Blessed are pure of heart, for they will see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom.

36: Plain and simple, if the piece of scripture you are reading does not match the heart and live of Jesus, you are wrong in your interpretation or it is not applicable because Jesus is the way the truth and the light.

37: This is my line in the sand. I am enraged beyond what any words can say. First off as a human being, secondly and more so as a Christian but most of all as a father. The travesties taking place right now involving children at the border go beyond any notion of civility.

38: They cut to my core, my paternal instinct, and stoke a primal rage within me that is unparalleled in any feeling I have ever experienced. I fervently pray and will actively engage in any process possible to see all the perpetrators of this heinous violation of basic human...

39: dignity locked away in a Supermax prison in the general population with no security detail. All of them. “We were just following orders” ain’t gonna cut it.