It is impossible to understand why people flee Central American countries (Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala being the most affected) without being familiar with its endemic violence. @wakelet.
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The @wakelet collection shows it is obvious that @theDemocrats had nothing to do with this mass refugee movement. Again, the @GOP is gaslighting Americans.
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Find, in the @Wakelet I made, the original 1951 Refugee Convention, of which the USA are a signatory country. That doesn’t mean it must accept all applicants, but it does establish it cannot arrest them.
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The organization @PuebloSF is helping them to NOT become prey to the illegal practices employed by the Trump administration, now slowly overturned in Courts. Unfortunately, too slow for reuniting several families.
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The @GOP is aware that they are doing something illegal at the border but they are playing with Americans’ fear. That is one of the main components of a conservative push and also of their own cult-building.
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For #Midterms: we must deconstruct fear-based-propaganda. The @theDemocrats are not an “angry mob”. The C.A. Caravan is a international social tragedy, and by no means an attack on American sovereignty. @PuebloSF
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