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Count the cost of every lie
Watching migrant children die
Callously we hide their tears;
Lock them up! prey on their fears

#FakeTrumpEmergency
In heileras, where they freeze
Ripped from doting families
No way to reunify!
Was there ever thought to try?

#FakeTrumpEmergency

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Thousands languish, waste away
Such an awful price to pay
Government so inhumane
Why replace their dreams with pain?

#FakeTrumpEmergency

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Think a moment why they’ve come
Torture, gangs, rape where they’re from
Leave or die; they had to choose
Either way they’d only lose

#FakeTrumpEmergency

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Miles and miles of road, they toil
Towards chants, here, of blood and soil
Escape horrors in their wake
Desperate: One life to make

#FakeTrumpEmergency
Whilst some launch such hateful screeds
Their journeys mark OUR misdeeds;
Policies made in our name
Caused their strife - but THEM we blame

#FakeTrumpEmergency

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Some forget our sordid past;
Refugees refused, outcast
Our forbears were tempest-tost
Taunted, tortured, reviled, lost

#FakeTrumpEmergency

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Grab the torches! Don the hood!
Immigrants just ain’t no good!
Close the doors and keep ‘em out!
Faces reddened as they’d shout

#FakeTrumpEmergency
Yearning only to breathe free,
Lucky ones saw Liberty
We stand, grateful, for their flight
Towards that lady with the light

#FakeTrumpEmergency
Many times we've tried to teach
Hoping somehow that we'd reach
Still we hear those racist rants
Disrespecting immigrants

#FakeTrumpEmergency

nytimes.com/2019/02/15/us/…
One day might we rise above
Shed our anger, learn to love
Some mock these simplistic hopes
Some cheer xenophobic tropes

#FakeTrumpEmergency

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Maybe, we could help these youths
Hear their stories, find their truths;
Learning from our ancestry
Whither, roots of bigotry

#FakeTrumpEmergency
All it takes is you and me
Work in solidarity
Marching, chanting, speaking out
Changing whispers to a SHOUT

#FakeTrumpEmergency

truthout.org/articles/massi…
Congress can't silence our voice
Presidents won’t stop our choice
Policies won’t hold us down
“Separation” died with “Brown”

#FakeTrumpEmergency

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Fighting for equality
Through the pain, indignity
Know this, even when we fail
Justice ALWAYS will prevail

#FakeTrumpEmergency

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Votes won't stop it, nor some wall
Shutdowns, lies, won't cease its crawl
Each fiber, each waking breath
Bellow, liberty or death!

#FakeTrumpEmergency

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Storm the statehouse, file in court
Change each legal entry port
Such sweet faces we could save
From fate’s undeserving grave

#FakeTrumpEmergency

nytimes.com/2018/07/10/us/…
But some pains will never heal
Mourning youths dead, lost; surreal
Think you’ve seen compassion die?
Count the cost of every lie

#FakeTrumpEmergency

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@axidentaliberal
The rule of law applies equally to EVERYONE in America regardless of how they arrive

That’s why @lawyers4goodgov created

PROJECT CORAZON

to help refugees at the border

HERE IS ONE LAWYER’S TALE

Please donate so we can continue our mission

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4 LAWYERS, 5,000 REFUGEES, 19 HOUR DAYS

On November 10, 2018, Spanish-speaking immigration attorney attorney Nancy Arevalo traveled to Mexico, with support from the #L4GG Foundation, to provide legal help to people in the migrant caravan

This is her experience
I arrived at midnight on Saturday the 10th and met the other three U.S. immigration attorney volunteers whom I was going to work with for the weekend - Rebecca, Charlene, and Graham. That was the entire legal team for those days, for over 5,000 people in the caravan.
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Adam Cohen #WaveCast National Anchor
@axidentaliberal
@Alyssa_Milano I agree, this incident MUST be investigated. Justice MUST be served.

But that’s only the start. We have to review EVERYTHING.

The separation policy. Its implementation. Whether it violates the Flores settlement. Whether it violates the stay. And more.

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When the Trump administration began the family separation policy, they first denied it existed. Then Sessions officially announced the policy, ridiculously proclaiming that the Bible supported it.

Trump lied and blamed Democrats for creating the policy.

time.com/5314769/family…
There must be hearings about who began this, when, what instructions they gave to CBP, what legal authority they claimed supports it and what their implementation plan was.

Of course, it’s clear they had no plan. They were playing with children’s lives.

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Adam Cohen #WaveCast National Anchor
@axidentaliberal
So all of us in the #resistance are giving ourselves a big pat on the back for the #BlueWave. After all, we took 40 seats and soon @TeamPelosi will be House Speaker

Great job! We think. After two long years we can finally take it easy.

NOT. SO. FAST.

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Yes, it was wonderful to see those Democratic candidates win. And nice to see our effort rewarded.

With control of the House, we now have a Constitutional check on the president PLUS we control more governorships and state legislatures

But there’s still a TON of work to do.
As the past few days have shown, we still have a corrupt president: compromised by Russia, beholden to Saudi Arabia, unwilling to acknowledge basic facts about climate change and seemingly unconcerned about the sanctity of human life.

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