Thread by @RachelMcGonagi1

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin "A baby bottle filled with milk can be seen in one photo next to a child sleeping outside on dirt, and in another, a woman is seen sitting on rocks leaning against a wall clutching a child."

CBP says they don't have capacity to deal with all the migrants.
cnn.com/2019/05/14/pol…

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin I am beating a dead drum about this, I'm sure, but DHS was allocated over $400MILLION in February for humanitarian aid, including for more personnel. Why, in all the Circles of Hades, are they not using it?

Why are ripped, open-sided tents being used to "shelter" people?

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin Why are they not contracting out to a service company to provide care for the immigrants, especially for the women &children, instead of pulling CBP Agents off their Border Patrol duties?

This was asked by the @HomelandDems during their visit a month ago & never answered.

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin Kiddie Concentration Camps in America in 2019 weren't quite barbaric enough, apparently. They needed to be inhumane, too.

How long are we going to let this go on?

When will enough be enough?

WHEN DO WE STOP IT?

#FreeTheChildren

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly My Senator's perspective:

#FreeTheChildren

https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/1128454540355883008?s=20

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly This picture is from Wednesday, at the border crossing at McAllen, TX, where a new "pop-up" holding area was created, likened to the Holding Pen Under The Bridge in El Paso.

Looks real comfy. Sanitary, too.

#CancelCBPsContract #CrimesAgainstHumanity

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess This article describes the recent surge in migrant "apprehensions" at the southern border the last few months. That two brand-spankin new tents have been built (for $37MILLION) at El Paso & Donna, & have already exceeded their paltry 500 person capacity.

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@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess Big surprise.

I mean, I's definitely surprised. It's not like CBP hasn't been complaining about intakes exceeding 500/Day for weeks now. Why would they think those tiny concentration camp tents would be enough? If they're gonna go full Reich, they really need to prepare better.

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess But that's nothing new. Nothing this administration does works.

Certainly nothing they've done to try and stem the flow of people fleeing violence and seeking asylum here in the US. Not family separation or sending the military, not razor wire, indefinite detention, nor MPPs.

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess Keeping people--actual human people, including children--penned up like livestock because you can't be arsed to treat them properly or to plan ahead despite months of whinging about it, is absolutely disgusting and a stain on the whole of this nation.

We should all be ashamed.

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess Instead of just shaking your head and crying over their plight: DO SOMETHING, DÁMMNIT.

#CallYourCongressmembers at 202-224-3121 and tell them to support the #DignityForDetainedImmigrantsAct

And then tell your friends to call their Congressmembers, too.

https://twitter.com/RachelMcGonagi1/status/1125950424551268353?s=20

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess Then you can help provide legal counsel and shelter for these traumatized people once they're OUT of CBP's clutches. Plus, several groups in the list are fighting to eliminate detention like this altogether. Check out all the ways you can help:

https://twitter.com/RachelMcGonagi1/status/1123287850487767040?s=20

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess And, of course, the one year anniversary of the huge March vs Family Separation is coming up. Now the theme is Immigrant Justice. Check the website for a march or rally near you, or start your own.

#FamiliesBelongTogetherANDFree

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess San Antonio's humanitarian response to the asylum seekers CBP drops on their doorstep by the hundreds is amazing...and puts the lie to CBP's claims that THEY are providing medical care, clothing, new shoes, or anything at all for thousands of refugees.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess Oh, wow, fuckin amazing idea, guys. Only took you, what *checks calendar* 6+ months to come up with it. 🙄

washingtonpost.com/politics/borde…

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess Thank goodness for the OIG, is all I can say (it isn't, but it's what I'm starting with.) If it weren't for them, we'd have no idea things were this bad--nor the real reason it's happening. (And OIG also discovered those previous family separations, too.)
buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfo…

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess So...I'm start with the reason this is happening, cuz y'all need to know who to blame as we go into this:

ICE

Yep. Our very own gestapo says *they don't have enough room* to move adults into *their* facilities, so folks're stuck at the border.

ICE has 52,000+ in custody.

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess Think about that: 52,000 people in custody in ICE detention centers. Prisons. Most have committed 0 crimes. Sure, a civil offense, some of them--crossing the border without authorization, frex--but some came to the point of entry legally, asked for asylum, & are still "detained."

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess Those 52,000+ people, most of them asylum seekers, ICE has in custody is more than ever before. More, in fact, than they are ALLOWED to have, by Congressional mandate. But ICE is lawless & out of control. The American gestapo would lock up its own grandma.

https://twitter.com/RachelMcGonagi1/status/1130862837004300288?s=20

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess Point of the thread is, detaining tens of thousands of immigrants who have committed no crimes & are no danger to society is a lucrative business, both for the for-profit detention centers, and for the many American corporations that use prisoners as slave labor.

With that said:

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess THIS is horrifying.

It's entirely manufactured by DHS & Trump & #MillerTheSnotrag to inflict maximum pain, discomfort and humiliation upon immigrants who to come to us for refuge.

Standing on toilets to breathe. Wearing soiled clothing for weeks. 76 crammed in a room for 12.

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess Remember back in 2014, or way back in 2000-2001, when we got pictures like those from the border & heard about being overrun everyday, how everything was in chaos & horrible & on the point of collapse because of the numbers of migrants being apprehended & detained?

#Perspective

@SecNielsen @CBP @ACLU @HomelandDems @RepBarragan @RepEscobar @RepBonnie @DLind @ImmJusticeNOW @axidentaliberal @ifindkarma @SirineShebaya @jomareewade @mle_goldman @Alyssa_Milano @DemocracyStorm @TrinityResists @HMAesq @yashar @TrisResists @JynErso_Patriot @SusanBChurch11 @BryanDawsonUSA @RAICESTEXAS @JeffMerkley @hr_indivisible @AdamParkhomenko @SaysHummingbird @brycetache @maydaymindy9 @LiteraryMouse @kathygriffin @TheLoyalO @Norberta36 @sewell_holly @Augustus709 @B52Malmet @TexasTribune @carlyinNJ @ProfSybill @TheSWPrincess Me neither.

The administration is gaslighting us. They created a problem, & now they're telling us it's caused by this other thing &they have no way to fix it...when ALL they have to do is STOP DETAINING ASYLUM SEEKERS.

#NoProfitsOnPeople