Thread by @HMAesq

I haven't said much about the #ConcentrationCampsForKids at the border. Every time I want to sit down and write, there's another fire to put out. An asylum claim referred to court. Another #MuslimBan separation. An ominous letter from a government agency. (That was just today.)

The camps are the natural extension of the evil system of for-profit detention, which in turn is built on the tragically wrong assumption that detention/deportation is the only cure for breaking an immigration law, which in turn presumes our immigration law is fair and sensible.

A college professor of mine said it best: "The painful lesson here is that mistaken ideology can produce thoughtless cruelty in gentle, kind-hearted people." In other words, how pretty much every genocide in history started.

When are we going to fix the ideology? That's the flamethrower. Take that out instead of fighting the fires they keep starting. No instant results: practice patience and perseverance.

Stop making deals that pit one group against another.
Learn the groups that created this poisonous ideology turned into policy - and silence them. Dry up their funding. Call them out for the white nationalists they are.

What kind of America do you want?

This is about right and wrong, not right and left. The system's been evil for a long time, but now it's getting the attention it deserves, and people are showing up, and that's what change is built on.

Show up at your closest @Lights4Liberty rally tomorrow night. (There are around 600 worldwide so chances are you can make it.)

Cruelly locking up kids, away from their parents, letting them die?

NOT IN OUR NAME.

#CloseTheCamps
#Lights4Liberty
#LucesDeLibertad