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This kind of question is *exactly* why we are making @TheresNoLineDoc.

The sooner every native-born American understands that nearly everyone now here has no way to "become legal" the sooner this country can have a real conversation about how they might be able to do that.
@TheresNoLineDoc As I've said elsewhere, asking a #DACA recipient why they haven't just "become legal yet" is not too far off from asking a terminal cancer patient if they have ever considered just... not having cancer. It's insulting, it's painful, and it's ignorant.

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@TheresNoLineDoc While I've got you here, I'll skip my Soundcloud and let you know that we are accepting tax-deductible donations through @filmindependent to fund full production of this exciting documentary which we're hoping will help move this conversation forward.

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Five yrs ago today, Pres. Obama announced his plan to provide DACA-like protections to some undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and residents.

Watching this again today, it feels like it may as well have been 50.

RIP, #DAPA

All of this is only more true than it ever was.

All of it will still be true five years from now.
Unlike any of Trump's executive orders, #DAPA was the product of many months of careful study and coordination across several agencies. There were lengthy internal debates about the best approach to the goal at hand, with a special view to legality. And yet.
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As someone who has had the privilege of representing asylum seekers who risked their lives standing up to corruption, I was touched by the gratitude expressed in the #VindmanTestimony that Lt Col #Vindman's family no longer lives in a country like that.

If only it were true.
It's one thing to know that there are places where it's impossible to remove a corrupt president, and where his party will knowingly help him try to expose any whistleblowers to acts of stochastic violence.

It's another thing to realize that you live in one of those places.
Trump doesn't admire Putin, Erdogan, MBS, etc in spite of flagrant murders of critics, journalists, & truthtellers. He clearly admires them *for* these things.

Retributive violence is a hell of a drug
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This extremely boring 6-page document allows the U.S. government to deport vulnerable people seeking protection at our border from persecution we were largely responsible for enabling to the middle of Guatemalan jungle.

Every American should know about this. Few ever will
This & other #safethirdcountry agreements we are finalizing with Honduras & El Salvador should go down as strong contenders for Worst Trump Immigration Policy.

We'll never know how many will have suffer kidnapping, torture, rape, extortion, immiseration, & death over this.
As Richard Nixon once said to a young Donald Rumsfeld:

"Latin America doesn't matter. Long as we've been in it, people don't give one damn about Latin America."

True then. Far, far more true now.
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This Day in Labor History: July 12, 1917. Employers in Bisbee, Arizona round up striking miners and anyone else they suspect of being an IWW member, put them into cattle cars, and drop them into the New Mexico desert. Let's talk about the horrid Bisbee Deportation!
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1. "Becoming American"
Most Americans have never been anything but. On the other hand, as an immigrant, its taken me 2 decades to understand and, in turn, articulate what being American means to me. The metacognition of this evolution reveals both ideological & spiritual facets.
2. The underlying theme of my youth was being an upstart, insolent, brash and obstinate individual in a culture that rewarded conformity and collectivism. Obsequiousness was anathema to my soul.
3. A guaranteed way to get me to do something was to warn me not to do it. The greater the odds of failure the more resolute I became. Nothing worth doing is typically easy to do. Just like the birth of the great American Republic and the success of the great American experiment.
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This Day in Labor History: April 30, 1894. Coxey’s Army, a rag-tag group of unemployed Americans, marched into Washington, D.C., demanding federal jobs for the unemployed. Let's talk about this response to unemployment and how it might help us today!
The Panic of 1893 destroyed the American economy. Caused by massive (and corrupt) railroad speculation and exacerbated by the terrible economic policies of the Cleveland Administration, the Panic of 1893 led to the greatest depression in American history before 1929.
Lasting five years, unemployment reached as high as 18%, banks failed left and right, and currency supplies dried up after Congress repealed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.
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Now here is the way I like to see people interact. This person didn't exactly agree with me and came politely with the facts that supported both her and my opinions. Two links.
And, as it turns out, I was mistaken. This happens. Thank you, Angie.
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Alright, let's dive into a #Law140 on birthright citizenship and this idiotic story

The TL;DR:
1️⃣ Trump cannot do this via Executive Order
2️⃣ News outlets who uncritically parrot Trump's claim that he can, without noting he can't, are misinforming readers
(They're also promoting even more civic illiteracy than normal. But I realize that ship set sail a long time ago.)

Before we begin, the standard #Law140 disclaimers apply:

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