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When you let eugenicists write your immigration policy, this is what happens. And make no mistake -- that's exactly what's going on. #TantonNetwork
I wrote about this in early 2017 because I was trying to protect vulnerable people. Human rights abuses at the border have been going on for decades, but I knew that it was going to get worse -- much worse. archive.is/d97ua
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Brooke Binkowski
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Six years ago today, I covered a demonstration at the Otay Mesa border crossing. Just found these photos. I took them in Tijuana looking north toward the border crossing.
Here's a story about the event (not by me)

nbcsandiego.com/news/local/fam…
This one goes out to all the dipshits demanding to know what I was doing during the Obama administration (because they can't do simple searches.) What was I doing? This. What was I doing during Bush II? This. What was I doing during Clinton? Learning how to do this.
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie
So a few years ago I was in Mexicali digging around in historical archives to better understand the significant Chinese-Mexican population there. The answer is American and Mexican anti-Asian racism.

I was profoundly shocked at the time to find out how deep it went.
I'm embarrassed at how clueless I was until then, but it was so buried beneath decades of "model minority" propaganda that I had not even thought to excavate the hidden history until I saw it in front of me. Here's one of my stories pressreader.com/canada/nationa…
Basically, Chinese (specifically Cantonese) immigrants were sought out in the late 1800s to help build railroads. They were thought to be the hardest workers and most family-oriented and whatever other traits that eugenicist garbage people were assigning to entire populations
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie
Gross.
People, cough into the crook of your elbow. Don't be a disgusting piece of shit.
And wash your hands with soap. Even if you aren't worried about your own health, please consider those around you who may be vulnerable. You can't always see who is and is not immunocompromised. It's just good manners to not infect people with potentially deadly diseases
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Nina Hemmings
@NinaHemmings92
A closer re-read of govt's #immigration policy paper & its possible effect on #socialcare drawing on some international learning: 1/
Govt’s decision to “not implement a route for lower-skilled workers” means the UK will be on a poor footing to compete with other countries. 🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦 have all used points-based systems for years, & all found that they need some kind of parallel route for much-needed care staff 2/
Govt is firm that “Employers will need to adjust”, but have pledged minimal help beyond an additional £1bn per year for social care. Employers can’t simply adjust to the sudden absence of key frontline staff without significant help to boost domestic recruitment 3/
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Dolin Bhagawati
@Grumpybraindoc
1/10 An #immigration and #nhs thread. This govt the two have linked the two and this week sees this link leading toward further disaster:

The NHS is short of psychiatrists, esp child psychiatrists - the Home office during #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/o…
2/10 Meanwhile in the wake of #brexit, with a govt insisting on an arbitary salary threshold for immigration policy an NHS already short of 100000 staff looks set for a worsening staffing crisis

credit @HSJAnnabelle

hsj.co.uk/workforce/nhs-…
3/10 The govt insistence on using the #NHS as a means of immigration control continues, with the news of sharing of patient data with credit firms - a story with implications well beyond ill advised border control
#docsnotcops

credit @ShaunLintern

hsj.co.uk/policy-and-reg…
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Hassan Ahmad
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The #TantonNetwork is in full swing. White nationalism as immigration policy.
John Tanton was a white nationalist, and grandfather of the modern anti-immigrant movement. He founded several organizations who have filled key strategic positions within the current administration.

Learn to recognize his thought: @USCISCuccinelli speaks it quite fluently.
Tanton's legacy is camouflaging white nationalism. He thought being called "racist" was an ad hominem attack. Read what he wrote in 1994:
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Paula Chertok🗽
@PaulaChertok
🚨Wake up and smell the white nationalism. Trump fascists do all they can—thru laws, regs & terror—to make America white again >> NEW RULE to severely limit LEGAL IMMIGRATION—making it easier to reject green cards & visas apps of people from poor countries
cnn.com/2019/08/12/pol…
Trump's attacks legal #immigration b/c demagoguery —racism—is his political brand. And his core strategy to power. He's long conflated categories of people, so unAmerican it's jarring. Yesterday "Illegal" immigrants. Today legal. Tomorrow citizens. It's all horribly predictable.
The racism just oozes out of every Trump immigration policy, greasing the slippery slope of demagoguery. From illegal to legal to even citizens. Thru dehumanization, intimidation, harassment, deportation, separation, WH racists are determined to make BROWN lesser & non-Americans.
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Prof Tanja Bueltmann
@cliodiaspora
Had the proposed new system for EU citizens wanting to come to the UK existed when I was keen to make my home here, I would not have been able to come. #Immigration #WhitePaper 1/
But I probably wouldn't have wanted to come even if I had met the salary threshold. Because this isn't a particularly attractive offer. This will deter skilled people. 2/
And this even less so. Why on earth would anyone ever choose to do this? Instead of being able to build one's life in the UK, people would just be sojourners, annually replaced because of the plan for a 'cooling off' period. 3/
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Daniel Nayeri
@DanielNayeri
Okay here’s the thing. Most of the refugees I know don’t like to talk about it, but watching the inhumanity of this #immigration policy makes me want to mention a couple things. I was one of those kids clinging to his mom, seeking asylum... (1/16)
I spent five years (5-10) sleeping under my bed and soiling myself with anxiety. If my mom was less than 15 minutes late coming home, I would enter a full physical panic that she had been taken (she was once by the secret police in our country).
My dreams were almost entirely narratives of watching my parents taken and killed. And you have to understand, once we left our country, I didn’t leave my mother’s side for three years. I can’t imagine what would’ve happened if I’d been put in those cages.
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