Thread by @matt_cam

we are now

as of today

133 DAYS

from the beginning

of the

[say it with me now]

👉👉👉 POST-TRUMP ERA 👈👈👈

post TRUMP

POST

Trump

that is "post"

as in AFTER

So yes: a lot of bad stuff is happening this week, especially in #immigrationpolicy.

Just here to remind you that this rollercoaster is about to come to a full & complete stop, & that there is no irreversible damage he can really do in his last few months.

Next: the real work!

It's mid-November. All of the votes are finally in and accounted for, and Trump has just been trounced in an absolutely historic landslide.

Will he act out? Sure. Will he try to do as much damage as possible? Probably.

Will anyone take him seriously? No.

And that of course includes federal courts, which have been both the only thing standing between us and American fascism and the reason that Trump + Miller have ultimately lost nearly every massive change to immigration law they've tried to shove through without Congress

This is *not* to discount the enormous pain and trauma and fear Trump's enabling rhetoric has inflicted on immigrant communities.

But as a matter of policy, these people have lost far, far more than they've won & (w/one major possible exception) failed at any permanent change

That one exception, unfortunately, is the war on asylum in the form of #MPP, #safethirdcountry agreements, + other measures which have pushed asylum seekers far from our borders. Biden claims he will end it, but this will be politically difficult and much easier to maintain as is

Let's hold him to that, and everything else. The post-Trump era can and should begin with one long Inauguration Day executive order which begins the process of revoking, withdrawing, and otherwise undoing every Trump #immigration policy.

ALL of them. One signature.

#MPP, #publiccharge, #asylum regs, AG decisions, #immigrationcourt restrictions/quotas, employment visas, travel + visa bans, the dog-whistle #VOICE office, USCIS funds stolen by ICE, slashed refugee #s--

All of it. Gone.

We're almost there!

And then the real work begins.

We're going to pass the #DREAMAct. We're going to restore the right to asylum. We're going to (for the 1st time!) proactively consider real & meaningful #immigrationlaw in the national interest.

And by "we," I don't mean Joe Biden.

I mean us.

It's on us, & it always has been

The Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Fair Housing Act, 1965 INA, even #DACA--none of these came from electeds organically, but from long, painful struggles in streets & spaces far from DC

Biden's win will be the *beginning* of our struggle, not the end. Eyes on the prize!