That is why it's so difficult to get people without documentation who have been horrifically abused (physically, emotionally, sexually, financially, medically, etc.) to speak on the record. That terror never leaves you. They fear for themselves and for their loved ones.
Convenient, isn't it, to have a whole underclass of workers who you can just banish from the country when they start to demand basic human rights and dignity, who you can motivate to work until they literally drop dead with that fear?
I don't think a lot of Americans understand what it means to be undocumented, to live with that fear. People hunt you for fun, because what's one more dead "illegal" in the eyes of the law, right?
And you don't believe that people are getting sterilized without their consent?
Shit man, progressive commie liberal California didn't ban enforced sterilization of women in prison until 2014. That is only six years ago. This is not settled history. And refugees and asylum-seekers are confined to facilities that have even less oversight than most prisons.
Many have no birth certificates, no passports, no paperwork from any country to identify them -- whether they never had them or lost them along the way. No money. No credit cards. Again, in the eyes of the USA, they do not exist. No one protects them. No one.
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I've been thinking about doing this thread for a couple of days. This is mostly for myself so I can go back to it, I don't really expect anybody in this dying hellscape to see it, but I wanted to lay it out here for my own sake. Here's my last few years in news stories:
Here's me, just so incredibly naive in late 2016, saying that "fake news" wasn't the problem so much as lack of journalism. For the record, I still stand by this, but at the time I had no idea how much social media was in on the disinfo attacks:
Hi everybody! A lot of you have been asking me what you can get me for my birthday, which is this weekend. Just kidding, literally no one asked me that but just in case you were considering getting me something please donate here instead entertainmentcommunity.org
Alternately, please consider joining a #WritersGuildofAmerica picket line and support the absolute shit out of this strike
I haven't really articulated this much but: Disinformation depends on altering our stories, true ones and fictional ones, to affect how we see ourselves and each other and make the world seem much more negative. There is a lot of power in culture, so of course jackholes want it
"The majority of the 1,000-plus book challenges analyzed by The Post were filed by just 11 people.
Each of these people brought 10 or more challenges against books in their school district; one man filed 92 challenges."
"As the planet warms, more calamities will strike the U.S. and, if the recent past is any indication, create new opportunities for militias and other extremist groups to mobilize and recruit...."
That's why all the insane border hardening and eugenics shit is happening now too. Borders are there to consolidate resources. Well, we're the resources they're trying to consolidate.