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6 Oct, 9 tweets, 4 min read
friends, pls let me be the first to tell you: 2020 is no longer the worst year of our lives
It is possible that whenever this is all over that no one person will ever have had more direct influence on U.S. immigration policy in our history to date, all of it awful.
#StephenMiller is, I assume, the only White House official ever to work directly with Marvel to get that archvillain dialogue just right
#StephenMiller advocated for ICE to cancel one of the last bits of decency baked into their own policies: the prohibition against arresting undocumented kids at school
#StephenMiller led the charge for Trump's 2018 family separation policy, specifically arguing that inflicting a lifetime of trauma and separation anxiety on infants was the best way to rush the deportation of asylum-seeking parents and force others to face certain death at home
Everything you hate about the most regressive U.S. immigration policy in 100 years either came directly from or was cleared by #StephenMiller and I wish him exactly as much decency, civility, and peace as he has afforded my clients.
excerpts above taken from this @NewYorker piece which I'm going to go ahead and say is required reading tonight

newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
N.B.: this is not to say that everything you hate about the U.S. *immigration system* has anything to do with Miller. Not letting Bill Clinton & the '96 reformers (incl. Biden) off the hook, but exclusively talking about the extremist Trump policies of the past four yrs here
Trump & Miller did not create the world's largest detention and deportation system, integrate state, local, & ICE enforcement, impose burdensome bars to residency after unlawful entry/re-entry, criminalize the undocumented, etc.--and let's never let Joe Biden forget that.

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Matt Cameron Profile picture
3 Oct
The 1 person on Earth most responsible for the spread of #COVID19, the deaths of 207K+ Americans, & the immiseration of millions more is experiencing the painful reality of this virus &--for once--the consequences of his choices.

This is good. This is right.

It's ok to say it.
Months hampering relief efforts, botching testing/tracing, politicizing help to blue states, mocking science, using DOJ to challenge lockdowns/mask orders, watching asylum seekers die in ICE custody, ridiculing mask-wearers--and he doesn't deserve this? In what moral universe?
"...because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically."

I will never fucking forget this.

vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/h…
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22 Sep
I've been thinking a lot about this call today.

This referendum is the point at which the world pretty much agrees that Turkey became a fully authoritarian regime. The EU condemned Erdogan. Trump went out of his way to personally congratulate him.

Why?

reuters.com/article/us-tur…
I mean, ofc I know why. I'm not actually asking why. I'm asking what we can learn from it, what it means for us as we feel the gentle slope toward American fascism get ever slipperier beneath us.

Knowing what happened next in Turkey might be instructive.
The referendum--barely noticed by Americans, AFAIK--was a classic authoritarian move, narrowly (51%!) approved by largely rural, religious Turkish voters suspicious of urban elites. Erdogan played hard to the most extreme right, all too familiar stuff

huffpost.com/entry/turkey-r….
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Matt Cameron Profile picture
18 Sep
1/
The very best view of the available evidence in the ICE sterilization story is that one rogue doctor w/a history of Medicare fraud routinely chose the most expensive option w/o obtaining informed consent from women in ICE custody.

This is what we used to call a "scandal"
2/ I know ppl have had the best intentions but IMO it's not helpful to go straight to talking about a Trump/Miller scheme or some kind of organized plot worthy of genocide charges in The Hague. At base, this was one greedy doc who knew no one would care. Don't prove him right!
3/ This is not a Trump thing. This could have, and indeed did, happen under Obama, GW Bush, or Clinton--all of whom presided over mass immigration detention--and there's nothing stopping it in a Biden administration. It is very important to me that you understand this.
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15 Sep
I've been on the #wutrain since I first met Michelle in the audience @ a 2013 Gaming Commission mtg w/in days of her 1st CC win. She was alone: no staff, no cameras, just listening & taking notes to understand for herself.

Leadership doesn't get more real than that.

#bospoli
I was there with a small contingent of @NoEastieCasino activists, but she seemed genuinely surprised that anyone had noticed her at all when we went over to introduce ourselves on a break. She listened--really listened--to what we had to say, and was straight back to her notes.
That's what I think of every time I think of Michelle Wu. It just seems like so much of politics--especially local politics--is just making sure you're seen being in the right place by the right people saying the right things. Boston's next mayor can and will do so much more.
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14 Sep
When immigration lawyers tell you that lives depend on getting this administration out of power, this is what we are talking about

When we give you a death stare when you tell us that "there's no difference between Obama/Biden/Trump anyway," this is where our minds are going
Never in my life did I ever think that I would be asking people to vote for Joe Biden for anything, ever, for any reason, but this isn't a game and we can't endure four more years of this on the immigration front alone
I am well aware that Joe Biden created, advocated for, and voted in favor of some of the worst things we are now dealing with in the immigration system. Save it.

I also have no doubt whatsoever that he would reverse the mass cancellation of TPS and save these American lives.
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12 Sep
Just paid fifty cents at a library booksale for a signed copy of a book by former MA Governor Bill Weld which includes this personal lament about being "the last of the brainy Brahmins in a party now held hostage by redneck yahoos."

In 1998.

#bospoli #mapoli Image
"But we'll yet prevail -- with gentility, irony, and a sense of a shared hatred of taxes."

NARRATOR: they didn't

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