Former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has scored plenty of paid speeches and consulting gigs since her tenure, and is now enjoying a comfy sinecure on the National Infrastructure Advisory Council
Former Nielsen lieutenant Miles Taylor shepherded the policy through & actively worked to help her lie about it.
He's never taken any responsibility for this, and was defending the intentional orphaning of asylum-seeking kids #onhere as recently as this week.
His reward? CNN
Former AG Jeff Sessions has been thoroughly (and hilariously) disgraced after Trump turned on him, but to date only by losing a Senate primary to a football coach. He is, against any definition of justice, still at liberty and at large
#Resistance hero Rod Rosenstein specifically advised prosecutors that there was no minimum age & no exceptions even for children too young to know the names of the parents they were being ripped away from.
He is now a high-priced attorney for one of Trump's go-to law firms.
As I said on @RedirectPod today, there should be a high bar for criminal prosecution of any prior administration. But anyone who knowingly went forward something they were told would rip nursing infants from mothers & create "new U.S orphan populations" has more than cleared it
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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
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."
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.