Thread by @matt_cam

A lot to unpack here, but what I've mostly learned from reading these so far is that I still have the capacity to be astonished. Not that they knew that the single worst Trump immigration initiative (#MPP) was bad--we all knew that--but that they would put any of this in writing

https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1323459421515730949

I mean a "full and fair" asylum system is literally the definition of a "safe third country." That's it! That's all it requires. We all knew none of the countries they were forcing into these agreements had one, but...

Here's the clearest example of "the cruelty is the point" I've seen from this boundlessly cruel govt.

They knew that conditions were so dangerous that these refugees would leave under any circumstances--all while insisting that most of their asylum claims were fraudulent.

#MPP was explicitly designed to end any chance at asylum for ppl our govt knew full well would suffer persecution & violence in their home countries by creating an impossible gauntlet, a hellish Kafka-style wait Before the Law. We've all known that from the jump.

So did DHS.

And ofc we knew that they knew that we knew that they knew all of this and did it anyway. That's how fascism works.

so yeah anyway, here's a totally unrelated thing I was just thinking about