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20 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
6:40 into Descendants 3 and I’ve tried to force my daughter into a conversation about equity, clemency, immigration policy, and integration v. assimilation.

Am I doing it right?
OK at 22:36 and the wrongheaded Title 42/“total and complete shutdown” on entries just dropped.
24:45 and they throw some complexity into the idea that #RepresentationMatters. The shutdown was Mal’s idea!
1:18:49, are they seriously not gonna acknowledge not just the unfairness of the border closure but also the truth that the greatest threat came from within Auradon?

Apropos of nothing. cnn.com/2020/10/06/pol…
1:29:22, Hades speaks the truth about double standards. A forgivable error in judgement for some (youthful indiscretion); lock ‘em up and throw away the key for others.

Are there Descendants lesson plans or is the consensus that this franchise is irredeemable?
1:35:05, you can’t live in fear because it won’t protect you from anything. And you never know where the heroes or villains will come from.

King Ben reverses the entry ban and lifts the border closure!

Parents: I’m close to saying the Descendants franchise has a bad rep.

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22 Dec
#DACA court argument is just now beginning.

Presiding judge Hanen begins by explaining why he denies counsel’s request to argue the case remotely and instead had counsel fly into TX from NJ and DC.

Playing armchair epidemiologist about COVID, honestly.

/1
Now explaining why he’s not wearing a mask for the indoor court hearing.

Not an auspicious beginning to the argument.
And there are people in the gallery watching the proceedings!

Texas, what in the what?!?
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22 Dec
We’re increasingly hearing the Biden team talk about their vision for a “fair, humane, and orderly immigration system.”

Earlier this year I wrote briefly about what similar terms—fair, humane, and workable—could mean. /1 nevadacurrent.com/2020/02/20/why…
Fair /2 Image
Humane /3 Image
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23 Nov
Over the past four years, the Trump administration used the Department of Homeland Security to inflict maximum pain on millions of people, dismantling immigration and humanitarian protection policies while degrading and distorting the institution itself. /1
At a time when the country faced genuine threats to the safety of all Americans from a global pandemic to increasingly frequent and destructive extreme weather events caused by climate change, DHS under Trump took its eyes off the ball and failed the American people. /2
Having served in three Senate-confirmed posts, first as a U.S. Attorney, then as USCIS Director, and most recently as DHS Deputy Secretary, @AliMayorkas has the expertise to chart a new course for the department and the established trust of career staff to get the job done. /3
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30 Oct
A point about this task force.

For the past three years, NGOs on a court-appointed Steering Committee have moved heaven and earth to locate separated parents.

They did this because the USG after separating these families refused to play a role in helping to reunite them. /1
The creation of a task force—one that lives in the State Department, *not* DHS—must NOT be seen as a usurpation of the work that’s already taking place.

The USG has unclean hands. No credibility. The job off finding parents cannot be theirs. /2
It’s hard to imagine anything more counterproductive than the idea of sending US law enforcement personnel—especially DHS—into Central American countries to search for parents whose children were years earlier ripped from their arms.

That idea should cross no one’s mind. /3
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29 Oct
Great! After ripping these families apart, the federal government has completely shirked its responsibility for helping to reunite them.

A task force led by State—not DHS—should support efforts by NGOs to identify families and work with foreign leaders to assist in search. /1
Together with that important reform, the USG should parole these families into the US and offer them permanent protection here.

We need to further prevent this from ever happening again and provide restitution to help these children heal from the trauma we inflicted. /2
Finally, the people responsible just be held accountable. @amprog has some ideas that we will be sharing in the weeks ahead. /3
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28 Oct
*Thread*

Great piece by @DLind that serves as both an explainer about the network of policies the Trump admin has adopted to end humanitarian protections along the southern border and a way to ask provocative questions about the future.

A few thoughts. propublica.org/article/trump-…
Dara divides the Democratic approach into two camps: those who view #immigration as a national security matter who embrace deterrence and those who view is as a humanitarian issue.

I'd suggest a third approach: immigration as a regulatory matter.
Dara observes that prior to the early 2010s, deterrence was an "uncontroversial strategy."

1) That's not entirely true. The US strategy of deterring (and punishing) Guatemalan & Salvadoran asylum seekers in the 1980s birthed the sanctuary movement and loads of litigation.
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