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27 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
FYI this* is a common white nationalist talking point used to justify massive federal intrusions into state and local affairs and no one who uses this language should be taken seriously or in good faith

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*see also "every county is a border county"
Counterpoint: only some counties are border counties.

Hope this helps!
More importantly: border counties are probably safer than where you live

texastribune.org/2016/02/23/bor…
One place any given TX border county is safer than: the state which has the misfortune of being represented by Marsha Blackburn

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26 Jan
Okay, you might be asking, but didn't federal courts shut down or otherwise limit most of Trump's big immigration policies? Isn't this the same thing?

Hey, thanks for asking.

No.
The executive has all of the power over how, when, where, & why it chooses to enforce immigration law. A state can't just demand that feds enforce it the way that the state would prefer, any more than it can demand them to issue a Gary Buse commemorative stamp or invade Australia
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20 Jan
I believe I speak for a lot of my colleagues when I say this:

The last 4 yrs have radicalized me. I don't know now how I so blithely accepted borders & cages & administrative violence of all kinds as a regular part of my life and practice, but I never will again.

#abolishICE
I'm only sorry that it took the cruelest and worst-run Presidential administration in at least the past century for me to see what this thing was the whole time I've been practicing, and a deep dive in the immigration history & policy I now teach to see what it's always been.
I still have a lot to learn & am feeling out my own understanding after so many years of basically accepting that things like prisons and detention centers and family visas which take 15-20 yrs "need" to exist, but I'm going to try to put the work in & encourage you to try it too
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18 Jan
"The North American Slaughterhouse Association is proud to honor the life and message of PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk"

#abolishICE
"Injustice anywhere is probably just people following orders, which is fine."

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr apparently
"Hate cannot drive out hate, only mass deportation can do that."

-definitely MLK
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Matt Cameron Profile picture
16 Jan
Americans peacefully standing up for Black lives in massively historic numbers = "civil unrest"

Armed white supremacists agitating to overthrow a democratically government = "protests"
The "civil unrest" this account was warning about were also nothing more than planned protests.
*democratically elected
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13 Jan
Anyone else thinking about #immigrationcourt dates scheduled for for clients in 3 yrs and wondering if there will be a federal government to hear them by then, or is that just me
Fun times for someone who grew up believing as a matter of fact that the world would end in his lifetime!
I opened today's class on asylum/refugee policy by reminding everyone that there is no reason whatsoever to assume that the phrase "American refugees" is not something that we will come to know in our lifetimes. Any given country is just a couple of bad leaders/yrs away from it
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24 Dec 20
All prisons are bad policy. Private prisons are also bad business.
DMs are open for anyone who wants to go in on* one of these and join me for some recreational arson

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*read: give me several million dollars for
Or maybe we buy one, upgrade the cell blocks into humanly habitable dorms, and team up with the Unitarians to make the thing a year-round "church camp" which does nothing but provide communal sanctuary for people whose appeals have run out
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