Thread by @ImmigrActivists

**THREAD**
This happened yesterday, relayed by someone from a shelter here in #Tucson:
"We had at least three men come to the shelter tonight whose wives or partners, one of whom is seven months pregnant, were separated from them by immigration officials and dropped at a 1/

gas station in a US border town - with no money, no phones, and not a clue as to how to reunite with their husbands/partners. It’s hard to imagine such cruelty - to leave the women alone and with no resources while their husbands will go on to their sponsors. 2/

The men were absolutely beside themselves in their desperation. This is what we do to legitimate asylum seekers. This behavior is leftover from the last administration. It is evil incarnate."
This behavior is not just left over from the last administration. /3

The cruelty I have witnessed on the border has existed over the (now) 5 presidents I have seen since 2000, many of those years doing abuse documentation in the community, not just on the border.
These are not just bad actors, or a situation where BP is meaner than ICE. 4/

This is a situation that facilitates and embodies injustice. It is not broken, and hiring nicer people will not resolve it. The system IS the injustice, a machine doing exactly what it was built to do, criminalizing and abusing exactly who it was meant to. 5/

We will not have real justice until the machine is dismantled. Otherwise, folx will continue to be at the mercy of whatever kind of way the agent on duty is feeling, subject to whatever tools s/he decides to weaponize against them (and which are at their disposal).6/

We can not reform this- we need a new vision to be realized. And we need leaders who are strong and brave enough to not only acknowledge this, but act on it." END
#YaBasta #MeltICE #FamiliesBelongTogether #AbolishBorderPatrol