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24 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
For pretty much anything I can imagine other than testing risky experimental pharmaceuticals, yes
If you've never had the pleasure of living in a place where undocumented people vastly outnumber Trump voters I just can't recommend it enough
I've met thousands of undocumented people & not a one of them has told me that I am a traitor to my race and/or country or fantasized about seeing me hang from the neck until dead, something which was a pretty regular part of my life on this website until the last few purges
Trump voters are by definition some of the most willfully entitled people in the history of the United States and, as a whole, constitute the angriest popular movement in my lifetime. Undocumented people are just trying to survive best they can in the face of that. So, yes.

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Matt Cameron Profile picture
26 Mar
All they have to do is *not this.* This is an argument for separating people lawfully present in the US for decades from their families.

So: don't. Stop. The bar is on the floor here. No one is making you do this. Just don't.

#TPS
There's no easy way to know how many ppl would be harmed by this directly, but #TPSElSalvador protects ~200,000 alone, and very few of those came with inspection.
And we're not talking about cutting off some general "line" or pathway to citizenship here. If adopted by SCOTUS this argument would most directly harm immigrants married to US citizens and/or with adult US citizen children who would otherwise be able to file for them.
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Matt Cameron Profile picture
18 Mar
I've watched some version of the #DREAMAct pass many times in the last 15 yrs, w/Lucy's hand always ready to pull away the football as Charlie Brown makes yet another run at it. But I keep watching.

Your ball @SenateDems

#DreamAndPromiseAct #HR6
#DREAMandPromise presents the first new major pathway to residency and citizenship in 25 yrs. It is a chance to reconsider everything we think we know about immigration to the US--especially the current criminal bars to admission--and I hope the Senate takes it up in that spirit
We urgently need to give #DACA and #TPS recipients a chance to stay in the only country most of them have ever really had any life in. But that doesn't mean we have to cut & paste current bars to admission, most of which tie to bad late-1900s drug & mass incarceration policy
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Matt Cameron Profile picture
27 Feb
The short & long term effects on kids of having a parent taken into ICE custody for even a few days--let held for years before being deported for life--are all too well-known... and we're simply not allowed to argue this point when seeking release on bond in #immigrationcourt
Immigration judges constantly deny bond and hold parents for months based on anything from pending petty theft allegations to 10-yr-old drunk driving convictions to supposed "gang ties" which DHS has no obligation whatsoever to prove. Lives, psyches, futures destroyed in seconds
We are sometimes allowed to at least introduce evidence of what separation/deportation would do to a US citizen child's mental health, but undocumented kids might as well not exist. They have no value.

It makes me physically I'll to perpetuate these harms just by doing my job
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Matt Cameron Profile picture
19 Feb
1/ Let's talk about a few small but vital parts of the #USCitizenshipAct which may not make the kinds of headlines a pathway to citizenship does, but could make millions of people's lives better the day it passes.
2/ Before we do that, it is very important to me that you understand just how *bad* Joe Biden's immigration record is. It is not at all unfair to say that he is directly responsible for some of the worst stuff that this bill is only now undoing.

jacobinmag.com/2019/04/joe-bi…
3/ Let's start with the definition of the word "conviction."

Every state has some form of alternative sentencing designed to divert charges & keep people from the lifetime burden of a criminal record.

Congress (& Biden) didn't like this, and changed federal law accordingly.
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Matt Cameron Profile picture
18 Feb
There will never be a comprehensive immigration reform bill which anyone will love, but from everything I've seen about this bill so far there is quite a lot to like. We're not going to have this chance again anytime soon, & it's worth passing just to fix some of the worst of '96
Hundreds of thousands married to US citizens w/USC kids have no choice but to remain undocumented under current law.

Millions have suffered badly over minor criminal issues which their states specifically did not intend to be convictions.

This bill would immediately help them
I have plenty of criticism for this bill, bc of course I do, but I still need to do a thorough read tonight.
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17 Feb
Save yourself a click: it's "alien." The word is alien.

"Alien" is a 700-yr-old word good only for an imm. system based in 19th-century thinking. It is etymologically rooted in otherness, ideologically predicated in suspicion, & legally useless. Kill it

cnn.com/2021/01/21/pol…
"Alien" doesn't just mean someone who is not a U.S. citizen. It very literally emphasizes strangeness. Otherness. Not belonging.

I'd prefer to use "non-citizen" for the same reason that Robert Law would prefer that @axios use "former Trump official" instead of "sociopath" ImageImage
Take this @CBP story from a few days ago about the rescue of "aliens in distress," including an "alien female trapped in thick vegetation." This kind of language fuels the industrialized world's largest, cruelest, & least humane law enforcement agency.

cbp.gov/newsroom/local…
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