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20 Sep, 7 tweets, 6 min read
The U.S. deported 300+ asylum seekers to Haiti and is planning 7 daily deportation flights starting Wednesday.

At least 3,000 people held at a bridge at Del Rio were moved to planes or detention facilities. One woman who was deported said: "We are on the streets with nothing!"
15,000 people from Haiti have been trapped at a bridge on the U.S.-Mexico border in recent days.

Many slept on the ground, with little access to food, water or toilets. Border Patrol blocked people bringing supplies from Mexico. People say they were treated "worse than animals."
"There's no safety in Haiti."

1 in 3 people in Haiti have no secure access to food, a month after an earthquake killed over 2,200 people.

People are also escaping political crisis, poverty and gang violence but have mostly been blocked from asylum using a Trump-era rule.
Pres. Biden promised a more humane approach to immigration, but is using a Trump-era rule to deport people without a chance for asylum.

Title 42 has been used to expel about 600,000 people in 2021. A judge blocked it, but it is in place for 2 more weeks and Biden is appealing.
Hundreds of Haitian asylum seekers turned back to Mexico, fearing the U.S. will deport them to Haiti.

Thousands are in a border camp in Del Rio without adequate food, water or shelter.

The U.S. plans to expel most without letting them claim their legal right to asylum.
The White House says footage of Border Patrol agents using whips on asylum seekers is "unacceptable."

Agents were seen attacking people who appeared to be bringing water and food to asylum seekers at a camp on the border — where the U.S. is denying most the right to asylum.
Thousands of Haitians are at the U.S. border fleeing political chaos and poverty — and the U.S. is deporting many without letting them claim asylum.

How did Haiti get to this point? Hint: the U.S. and France.

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21 Sep
The U.S. removed over 6,000 Haitian asylum seekers from the border at Del Rio. It is planning 6 deportation flights on Tuesday, denying many their legal right to asylum — using Trump-era policy.

A man at the border with 2 children said the U.S. government "has no conscience." ImageImageImage
DHS says it is investigating images of Border Patrol attacking asylum seekers with whips.

Some were attacked while bringing food/water to Haitians trapped at the border in 104°F heat. One man said: "This treatment they are giving is racism, because of the color of our skin." ImageImageImage
Many being deported to Haiti have not been back in years, and are returning amid political crisis, earthquake destruction and gang violence that has displaced thousands.

A man who fled after the 2010 quake, deported back with his wife & son, said: "There's no security in Haiti." ImageImageImage
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Today marks 20 years since the #September11 attacks killed 2,977 people and sparked the so-called war on terror.

Since then:
▪️ Over 63,000 people developed 9/11-related illnesses
▪️ Over 3,000 first responders died from them
▪️ Over 1,000 victims' remains not yet identified
The #September11 attacks were used to justify the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.

20 years later:
▪️ Over 42,100 civilians have been killed
▪️ Taliban has retaken control
▪️ Civilian causalities up almost 50% this year
▪️ Over 3 million Afghans internally displaced
Ex-President Bush used the so-called war on terror after #September11 to justify the invasion of Iraq.

▪️ Approx. 200,000 Iraqi civilians killed
▪️ 1 in 25 displaced by U.S. invasion
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▪️ 9M Iraqis still displaced (@WatsonInstitute)
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31 May
Today is 100 years since the #TulsaMassacre, when a white mob ravaged the Black community of Greenwood, killing hundreds of Black people.

Authorities forcibly interned survivors and destroyed evidence of mass graves. True deaths are unknown.

No one was charged for the killings. ImageImageImage
A #TulsaMassacre memorial event was canceled after the city rejected a $1 million reparations request for 3 of the last-known survivors

The city commission offered only $100,000 each.

The 1921 white mob attack left 10,000 Black residents homeless. No compensation was paid. Image
On May 31, 1921, a white mob attacked "Black Wall Street" in Tulsa, killing hundreds of Black people and burning over 1,400 homes and businesses.

The attack was depicted in HBO's "Watchmen" — but unlike the show, no reparations were paid in real life.
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Belarus forced a Ryanair plane to land to arrest an opposition journalist. Belarus is Europe's most dangerous place for journalists, says RSF.

Roman Protasevich mobilized protests against the president's 5th reelection. He reportedly said:

"I'll get the death penalty here." ImageImageImage
Lithuania and some airlines say they will avoid Belarus' airspace, after it forced a Ryanair plane to land to arrest an opposition journalist.

Belarus' president, who won a 6th term in an election opposition says was rigged, ordered the flight's grounding, says state media. ImageImage
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20 May
Israel launched new airstrikes in occupied Gaza on Thursday, killing at least 1 person and hospitalizing entire families.

Airstrikes have killed at least 230 Palestinians, including 65 children. On Wednesday, a strike killed a man, his pregnant wife and their 3-year-old child.
The WHO appealed for Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, including #COVID19 vaccines, as hospitals face medical shortages.

Israeli airstrikes have hit at least 6 hospitals and destroyed roads leading to them. Israel has only allowed 5 trucks of aid to enter this week.
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▪️ 24 health facilities damaged
▪️ 3 water plants out of service
▪️ Hospitals facing fuel/power shortages
▪️ At least 230 killed, incl. 65 children
▪️ Over 1,700 people wounded
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Palestinians are on strike in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and in Israeli towns to protest Israel's attacks on Gaza and "against the apartheid regime."

Israel's airstrikes have killed over 200 Palestinians, including at least 61 children.

#StrikeForPalestine ImageImageImage
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