Resistance – An Immigrant Story
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Vox: One surprisingly simple reason evangelicals love Trump
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trump is betting that evangelicals will maintain their hardline views on immigration
Burge’s findings are in line with prior polling on evangelicals’ positions on immigration issues. An October PRRI survey of more than 2,000 voters found that Republican white evangelical Protestants were 75 percent more likely than all Republicans to assert that “immigrants are invading American society.”
Vice: The invisible: this is how the children of prisoners live in Mexico
Reading Time: 4 minutes When this day is over, about 700 children will have gone to bed inside a Mexican prison. Not because they are criminals, but because their mothers broke the law. These are minors who were with them at the time of their arrest, or who were procreated behind bars, and who today suffer from the deplorable conditions of Mexican prisons. They are the invisible children of the National Penitentiary System.
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Vox: Immigration makes America great
Reading Time: 15 minutes Source: Vox – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. By Matthew Yglesias The Trump administration
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Neighbors Form Human Chain Around Immigrant Family to Prevent ICE from Taking Them
Reading Time: 2 minutes The man and his son were in their van Monday morning when they were blocked in by ICE agents, local news reports. Over the next few hours, community members brought the man and his son water, gasoline, food and other supplies until four hours into the siege the neighbors formed a human chain to shield him and his son as they entered their home. Deterred, ICE left.
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How to Win a Facebook Brawl with a Right Wing Wingnut
Reading Time: 7 minutes Almost sixty comments back and forth later, I realized there was no joy in the debate. I sent this person news stories and articles from more than 25 separate news sources, including Miltary.com and The Bush Foundation website. None of it landed. Don’t judge me for my back-ally comment fight with an idiot. I said all the things you wish you could a lot of the time. You can thank me later.
It ended when my right wing, wingnut “friend” started repeatedly telling me I was ignorant. I enlisted the help of family members to assist me in causing him a heart attack after he expressed he was very angry multiple times and suggested I was causing him a severe headache. The last comment exchanged was from my sister who boldly told him he didn’t want to get in an IQ competition with me – actually, it stopped when my child threw up a stop sign emoticon at the bottom of the comments.
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This Is Not Who We Are – Except It Is and It Always Has Been
Reading Time: 3 minutes The unrelenting pressure on the Trump administration to stop the family separations may pay off. More importantly, it may signal that this is not who we want to be anymore. For those families, and especially for those children, it’s an unconscionably high price to pay for us, as a nation, to find a moral compass that won’t allow that kind of human mistreatment moving forward.
However, generations of black and brown people in our country are still paying the price for a reality most of us do not want to remember. Until we own our past, it is unlikely we will ever fully learn how to stop the cycle of history repeating itself.
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Breaking: Trump to Sign Executive Order Ending Family Separations at Border
Reading Time: < 1 minute President Donald Trump said he plans to sign an executive action on Wednesday that would end the administration’s policy of separating migrant families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. This is contrary to his previous position that only Congress could fix the problem, thus functionally an end to extorting Congress for wall funding with the lives of children.
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Liberal Redneck – Space Forcing Families Apart
Reading Time: < 1 minute Our country is ripping families apart and putting kids in cages at present but hey….fuckin Space Force!
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A Get Real Q&A About Immigration
Reading Time: 4 minutes There is no process for due entry. At this point, immigrants and asylum seekers are being told if they enter the border at legal entry points they will not be separated from their families, (read we won’t steal your children). However, those entry points are closed. They arrive at the legal entry points and are turned away. This is a direct violation of international law, but Trump’s current policy has closed the Southern borders to asylum seekers.
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