[These are all from yesterday or today]
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BREAKING: Judge rules that @ICEgov cannot summarily deport a group of 92 Cambodians. Many of our clients came to the U.S. in the 1970s as small children to escape the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. All of them have due process rights under the Constitution.
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@ACLU
Today the White House released a hateful proposal that would slash legal immigration to levels not seen since the racial quotas of the 1920s, eliminate legal channels for African immigrants, and spend $25BIL for a wasteful border wall + increase in Border Patrol and ICE agents.
Stephen Miller has said that his proposal is ‘extremely generous,’ but the only community that benefits from this supposed generosity are white supremacists.
The White House proposal is clearly an effort to sabotage bipartisan talks on the issue by continuing to put issues on the table that are non-starters.
The crisis facing Dreamers and their families is urgent, but addressing it must not come at the expense of using immigrant youth as bargaining chips or devastating border communities. This proposal should be deemed dead on arrival.
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Funny how well the misdirection is working. Most punditry re Trump’s ethno-nationalist immigration plan focuses on wall-for-Dreamers tradeoff. But the chainsaw to legal immigration is the rotten core of it. There’s a pattern here. 1/
The GOP’s assault on health care was, centrally, a dismantling of Medicaid. But GOP succeeded in selling it as “ACA repeal,” bc that’s what they’d talked about for years.
Until @NationalADAPT rolled in, few knew about the sneak attack on Medicaid—which was wildly unpopular.
The #TrumpTaxScam was, centrally, a massive, indefensible, and utterly loathed (by the public) giveaway to corporations. But the GOP sold it as “tax reform” & a middle class tax cut. Didn’t even try to argue for the central provision; just changed the subject.
Now, Trump/Kelly/Miller/Cotton want to slam the door on people of color immigrating legally to the United States, even though doing so would be a massive blow to the economy, Social Security and Medicare—hurting people of all races. But they don’t want to talk about it.
Don’t let them even start to get away with this. Don’t let them hide their hatred. Now and until this ugly idea is relegated back to the fringe of American life, turn a blazing spotlight on it and call it out. It’s to me to stand tall with the Statue of Liberty and fight.
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IMMIGRANT CELEBRATED FOR REBUILDING HOMES AFTER HURRICANE SANDY FACES DEPORTATION BY ICE
www.newsweek.com/undocumented-immigrant-celebrated-helping-rebuild-after-hurricane-sandy-pleads-791708?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social
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ICE to gain access to database that tracks license plates
thehill.com/homenews/administration/370855-ice-to-gain-access-to-database-for-tracking-license-plates