Had to include the screen-cap because otherwise I’d have a shit-ton of Trump supporters saying “this isn’t true” in my mentions. This IS true. This IS fucked up. And y’all should be TERRIFIED this is happening in our country.
Thank you @adobsonartworks for sharing. I wouldn’t have believed it either, but here we fucking are.
If anyone else is still dubious about this:
here is the link for the Slate article, where the USCIS director is quoted, “What we’re looking at, when you boil it all down, is potentially a few thousand cases” – and this even though there have only been about 300 denaturalization cases since 1990
here is further background from The New Yorker: “Historically, denaturalization has been an exceedingly rare occurrence, for good reason: by the time a person is naturalized, she has lived in this country for a number of years and has passed the hurdles of obtaining entry, legal permanent residency, and, finally, citizenship. The conceit of naturalization is that it makes an immigrant not only equal to natural-born citizens but indistinguishable from them. So denaturalization, much like the process of stripping a natural-born American of citizenship, has been an extraordinary procedure reserved for very serious cases, mostly those of war criminals.”
and here’s a link aChicago Tribunearticle which notes that “2,536 naturalization cases have prompted an in-depth review so far”
Re-reblogging links for the doubtful. They are talking about snatching up Naturalized Citizens and deporting them. This has become a thing to discuss. In THIS country.
It all started with a viral photo of a toddler crying as her mother was detained at the border.
Charlotte and Dave Willner saw it on the internet, like so many other people, and responded by starting a fund-raising page that would rapidly become the largest single fund-raiser in Facebook’s history.
The Bay Area couple had been struck by the sight of the anguished 2-year-old Honduran girl looking up at her mother, who was being searched by a United States border patrol agent in southern Texas. They have a 2-year-old daughter of their own, and the image made them want to help the families being separated under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy.
On Saturday morning, they started a Facebook fund-raising page for the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, or Raices, a nonprofit organization that provides low-cost legal defense services to immigrant and refugee families in Texas. The Willners set a modest goal of $1,500.
Three days later, it has garnered more than $5 million from more than 130,000 people, stunning the staff at Raices.
“We’ve had moments of ecstasy and there have been a lot of tears in response to this outpouring of support,” Jonathan Ryan, executive director of Raices, said in a phone interview. “But those moments of joy are curtailed by a realization of great responsibility.”
The funds will go toward legal representation for immigrant children and parents in Texas, as well as toward paying parents’ bond so they can be released from detention centers and reunited with their children. The organization — which currently has about 50 lawyers on staff — plans to go on a hiring spree and fund training for volunteer lawyers willing to travel to Texas to assist, Mr. Ryan said.
The Trump administration policy, which aims to criminally prosecute all immigrants crossing the border illegally, has resulted in nearly 2,000 children being taken away from their parents in six weeks. Public outcry over family separations at the border has risen in recent days as children’s experiences in custody have been documented. A recording of children calling out desperately for their parents after being separated from them was released on Monday by ProPublica and was met with immediate outrage.
President Trump has defended the policy by saying that people crossing the border “could be murderers and thieves and so much else.” And Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security, said in a news briefing on Monday that the only way the practice would change is through legislation in Congress, even though there is no law requiring that families be separated at the border.
On Tuesday afternoon, the page — called “Reunite an immigrant parent with their child” — was receiving about $3,000 per minute, according to a spokeswoman for the Willners, who are both former Facebook employees.
“When we look at the faces of these children, we can’t help but see our own children’s faces,” Ms. Willner told The Mercury News of San Jose, Calif. Ms. Willner now works at Pinterest and Mr. Willner at Airbnb, according to a spokeswoman for the couple.
The Willners’ page is the largest single fund-raiser in Facebook’s history, said Roya Winner, a Facebook spokeswoman. Several broader campaigns made up of multiple fund-raisers, like one created in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, have raised more. Other single fund-raisers that have recently been highly successful include a Norwegian campaign for Doctors Without Borders, which garnered $2 million, and an effort to raise money for medical aid to Palestinians in Gaza, which raised $1.7 million.
Photos of humanitarian crises have galvanized the public for decades, but internet fund-raising platforms have enabled donations to stream in. In 2015, images of a 3-year-old Syrian Kurdish boy whose body had washed up on a beach in Turkey caused a spike in donations to humanitarian efforts addressing the Syrian civil war. The average number of daily donations to the Red Cross relief effort in Syria increased 100-fold in the week after the images were published compared with the week before.
Mr. Ryan said that he did not yet know when the millions of dollars in donations would reach Raices, but that it is already starting to deploy its lawyers to assist detained immigrants and their children.
Costs for this kind of legal assistance can add up quickly, he said. Bond for a single detained immigrant can be set at $10,000. Lawyers must locate the parents, travel to detention centers and meticulously prepare applications for asylum.
“These people need lawyers,” Mr. Ryan said. “Beyond the punditry and politics, each person suffering from this policy has a huge legal case to begin to prepare for.”
if you’ve seen the breaking news that trump just signed an executive order today to end the family separation policy here’s some quick info to keep things in perspective
this doesn’t end the “zero tolerance” policy of prosecuting anyone who crosses the border “illegally”
the only thing this changes is that going forward, entire families will be detained together while awaiting prosecution
this offers no solution for freeing the thousands of children currently held in ICE child prisons or any path to reuniting them with their families
children will still be detained and treated as criminals
this will likely lead to thousands of families being held in ICE facilities and tent cities that will face the exact same issues of overcrowding, abuse, and inhumane conditions that exist in the child prisons
this is not a victory or a solution. This is the administration trying to cover their asses and avoid any more public outrage. They want people to see this as the end of the news story and go back to their lives. They want people to forget the thousands of children they are still keeping in cages in ICE facilities across the nation. This issue is not over and we cannot stop being outraged until we are given proof that the thousands of kidnapped children are returned to their families, and that the policy of arresting and prosecuting people who cross the border is ended.
Sometimes I think they’re deliberately pushing the envelope in being as horrible as possible so that when they’re only slightly less horrible it will seem like an “acceptable” degree of horrible in comparison.
Don’t let this tactic fool you. NONE OF THIS SHOULD BE NORMALIZED OR TREATED AS ACCEPTABLE.
A proposed Trump/Pence policy is attempting to take away your basic rights. We have until July 31 to submit comments against this gag rule that violates medical ethics. The gag rule would:
Impose new rules designed to make it impossible for millions of patients to get birth control or preventive care from Planned Parenthood.
Under this rule, doctors, nurses, hospitals, and community health centers across the country would no longer be able to refer their patients for safe, legal abortion.
Remove the guarantee that you’re getting full and accurate information about your health care from your doctor. For nearly two decades, Title X law has been clear: Health care providers cannot withhold information from you about your pregnancy options. This rule means they can.
Delete the requirement that contraception provided be medically approved, and no longer directs providers to ensure you have access to the full range of birth control.
okay so I know that the reason there’s a “stark tower” in the MCU is because in 2012 no one knew that “guy with big new york tower with his name on it” was going to have different connotations in fewer than ten years, but I choose to believe that it’s because donald trump just straight up doesn’t exist in the MCU
They have superheroes and no Trump? They must be living in the Good Place
pros of living in the MCU:
superheroes
no Trump
Wakanda exists
a rich white billionaire invented clean, renewable energy and shared the tech with everyone
Thor is real and currently single
cons of living in the MCU:
constant threat of alien invasion
???
The Nazi’s have tentacles and are *way* more effective at silently infiltrating the government.
Armed with rolls of clear Scotch tape, Lartey and his colleagues would sift through large piles of shredded paper and put them back together, he said, “like a jigsaw puzzle.” Sometimes the papers would just be split down the middle, but other times they would be torn into pieces so small they looked like confetti.
It was a painstaking project that was the result of a clash between legal requirements to preserve White House records and President Donald Trump’s odd and enduring habit of ripping up papers when he’s done with them — what some people described as his unofficial “filing system.”
this story is wild y’all
guys, clear scotch tape? That is not going to hold up! That’s going to ruin the documents even more! They need book tape!
“Surrender Donald” – Gay activists rally outside Trump Tower in New York, protesting the city’s tax breaks for luxury real estate developers while thousands of people with AIDS sleep in the streets. Oct. 31, 1989
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