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Reply #80 on: June 19, 2018, 03:17:16 AM

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Reply #81 on: June 19, 2018, 05:03:05 AM
It seems when asylum seekers are presenting themselves at authorized ports of entry they are being turned away in violation of US law.  So the asylum seekers are entering the country illegally.

These people are desperate.  They do not want to return to a situation where there lives are in danger.  Who can blame them?

@ Joan:  You still have not answered my question about what you would do if you and your children's lives were in danger.  Would you resign yourself to death or seek refuge?



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Reply #82 on: June 19, 2018, 09:18:19 AM
There are links embedded in this article on how you can help.

Please do.

Here’s How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border

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If you’re horrified by news of families being separated at the borders, here’s a bit of news you can use.

First, the policy: It helps to be incredibly clear on what the law is, and what has and has not changed. When Donald Trump and Sarah Huckabee Sanders say that the policy of separating children from their parents upon entry is a law passed by Democrats that Democrats will not fix, they are lying.

There are two different policies in play, and both are new.

First is the new policy that any migrant family entering the U.S. without a border inspection will be prosecuted for this minor misdemeanor. The parents get incarcerated and that leaves children to be warehoused. The parents then typically plead guilty to the misdemeanor and are given a sentence of the few days they served waiting for trial. But then when the parents try to reunite with their children, they are given the runaround—and possibly even deported, alone. The children are left in HHS custody, often without family.

Second is a new and apparently unwritten policy that even when the family presents themselves at a border-entry location, seeking asylum—that is, even when the family is complying in all respects with immigration law—the government is snatching the children away from their parents. Here, the government’s excuse seems to be that they want to keep the parents in jail-like immigration detention for a long time, while their asylum cases are adjudicated. The long-standing civil rights case known as Flores dictates that they aren’t allowed to keep kids in that kind of detention, so the Trump administration says they have to break up the families. They do not have to break up families—it is the government’s new choice to jail people with credible asylum claims who haven’t violated any laws that is leading to the heartbreaking separations you’ve been reading about.

So that is what is happening. Whether or not that is what the Bible demands is the subject of a different column. Good explainers on what is and is not legal detention of immigrants and asylum-seekers can also be found here and here and here.

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Next: Which groups to support.

• The ACLU is litigating this policy in California.

• If you’re an immigration lawyer, the American Immigration Lawyers Association will be sending around a volunteer list for you to help represent the women and men with their asylum screening, bond hearings, ongoing asylum representation, etc. Please sign up.

• Al Otro Lado is a binational organization that works to offer legal services to deportees and migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, including deportee parents whose children remain in the U.S.

• CARA—a consortium of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, the American Immigration Council, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association—provides legal services at family detention centers.

• The Florence Project is an Arizona project offering free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children in immigration custody.

• Human Rights First is a national organization with roots in Houston that needs help from lawyers too.

• Kids in Need of Defense works to ensure that kids do not appear in immigration court without representation, and to lobby for policies that advocate for children’s legal interests. Donate here.

• The Legal Aid Justice Center is a Virginia-based center providing unaccompanied minors legal services and representation.

• Pueblo Sin Fronteras is an organization that provides humanitarian aid and shelter to migrants on their way to the U.S.

• RAICES is the largest immigration nonprofit in Texas offering free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children and families. Donate here and sign up as a volunteer here.

• The Texas Civil Rights Project is seeking “volunteers who speak Spanish, Mam, Q’eqchi’ or K’iche’ and have paralegal or legal assistant experience.”

• Together Rising is another Virginia-based organization that’s helping provide legal assistance for 60 migrant children who were separated from their parents and are currently detained in Arizona.

• The Urban Justice Center’s Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project is working to keep families together.

• Women’s Refugee Commission advocates for the rights and protection of women, children, and youth fleeing violence and persecution.

• Finally, ActBlue has aggregated many of these groups under a single button.

This list isn’t comprehensive, so let us know what else is happening. And please call your elected officials, stay tuned for demonstrations, hug your children, and be grateful if you are not currently dependent on the basic humanity of U.S. policy.

Update, June 17, 2018: Thanks to readers who updated us with more organizations fighting this policy. Other good work is being done by the following:

• CLINIC’s Defending Vulnerable Populations project offers case assistance to hundreds of smaller organizations all over the country that do direct services for migrant families and children.

• American Immigrant Representation Project (AIRP), which works to secure legal representation for immigrants.

• CASA in Maryland, D.C., Virginia, and Pennsylvania. They litigate, advocate, and help with representation of minors needing legal services.

• Freedom for Immigrants (Formerly CIVIC), which has been a leading voice opposing immigrant detention.

• The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center represents all of the immigrant kids placed by the government in foster care in Michigan (one of the biggest foster care placement states). About two-thirds are their current clients are separation cases, and they work to find parents and figure out next steps.

• The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project is doing work defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic advocacy, and community education.

• Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights works for the rights of children in immigration proceedings.

• The Women’s Refugee Commission has aggregated five actions everyone can take that go beyond donating funds.

• And finally, the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)—which organizes law students and lawyers to develop and enforce a set of legal and human rights for refugees and displaced persons—just filed suit challenging the cancellation of the Central American Minors program.

Update, June 18, 2018, 8:19 p.m.: Listed below are more organizations that are helping separated families at the border. Thanks again to readers who sent in information:

• Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative has a guide to organizations throughout Texas that provide direct legal services to separated children. Also listed within the guide are resources for local advocates, lawyers, and volunteers.

• Immigrant Justice Corps is the nation’s only fellowship program dedicated to expanding access to immigration representation. Some IJC fellows work at the border, and others work in New York, providing direct representation in immigration court to parents and children resettled in New York City and surrounding counties.

• The Kino Border Initiative provides humanitarian aid to refugees and migrants on both sides of the border. They have a wish-list of supplies they can use to help migrants and families staying in the communities they serve.

• The Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network supports undocumented immigrants detained in Aurora, Colorado.

Several companies also match donations—if your company does this, you need to provide the tax ID of the charity you have given to, which is usually listed on these organizations’ websites.

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Reply #83 on: June 19, 2018, 03:32:43 PM
Lois, as you may be aware, I have no children of my own. That said, if my family was threatened, and I was a citizen of some foreign nation, I would be looking for a way to protect said family.

If I decided to seek asylum in some other nation, I think first thing I would do is to seek information, and complete paperwork, at the Embassy of that nation, right in my country of origin. Nations nearby, if travel is by foot or unreliable transportation, with a common language to the one my family understands, would be my first choice.

I would not be among the 'convoy' of folks headed to the United States, as it is well known that bandits and criminals seek to exploit such folks, and why would anyone trade off danger at home, for danger 'on the road' to uncertainty several countries away.

Like you, Lois, I would agitate for my home nation to become what I wish it to be, and would volunteer to aid others in my home nation, toward that goal.

If I lived in a city where a half dozen killings, and shootings in the 40's were common for a weekend, I believe my reaction would be similar, along with planning my escape, saving money and resources, and seeking to move my family to a safer place. A place where I could work, could understand the culture and language, and could continue to support my family.


It seems when asylum seekers are presenting themselves at authorized ports of entry they are being turned away in violation of US law.  So the asylum seekers are entering the country illegally.

These people are desperate.  They do not want to return to a situation where there lives are in danger.  Who can blame them?

@ Joan:  You still have not answered my question about what you would do if you and your children's lives were in danger.  Would you resign yourself to death or seek refuge?

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Reply #84 on: June 19, 2018, 04:26:16 PM
Thank you Joan.

For whatever reason these people have decided their best chance for safety is the United States.
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Reply #85 on: June 19, 2018, 04:45:15 PM
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/illegal-immigration-enforcement-separating-kids-at-border/

Without full vetting, no one may enter the country to roam freely.
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Actually, the majority of immigrants enter the country with a visa (with very little vetting) every day and roam freely.  They simply overstay their visas and settle down.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/visa-overstays-outnumber-illegal-border-crossings-trend-expected-continue-n730216




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Reply #86 on: June 19, 2018, 05:16:41 PM
To obtain a Visa, one is screened, vetted for matching identity, criminal history there and U.S. history, Identity of each family member who may be visiting, and the application is on file for review as needed. Intentions are clear as to when the person plans to arrive, depart, with limits clear to all.

For one who must 'overstay' such a Tourist or other authorized Visa, a process is in place. In some cases, the alien must return to their home nation for a short time, renew their Visa or change the Visa (Tourist to Student, Student to some other approved status, then return anew to the U.S. with the 'new' Visa.
The same may apply to a American Citizen who will tour, work, or study abroad, and is the legal and normal manner of business, vs. just showing up at the U.S. Border, especially showing up with minor relatives in tow.

Work here is restricted, depending upon the Visa type, and penalties apply for any who abridge such agreements. Tracking of visitors with legitimate Visa for entry is possible, not to the same degree perhaps as is practiced in other Nations, but better than nothing, which is the case with illegal border crossing.

Tourists and other visitors are encouraged, and welcome, and expected to adhere to the time and activities detailed on their approved Visa applications.

Asylum seekers are welcomed at United States Embassy locations in their nation of origin, and should apply there, counsel with Embassy Staff, produce the needed Identity documents, and initial Interview(s), and gain permission for Asylum entry to the United States while in their home country. The family remans intact during such a process, and this expedites the actual 'entry' process in advance of arrival. This is the preferred, and legal, Asylum process.


https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/illegal-immigration-enforcement-separating-kids-at-border/

Without full vetting, no one may enter the country to roam freely.

Actually, the majority of immigrants enter the country with a visa (with very little vetting) every day and roam freely.  They simply overstay their visas and settle down. Fixed that for you.

Overstay of a Tourist or other Visa, without permission, is a crime, and such people who perform this crime are subject to prosecution, separation from family, arrest and incarceration.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/visa-overstays-outnumber-illegal-border-crossings-trend-expected-continue-n730216


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Reply #87 on: June 19, 2018, 05:39:33 PM
One cannot apply for asylum in the United States until one has entered the United States.

https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum/affirmative-asylum-process

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Reply #88 on: June 19, 2018, 06:03:40 PM
  As with someone 'landing' at a International Airport in the United States, coming in from some other country, having been vetted initially by customs in their departure from that nation, and ticketing verified by the Airline, working inside guidelines with U.S. CBP, an expected traveller must 'clear' the CBP screening to Enter the U.S.

  A similar process is encountered upon encountering CPB at our land borders, and only upon clearing the Customs Border Protection process may traveller "Enter" the United States of America.

  One who tries to hurdle the CBP screening area will be arrested for illegal entry to the United States, similar to one who may attempt to 'wade' the Rio Grande River to gain entry, or cross our Northern Border from Canada to enter Alaska, or cross through the woods in Canada to enter beyond the U.S. Border to the North of our mainland. Illegal Entry is subject to arrest, prosecution, separation from other travelers including family, etc, the same as criminal arrest of any lawbreaker by domestic U.S. Law Enforcement, such as the United States Marshall Service.

  Port of Entry is designated for land border Asylum seekers, and adequate in most cases to handle the expected traffic, or to delay entry to such Port of Entry until adequate resources and detention space may be achieved.

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Reply #89 on: June 19, 2018, 07:21:55 PM
It’s those damned Canadians.

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Reply #90 on: June 19, 2018, 11:57:08 PM
Ann Coulter:
‘Of Course’ the Left Is ‘Using Children’ to Push Open Borders

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New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says it is typical of the establishment media and political Left to use the issue of child border crossers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border to push their open borders agenda.

In an interview with talk radio host Howie Carr, Coulter said, “of course” media pundits, the open borders lobby, and Democrats are using President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy at the border as a way to gain support for their preferred mass immigration and cheap labor economic model.
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Coulter said:

Who cares if this started under Trump or Obama. What the Left’s argument is: “Trump is a liar, therefore we get to wreck your country.” No, no these are fake phony frauds. This is a political movement to bring people in. Of course they’re using children.

Of course they’re having children weeping and crying. What are we going to do, take in all of Latin America? And by the way, these are the people who say that America itself, “Oh, we’re a hateful country, we’re misogynist and the rape culture, and we’re so racist, racist, racist.”

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They’re always telling us how racist Americans are. Why would you want to bring people into a country that’s such a horrible place?

During a White House press briefing on Monday evening, a reporter from the establishment media advocated for a border policy that halted all detention of border crossers until the Republican-controlled Congress closed the legal loophole that prevents child border crossers from being detained with their parents, or the adults accompanying them, until they are deported.

Such a policy would result in an open border and likely a surge of illegal immigration and asylum claims, though, the southern border has already been inundated with asylum requests and illegal immigration.

The policy to prosecute all illegal border crossers, including illegal alien adults who cross the border with children, results in border-crossing parents having their children taken into federal custody. This is a loophole known as the Flores Settlement Agreement.
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Child border crossers actually have a higher standard of living than the 13 million American children who are living in poverty.
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What Ann did not note here, is the fact that such massive border demand for "families" and "unescorted minors" occurs prior to Mid-Term Elections mainly.

Just something to note, not able to lay the blame on any particular traitorous agitators, yet at least, and I expect we shall see much more on this topic, in the media gap between Stormy, Mueller, and other favorite topics, and up to November, when interest will dwindle as wounds are licked, and some new way to blame Trump is concocted.

Rinos, Democrats, and Mainstream Media, will push whatever rewards them in the short term. Leftist Media (CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC and others) actively ignore what does not fit the Democrat/Leftist narrative, such as the grilling of the FBI today and yesterday by Rep. Trey Gowdy, and a few others.

 The ranking Democrat on the Committee had virtually nothing to say to the FBI, and spent his allotted time concentrating on the party priority, crying kids at the Southern border, disregarding the topic of the Hearing entirely.

For those who have not heard the tapes of little ones speaking clear English, calling their father's "Daddy", and mother's "Mommy, rather than the more common Papi or whatever, and wailing for the listeners to media microphones,
the one child in particular heard round the world yesterday, actually was not being separated at all, but only trying to get the attention of an inattentive mom, per the clarification today in the NY Times.

(One can listen to such noise on virtually any afternoon in the long tobacco checkout line at virtually any Walmart, Costco, or Sam's store, if desired.)

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Reply #91 on: June 20, 2018, 12:13:59 AM
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Reply #92 on: June 20, 2018, 12:29:46 AM

If I decided to seek asylum in some other nation, I think first thing I would do is to seek information, and complete paperwork, at the Embassy of that nation, right in my country of origin. Nations nearby, if travel is by foot or unreliable transportation, with a common language to the one my family understands, would be my first choice.

I would not be among the 'convoy' of folks headed to the United States, as it is well known that bandits and criminals seek to exploit such folks, and why would anyone trade off danger at home, for danger 'on the road' to uncertainty several countries away.


This demonstrates that you have absolutely no idea what people are up against, no sympathy for them, and no desire to learn anything that might contradict your position, because that might lead to some sympathy, God forbid.
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Reply #93 on: June 20, 2018, 03:05:10 AM
  What has 'sympathy' got to do with prosecution of those who break the law, especially non-Americans who break our Nation's laws? The law exists, people willingly break the law, and they know, should know in any event, prosecution will follow.

  Prosecution is the result of the individual's illegal action. What else happens is a result of the law breaking. At such time as a illegal alien can be Identified, the Criminal history both here and in the alien's home country reviewed, and other necessary vetting may occur, and then their case processed in court in the case of lawbreakers, the immigration status may be examined, and their deportation arranged. All this takes time, and any minors who are with the alien lawbreaker are detained, as they may not be summarily jailed.

  Said juveniles are then Identified, Verified as being who they say, and of the age they claim, and if found to be Adults, are then arrested, jailed as Adults, and await their processing and court proceeding as noted above. There is a process for handling of juveniles under the law, and this process is carried out.

  The same applies with some differences for those who conform with reporting at a designated port of entry, and request asylum. Different limits apply as to how many days a juvenile alien may be detained with the family, and those regulations are followed in that case.

  Sympathy does not enter into the discussion for criminal aliens, and for those unverified as to exact details of identity and criminal history at home and here, prior arrest, prior deportation, and more. This is the system the alien elected to endure, and endure they must.

  Court is the point where empathy, sympathy may come into play, as the alien tells their story, and are ordered deported, or processed further, or accepted for asylum perhaps. The process is what it is.

  Civil release has been demonstrated not to work, as a large percentage of the aliens simply do not comply, do not return for the Immigration Court on the day appointed, so such release is usually not applicable, for effectively dealing with those who seek entry without a Visa, and those who request Asylum for whatever reason, and set out to prove the validity of their claims.

  Some, perhaps many, have travelled through multiple Nations on their way to the United States, by passing the Geneva Convention first Nation provision for requesting Asylum. At very least, at one of those Nations being traversed, the alien should be contacting the American Embassy there, and begin processing as is proscribed legally for Asylum seekers.

  These individuals have elected to avoid the sanctioned methods for Asylum, and instead have paid some criminal enterprise, in many cases thousands of dollars, to smuggle them to our Border, or perhaps beyond our border. The parents of children, who send them on such a dangerous journey alone, or pay criminals who exploit such children, or who put their children through such a journey, are demonstrating lack of common sense, lack of proper parenting, let alone showing why they should be welcomed at our border.

  They elect this process. The United States did not visit their home and recruit the aliens to enter. This is their idea, their venture, and their responsibility. It is what it is.



If I decided to seek asylum in some other nation, I think first thing I would do is to seek information, and complete paperwork, at the Embassy of that nation, right in my country of origin. Nations nearby, if travel is by foot or unreliable transportation, with a common language to the one my family understands, would be my first choice.

I would not be among the 'convoy' of folks headed to the United States, as it is well known that bandits and criminals seek to exploit such folks, and why would anyone trade off danger at home, for danger 'on the road' to uncertainty several countries away.


This demonstrates that you have absolutely know idea what people are up against, no sympathy for them, and no desire to learn anything that might contradict your position, because that might lead to some sympathy, God forbid.

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Reply #94 on: June 20, 2018, 03:37:02 AM
You and I both know that people who flee their homeland in search of safety and a better life are not "criminals," in the normal sense of the term. They are strangers among us who come to us in need.

Only a remarkably cruel person would use the same word to describe them, that we normally use to describe murderers and rapists.

"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you welcomed me... I assure you, as often as you did it for the least among you, you did it for me." — Matthew 25:35-40

Deport them if we must, after their requests for asylum have been adjudicated, because that is the law of the land. But for God's sake, we can treat them humanely while we do it. That is the least we can do.
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Reply #95 on: June 20, 2018, 03:38:43 AM
@ Joan:

What you forget to mention is that locking people up for the misdemeanor offense of crossing the border without a visa has not been done before.  Zero tolerance is a Trump policy that means they are now getting locked up and their children are being taken away.  We do not have to do it this way.  Bush, Clinton and Obama never did this.

Separating these children from their parents is child abuse. Medical professionals are saying it is likely to do irreparable to these children. Do you support such child abuse?

And yes, sympathy does factor into the equation.  Why else would it be such an unpopular policy?  

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Reply #96 on: June 20, 2018, 04:03:24 AM
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Reply #97 on: June 20, 2018, 05:02:13 AM
Those who come to a designated Port of Entry, and ask for Asylum, will be vetted, positively identified, history examined there and here, and if deemed to be truthful in their statements and identity documents, are not considered to be Criminals. While there are better methods for seeking Asylum, and places to seek Asylum other than several nations away from their home nation, and that may weigh into the decision of whether to grant their request, they will only be detained until the vetting and then their Asylum request is heard in court.

The law dictates a maximum 20 day period that their children may be detained with the adult alien awaiting asylum disposition. Considering the volume of requests at the current time, the fact that processing can take some time, then they alien asylum seeker has a Ten Day period to interview and hire attorney to assist them in their case, the 20 day window is very likely to expire prior to the individual getting their full asylum hearing completed.

At the 20 day time limit set by Judge Gee, separation must occur of minors from adults in detention awaiting Asylum hearings and judgement. At that point, said minors will be put into the HHS care, and processed accordingly.

Identity of the minors, and history if any here, and in their home country, will be reviewed, and their statements reviewed for integrity, and no further action being triggered for any criminal issue, HHS will eventually place each for care long term, or reunite them with the adult alien(s) for disposition, when Asylum is decided, for release and assistance, or for deportation, accordingly.

Civil Release has a poor history of getting each case heard, due to lack of the cooperation of past released aliens, who simply do not comply with attendance at designated court dates, and thus is not an option. Past Administrations had little success with civil release, resulting in the current status of Immigration court delays and 'lost' aliens released due to the aliens breaking the law, not turning themselves in for Court as ordered. Thus, such now Illegal aliens face deportation due to their own actions, and resist taking care of their obligations.

The entire process is controlled by the alien who requests Asylum, and the system that presents from such a request. Release pending the disposition is not going to happen. Congress will address options to override the court who put the 20 day limit on family detention, presuming those who wish to keep families together will vote the way they talk on TV.

If Democrats want the 'issue' more than having the issue resolved, resolution will be more difficult, if resolved at all. In either case, additional funding will be needed for HHS and CBP at a minimum, which is well known, and overdue to be addressed fully, along with the border wall, and other necessary items.


You and I both know that people who flee their homeland in search of safety and a better life are not "criminals," in the normal sense of the term. They are strangers among us who come to us in need.

Only a remarkably cruel person would use the same word to describe them, that we normally use to describe murderers and rapists.

"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you welcomed me... I assure you, as often as you did it for the least among you, you did it for me." — Matthew 25:35-40

Deport them if we must, after their requests for asylum have been adjudicated, because that is the law of the land. But for God's sake, we can treat them humanely while we do it. That is the least we can do.

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but they bring a smile to your face as they fall down stairs.


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Reply #98 on: June 20, 2018, 07:56:34 AM
Sadly, I don't think Joan has feelings to understand the abuse these children are enduring.

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Reply #99 on: June 20, 2018, 12:43:46 PM
White People Are Cowards

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I thought white people were evil. I was wrong.

Whenever anyone mentions the historical atrocity of chattel slavery, white people will emerge from the dark crevices of humanity to gnaw away at the assertion like roaches on a discarded Cheeto. They will explain how most white people didn’t own slaves. They will offer a convoluted explanation about the Confederacy and Southern heritage. They will introduce the concept of “presentism”—the idea that we shouldn’t judge the actions of people in the past using modern-day standards—as if the white people of the past couldn’t quite grasp the idea of inhumanity and brutality until 1861.

Everyone knew that slavery was evil. Everyone knew that Jim Crow was evil. Everyone knew that lynching was evil. Everyone knows that any kind of injustice or inequality is evil. These things persist because most white people don’t actively fight to eradicate them.

And most white people don’t actively fight to eradicate inequality and injustice because they usually benefit in some small way. The Southern economy was built on evil slavery. Jim Crow laws maintained a national order with white people firmly planted atop the social hierarchy. Systematic injustice keeps black people in their place, but it also comforts white people to know that the big black bogeymen are being kept behind bars.

Inequality and racism exist not because of evil but because the unaffected majority put their interests above all others, and their inaction allows inequality to flourish. That is why I believe that silence in the presence of injustice is as bad as injustice itself. White people who are quiet about racism might not plant the seed, but their silence is sunlight.

Many of those people don’t speak out because they fear alienation more than they hate racism. For them, the fear of having someone furrow their brow in their direction outweighs their hatred of sending children to an underfunded school knowing that they don’t have an equal chance at success because of the color of their skin.

They know the reality of disproportionate police brutality, but they don’t have to worry about their children being shot in the face. Their kids receive good educations. Their kids can wear hoodies whenever they please. Little Amber and Connor’s résumés don’t get tossed in the trash because of their black-sounding names. Their children’s futures are determined only by work ethic and ability. Therefore, they stay silent on the sidelines.

That’s not evil.

That is cowardice.

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

—THOMAS JEFFERSON (MAYBE)

On Thursday, while visiting San Antonio, I was approached by a gentleman who heard my name and wanted to know if I was the Michael Harriot from The Root. He said that he was a paralegal who works with one of the noted immigration attorneys who were all over the news that day (I don’t know which one because I had been traveling and ... Crown Royal). He began to explain how the Trump administration was literally putting children in concentration camps.

Hold up ... before that previous sentence causes Caucasian heads to explode, allow me to offer this definition from Dictionary.com:

Concentration Camp: a guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc., especially any of the camps established by the Nazis prior to and during World War II for the confinement and persecution of prisoners.

Now back to our previous conversation.

Just before he shook my hand and said it was nice meeting me, he explained that it was entirely possible that those children might never see their parents again. Then he said something that I still cannot erase from my brain. He paused, his hand still gripping mine, and looked past me as if he were recalling something, and said, “This is some Gestapo shit, man.”

I know that sentence gave liberals heart palpitations. There is always pushback anytime someone compares anything or anyone to the führer. Even though there is a literal Nazi movement rising in this country, Hitler is the third rail of every conversation, no matter how apt the comparison.

Despite the similarities between 1933 Germany and 2018 America (a rise in nationalism, a government-sponsored ethnic-cleansing movement, a racist strongman in power, that whole concentration camp thing ... ), the most obvious parallel between the Third Reich and the Trump administration is the willing silence of the majority.

Trump chief of staff John Kelly, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and many others refuse to publicly stand up to this insane administration even though they disagree with the policies. Ryan would rather quit. Kelly has reportedly given up. Sanders is reportedly leaving the White House. But none have publicly broken up with Donald Trump.

But it is not just the politicians in the Republican Party who are afraid to speak out against their base; the spineless cowardice of the Democrats has also become increasingly apparent. We expect Republicans to stand with their fearless leader and maintain their grip on power, but Democrats have been so silent that Rep. Maxine Waters’ defiance makes her look like a crazy woman in a tinfoil hat by comparison.

A CBS survey revealed that most Americans disagree with Trump’s “both sides” equivocation regarding the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., last year. According to a CNN/ORC poll, a majority of Americans opposed the white-nationalist-inspired travel ban. Two-thirds of Americans say that separating children from their parents at the border is unacceptable, according to a CBS poll.

Still, most white people won’t do shit.

The crisis at the border is the latest addition to a long list of instances when white people have chosen silence over what is right. Most of the white people who supported civil and voting rights still did not march, boycott or sit in. The white people who shed tears over police videos won’t attend a Black Lives Matter meeting.

Cowards. All of them.

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

—DESMOND TUTU

At least once a week, I will receive an email from a well-meaning white person who wants to know what they can do to fight injustice and inequality. The answer to that is simple. Whenever and wherever you spot racism or inequality, say something. Do something.

Every. Single. Time.

If a white person spoke up every time a fellow Caucasian used the word “nigger” in the safe space of whiteness, they would stop doing it. If a white person advocated for diversity and equality behind the closed doors of power, where black faces are seldom present, people in power wouldn’t dismiss the reality of the tilted playing field.

And maybe I should go back and add the word “some” before every mention of “white people” in this article because I’d bet every penny I have that at least one white person with good intentions is reading this while murmuring, “Not all white people ... ”

Which is exactly my point.

“Some” is not enough.

Some white people will speak out sometimes, just like some fish can fly and some bears can ride bicycles. But if a biologist were lecturing on the mobility of aquatic animals or grizzlies, it would be idiotic to interrupt with the rare cases of flying fish or bears that ride Huffys.

Fish swim. Bears walk.

And white people are cowards.

“I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.”

—LILY TOMLIN

There is a quote in the Holocaust Museum by Martin Niemöller, who was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp for speaking out against Adolf Hitler. The quote reads:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Initially, Niemöller supported the Nazi Party for years because he “felt that reparations, democracy, and foreign influence” had damaged his country and “believed that Germany needed a strong leader to promote national unity and honor.”

Sound familiar?

When they came for black people, white people, like Neimöller, did nothing because they were not black. When they came for the Muslims, white people did not speak out because they were not Muslims. When they came for the immigrants, white people remained quiet because they were not immigrants.

The most disheartening part of all this is that black people and other people of color alone cannot abolish discrimination and hate. It is a problem created by white America and maintained by the silence of the majority. Every form of inequality would disappear by next Friday if every white person in America used his or her privilege to eliminate it.

It is useless to speculate on the exact reasons why they don’t. Sure, some of them are racists who benefit from the current social order. But many are just unmotivated because they don’t want to upset the apple cart. They will weep at the sight of children being ripped from their parents’ arms and shipped to internment camps. They will say Philando Castile’s death was a cruel injustice. They will tell you they “have a good heart.”

But they will only whisper these feelings? Who gives a fuck about hearts when their mouths are quiet and their hands are idle?

Republicans who disagree with the Trump administration remain silent. Instead of screaming at the top of their lungs, Democrats are calmly suggesting the same electoral solution that put Trump in power in the first place. Moderate whites say nothing behind closed doors. White women still have not confronted the 53 percent of their population who supported Trump.

And that is why racism persists. That is how Trump maintains his power. Injustice is evil. The cowardice of silence perpetuates injustice, and anything that perpetuates evil is, by definition, also evil.

Therefore, silence is evil.

As Leonardo da Vinci once said (I could not find the exact source. I think he said it when he painted the Mona Lisa, fought injustice as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle or starred in Inception): “He who does not oppose evil commands it to be done.”

This is some Gestapo shit.

Until all white people do and say something, people in power will always be able to point to the silent majority and say that no one cares about racism or inequality. Ultimately, whiteness affords them the right to remain silent.

I thought white people were evil.

I was right.

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