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ACLU files a class-action lawsuit accusing the U.S. government of broadly separating immigrant families seeking asylum.
Thank YOU ACLU!
Link to tweet
hlthe2b
(102,270 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 9, 2018, 05:02 PM - Edit history (1)
It surely goes to GOOD use!
https://action.aclu.org/give/become-freedom-fighter-join-aclu-7
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)They are the wall between us and Twitler and his minions. There is a very real, very dangerous force at hand now.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)When they announced they were going to be filing lawsuits more aggressively against the US govt, I immediately indicated my approval with a financial contribution.
It seems like the ACLU is our last hope and I urge anyone who's able to send them some money.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)For those of us who havent joined... yet!
hlthe2b
(102,270 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)world wide wally
(21,743 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)This was posted by womanofthehills, yesterday....the video is heart wrenching and terrifying....important to see, tho.
WE have to stop them.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210334403
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)they are the gestapo police. ICE is targeting people that don't need to be targeted.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)how traumatizing for those those poor girls.
ICE is creating a lot of future activists. I am furious from just watching the video
hlthe2b
(102,270 posts)https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/03/08/paraplegic-boy-stepdad-deported/409088002/
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"We are sad, but unfortunately we cannot do anything else," said his wife, Sandra Mendoza.
Mendoza said Wednesday she has not told her son, Ricky Solis, that his stepfather is now out of the country.
triron
(22,003 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)Initech
(100,075 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Every one of them is about hating the ACLU and wanting to kick these people out. I don't know how many are bots or trolls, but MY GOD we are up against some evil shit!
Initech
(100,075 posts)I'm betting not many.
demmiblue
(36,851 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)particularly of the utility of separating children as a terrorizing technique, enough that this evil from these people is no surprise.
The LA Times Editorial Board has a statement on this, header somewhat... understated.
The Trump administration has shown that it's willing eager, actually to go to great lengths to limit illegal immigration into the United States, from building a multi-billion-dollar border wall with Mexico to escalated roundups that grab those living here without permission even if they have no criminal record and are longtime, productive members of their communities. Now the administration's cold-hearted approach to enforcement has crossed the line into abject inhumanity: the forced separation of children from parents as they fight for legal permission to remain in the country.
How widespread is the practice? That's unclear. The Department of Homeland Security declined comment because it is being sued over the practice. It ignored a request for statistics on how many children it has separated from their parents, an unsurprising lack of transparency from an administration that faces an unprecedented number of lawsuits over its failure to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests for government read: public records. But immigrant rights activists say they have noticed a jump, and in December, a coalition of groups filed a complaint with Homeland Security over the practice.
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The filing says a mother and her young daughter, who are identified only by their initials, had fled the Democratic Republic of Congo a country facing a humanitarian crisis from growing political violence with religious overtones after taking refuge in a Catholic church. The mother and daughter arrived at the San Ysidro border crossing Nov. 1 and immediately asked for asylum. Hearing the mother's story, an asylum officer determined that she had a "significant possibility of ultimately receiving asylum," according to the lawsuit, and allowed the pair into the country as the application proceeded.
At first, they were housed in a motel. But after four days, the government incarcerated the mother, 39, at the Otay Mesa Detention Center and, without explanation, sent her 7-year-old daughter to a children's center near Chicago. In the four months since, they have been in touch only by phone, and only a half-dozen times, according to the court filing. Notably, the mother in this instance has not been charged with entering the country illegally. And there was no allegation offered by the government that she is an unfit mother, nor an explanation of why it did not release both mother and daughter to the custody of an immigration advocacy group.
These are not the actions of a humane government. To separate children from parents is unconscionable unless the child is at risk of harm. It becomes even worse when the separation comes as the family is asking for help and protection from the very people who then suddenly split them apart. This is just traumatizing the traumatized, and it needs to stop. You also have to wonder about the humanity of the people who have concocted this policy.
To read this article in Spanish click here
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-immigrants-border-asylum-ice-201802305-story.html
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)as inhumane society, you don't do this to people....this is against everything we stand/stood for.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This is barbaric and inhumane. It needs to stop!