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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is utterly disgusting.
Never in my life would I have thought people would have to flee the United States. Well, here we are, folks. It makes me sick to my stomach.
Fuck all of you Dump loving degenerates.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/nine-people-flee-us-border-patrol-to-seek-asylum-in-canada/
cabot
(724 posts)but it makes me incredibly proud to be Canadian.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)sanctuary.
This is a whole different story.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)and are sent back.
I hope this specific story is followed up on and we learn what the ultimate fate of the family pictured is.
Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)Takket
(21,550 posts)Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Last edited Fri Feb 17, 2017, 09:38 PM - Edit history (1)
escaped first to Mexico or Canada to avoid being returned to their home country?
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)This is so different. They are rounding up families.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)"86 percent of these individuals considered a top priority (Priority One) those considered border security or public safety threats"
if they caught you and you were here illegally you had a good chance of being deported...
http://www.snopes.com/obama-deported-more-people/
Obama did work to help protect "dreamers" (those brought to the us illegally as children) something Trump apparently is undoing.
Initech
(100,054 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,126 posts)an enormous federal police apparatus with the Nazi-like name of The Department of Homeland Security.
It's like, once it was created with that title, its descent into an abusive authoritarian agency was a self-fulfilling certainty.
Time to start doing historical research on when the German citizens who fled their country before the war knew exactly when to get out.