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Friday, June 22, 2018
We can welcome the tired, the poor, the yearning to be free – and still be free ourselves. We can help the very hungry afford food, the very sick get care, the very cold get shelter – without jeopardizing our own dinner, health or bed. If America can’t figure out how to amass the resources, the courage, the boldness, and the political will to ensure NO child suffers on our shores – then who will? - Congressman Joe Kennedy III — US Representative for Massachusetts District 4
Hugs are actually so underrated, especially those hugs that are so tight you can literally feel the other person's heartbeat and for a moment, everything feels so calm and safe like nothing can hurt you. - unknown
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Thursday, June 21, 2018
The irony.. but it takes gut of hers to show that she " really doesn't care" .. but had to put the show on for her 45th
Melania Trump Wears a Coat That Says 'I REALLY DON'T CARE DO U?' to Visit Immigrant Children Who Have Been Separated From Their Parents
Melania Trump Wears ‘I Really Don’t Care’ Jacket During Immigration Trip
Melania Trump wears ‘I really don’t care, do U?’ jacket to border
Melania Trump, Agent of Coat Chaos
Melania wears 'I really don't care do u?' jacket on migrant visit
This Jacket Caused A Racket: What, Exactly, Does Melania Trump Not Care About?
Melania Trump Wears ‘I Really Don’t Care’ Jacket During Immigration Trip
Melania Trump wears ‘I really don’t care, do U?’ jacket to border
Melania Trump, Agent of Coat Chaos
Melania wears 'I really don't care do u?' jacket on migrant visit
This Jacket Caused A Racket: What, Exactly, Does Melania Trump Not Care About?
Thank you. S!
Sometimes we need someone to simply be there... not to fix anything or do anything in particular, but to just let us feel we are cared for and supported. - unknown
It's not about having the perfect relationship, it's about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up. - unknown
It's not about having the perfect relationship, it's about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up. - unknown
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Trading 'One Form of Child Abuse for Another,' Trump Executive Order Called a Sham, Not a Fix "Let's be clear about what this executive order does: Instead of imprisoning children in separate internment camps away from their parents, this administration will now imprison children in the same internment camps as their parents."
How Will Detained Children Find Their Parents?
For families who have already been separated, policy change doesn't guarantee reunification They crossed the border as families. Now, as some parents face the prospect of being sent back across it, many have no way of knowing how much deeper into the United States their children may have been sent without them.
Trump’s new order on families at the border raises even more questions about what happens next for child migrants Trump's executive order replaces one controversial policy, that of separating migrant families, with another: holding them in detention indefinitely.
Rep. Mark Takano: Trump's family separation policy echoes my family's World War II internment. That damage lasted decades. "The damage done to those interned by their own government was so undeniable that President Ronald Reagan signed legislation in 1988 formally apologizing ... When Reagan took this action, it seemed as though America had learned the lessons of this mistake."
Why won’t the mainstream media tell the truth about racist ghoul Stephen Miller?
Stephen Miller is the architect of family separation at the border. He must go.
Reno v. Flores
Flores Settlement: Myth v. Fact
'Shame!': Protesters Shout At DHS Head Kirstjen Nielsen, Eating At Mexican Restaurant
Poll: Democrats Fired Up Against Trump In Midterms, But GOP Rallying Around Him
‘At Least During the Internment …’ Are Words I Thought I’d Never Utter
Protesters confront Homeland Security secretary at Mexican restaurant - The Boston Globe "If kids don’t eat in peace, you don’t eat in peace,” protesters shouted at Kirstjen Nielsen as she ate at a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.
DHS Drafts Plan To End Family Separation; Trump Signals He Will Sign Something
A Former Japanese Internment Camp Prisoner on the Dire Effects of Putting Kids in Detention
Family relationships have long been part of the bedrock of U.S. immigration policy. Then came Trump. The Supreme Court has long established that the government may not remove children from parents unless the child’s safety is threatened.
Trump to sign executive action halting family separations
‘What’s going on in the United States is wrong:’ Trudeau adds voice to chorus condemning Trump
Trump Says He Will Sign Order To End Family Separations The president's move comes after days of administration officials saying only Congress could fix the situation.
Family Separation Is Trump's Immigration Policy. Here's Why He Won't Own It. Republicans, worried about their own re-elections, want to get this out of the way quickly. Judging by tweets and messaging, so does the president. But it's not his job on the line this year.
Donald Trump is indisputably the worst president in American history
No clear plan yet on how to reunite parents with children
Trudeau on Trump family separation policy: 'This is not the way we do things in Canada'
AP: Girl separated from family had diaper changed by other kids Going to keep sharing so we don't forget. Keep momentum going to get these kids out.
Opinion | Good night, GOP of Trump
Are refugees welcome?
Fact-Checking Family Separation
Separated migrant children are headed toward shelters with a history of abuse and neglect
W. Va. Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry Is Charged With 22 Counts, Including Fraud
Migrant Children Heard Crying On Tape Are The Voices 'Left Out' Of Conversation
Stephen Colbert Delivers Satan’s Message To Baby Snatching AG Jeff Sessions: “See You Soon”
How Will Detained Children Find Their Parents?
For families who have already been separated, policy change doesn't guarantee reunification They crossed the border as families. Now, as some parents face the prospect of being sent back across it, many have no way of knowing how much deeper into the United States their children may have been sent without them.
Trump’s new order on families at the border raises even more questions about what happens next for child migrants Trump's executive order replaces one controversial policy, that of separating migrant families, with another: holding them in detention indefinitely.
Rep. Mark Takano: Trump's family separation policy echoes my family's World War II internment. That damage lasted decades. "The damage done to those interned by their own government was so undeniable that President Ronald Reagan signed legislation in 1988 formally apologizing ... When Reagan took this action, it seemed as though America had learned the lessons of this mistake."
Why won’t the mainstream media tell the truth about racist ghoul Stephen Miller?
Stephen Miller is the architect of family separation at the border. He must go.
Reno v. Flores
Flores Settlement: Myth v. Fact
'Shame!': Protesters Shout At DHS Head Kirstjen Nielsen, Eating At Mexican Restaurant
Poll: Democrats Fired Up Against Trump In Midterms, But GOP Rallying Around Him
‘At Least During the Internment …’ Are Words I Thought I’d Never Utter
Protesters confront Homeland Security secretary at Mexican restaurant - The Boston Globe "If kids don’t eat in peace, you don’t eat in peace,” protesters shouted at Kirstjen Nielsen as she ate at a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.
DHS Drafts Plan To End Family Separation; Trump Signals He Will Sign Something
A Former Japanese Internment Camp Prisoner on the Dire Effects of Putting Kids in Detention
Family relationships have long been part of the bedrock of U.S. immigration policy. Then came Trump. The Supreme Court has long established that the government may not remove children from parents unless the child’s safety is threatened.
Trump to sign executive action halting family separations
‘What’s going on in the United States is wrong:’ Trudeau adds voice to chorus condemning Trump
Trump Says He Will Sign Order To End Family Separations The president's move comes after days of administration officials saying only Congress could fix the situation.
Family Separation Is Trump's Immigration Policy. Here's Why He Won't Own It. Republicans, worried about their own re-elections, want to get this out of the way quickly. Judging by tweets and messaging, so does the president. But it's not his job on the line this year.
Donald Trump is indisputably the worst president in American history
No clear plan yet on how to reunite parents with children
Trudeau on Trump family separation policy: 'This is not the way we do things in Canada'
AP: Girl separated from family had diaper changed by other kids Going to keep sharing so we don't forget. Keep momentum going to get these kids out.
Opinion | Good night, GOP of Trump
Are refugees welcome?
Fact-Checking Family Separation
Separated migrant children are headed toward shelters with a history of abuse and neglect
W. Va. Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry Is Charged With 22 Counts, Including Fraud
Migrant Children Heard Crying On Tape Are The Voices 'Left Out' Of Conversation
Stephen Colbert Delivers Satan’s Message To Baby Snatching AG Jeff Sessions: “See You Soon”
Pope Joins Calls To End Family Separations, Says He Stands 'With Refugees'
Pope criticizes Trump administration policy on migrant family separation
Pope criticizes Trump administration on immigration, child separation Speaking to Reuters , the Pope said he supported recent statements by US Catholic bishops who called the separation of children from their parents "contrary to our Catholic values" and "immoral." "It's not easy, but populism is not the solution," Francis said on Sunday night.
A person's dignity does not depend on them being a citizen, a migrant, or a refugee. Saving the life of someone fleeing war and poverty is an act of humanity. - Pope Francis
Pope criticizes Trump administration policy on migrant family separation
Pope criticizes Trump administration on immigration, child separation Speaking to Reuters , the Pope said he supported recent statements by US Catholic bishops who called the separation of children from their parents "contrary to our Catholic values" and "immoral." "It's not easy, but populism is not the solution," Francis said on Sunday night.
A person's dignity does not depend on them being a citizen, a migrant, or a refugee. Saving the life of someone fleeing war and poverty is an act of humanity. - Pope Francis
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
With every breathe in, there is life. With every breath out, there is hope. - Marc Webber
Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion. - Mary Engelbriet
You were created to make somebody else's life better. Somebody needs what you have- your smile, your love, your words & your encouragement. - unknown
In the end, we all just want someone that chooses us. Over everyone else. Under any circumstances.
Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion. - Mary Engelbriet
You were created to make somebody else's life better. Somebody needs what you have- your smile, your love, your words & your encouragement. - unknown
In the end, we all just want someone that chooses us. Over everyone else. Under any circumstances.
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"We should be able to agree that we will not keep kids in child internment camps indefinitely and hidden away from public view." – Representative Elijah E. Cummings
Trump Says Democrats Want Immigrants to ‘Infest’ the U.S.What are infestations? They are takeovers by vermin, rodents, insects. What does one do with an infestation? Why, one exterminates it. “Infest” is the essential, and new, word here. It drives full-throttle toward the dehumanization of immigrants, setting aside legality in favor of a division between a human us and a less-human them.
"Humanity does not come with citizenship. Humanity does not require a green card." – Representative Joe Kennedy III
Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in. - Doug Stanhope
Trump Says Democrats Want Immigrants to ‘Infest’ the U.S.What are infestations? They are takeovers by vermin, rodents, insects. What does one do with an infestation? Why, one exterminates it. “Infest” is the essential, and new, word here. It drives full-throttle toward the dehumanization of immigrants, setting aside legality in favor of a division between a human us and a less-human them.
"Humanity does not come with citizenship. Humanity does not require a green card." – Representative Joe Kennedy III
Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in. - Doug Stanhope
Jeff Sessions Charged With ‘Child Abuse’ by United Methodist Church Members After Implementing Child Separation Policy
Speaker Ryan Plans Immigration Votes Amid Doubts That Bills Can Pass
Trump Accuses Canadians Of Smuggling U.S. Shoes Because Of 'Massive' Tariffs
Justice IG Testifies Before 2 House Panels, Talk Turns To Family Separation
Trump Touts Economic Gains, As Trade War Looms
Agent Who Sent Anti-Trump Text Messages Escorted From FBI Building
Trump Visits Hill Republicans, But Passage Of GOP Immigration Bills Uncertain
Cruz's flip-flop on family separation shows threat to GOP
Canada just legalized marijuana. That has big implications for US drug policy.
Judge Calls Trump's Border Separations of Children `Brutal'
In tit-for-tat, Trump threatens more tariffs against China - The Boston Globe
Intel has paths around Trump's China tariffs, analysts say.On Friday, Trump said he planned to push ahead with tariffs on $50 billion…
Global stock markets slump as Donald Trump threatens China with another $200B in tariffs
'It Was Hard To Take These Pictures, Knowing What Was Coming Next'
First Ladies Unite Against Separating Children At Border
Judge Tosses Kansas' Proof-Of-Citizenship Voter Law And Rebukes Sec. Of State Kobach
U.S. Announces Its Withdrawal From U.N.'s Human Rights Council, will us set up an evil league where N. Korea, Syria, Russia as the main members.
What We Know: Family Separation And 'Zero Tolerance' At The Border
China slams US 'blackmailing' as Trump issues new trade threat
Gov. Hogan: Md. National Guard resources removed from border until family separation stops
U.S. Plans to Withdraw From UN Human Rights Council Today. The Trump administration plans to announce its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Bully-In-Chief wants to make America a pariah among the nations of the World.
U.S. to withdraw from U.N. Human Rights Council; Nikki Haley, people like her, should go to a special place, along with her boss.
Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of separating families at border, but most Republicans support it
Meghan McCain Calls Out Ivanka Trump’s Silence On Family Separation Policy
Trump's Separation of Children and Families Is What You Voted For
The End of Civil Rights. Across immigration, policing, criminal justice, and voting rights, the attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.
So far, no Republicans endorse the Dems’ ‘Keep Families Together Act’
Big Money As Private Immigrant Jails Boom
Federal Judge Strikes Down Kansas Proof Of Citizenship Law
Speaker Ryan Plans Immigration Votes Amid Doubts That Bills Can Pass
Trump Accuses Canadians Of Smuggling U.S. Shoes Because Of 'Massive' Tariffs
Justice IG Testifies Before 2 House Panels, Talk Turns To Family Separation
Trump Touts Economic Gains, As Trade War Looms
Agent Who Sent Anti-Trump Text Messages Escorted From FBI Building
Trump Visits Hill Republicans, But Passage Of GOP Immigration Bills Uncertain
Cruz's flip-flop on family separation shows threat to GOP
Canada just legalized marijuana. That has big implications for US drug policy.
Judge Calls Trump's Border Separations of Children `Brutal'
In tit-for-tat, Trump threatens more tariffs against China - The Boston Globe
Intel has paths around Trump's China tariffs, analysts say.On Friday, Trump said he planned to push ahead with tariffs on $50 billion…
Global stock markets slump as Donald Trump threatens China with another $200B in tariffs
'It Was Hard To Take These Pictures, Knowing What Was Coming Next'
First Ladies Unite Against Separating Children At Border
Judge Tosses Kansas' Proof-Of-Citizenship Voter Law And Rebukes Sec. Of State Kobach
U.S. Announces Its Withdrawal From U.N.'s Human Rights Council, will us set up an evil league where N. Korea, Syria, Russia as the main members.
What We Know: Family Separation And 'Zero Tolerance' At The Border
China slams US 'blackmailing' as Trump issues new trade threat
Gov. Hogan: Md. National Guard resources removed from border until family separation stops
U.S. Plans to Withdraw From UN Human Rights Council Today. The Trump administration plans to announce its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Bully-In-Chief wants to make America a pariah among the nations of the World.
U.S. to withdraw from U.N. Human Rights Council; Nikki Haley, people like her, should go to a special place, along with her boss.
Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of separating families at border, but most Republicans support it
Meghan McCain Calls Out Ivanka Trump’s Silence On Family Separation Policy
Trump's Separation of Children and Families Is What You Voted For
The End of Civil Rights. Across immigration, policing, criminal justice, and voting rights, the attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.
So far, no Republicans endorse the Dems’ ‘Keep Families Together Act’
Big Money As Private Immigrant Jails Boom
Federal Judge Strikes Down Kansas Proof Of Citizenship Law
Today is World Refugee Day.
If you've been fortunate enough to have been born in America, imagine for a moment if circumstance had placed you somewhere else. Imagine if you'd been born in a country where you grew up fearing for your life, and eventually the lives of your children. A place where you finally found yourself so desperate to flee persecution, violence, and suffering that you'd be willing to travel thousands of miles under cover of darkness, enduring dangerous conditions, propelled forward by that very human impulse to create for our kids a better life.
That's the reality for so many of the families whose plights we see and heart-rending cries we hear. And to watch those families broken apart in real time puts to us a very simple question: are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms, or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together? Do we look away, or do we choose to see something of ourselves and our children?
Our ability to imagine ourselves in the shoes of others, to say “there but for the grace of God go I,” is part of what makes us human. And to find a way to welcome the refugee and the immigrant – to be big enough and wise enough to uphold our laws and honor our values at the same time – is part of what makes us American. After all, almost all of us were strangers once, too. Whether our families crossed the Atlantic, the Pacific, or the Rio Grande, we’re only here because this country welcomed them in, and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, how our last names sound, or the way we worship. To be an American is to have a shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us deserve the chance to become something better.
That’s the legacy our parents and grandparents and generations before created for us, and it’s something we have to protect for the generations to come. But we have to do more than say “this isn’t who we are.” We have to prove it – through our policies, our laws, our actions, and our votes.
Obama Breaks Silence On Immigrant Family Separations
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Monday, June 18, 2018
"Never trust anyone who sells you the solution to a problem you didn't know about until you met them. Their goal isn't to fix the problem. It's to manufacture demand for what they want to sell you.
“Nazi Jew hating was not a statement of fact but a declaration of intent … What the Nazis were doing was not describing what was true, but what would have to be true to justify what they planned to do next.” -Hannah Arendt
There is no immigration crisis. The administration has been pushing the idea that there is one in order to justify what they planned to do next.
What we're seeing unfold now is what they had planned to do. It's sickeningly unsurprising.' - Tim D.
This is Child Abuse. Human right abuse.
Nielsen: Separating families isn't a 'policy,' it's just something we do
DHS Chief is Confronted With ProPublica Tape of Wailing Children Separated from Parents
Democratic Lawmakers Call On DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen To Resign
Rep. tears up while speaking about immigration
Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas. Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of immigrant children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.
Donald Trump is using his power to dehumanize people who aren't white. It can be fatal.
Three former first ladies condemn Trump border policy
This is Child Abuse.
Dr. Ruth, Dr. Kissinger, and Trump’s Cruelty to Families Karola Ruth Siegel was a ten-year-old Jewish girl living with her parents in Frankfurt. Nazis showed up at their apartment to arrest her father, a salesman. As they marched him off into a covered truck, he turned around and looked at Ruth, who was watching from the window. She waved, and he waved back. Then he smiled, so that she wouldn’t cry. She never saw him again.
‘I Can’t Go Without My Son,’ a Mother Pleaded as She Was Deported to Guatemala
Doctors saw immigrant kids separated from their parents. Now they're trying to stop it.
Citing 'Inhumane Treatment Of Children,' Baker Cancels Plan To Send Flight Crew To Southern Border
In reversal, Gov. Baker not sending National Guard members to southern border
The Government Has No Plan for Reuniting the Immigrant Families It Is Tearing Apart. No protocols have been put in place for keeping track of parents and children concurrently, for keeping parents and children in contact with each other while they are separated, or for eventually reuniting them.
‘It’s disgraceful’: Some Trump supporters condemn family separations at border
Trump: 'The United States will not be a migrant camp'
DHS: Nearly 2,000 Children Separated From Adults At Border In 6 Weeks, did DHS lied about this data then?
'We Do Not Have A Policy' Of Separating Families, DHS Head Says, Contradicting Policy, this is how they are weakening democracy. A lying government and lying president!
'The fool builds walls': China takes aim at Trump trade war threats
Trump digs in on immigration amid family separation crisis, GOP controls the legislative and the executive branches of the government and they are blaming democrats of a law that does exist... this orange 45th need a brain scan, oh wait, he already had... political scientist, can you help?
Border patrol official: "We created this situation by not doing anything"
Trump digs in on immigration amid family separation crisis
Laura Bush: Separating children from their parents at the border ‘breaks my heart’
Trump Injects Chaos Into Immigration Debate — Opposing, Then Backing GOP Bill
Former U.S. Ambassador To Mexico Calls Trump's Immigration Policies 'Un-American'
Hundreds March To Texas Tent City Holding Detained Immigrant Kids
Trump's Decision To Separate Families Heats Up Immigration Debate
First lady spokeswoman: Melania Trump 'hates to see' families separated at border
Bus Driver Tells Passengers Only U.S. Citizens Can Ride As Border Patrol Agent Looks On Remember: You are not obligated to answer questions about your citizenship just to ride a bus.
DHS Chief is Confronted With ProPublica Tape of Wailing Children Separated from Parents
Democratic Lawmakers Call On DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen To Resign
Rep. tears up while speaking about immigration
Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas. Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of immigrant children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.
Donald Trump is using his power to dehumanize people who aren't white. It can be fatal.
Three former first ladies condemn Trump border policy
This is Child Abuse.
Dr. Ruth, Dr. Kissinger, and Trump’s Cruelty to Families Karola Ruth Siegel was a ten-year-old Jewish girl living with her parents in Frankfurt. Nazis showed up at their apartment to arrest her father, a salesman. As they marched him off into a covered truck, he turned around and looked at Ruth, who was watching from the window. She waved, and he waved back. Then he smiled, so that she wouldn’t cry. She never saw him again.
‘I Can’t Go Without My Son,’ a Mother Pleaded as She Was Deported to Guatemala
Doctors saw immigrant kids separated from their parents. Now they're trying to stop it.
Citing 'Inhumane Treatment Of Children,' Baker Cancels Plan To Send Flight Crew To Southern Border
In reversal, Gov. Baker not sending National Guard members to southern border
The Government Has No Plan for Reuniting the Immigrant Families It Is Tearing Apart. No protocols have been put in place for keeping track of parents and children concurrently, for keeping parents and children in contact with each other while they are separated, or for eventually reuniting them.
‘It’s disgraceful’: Some Trump supporters condemn family separations at border
Trump: 'The United States will not be a migrant camp'
DHS: Nearly 2,000 Children Separated From Adults At Border In 6 Weeks, did DHS lied about this data then?
'We Do Not Have A Policy' Of Separating Families, DHS Head Says, Contradicting Policy, this is how they are weakening democracy. A lying government and lying president!
'The fool builds walls': China takes aim at Trump trade war threats
Trump digs in on immigration amid family separation crisis, GOP controls the legislative and the executive branches of the government and they are blaming democrats of a law that does exist... this orange 45th need a brain scan, oh wait, he already had... political scientist, can you help?
Border patrol official: "We created this situation by not doing anything"
Trump digs in on immigration amid family separation crisis
Laura Bush: Separating children from their parents at the border ‘breaks my heart’
Trump Injects Chaos Into Immigration Debate — Opposing, Then Backing GOP Bill
Former U.S. Ambassador To Mexico Calls Trump's Immigration Policies 'Un-American'
Hundreds March To Texas Tent City Holding Detained Immigrant Kids
Trump's Decision To Separate Families Heats Up Immigration Debate
First lady spokeswoman: Melania Trump 'hates to see' families separated at border
Bus Driver Tells Passengers Only U.S. Citizens Can Ride As Border Patrol Agent Looks On Remember: You are not obligated to answer questions about your citizenship just to ride a bus.
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