Opinion | Seizing Children From Parents at the Border Is Immoral. Here’s What We Can Do About It. - The New York Times

Opinion | Seizing Children From Parents at the Border Is Immoral. Heres What We Can Do About It. - The New York Times

Join the Poor People's March on Monday, July 18.  North Steps. California Capitol.
12:30 PM.

House Republicans Advance Monster Immigration Bill

House Republicans Prepare Monster Bill

Republicans seek to protect their vulnerable candidates, not to protect people.

Funds border wall. 

Restricts asylum rules.

Legalizes separation of children and families. 

Offers limited protection for current DACA recipients. 

Reduces over all immigration. 

Unclear what it would do on TPS. 

This is Fascism

U.S. Catholic Bishops say current policy of separating families is immoral.

A survivor of the NAZI Death Camps remembers life in Germany this way;

Pastor Martin Niemöller is best remembered for the quotation: 

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. 1947.

We still talk about American fascism as a looming threat, something that could happen if we’re not vigilant. But for undocumented immigrants, it’s already here.

There are countless horror stories about what’s happening to immigrants under Trump. Just last week, we learned that a teenager from Iowa who had lived in America since he was 3 was killed shortly after his forced return to Mexico. This month, an Ecuadorean immigrant with an American citizen wife and a pending green card application was detained at a Brooklyn military base where he’d gone to deliver a pizza; a judge has temporarily halted his deportation, but he remains locked up. Immigration officers are boarding trains and buses and demanding that passengers show them their papers. On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions decreed that most people fleeing domestic abuse or gang violence would no longer be eligible for asylum.

See post: First They Came for the Migrants. http://antiracismdsa.blogspot.com/2018/06/first-they-came-for-migrants-then-they.html