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Government must release migrant children in detention centers because of coronavirus, judge orders
Children held more than 20 days at certain facilities should be released by July 17, Judge Dolly Gee said. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/government-must-release-migrant-children-detention-centers-because-coronavirus-judge-n1232328 via @nbcnews
Government must release migrant children in detention centers because of coronavirus, judge orders
Children held more than 20 days at certain facilities should be released by July 17, Judge Dolly Gee said. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/government-must-release-migrant-children-detention-centers-because-coronavirus-judge-n1232328 via @nbcnews
The entire US immigration system is shutting down, exactly as Trump wants.
The Immigration System Is Set To Come To A Near Halt, & No One Is Paying Attention
"It essentially will shut down the immigration system â sort of the final nail in the coffin." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/immigration-system-budget-cuts?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
The Immigration System Is Set To Come To A Near Halt, & No One Is Paying Attention
"It essentially will shut down the immigration system â sort of the final nail in the coffin." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/immigration-system-budget-cuts?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
1/6 The cruelty is always the point.
ICE just told students here on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through the fall semester.
https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1280207487573069827?s=20
ICE just told students here on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through the fall semester.
https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1280207487573069827?s=20
6/6 For a regime that claims to be interested in business, this foolish move that pokes massive holes in their claims; U.S. colleges make a LOT of money providing education to students visiting from other countries, & this action will cut into that deeply. https://twitter.com/AbayaMiriam/status/1280211711379804161
She warned us. Remember that. https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1280513842330599424?s=20
When your regime is being sued by two of the most famous and prestigious schools not only in the country but the world, you just may be WRONG.
Harvard and M.I.T. sue over the Trump administrationâs plan to require in-person classes for foreign students. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/world/coronavirus-updates.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20200708&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=headline®i_id=9036232&segment_id=32892&user_id=2b7d479898d970bec0f899512bbc0cd5
Harvard and M.I.T. sue over the Trump administrationâs plan to require in-person classes for foreign students. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/world/coronavirus-updates.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20200708&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=headline®i_id=9036232&segment_id=32892&user_id=2b7d479898d970bec0f899512bbc0cd5
1/3 The Trump regime unveiled a new regulation that would bar asylum seekers coming from countries with disease outbreaks, even though the U.S. has the WORST outbreak in the world, we are knowingly deporting infected migrants to other nations. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/08/politics/trump-asylum-coronavirus/index.html
2/3 "This rule represents the single broadest attack on the concept of asylum in the U.S. because it would eliminate almost all options for a person to seek humanitarian protection," Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy counsel American Immigration Council https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-asylum-rule-public-health-coronavirus
3/3 This move comes at the same time recently proposed regulations would eliminate legal protection for the vast majority of asylum-seekers fleeing persecution in their homelands, particularly women and girls fleeing gender-based persecution https://www.lawfareblog.com/new-proposed-asylum-regulations-would-endanger-womens-lives
The cruelty is the point... and so is #disinformation, which is easier when you control the source.
U.S. Broadcasting Agency Will Not Extend Visas For Its Foreign Journalists https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/889301025/u-s-broadcasting-agency-will-not-extend-visas-for-its-foreign-journalists
U.S. Broadcasting Agency Will Not Extend Visas For Its Foreign Journalists https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/889301025/u-s-broadcasting-agency-will-not-extend-visas-for-its-foreign-journalists
âIt Was Like a Time Bombâ: How ICE Helped Spread the Coronavirus
An investigation by The New York Times and The Marshall Project reveals how Immigration and Customs Enforcement became a spreader of the coronavirus. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/ice-coronavirus-deportation.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=US%20News
An investigation by The New York Times and The Marshall Project reveals how Immigration and Customs Enforcement became a spreader of the coronavirus. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/ice-coronavirus-deportation.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=US%20News
Imagine hundreds of entitled, angry, racist George Zimmermans unleashed and empowered by Stephen Miller and Donald Trump's new gestapo:
ICE Offering 'Citizens Academy' Course with Training on Arresting Immigrants https://www.newsweek.com/ice-launching-citizens-academy-course-how-agency-arrests-immigrants-1516656
ICE Offering 'Citizens Academy' Course with Training on Arresting Immigrants https://www.newsweek.com/ice-launching-citizens-academy-course-how-agency-arrests-immigrants-1516656
The cruelty is always the point. https://twitter.com/NewSanctuaryNYC/status/1282694350280052736
Nearly 75% of detainees at US ICE immigration facility in Virginia have coronavirus
#DontLookAway https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/politics/immigration-ice-detention-coronavirus-farmville/index.html
#DontLookAway https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/politics/immigration-ice-detention-coronavirus-farmville/index.html
Irony.
Employees of ICE, Customs and Border Protection, and the TSA sued the Trump administration for hazard pay, claiming theyâre entitled to it for being exposed to the coronavirus on the job. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/23/covid-live-updates-us/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_virus-luf-1225am%3Aprime-time%2Fpromo
Employees of ICE, Customs and Border Protection, and the TSA sued the Trump administration for hazard pay, claiming theyâre entitled to it for being exposed to the coronavirus on the job. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/23/covid-live-updates-us/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_virus-luf-1225am%3Aprime-time%2Fpromo
It is good that this was blocked. It is insane that they still tried to implement it DURING THE PANDEMIC!
The cruelty is the point, every time.
Judge blocks administration from implementing 'public charge' rule for immigrants during pandemic https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/politics/public-charge-coronavirus/index.html
The cruelty is the point, every time.
Judge blocks administration from implementing 'public charge' rule for immigrants during pandemic https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/politics/public-charge-coronavirus/index.html
1/2 The Trump regime sees moments like this pandemic not as a time to pull together, but a time to create even greater atrocities while the nation is distracted.
The cruelty is the point. https://twitter.com/Haleaziz/status/1291147599664168960
The cruelty is the point. https://twitter.com/Haleaziz/status/1291147599664168960
2/2 There's Been A Major Increase In The Use Of Force Against Immigrants At ICE Detention Centers During The Pandemic
#GeeksResist #DontLookAway https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/use-of-force-immigrants-ice-pandemic
#GeeksResist #DontLookAway https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/use-of-force-immigrants-ice-pandemic
1/5 ICE and GEO can't be bothered with little issues like having to quarantine infected immigrants away from healthy ones, so they've adopted Trump's tactic: just don't test at all. No cases then, right? https://twitter.com/NewSanctuaryNYC/status/1291309957393063937
3/5 And to further ensure there are "zero cases", let's forego testing the staff as well. https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1291193240692064262
4/5 In fact, this is such a "great" idea, ICE is doing it everywhere. https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1291196074024218626?s=20
ICE agents can't fly on charter flights unless they are with detainees.
So ICE agents could join Bill Barr's DHS teams & teargas protesters for Trump's church photo-op, they transferred detained immigrants to Virginia during a pandemic.
#LockThemAllUp https://www.washingtonpost.com/coronavirus/ice-air-farmville-protests-covid/2020/09/11/f70ebe1e-e861-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html
So ICE agents could join Bill Barr's DHS teams & teargas protesters for Trump's church photo-op, they transferred detained immigrants to Virginia during a pandemic.
#LockThemAllUp https://www.washingtonpost.com/coronavirus/ice-air-farmville-protests-covid/2020/09/11/f70ebe1e-e861-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html
Trump's regime has expelled about 8,800 unaccompanied migrant children intercepted at the U.S.-Mexico border since March 20 under rules seeking to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus in the United States.
#TheCrueltyIsThePoint & COVID-19 the excuse. https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN26301L
#TheCrueltyIsThePoint & COVID-19 the excuse. https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN26301L
1/3 This is genocide.
âLike an Experimental Concentration Campâ: Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/
âLike an Experimental Concentration Campâ: Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/
2/3 Whistleblower Dawn Wooten, a nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center (GA), says ICDC consistently used a particular gynecologist â outside the facility â who almost always opted to remove all or part of the uterus of his female detainee patients.
3/3 The same whistleblower says ICDC has refused to test detainees and underreported Covid-19 cases.
âA Silent Pandemicâ: Nurse at ICE Facility Blows the Whistle on Coronavirus Dangers
The genocide is the point. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/14/ice-detention-center-nurse-whistleblower/
âA Silent Pandemicâ: Nurse at ICE Facility Blows the Whistle on Coronavirus Dangers
The genocide is the point. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/14/ice-detention-center-nurse-whistleblower/
An excerpt from my thread on how the Trump regime is using COVID-19 to punish countries that don't let it pursue its racist anti-immigrant policies. https://twitter.com/windthin/status/1305924298742411264?s=20
1/3 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi & other Democrats have demanded an investigation into claims by a nurse at a Georgia ICE detention center that detainees there have been denied basic medical care & subjected to hysterectomies without their informed consent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/15/ice-covid-irwin-complaint-nurse/
2/3 Pelosi calls for investigation of DHS after ICE whistleblower complaint https://thehill.com/homenews/house/516486-pelosi-calls-for-investigation-of-dhs-after-ice-whistleblower-complaint
3/3 Pelosi Calls For Investigation Into Claims Of Mass Hysterectomies, Poor Covid-19 Care At ICE Detention Center https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/09/15/pelosi-calls-for-investigation-into-claims-of-mass-hysterectomies-poor-covid-19-care-at-ice-detention-center/#4c14802b5f7c
ICE Is the New Face of Americaâs Legacy of Forced Sterilization
âWhat would it mean to give consent to be sterilized in a prison or detention center?â https://newrepublic.com/article/159390/immigration-detention-hysterectomy-forced-sterilization
âWhat would it mean to give consent to be sterilized in a prison or detention center?â https://newrepublic.com/article/159390/immigration-detention-hysterectomy-forced-sterilization
'At least 17 to 18 women' in ICE detention abused by doctor: Jayapal https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-at-least-17-to-18-women-in-ice-detention-abused-by-doctor-jayapal-91948101899
Representative Pramila Jayapal (. @RepJayapal ) on New Details Regarding Forced Unnecessary Medical Procedures Performed on At Least 17 Immigrant Women https://jayapal.house.gov/2020/09/16/new-details-regarding-fo
ICE Hysterectomy Doctor Wasnât Even a Board-Certified OB-GYN
Dr. Mahendra Amin has been accused of performing unnecessary uterus removals on detained immigrants. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-hysterectomy-doctor-wasnt-even-a-board-certified-ob-gyn
Dr. Mahendra Amin has been accused of performing unnecessary uterus removals on detained immigrants. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-hysterectomy-doctor-wasnt-even-a-board-certified-ob-gyn
ICE Forced Sterilizations Claim Revives Americaâs Sick Eugenics Tradition
The procedures a detainee says are being performed now are of a piece with statesâ not-so-long ago efforts to sterilize people of color as supposed âmoronsâ and âsex delinquents.â https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-forced-sterilizations-claim-revives-americas-sick-eugenics-tradition
The procedures a detainee says are being performed now are of a piece with statesâ not-so-long ago efforts to sterilize people of color as supposed âmoronsâ and âsex delinquents.â https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-forced-sterilizations-claim-revives-americas-sick-eugenics-tradition
DHS awarded $6M in contracts to firm where Acting Secretary Wolf's wife is executive
A Homeland Security spokesperson said Wolf was unaware of the contracts until contacted by the media. Wolf's Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled for Wednesday. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/dhs-awarded-6-million-contracts-firm-where-acting-secretary-wolf-n1240773
A Homeland Security spokesperson said Wolf was unaware of the contracts until contacted by the media. Wolf's Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled for Wednesday. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/dhs-awarded-6-million-contracts-firm-where-acting-secretary-wolf-n1240773
In the middle of a pandemic & protests against racism, Trump will unleash ICE's brutality in a desperate effort to rally his base at the expense of human dignity.
ICE preparing targeted arrests in âsanctuary cities,â amplifying presidentâs campaign theme https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-ice-raids-sanctuary-cities/2020/09/29/99aa17f0-0274-11eb-8879-7663b816bfa5_story.html
ICE preparing targeted arrests in âsanctuary cities,â amplifying presidentâs campaign theme https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-ice-raids-sanctuary-cities/2020/09/29/99aa17f0-0274-11eb-8879-7663b816bfa5_story.html
Though this thread has mostly been about Trump's attack on immigrants during the pandemic, I'd say this falls under "the cruelty is the point":
Federal judge strikes down Trump plan to slash food stamps for 700,000 unemployed Americans https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-food-stamp-cuts/2020/10/18/7c124612-117a-11eb-ad6f-36c93e6e94fb_story.html
Federal judge strikes down Trump plan to slash food stamps for 700,000 unemployed Americans https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-food-stamp-cuts/2020/10/18/7c124612-117a-11eb-ad6f-36c93e6e94fb_story.html
