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Every day in our country atrocities are being perpetrated against vulnerable children & families within the US & at our borders. At least 545 children may never see their parents or families again because under this administration cruelty & death are what they seek to create.1~

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What they are experiencing are crimes against humanity & if we do not vote Biden & Harris & work to end this horror, then we will no doubt enter into an era of inhumanity from which we may not return. 2~

We have allowed these policies and these people to destroy everything. Our belief in our power to create change, our unity, our protections that fight global warming, and our freedom to protest. We must use our votes to fight back.3~

"If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions or direct complicity in crimes against humanity."~George Monbiot
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We have no doubt as a nation chosen & allowed the destruction of our planet & crimes against humanity.5~

So many families are offered zero protection from the harm & torture inflicted on them. Many have died. Many will suffer long-term physical and psychological harm.6~
Zero Protection: How U.S. Border Enforcement Harms Migrant Safety and Health https://phr.org/our-work/resources/zero-protection-how-u-s-border-enforcement-harms-migrant-safety-and-health/">https://phr.org/our-work/...

Zero Protection: How U.S. Border Enforcement Harms Migrant Safety and Health - Physicians for Human...

Executive Summary Over the past three decades, U.S. administrations from both parties have introduced border enforcement strategies that have led to the deaths or injuries of a growing number of...

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“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race?,"~ Cont.7~

"Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”

― Frederic Bastiat, The Law 8~
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"Under international law, widespread or systematic attacks against the civilian population are crimes against humanity." -Philip Alston 9~

We know the harm and damage we are doing. People are dying, children and families are being tortured. The Trump administration has only sought to increase their attacks on those seeking citizenship and refuge in our country. 10~ https://ballotpedia.org/Timeline_of_federal_policy_on_immigration,_2017-2020">https://ballotpedia.org/Timeline_...

Timeline of federal policy on immigration, 2017-2020 - Ballotpedia

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This is not the first time in our history that we have committed human rights violations or genocide. To ignore what is happening will ultimately lead us to only one place. We must stop this. 11~

American MSM has created a culture of acceptance and passivity. Articles are published about relationships with leaders who themselves commit crimes against humanity. They normalize these men and fail to label them in conjunction with their crimes.12~

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Netanyahu dodges Trump’s invitation to slam Biden on conference call

The Israeli prime minister’s refusal to explicitly criticize the Democratic presidential nominee comes 11 days before the U.S. election.

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We have the knowledge and the power to create a better country that holds accountable an administration destined for a mass genocide if these policies continue. They intend to make each one of us passive accomplices in their crimes.14~

These are human beings. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children, and babies. We must make our voices so loud that this horror cannot be denied.15~
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Migrants in Custody at Hospitals Are Treated Like Felons, Doctors Say https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/us/border-migrants-medical-health-doctors.html?smid=tw-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/1...

Migrants in Custody at Hospitals Are Treated Like Felons, Doctors Say (Published 2019)

Dozens of migrants a day are being taken to community hospitals, where doctors are challenging security procedures that they say are harming patients.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/us/border-migrants-medical-health-doctors.html?smid=tw-share

1/Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Definition

Article 7
Crimes Against Humanity
*For the purpose of this Statute, ‘crime against humanity’ means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic,"

2/attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
Murder; Extermination; Enslavement;
Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law

3/Torture;
Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious,

4/gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
Enforced disappearance of persons;

5/The crime of apartheid;
Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
For the purpose of paragraph 1:
‘Attack directed against any civilian population’ means a course of conduct

6/involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack;

7/According to Article 7 (1) of the Rome Statute, crimes against humanity do not need to be linked to an armed conflict and can also occur in peacetime, similar to the crime of genocide.
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We are a nation that has been demoralized, we have people waiting for us to wake up as a country & save them from their horror. They believed in an American dream & of a better future. So now we 2 must believe in that power, we must give voice 2 our dissent & get out & VOTE.16~

Once you have voted don& #39;t stop fighting. We didn& #39;t build this destructive force in a day. It will take a long time to create a more equal, equitable, loving, compassionate world. But we can do it if we work together. #StrongerTogether 17~

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