US Politics, June 2018: This is a total goat rodeo.

It is a highly educational thread and I have no idea how immigration lawyers are supposed to find the time to teach us laypeople about how any of this shit works, or where the bad ideas come from, but they do. One of the ways smartphones and microblogging are living up to the promise, perhaps.

Long Twitter threads are such a weird way to publish an essay of 2000 words or more. There should be a better vehicle for this that would reach just as many people and be quickly and easily distributed, but this trend seems to be here for the foreseeable future.

Sure but that's for another thread. Point he's making is: This is a policy that has deep roots. Understanding those deep roots is important to any lasting immigration reform. If we can use Dump Trump sentiments to mobilize against this particular policy, that's great, but the rules and the way they're being executed come from previous administrations, quite specifically Obama's second term.

These are the names of the contractors who are coordinating the children’s concentration camps in TX-

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Z04gxhORlgmS5sDhnX_ryDfSF8T2a6AwZWV1PMY-H8/mobilebasic

On the lighter side

NEW: Rudy tells @dsamuelsohn that his call for Mueller to be suspended last week was just for show:

“That’s what I’m supposed to do,” Giuliani said. “What am I supposed to say? That they should investigate him forever? Sorry, I’m not a sucker.”https://t.co/Br2mJO8hxZ

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 18, 2018

I cant help but continue to wonder if the US hasnt, for years, looked admiringly at how we've been doing things in AU when it comes to deterrent punishment.

Christ some of them have been on Naru for YEARS. Quite a few have died in the process.

XP NARRATOR: "He was a sucker."

Rudy's legal talent has never been very keen compared to his ability as the emcee of his own media circus.

Definitely has nothing to do with his political opponent leading a march and is absolutely because Ted cares about immigrant families, right? https://t.co/VJHk40Bs9S

— Alex Da Toke Villain (@threetwentykbps) June 18, 2018

since when has what pols BELIEVE been relevant? idgaf

(they sure don't)

I cant help but continue to wonder if the US hasnt, for years, looked admiringly at how we've been doing things in AU when it comes to deterrent punishment.

Christ some of them have been on Naru for YEARS. Quite a few have died in the process.

Yep - on asylum and broader immigration policy it’s pretty clear that sections of the US government have been looking at Australia, the U.K., Hungary, etc. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see them propose seizing jewellery and other valuables from people at the border to pay for their detention like Switzerland and Denmark. Policies that are considered harsh / brutal very quickly become accepted - and then, in many cases, seen as not harsh or brutal enough to be effective deterrents. If the US public can successfully push back in a way that Aus / Europe, by and large, hasn’t it’ll be a terrific achievement.

meanwhile

lol of course it was pic.twitter.com/s4JaNrpOry

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 19, 2018

It wouldn’t be a surprise to see them propose seizing jewellery and other valuables from people at the border to pay for their detention

#trenchant

Ha...like there's gonna be a '2070'

Ha...like there's gonna be a '2070'

― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain)

yeah, we'll have adopted HE dating by then and it'll be 12070

dope

People in Portland have blockaded an ICE building, preventing ICE employees from going home to their families. #OccupyICEPDX https://t.co/3DqvXkJZ1W

— PMbeers (@PMbeers) June 19, 2018

this is good praxis

The NYT spoke to Stephen Miller on the record with audio and they spiked it because the White House “were not comfortable using the audio...when they found out his voice was going to be on a podcast they were not happy about it. So they asked us not to use it.”

— Josh Sternberg (@joshsternberg) June 19, 2018

this is bad praxis

praxis makes perfect

Paper of Resistance

icymi

The Huffington Post reports:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions rejected claims that the Justice Department’s new zero-tolerance immigration policy echoed Nazi Germany because concentration camps “were trying to keep Jews from leaving.” Sessions spoke with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday and defended his agency amid a growing outcry over family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border under the new DOJ policy.

“Well, it’s a real exaggeration, of course. In Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country,” Sessions said. “We need to think it through, be rational and thoughtful about it. We want to allow asylum for people who qualify for it, but people who want economic migration for their personal financial benefit, and what they think is their families’ benefit, is not a basis for a claim of asylum.”

what the FUCK

XP...or, "Tired huddled masses--Go Fuck Yourselves!"

if Rod Serling was God, Sessions would wake up in Bergen-Belsen

F U C K the New York Times, with apologies to friends who work there.

I see there is a protest at the US embassy in Dublin on Thursday. I assume that will be happening a lot around teh globe.
Wonder if it will lead to protest tent cities, though not sure if that works in ballsbridge.

I scraped LinkedIn for people that work for ICE: https://t.co/MJuuyMeAal

— Sam Lavigne (@sam_lavigne) June 19, 2018

I'm sure Miller would love to be a politician himself and reap all the "glory" from his "ideas." It's grimly hilarious that in a profession in which Ted Cruz has found tremendous success, Miller is still too much of a loathsome, nauseating pud to ever get elected to anything.

if Rod Serling was God, Sessions would wake up in Bergen-Belsen

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius)

i'd settle for a bernie krigstein comic

Crime in Germany is up 10% plus (officials do not want to report these crimes) since migrants were accepted. Others countries are even worse. Be smart America!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2018

the immigrant crime is totally real folks

until he does...

xxp

https://i.imgur.com/KaAlbiI.jpg

this is insulting to wormtongue and theoden, sorry

The president has a point. We didn't fight hard enough to keep the Drumpfs out and just look at what's happened.

omigod that's perfect lol

the analogy falls apart when you remember that theoden was a once good man, capable of redemption

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ann-coulter-fox-news-trump-immigrant-children-child-actors-zero-tolerance-policy-a8405631.html?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1529398559

Democrats are the problem. They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13. They can’t win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2018

just tweet the 14 words Mr President

'infest' huh

wow

He's close to asking everyone to leave the country for a few days so he can fumigate

Not sure Trump is writing these Nazier ones e.g. both using 'tenuous' and spelling it right.

trump 2020: not eloquent enough to be a nazi

yeah these are Miller

I'd expect media outlets to now be scrambling over one another now in an effort to get taped interviews of Miller in a country with a functioning fourth estate, but oh well, I guess.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions rejected claims that the Justice Department’s new zero-tolerance immigration policy echoed Nazi Germany because concentration camps “were trying to keep Jews from leaving.” Sessions spoke with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday and defended his agency amid a growing outcry over family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border under the new DOJ policy.

“Well, it’s a real exaggeration, of course. In Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country,” Sessions said. “We need to think it through, be rational and thoughtful about it. We want to allow asylum for people who qualify for it, but people who want economic migration for their personal financial benefit, and what they think is their families’ benefit, is not a basis for a claim of asylum.”

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, June 19, 2018 12:40 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omitted here is the nazis tried to deport the jews before exterminating them. the US didn't do them any favors by refusing to accept them.

BREAKING: Trump plans to withdraw from UN Human Rights Council today, per @nwadhams

— Mike Dorning (@MikeDorning) June 19, 2018

cool

about that "the difference is the Nazis wouldn't let 'em leave thing"

They have detained this pregnant Honduran woman for 6 weeks while her 5 y/o son is being held in a separate detention center.

She has just been asking that they go ahead and deport she and her son so they can go home and be together.

They refuse.https://t.co/XYmpETDwgk pic.twitter.com/GQkNcmPj28

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 19, 2018