“Think not that I am come to bring peace. I am come to bring not peace, but tax cuts.”
– Republican Jesus
RichVR
2872
And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ? Do you really think one million is enough to live on? I need at least 10 million!”
An even grimmer take — This is the beginning of the largest (attempted) shift in global population the world has ever seen, resulting from climate change.
Warmer temperatures have a strong correlation to increases in conflict. Further, working outdoors in parts of central and Sounth America is now fatally dangerous as heat and humidity have already reached levels that exceed humans’ physiological ability to cool off via sweat. As the climate continues to degraded, it will take an economic toll that will only exacerbate the conflicts and the conditions that make people want to flee.
Worse still, negative change will leave people feeling anxious, afraid and insecure. Anxiety, fear and insecurity will heighten the appeal of authoritarian claims that only a strong, ruthless ruler can save the people. Authoritarian governments will only deepen the conflicts.
We’re at the front end of that process now and we couldn’t manage to reform our immigration system to something humane to deal with normal levels of migration. I dread what’s to come.
Nesrie
2874
And this is what happens when a company kind of tries to shrug off what their employees are demanding and, well, hoping PR issues will just somehow go away.
Tech has a bad reputation, earned, already, but it’s Wayfair’s turn to be dissected and examined.
This is horrific. I wish I didn’t have to keep seeing these things, but at the same time… there are still people who look at that and then start talking about their retirement plans and salaries. It’s mind-blowing really.
Timex
2875
Yeah, i know it’s rough to see that picture. But that’s why it’s important folks see it.
We have to see this with our own eyes.
ShivaX
2876
Agreed.
Facebook censors it, for the record.
You know, unlike memes talking about killing brown people where they mostly just shrug.
I literally cried a little when I saw that picture last night. CNN had the balls to show it uncensored.
Fucking hell. A father who wanted a better life for his child. That’s what that is, not some invader, not a criminal, human beings.
RichVR
2878
I was physically sick when I saw it on ABC. My wife cried. But it must be seen.
Nesrie
2879
Sometimes it’s not just a better life, right, at least not in the ways I think some people think about it.
It’s about likelihood of death and a chance to live and thrive. For some, what’s behind them is worse than dying trying to cross which is why ideas like… we’ll just make it really bad at the border so they stop coming… If behind them is death for them and their family… how can they not try?
I came across this while researching my own planned move to the US, some time next year.
Boase was placed in removal proceedings last month, roughly a year after he admitted during his citizenship interview with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that, yes, he once registered to vote, and yes, he once cast a vote. Boase’s notice to appear in immigration court — the charging document that initiates removal proceedings — specifies that his one trip to the polls in 2006 is the reason for his removal. It does not mention any other aggravating factors, and David Cox, Boase’s immigration attorney, said there are none. It’s only the lone vote.
Like Trump’s executive order, the new USCIS guidelines broaden the classes of immigrants that USCIS would be not only encouraged but required to deport. This includes not just those who have been convicted of a crime but also people who haven’t been, if they’ve “committed acts that are chargeable as a criminal offense.” Such acts include unlawful voting.
Lovely.
I really think the only thing to do is just to grant citizenship to anyone here who wants it the second Dems have enough control to do so. Otherwise these people will live in fear of the damn gestapo forever.
My wife is an immigrant, now a citizen, and so are several long-time close friends. It is amazing how we’ve gone from thinking at, as citizens, they are safe from anti-immigrant government action, to realizing that the government might try to simply nullify their citizenship on a pretext. It is not, I fear, an idle worry.
It is a hammer used to control population. Native-borns are too uppity about their rights and stuff.
Nesrie
2885
We’ve got people who were brought into the country as kids, and don’t know it until they hit a brick wall with their paperwork. We’ve got immigrants who think they are safe and believe we’re only deporting the “bad ones” and don’t realize, although apparently some do, the definition of bad is just shit some government official makes up at any given moment. And then we have lines of people trying to get into the country to get a better life or to just not, you know, die back where they’re coming from.
This is a canyon between the concept of actual open borders, which I think very few support, and what’s going on right now. It does require money, effort and patience to fix though which so few are willing to deal with. It’s not just in the Social Media space that people demand instant gratification.
I volunteered with a housing assistance charity this week, and heard a scary story from a naturalized immigrant. She and her family are from Jamaica, and she and her parents have lived here and been citizens for 20 years. Her dad lives alone now, and is having mental health problems, none of the family wanted to keep him at home and they can’t force him to stay on his medication. He had an episode, decided to drive back to NYC on his own, and ended up in Bellevue there. Somehow within a few days, he has been deported back to Jamaica, despite being a citizen and resident for decades. So he is now dumped alone in a bad area with none of his paperwork, no money, no medication, and no close family around anywhere.
Timex
2887
Do you mean allow them to apply for citizenship, and then earn it through the normal means? Or just remove all requirements for citizenship?
Nesrie
2888
Do they have a plan or something to get him back that you know of. Are families able to do GoFundMe type stuff for lawyers and funds to get them back?
I realize these are not answers you might have, but I am not sure I understand what can be done when this happens. I do know that these groups are not being accountable when they deport the wrong people. It’s a completely broken system.
I didn’t talk with her since Tuesday, when she had just heard. She was contemplating leaving her kids (5 of them) with a relative for a few days while she flew back there with his papers and tried to get a nurse who could medicate him and get him to come home. She would basically make herself homeless again by dropping out of the housing program, if none of her siblings showed interest in going back to Jamaica to help dad.
We also suggested she may want to contact our congressman (David Price - D) since he is a NC resident. It’s desperately wrong that there will be no consequences for the hospital or ICE for dumping this unwanted man out of the country to solve their problem.
Wow, that’s terrible. I think I would lose my mind. And probably there isn’t anything you can do to hold ICE accountable.
