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If you think it's an accident that ICE is transporting migrant kids through a COVID-19 hub, here's a reminder--Anne Frank didn't die in a gas chamber. She died of a treatable disease, while incarcerated in a concentration camp and being denied adequate medical care.
US Native land loss from 1776 to 1930.
When white nationalists claim immigrants are taking over the land…yes, you already did that!
This is worse. Looking at these you can tell they have no significant monetary value. They were confiscated as a fear tactic. Nothing more.
This picture breaks my heart everytime it appears in my dash. It’s a fear tactic, alright but—
The first one in the left corner: It’s a first communion rosary, and it’s not cheap.
The black one in the first line: That’s a widow rosary and it’s old.
The white one in the second line: is a commemoration rosary. It has a miniature picture in the round part. I haven’t seen that since the 70′s.
In the third line, multicolor one: It’s an Anima mundi, I have only seen those in the hands of Rosary ministery’s old ladies. The oldest ones are from the 80′s after Juan Pablo II came to Mexico for the first time. It’s one of the old ones, I know because the crucifixes are different. The third one on the fourth line: Red and gold. The style is old, the metal is dark, that’s a 50′s rosary, probably a quinceañera one (or it’s maybe older, from the 40′s when the brides carried red roses with their offerings).
The fifth one on the fourth line: It’s a quinceañera rosary with Ignatius’s tear. The style is old and in my part of Mexico is orphan girls who used it. At least it was when I was young. The third one of the fifth line: the blue one with the anchor. That one I have only seen in Veracruz and it doesn’t look new. The fifth one on the fifth line: That’s a 90′s wedding rosary. Black and white patterns were popular on that date. The fourth one on the last line: That’s a first communion rosary from the 30′s. It’s delicate and most probably silver. The rest wrench my heart too, the humble everyday rosaries with wooden beads and knots. Those are cheap and bear the wear and tear of their user handling. But those I described are much more.
Those are mother’s rosaries.
Those are not just rosaries. Those are mementos, that’s the proof of their families stories. They are taking from them the only portable things they can carry to feel the connection to their families. It’s not a fear tactic. Call it like by its name. It’s dehumanization.
Just want to remind everyone that the DHS janitor who saved these rosaries and photographed them started his project in the latter years of the Bush administration and finished during the latter days of the Obama administration.
Just in case anyone reading naively believes this atrocity began on November 8 2016
If you’re adopted internationally into the United States, BY adoption LAWS you’re legally a citizen, but you still have to apply for documentation and if it’s not done by the age of 18 you have to pay over $500 and get a judge to reopen your adoption case.
Even More Fun Fact: No one actually tells adoptive families, this so many find out after they’re 18 when their kid needs to get a passport, wants to apply for financial aid, get certain jobs, vote or some other shit that requires proof of citizenship and now it’s too late because they’re 18 or over.
AND EVEN MORE FUN FACT! You can sometimes even be deported because you can be considered foreign-born, non-citizens!
Oh and they won’t accept adoption papers or a birth certificate as proof.
Do it now! Seriously. Even if you think you are safe. Do it.
Many people are finding that even a birth certificate is not valid proof anymore. Texas birth certificates are notorious. So notorious that I have 3 friends who can’t use them to get passports! Don’t think everything is hunky dory. You must nail down your citizenship.
Plus the cost for your citizenship certificate is almost doubling this fall.
SIGNAL BOOST.
Some Naturalization/Citizenship Certificate tips from me, the person who front-end processes these forms for half the country: the passport people are absolute garbage at sending your Naturalization Certificate back to you. Unfortunately, they also require it for you to get a passport. If you don’t get it back, whine at them about it and they will probably cover the cost of the replacement.
Also! It takes up to 12 months to get a replacement certificate. If you urgently need your Natz Cert to visit your dying relative in another country, the word you want to use is ‘Expedite’. Not ‘ASAP’. Not ‘rush’. Expedite. Write a letter explaining why you need it expedited, if you do. Otherwise the USCIS data-entry grunts (me!) aren’t allowed to throw it into the expedite line and it gets relegated to the Backlog Crypts.
Also! You need to get a new Naturalization Certificate if your name and/or gender legally changes, because a lot of places want your proof of citizenship for things like Social Security and student loans and Medicaid/EBT/welfare benefits and drivers’ licenses.
ALSO ALSO both the N600 ($600) that you use to apply for your Naturalization Certificate in the first place and N565 ($345) that you use to apply for a replacement certificate are eligible for FEE WAIVERS. It’s called an I912. Learn it, love it, use it.
Please for your sake make sure you are using the current version of the form. The most common reason I have to reject an N565 is because someone sent me something that expired in 2013. The current one is seven pages long. Please send the government all seven of them.
Dont mind me, just running ass home and then to the government so I cant get deported.
ALL OF THIS. I used to work for an immigration firm, and getting it done after age 18 can be hella difficult. But also, NO ONE tells adoptive families this, and it sucks. Spread the word!
What’s the point of perpetuating religion if all we do is remain seated for the next responsive reading? Personally, if my religion doesn’t lead to action, I’m done with it. And if I can’t do that in a group, I’m going to find another group.
#OKAY #LOOK #IF YOU AREN’T JEWISH I’M NOT SURE I CAN EXPLAIN THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A JEWISH PROTESTER DOING IT IN TALIT #TALIT IS SACRED #IT’S CARRIED AROUND IN ITS OWN SPECIAL POUCH LEST IT CATCH EVEN A SPECK OF DUST OR DIRT #IT IS TO BE TAKEN OFF IF ONE GOES TO THE BATHROOM #TO WEAR IT WHILE DOING AN ACT OF PROTEST #IS TO DECLARE THE ACT - NOT MERELY “HOLY” #NOT IN THE WORD’S GENERIC SENSE - #BUT AN ACT OF MITZVA #SOMETHING THAT MUST BE DONE #AND WHERE THE THING PROTESTED AGAINST IS PART OF AN AGENDA #IT’S TO DECLARE WAR ON SAID AGENDA #AN UTTER CONDEMNATION OF IT #IT’S THE SPLIT-SECOND OF THE OBSERVER’S BREATH STOPPING #AT ONE TAKES IT ALL IN: THE POSITION OF PROTEST - THE THREAT TOWARDS THE PROTESTER - THE TALIT - AND THE EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE
@vaspider hoping the cultural interpretations are accurate, this seems as though it would be meaningful to you.
Yes.
What’s the point of perpetuating religion if all we do is remain seated for the next responsive reading? Personally, if my religion doesn’t lead to action, I’m done with it. And if I can’t do that in a group, I’m going to find another group.
#OKAY #LOOK #IF YOU AREN’T JEWISH I’M NOT SURE I CAN EXPLAIN THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A JEWISH PROTESTER DOING IT IN TALIT #TALIT IS SACRED #IT’S CARRIED AROUND IN ITS OWN SPECIAL POUCH LEST IT CATCH EVEN A SPECK OF DUST OR DIRT #IT IS TO BE TAKEN OFF IF ONE GOES TO THE BATHROOM #TO WEAR IT WHILE DOING AN ACT OF PROTEST #IS TO DECLARE THE ACT - NOT MERELY “HOLY” #NOT IN THE WORD’S GENERIC SENSE - #BUT AN ACT OF MITZVA #SOMETHING THAT MUST BE DONE #AND WHERE THE THING PROTESTED AGAINST IS PART OF AN AGENDA #IT’S TO DECLARE WAR ON SAID AGENDA #AN UTTER CONDEMNATION OF IT #IT’S THE SPLIT-SECOND OF THE OBSERVER’S BREATH STOPPING #AT ONE TAKES IT ALL IN: THE POSITION OF PROTEST - THE THREAT TOWARDS THE PROTESTER - THE TALIT - AND THE EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE
@vaspider hoping the cultural interpretations are accurate, this seems as though it would be meaningful to you.
Yes.
What’s the point of perpetuating religion if all we do is remain seated for the next responsive reading? Personally, if my religion doesn’t lead to action, I’m done with it. And if I can’t do that in a group, I’m going to find another group.
#OKAY #LOOK #IF YOU AREN’T JEWISH I’M NOT SURE I CAN EXPLAIN THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A JEWISH PROTESTER DOING IT IN TALIT #TALIT IS SACRED #IT’S CARRIED AROUND IN ITS OWN SPECIAL POUCH LEST IT CATCH EVEN A SPECK OF DUST OR DIRT #IT IS TO BE TAKEN OFF IF ONE GOES TO THE BATHROOM #TO WEAR IT WHILE DOING AN ACT OF PROTEST #IS TO DECLARE THE ACT - NOT MERELY “HOLY” #NOT IN THE WORD’S GENERIC SENSE - #BUT AN ACT OF MITZVA #SOMETHING THAT MUST BE DONE #AND WHERE THE THING PROTESTED AGAINST IS PART OF AN AGENDA #IT’S TO DECLARE WAR ON SAID AGENDA #AN UTTER CONDEMNATION OF IT #IT’S THE SPLIT-SECOND OF THE OBSERVER’S BREATH STOPPING #AT ONE TAKES IT ALL IN: THE POSITION OF PROTEST - THE THREAT TOWARDS THE PROTESTER - THE TALIT - AND THE EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE
@vaspider hoping the cultural interpretations are accurate, this seems as though it would be meaningful to you.
Yes.
Gonna leave this here….27 years…ok, then.
It took me 11 years to get mine. It’s not easy at all.
15 years give it take
Took my father around 25 years so I always find it odd that Americans have no clue how lengthy and tiring the process actually is..
Four years and counting.
lmao😂/smh🙄
Eli Bosnick had the best response to this ridiculousness.
“If I gave you a bowl of skittles and three of them were poison would you still eat them?”
“Are the other skittles human lives?”
“What?”
“Like. Is there a good chance. A really good chance. I would be saving someone from a war zone and probably their life if I ate a skittle?”
“Well sure. But the point-”
“I would eat the skittles.”
“Ok-well the point is-”
“I would GORGE myself on skittles. I would eat every single fucking skittle I could find. I would STUFF myself with skittles. And when I found the poison skittle and died I would make sure to leave behind a legacy of children and of friends who also ate skittle after skittle until there were no skittles to be eaten. And each person who found the poison skittle we would weep for. We would weep for their loss, for their sacrifice, and for the fact that they did not let themselves succumb to fear but made the world a better place by eating skittles.
Because your REAL question…the one you hid behind a shitty little inaccurate, insensitive, dehumanizing racist little candy metaphor is, IS MY LIFE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF MEN, WOMEN, AND TERRIFIED CHILDREN…
… and what kind of monster would think the answer to that question… is yes?”
Can we talk about this?!
We did the same thing in WWII with Jewish refugees. We’re garbage.
As the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency conducts its sweeps on immigrant communities, African people are among those who are being detained and deported. While deportations were in no short supply under the Obama administration, these deportations are expected to soar under Trump, whose immigration ban on six Muslim nations includes three African nations — Libya, Somalia and Sudan. Trump also is clamping down on refugees and asylum seekers.
According to data from the Department of Homeland Security, in 2015, ICE deported 1,293 African immigrants. Since the 2016 election, the ICE raids on Black immigrant communities have intensified. For example, in January, 86 men and women were deported to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, after being detained and imprisoned, as Africanews.com reported. In November, 108 immigrants were deported to Ghana and 20 people also were deported to Liberia, while 53 others were processed for deportation. Earlier this month, ICE deported 130 people to Senegal, six times the number recorded by the agency in its 2016 report…
But they aren’t documented so they wouldn’t be pa…..nvm
This is a huge misconception for regular Americans. When the government uses the phrase “undocumented” they’re using it incorrectly because if they were truly undocumented then they would’ve be in system. However these immigrants are in the system and they pay taxes, file tax returns and get no benefits that citizens and legal residents get. They also get to see ICE showing up at their doors because the government has their addresses. Fun fact. “Undocumented” workers pays $12 billion dollars every year in taxes. https://www.google.com/amp/www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/10/06/how-much-tax-do-americas-undocumented-immigrants-actually-pay-infographic/amp/
Reblogging for info.
“Undocumented” just means “without papers,” i.e. a social security card, valid visa, etc. They’re still on databases and whatnot, they just don’t have the documentation that allows them to reap the benefits.
so if it didn’t click- the government is aware of their presence and gladly taking their money under the table while simultaneously promoting the idea that undocumented people are a threat and encouraging hatred and distrust of them it’s super messed up, literally the scheme of an evil villain, and it’s really happening
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union issued a “travel alert” today informing anyone planning to travel to Texas in the near future to anticipate the possible violation of their constitutional rights when stopped by law enforcement.
The alert comes amid the passing of a Texas law known as SB4. The law gives a green light to police officers in the state to investigate a person’s immigration status during a routine traffic stop, leading to widespread racial profiling, baseless scrutiny, and illegal arrests of citizens and non-citizens alike presumed to be “foreign” based on how they look or sound. The travel alert applies to all travelers to Texas, including U.S. travelers from other states and U.S. citizens. In addition, this alert applies to all encounters with federal, state, county law enforcement including local police and sheriffs.
Well that sucks.
Fair fucks Ado.
Ado, I don’t agree with everything you’ve come out with, but fair play on this
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***This is an emergency bulletin for everyone in Austin.***
I need as many people who can do this to spread the word to any and all Austin contacts, DO NOT WAIT, tomorrow might be too late. This is from a trusted friend and a member of one of the internal offices of the Texas capital building who holds a significant position in the Texas government ranks. He’s also an LGBT ally.
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FYI austin. From a trusted friend. “I heard at a chamber meeting this afternoon that ICE is going to do a door to door round up in Austin Thursday-Sunday. Apparently the White House heard about our Sheriff and is looking to make us an example with a big media blitz. Don’t know all your network connections and wanted to spread the word so organizations can encourage immigrant families to get out of town if possible”
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The above is copy/pasted from a Dallas activist group’s Facebook page. The source has to remain anonymous for their safety but they’ve been verified.
The following is a local Austin news story with similar corroborating information: http://kxan.com/2017/02/01/immigration-advocates-bracing-for-possible-raids-training-volunteers/
Reblogging per request – normally this would go in RFM, but it’s an immediate potential event, and the “What to do if ICE shows up on your door” infographic is helpful regardless.
