Thread by @Milliennial

#ReportFromTheRed: immigration and the Texas internment camps

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I asked The Red what they thought of families being separated at the border. Among the arguments:
- it’s my actually happening
- this is a US policy going back to the Bushes
- parents send their children across first
- the photos are from the lying media

I now realize that while they simultaneously believe Fox News, they will not believe anything about this issue unless they see it with their own eyes.

They pull this issue back to the economy. That if their countries didn’t support slave labor - and the US didn’t encourage it with their acceptance of no tariffs - then these people wouldn’t have a reason to cross the border.

But if they do, it’s a crime, and what we’re doing in Texas is what we do.

“Obama and his administration had years to fix the immigration problem, and they didn’t do it.”

The ignorance and intentional oversight is astounding to me.

I was told recently that “we are just on opposite sides of the issues.”

There ARE NO “SIDES” when something is happening and you’re told it’s not.
It’s gaslighting.
It’s a lie.
It’s dangerously becoming common.

I even showed pictures. Anything to get them to understand. To make a decision.
What I got was:
- “oh”
- “it’s just easier to not talk about it with him”
- “I don’t get into it.”

INACTION IS EASIER

BUT IT WONT HELP ANYONE

They simultaneously told me that separating families wasn’t happening AND it was a policy that we’ve had for decades.