There were going to be ICE subpoenas for information that would end up being used to hunt down & deport undocumented workers.
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It would have been my responsibility to prepare the information and hand them off to ICE.
I refuse to aid in the breaking up of families. I refuse to just “follow orders.”
This isn’t an easy decision as it puts me in a delicate financial position.
I’ve got a toddler, an underemployed wife in grad school & two cats.
There’s about $900 in my checking account.
People have asked why am I doing this if I have a child.
I’m doing this because I have a child.
I want to be able to look my child in eye.
So many people are waiting on the 2018 elections, but many people being targeted by this administration don’t have that long.
I’m drawing my line in the sand here. Cooperation with this regime is not acceptable.
There are people who “support my decision” but seem disinclined to do much else. It’s frustrating.
I’ve been asking, “when do we riot,” but increasingly it seems to be that the answer is never.
Some people have asked, and I’ve started a paypal. If you’ve got some extra cash kicking around and my words on writing, depression, politics, whatever have helped, feel free to throw some my way.
Unless people, LOTS of people, are willing to make extreme sacrifices, NONE OF THIS will have been "worth it." Hate groups are emboldened. America's soft power is shattered because no one can trust us to keep agreements now, that means more wars.
Thousands died in Puerto Rico due to intentional negligence. We are traumatizing MORE children because blatant white supremacists are in power. The Revolution didn't materialize & people adapt to the abuse. The courts will be fucked for decades. Don't tell me this was worth it.
Imagine what would have happened after Parkland with an administration not bought and paid for by the NRA?
We weren't perfect. We were nowhere close. But now we are relitigating basic civil rights, battles we had WON.
The Pueblo Sin Fronteras Caravan in Mexica has been in the news a lot lately and the focus of Trump's obsession. How many people do you think are part of that group of migrants?
Just take a guess based on Trump's response to it.
Or, do you know how many Liberians will be subject to deportation after Trump suspended Deferred Enforced Departure?
Caravan: Less than 2,000
Liberians: Less than 5,000
Across the board, immigration is down, and Trump and Klan are talking about us being 'invaded.' It's racist, xenophobic scaremongering.
A properly functioning guest worker program would reduce undocumented immigration & make it harder for companies to exploit their workers.
That last one is probably why we don’t have a functioning guest worker program.
See, right now an employer can hire undocumented workers and underpay & abuse them, safe in the knowledge that if their employees complain, the employer can just call ICE.
And because ICE is so brutal, the worker is less likely to complain.
But since we underpay pretty much 90% of the population, we continue to allow this abuse to “keep prices low.”