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OP - June 20, 2018, 02:40 AM

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Imagine this scene: Tens of thousands of people, mostly families with children, are labeled by the government as a threat to our nation, used as political tools by opportunistic politicians, and caught in a vast gray zone where their civil and human rights are erased by the presumption of universal guilt. Thousands are moved around to makeshift detention centers and sites, where camps are thrown together with more regard to the bottom line than the humanity of the new residents.

That is America today, at our southern border, which asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants alike are seeking to cross. But it is also America in late 1941, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, when overnight my community, my family, and I became the enemy because we happened to look like those who had dropped the bombs. And yet, in one core, horrifying way this is worse. At least during the internment of Japanese-Americans, I and other children were not stripped from our parents. We were not pulled screaming from our mothers’ arms. We were not left to change the diapers of younger children by ourselves.
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http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/19/at-least-during-the-internment-are-words-i-thought-id-never-utter-family-separation-children-border/

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Reply #1 - June 20, 2018, 10:22 AM

Thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/ImmCivilRights/status/1008902662828511232
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Thread: How did we get here?
In 2015, I shook President Obama’s hand, thanked him for DACA, and asked him to reverse course & close the for-profit baby jails (also known as “family detention centers”) he opened in Dilley & Karnes City, Texas. What he said shook me to my core

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Reply #2 - June 20, 2018, 06:17 PM

Immigrant children forcibly injected with antipsychotic drugs

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Reply #3 - June 22, 2018, 03:56 AM

Could they do this legally?

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #4 - June 22, 2018, 07:32 AM

The drugs? It certainly doesn’t sound like it can be legal but I don’t know enough about how things work in the US to really say.

Some legal documents here: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4525292/420-2-Exhibit-Vol-2-Exs-21-30-Pages-109-73.pdf

Thread on the medical effects: https://mobile.twitter.com/kiddyshrink/status/1009996060012564480

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Reply #5 - June 24, 2018, 12:46 AM

Maajid Nawaz Tears Into Time Magazine

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Reply #6 - June 25, 2018, 02:07 AM

Islamic Society of Tampa Bay and other faith communities offer to host separated migrant children

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Reply #7 - June 25, 2018, 04:57 PM

‘They’re lucky we aren’t executing them’

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Reply #8 - June 30, 2018, 04:01 AM

Immigrant toddlers ordered to appear in court alone

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Reply #9 - July 06, 2018, 01:31 AM

US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits

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Reply #10 - July 06, 2018, 01:39 AM

USCIS is Starting a Denaturalization Task Force

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