Every time I hear someone go on about "border security" I'm going to post this video of me pushing open a "gate" cut by cartels in the border fence; a fence that cost billions of dollars and is easily defeated by cheap cordless cutting tools.
There are two ways to have a secure border: place groups of soldiers in fortified bunkers every 100' along the entire length of the fence 24/7 (no, don't do this), or by helping to stabilize the economic and security situations in the countries people are arriving from while also having a humane and easy to navigate immigration policy.
Many of the people coming here in hopes of asylum are arriving from countries with a history of U.S. support for dictators (e.g. Honduras, Nicaragua) or as direct or indirect climate refugees. Given that the U.S. is the second largest greenhouse gas emitter (and, I believe, the largest per capita), we legitimately owe these people safe harbor.
So, the former president of the United States is calling on states to take up arms to support Texas in its standoff against the federal government. That’s about as close to calling for civil war as you’re going to get without actually saying the words.
This is a situation that could spiral out of control in a heartbeat. I would not assume it’s just bluster. #politics#texas#trump#immigration
Is anyone here an EU citizen and has experience with moving to Sweden without a work contract or a contract with a duration shorter than 1 year?
I’m caught in a bureaucratic nightmare and could use advice
Super long shot but maybe someone I know knows someone that knows someone etc. please repost 🙏🏻
The #GOP has said it won’t provide further aid for #Ukraine unless it’s in exchange for a set of policies aimed at harming immigrants and asylum-seekers.
They euphemistically call it “border security,” but it’s more #xenophobia, white nationalism, and anti-immigrant demagoguery. Any reasonable idea at #immigration reform is buried in hate.
So what are they pushing for, and what’s the state of “debate”? A chronological thread of highlights from AP stories:
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A century & a half ago, Confederate Gen Joseph Orville Shelby splashed into the wild waters of the Rio Grande off this border city & fled to Mexico, refusing to surrender to Union soldiers.
Now the park named in his honor (?) has become a front line in a feud between the #state & the #federal govt — a power struggle over who ultimately has the right to control the border….
#us#immigration question:
currently I have ESTA and may travel to US for a short time as tourist. they ask you whether you intend to immigrate and will deny you if you want to.
if I now apply for the green card lottery, can I still travel to the US with ESTA? despite my prospective plan to emigrate?
Two charts that suggest even #Tory voters have had enough of this government - with the two issues the #Tories are seen by most as failing on, being the very issues that #voters now regard as key.
However, while that may be good news on the #NHScrisis - people may appreciate its an Govt, engineered crisis... the issue of 'handling' #immigration may be less positive result if that means a tougher stance is preferred (by these voters)
(the poll is of people who voted Tory in the last election)
For the first time under President Joe #Biden, officials are using authority established under former President Donald #Trump to waive dozens of laws in order to continue construction on the racist southern #border wall.
#Biden administration on Thursday warned #Texas that it will sue the state if it implements a strict #immigration law known as SB4 that would empower state and local law enforcement officials to arrest, jail and prosecute migrants suspected of entering the U.S. unlawfully.
I spent time along the U.S.-Mexico border last week, watching changes as #Title42 ended.
There is a lot to say about what I observed on Friday and Saturday and I intend to write a short blog post. For now, a few photos.
For reasons unknown, migrants coming through the border fence (through a single cut bollard a few miles west of the Lukeville crossing) were tearing up or even burning their documents. I found ID cards from India, a half-burned passport from Mauritania, a Mexican travel visa, vaccination cards, a bus ticket from Oaxaca to Tecate, and this fragment of a document of someone from Brazil.
I don't know why they tear them, but this one in particular caught me attention. I don't know what will happen to Brazilians who entered the country without proper documents. Or Mauritanians or Indians or all the others. But I wish them good luck.
This is a thread about #immigration and elections.
In the 2023 Dutch election, Geert Wilders' far-right PVV became the largest party in parliament. 😟
Its slogan: "Dutch people in first place again"
It wants to put the "real" Dutch before "allochtones" or non-European foreigners, who are described as a "tsunami of refugees" and "mass immigration" messing up "our beautiful Netherlands."
(Sounds familiar, Americans?)
A lot of the talk before the election was about the housing crisis.
Truc pour casser l'ambiance dans un repas entre gens de gauche :
Quand ça parle de la loi #immigration et comme quoi c'est terrible, qu'on glisse dans le fascisme, et qu'est-ce qu'on peut faire, et faut tout brûler...
Posez cette question toute simple :
Parmi vous, combien sont allés voter aux législatives ?
#POTUS#Biden said Fri he would use new emergency authorities to “shut down the #border when it becomes overwhelmed” if #Congress passes a bipartisan #immigration plan the #Senate has been negotiating.
The comments signified a remarkable shift in tone for a Democratic president & underscored the urgency of the issue for his reelection campaign as immigration remains one of his most vexing #political & #policy challenges.
A thread of commentary today on the ugly games Congressional Republicans are playing as Trump pulls their strings and they block aid to Ukraine and torpedo the border bill they claim desperately to want. Heather Cox Richardson quotes Senator Brian Schatz,
“I’ve never seen anything like it. They literally demanded specific policy, got it, and then killed it.”
Trump wants our economy to fail and the border to be in chaos, all for his own political gain. The GOP is willing to assist him, at the cost of our national security.
The Republican Party has shown you their hand time and time again. Stop shaking it. #Border#Immigration#GOP#GOPTraitors#VoteBlueForBorders#LincolnProject
During remarks this week, #Trump said he wanted to “pay tribute” to a person he very much respected.
Trump thanked #TomHoman, who served as acting director of #ICE during Trump’s admin [Trump loved “acting” posts bc they aren’t subject to congressional confirmation] & has since been a frequent commentator on #FauxNews.
Truckers threaten Florida boycott over immigration law (www.tampabay.com)
Calls for suspension of deliveries to and from the state on July 1 spread on social media.