This is from a month ago but it's just now coming to the attention of my circles. From the official ICE Twitter account. Look at the asshole's tattoos closely. This is not fiction, this is not parody.
Edit - I know we usually quote tweet text as a courtesy but it's not the relevant part of this tweet, it's the image therein.
To be clear, asylum seekers don’t cross the border, right? They present themselves at the border and ask to come in?
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This interview happened a month ago so the horrific details about ICE's handling of children hadn't broken just yet, but I'm urging folks in Kamala Harris' state to contact her office ASAP. Supporting ICE as an institution is losing popularity rapidly and if she's supposed to be a party champion she cannot be defending them - especially now with what's known about children. Until she changes her tune I'll continue the chant, "Kamala Harris is a cop."
Video embed within via CNN MSNBC (derp) (the relevant part of this tweet being linked).
We've got to hold peoples' feet to the fire over this. This isn't some softball "well y'know" issue. If Democrats are going to make promises about remedying this they need their entire party makeup, especially front runners, to get on the right page.
Gee, I wonder if we're going to spend the next several media cycles arguing whether caging children is even happening, when we have fucking pictures of the result.
Fucking hell.
This is going to turn on some stupid politically correct bullshit technicality where ripping a child from their accompanying parent isn't family separation because in that instant they become "unaccompanied minors" and so don't have a family to have been torn away from. Isn't it?
This interview happened a month ago so the horrific details about ICE's handling of children hadn't broken just yet, but I'm urging folks in Kamala Harris' state to contact her office ASAP. Supporting ICE as an institution is losing popularity rapidly and if she's supposed to be a party champion she cannot be defending them - especially now with what's known about children. Until she changes her tune I'll continue the chant, "Kamala Harris is a cop."
Video embed within via CNN MSNBC (derp) (the relevant part of this tweet being linked).
We've got to hold peoples' feet to the fire over this. This isn't some softball "well y'know" issue. If Democrats are going to make promises about remedying this they need their entire party makeup, especially front runners, to get on the right page.
As one of her constituents, I just this week made it clear to her office I want ICE dismantled. I'm going to spread this around locally so people know to let her know their thoughts too.
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
"Torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions."
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
Edit: Why the heck are they using what appear to be mylar blankets? They are terrible.
Is it because ICE don’t normally run concentration camps, so they don’t have a a warehouse full of fabric blankets, but do have a warehouse full of Mylar blankets for wrapping round illegal immigrants they find freezing in the desert at night?
Or is it because they don’t want their camps to be comfortable in any way?
It’s a little heartening to see bipartisan opposition to this. There are water carriers but it’s good to know that there is in fact a line that when crossed will cause Republicans to balk.
Now if we could just get some action instead of op-eds.
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The stupid thing is that the US is not being overwhelmed by a refugee crisis on the scale of anything near Europe because of the Syrian Civil War, but we are making one ourselves because we have leaders who get a rush of dopamine because punishment for punishment’s sake gives them an authority boner
Trump is expected to be personally confronted on the issue when he is the guest for a special meeting of House Republicans tomorrow evening.
Multiple sources in close touch with the White House believe this issue is providing images that fuel the left's worst views of the administration.
But sources say Trump views the issue as leverage, and will try to get funding for a border wall or other concessions for a rollback of the policy.
So the current stances he and his administration have are that this is being forced on him by Democratic laws, the policy is good, and it isn't a policy.
How does he even pretend to think it is forced on him if he also thinks it is leverage?
Trump is expected to be personally confronted on the issue when he is the guest for a special meeting of House Republicans tomorrow evening.
Multiple sources in close touch with the White House believe this issue is providing images that fuel the left's worst views of the administration.
But sources say Trump views the issue as leverage, and will try to get funding for a border wall or other concessions for a rollback of the policy.
So the current stances he and his administration have are that this is being forced on him by Democratic laws, the policy is good, and it isn't a policy.
How does he even pretend to think it is forced on him if he also thinks it is leverage?
Pretending to think is how he's lived his life for 70 years.
The last attempt at immigration in congress died when Kelly decided to demand reduction of legal immigration as part of any DACA fix. Now with this added separation policy and new challenges to DACA, this legislation is live again, granting all of Trump's official want list, in "exchange" for the executive branch ending their extortion via ruining human lives. So however much misery these policies are inflicting or potential long-term political damage, it is in fact getting us closer to passing a bipartisan anti-immigration bill, and Trump's ridiculous framing has to be contributing to some of the Democratic movement here.
I don't have the words anymore. Notice that ICE doesn't object on the grounds of inaccuracy. Just that it makes them look like the monsters that they are.
I don't have the words anymore. Notice that ICE doesn't object on the grounds of inaccuracy. Just that it makes them look like the monsters that they are.
CBS is a national broadcaster with a long history of journalism.
Dear god that means they are indeed treating them just like animals. At this point I think ICE probably needs to get disbanded. Clearly we need some kind of border security force but ICE seems to have gotten too broken to justify any more.
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I don't have the words anymore. Notice that ICE doesn't object on the grounds of inaccuracy. Just that it makes them look like the monsters that they are.
CBS is a national broadcaster with a long history of journalism.
Dear god that means they are indeed treating them just like animals. At this point I think ICE probably needs to get disbanded. Clearly we need some kind of border security force but ICE seems to have gotten too broken to justify any more.
Any member of Congress not calling for ICE to be abolished and its employees tried for crimes against humanity doesn't belong in office.
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I don't have the words anymore. Notice that ICE doesn't object on the grounds of inaccuracy. Just that it makes them look like the monsters that they are.
CBS is a national broadcaster with a long history of journalism.
Dear god that means they are indeed treating them just like animals. At this point I think ICE probably needs to get disbanded. Clearly we need some kind of border security force but ICE seems to have gotten too broken to justify any more.
We have one already! Customs and Border Patrol.
ICE is just an excuse to give skinheads badges so they can ethnically cleanse America.
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“Nobody’s treating people like animals! Because immigrants aren’t people.”
I see people in the twitter thread claiming the tattoo is a Fireman Cross because even when faced with incontrovertible evidence they still deny the truth.
Don't forget: this is a punitive deterrent, not a grim necessity. They're trying to thread a needle here between making it look bad but not so bad it gets shut down.
The lack of any sounds of joy echoing across that concrete cavern is telling enough.
I don't have the words anymore. Notice that ICE doesn't object on the grounds of inaccuracy. Just that it makes them look like the monsters that they are.
CBS is a national broadcaster with a long history of journalism.
Dear god that means they are indeed treating them just like animals. At this point I think ICE probably needs to get disbanded. Clearly we need some kind of border security force but ICE seems to have gotten too broken to justify any more.
Any member of Congress not calling for ICE to be abolished and its employees tried for crimes against humanity doesn't belong in office.
Just called my rep and both Senators. Stressed:
1. Concentration camps need to be shut down
2. ICE needs to be shut down
3. Members of hate groups should be barred from Federal law enforcement jobs.
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Fortunately, a LOT of people are calling out that "lovely" Iron Cross tattoo on his elbow.
Reason #35896 why ICE needs to be nuked from orbit.
Instead they wait them out and arrest any that try to cross anywhere else around there instead, seeking asylum.
To be clear, asylum seekers don’t cross the border, right? They present themselves at the border and ask to come in?
Video embed within via CNN MSNBC (derp) (the relevant part of this tweet being linked).
We've got to hold peoples' feet to the fire over this. This isn't some softball "well y'know" issue. If Democrats are going to make promises about remedying this they need their entire party makeup, especially front runners, to get on the right page.
This is going to turn on some stupid politically correct bullshit technicality where ripping a child from their accompanying parent isn't family separation because in that instant they become "unaccompanied minors" and so don't have a family to have been torn away from. Isn't it?
As one of her constituents, I just this week made it clear to her office I want ICE dismantled. I'm going to spread this around locally so people know to let her know their thoughts too.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Breitbart host calls them "Chain-Link Partitions"
How does it feel to be part of the so motherfucking cynical you're actually right about the modern right wing brigade?
Edit: Why the heck are they using what appear to be mylar blankets? They are terrible.
You're answering your own question, I think.
I'm pretty sure the newest pics showed ones that had tops.
Edit: Maybe not. Don't want to make that claim until I can find the pic.
Is it because ICE don’t normally run concentration camps, so they don’t have a a warehouse full of fabric blankets, but do have a warehouse full of Mylar blankets for wrapping round illegal immigrants they find freezing in the desert at night?
Or is it because they don’t want their camps to be comfortable in any way?
Laura Bush also wrote a scathing op-ed. That is basically unprecedented from a former First Lady that I can recall.
Now if we could just get some action instead of op-eds.
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How does he even pretend to think it is forced on him if he also thinks it is leverage?
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Buuuut we gotta!”
Snidely Whiplash would tell these people they’re being a little too obnoxiously villainous.
Pretending to think is how he's lived his life for 70 years.
ThinkProgress journalist:
Keeping children in cages like farm animals is....better?
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No.
It’s Trump’s junior-senior advisors here workshopping some new models of lights powered by gas
CBS is a national broadcaster with a long history of journalism.
That is some 100% free range, organic white fragility right there.
Alt observation: ICE is aptly named, as it appears to be full of snowflakes.
Dear god that means they are indeed treating them just like animals. At this point I think ICE probably needs to get disbanded. Clearly we need some kind of border security force but ICE seems to have gotten too broken to justify any more.
Any member of Congress not calling for ICE to be abolished and its employees tried for crimes against humanity doesn't belong in office.
We have one already! Customs and Border Patrol.
ICE is just an excuse to give skinheads badges so they can ethnically cleanse America.
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He says he wants "answers" because the media is saying one thing and Nielson is saying something else.
I'm so sick of elected officials acting like they have no power or ability to do anything when it suits them.
Don't forget: this is a punitive deterrent, not a grim necessity. They're trying to thread a needle here between making it look bad but not so bad it gets shut down.
The lack of any sounds of joy echoing across that concrete cavern is telling enough.
That is the prettied up best possible face they could put on it? Yup we are keeping kids in kennels.
Just called my rep and both Senators. Stressed:
1. Concentration camps need to be shut down
2. ICE needs to be shut down
3. Members of hate groups should be barred from Federal law enforcement jobs.
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This makes the increasing calls to show the girls camps all the more potent, IMO.
Fuck I just watched the videos of kids in cages and I am done. I am going to put it on loop in my office if people try and both sides me on this shit.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...