“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex.
The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.
Immigrant advocates and lawyers say an increasing number of migrant children are making immigration court appearances without the assistance of attorneys, which they say will lead to more children getting deported.
“That child will be ordered deported from this country — that could all happen without that child ever speaking with an attorney and given the opportunity to obtain representation,” Shah said. “The cruelty is really apparent to all of us out here in the field.”
This was painful to read. Wtf are we even doing?
Well your dictator is dictating and his cronies are carrying out his orders. What the citizens are doing, one could only guess.
Jesus fucking Christ… Is there a think tank out there specifically trying to think of evil deeds?
Yes, yes there are many, many of them.
The worst is The Heritage Foundation.
Them and ALEC, writing more state legislation than politicians do, all of it awful.
Yep, there are many of them, and they’re all truly awful.
This is a 50 year slow rolling coup. I truly don’t know how we can stop them. Hopefully, some folks smarter and more capable than me can figure it out.
Hopefully, some folks smarter and more capable than me can figure it out.
I have some terrible, chilling news for you: nobody is that much smarter or more capable than you. We’re all in the same boat, looking at each other with raised eyebrows while the screeching gibbons some other arsehole put in charge throw their own shit at each other instead of doing their supposed jobs. Some of the crew have tried bailing out the bilge or correcting course to avoid the impending iceberg, but then they get hit by gibbon shit with startling accuracy. Everyone’s varying levels of worried, nobody has any answers.
edit: sorry, allowed myself a little fun with the analogy. It’s a dark morning. I don’t think some extraordinary hero is going to come fix this, though.
Yes, it’s called The White House.
The White House is a tank, but there’s not much think going on there.
I believe OP meant the Heritage Foundation - the root of a lot of evil in the United States, including the ongoing terribleness.
They should be recognized, and branded as a treasonous, insurrectionist terrorist organization.
Because that’s what they are.
Project 2025, was what came to mind. I thought it was too out there but apparently they’re tracking it online…
https://www.project2025.observer/
Honestly, terrifying.
Yes, many in fact, but this particular evil deed is 100% homegrown.
I can’t believe it’s still 1939, been a really long year huh?
Seriously, anyone with half a brain can see that Trump is a wannabe Hitler and sadly the US is playing along as if Hitler was just an old fairy tale that can’t actually be real.
Sad to see that it took less than a century for americans to forget / ignore WWII and the Holocaust
Wholly appalling and sickening.
May the perpetrators be treated as they have treated others.
Relevant Last Week Tonight segment from 7 years ago when the Mango Mussolini was first infesting the white house.
Not that the problem hadn’t existed for decades already. Every president and congress from Reagan onwards have made conditions in immigration courts and immigration laws in general worse.
Sounds like MAGAt justice.
