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  1. Our immigration law is a festering pustule that finally caused a systemic infection.

     

    ACLU Sues Obama Administration For Detaining Migrant Women and Children

     

    Anyone remember Hutto during the Bush administration?

    Half the detainees at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a privately run prison in Texas, are children.

     

    "The simple fact is that we must not — and we will not — surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice."
    - President Bill Clinton, New York Times, July 28, 1993

    Shit went down hill after Bill Clinton signed the IIRIRA.

    https://cmsny.org/publications/jmhs-iirira-to-trump/

     

     

  2. 3 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    Except there are a whole lot more suffering right now.

    Another Blow to the Obama Administration’s Family Detention Policy Just Happened

    On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge M. Dolly Gee issued a long-awaited ruling that gave former President Obama’s “family detention” practices the smackdown they deserve. “Family detention” was the Obama administration’s euphemism for its practice of detaining Central American mothers with their children in inhumane conditions for lengthy periods of time in violation of the Flores Settlement Agreement: a Clinton-era settlement of a Reagan-era lawsuit regarding the mistreatment of children in federal immigration detention.

    After Judge Gee’s July 24, 2015 decision finding that the Obama Administration had violated the Flores Settlement Agreement by mistreating immigrant children, the government appealed. The Ninth Circuit affirmed Judge Gee’s original decision as to the treatment of immigrant children under the age of 18 on July 16, 2016. However, numerous allegations of mistreatment of children in federal immigration detention continued, and the Center for Constitutional Law filed a motion to enforce the settlement agreement.

    Judge Gee found that the government continues to detain children in “deplorable and unsanitary conditions” at Customs and Border Protection stations in the Rio Grande Valley Sector—essentially a violation of the agreement. The mistreatment of children in immigration detention proven by the Plaintiffs includes lack of adequate food (some of the food made the children ill), lack of clean drinking water, unsanitary conditions (testimony was presented that up to 50 people were forced to use an open toilet in one room), extremely cold temperatures of detention cells (hieleras)/some CBP officers who purposely made the cells colder to retaliate against crying children, and impossible sleeping conditions, all in flagrant violation of CBP policies and standards.

    Judge Gee also held that the federal government has not properly made continuous efforts to release minor children, and is required to make individual determinations as to whether each child should continue to be detained. The government had argued that it lacked the institutional resources to evaluate placements of children; however, since the federal government agreed to do those evaluations in 1997, Judge Gee was unpersuaded. The government also argued that it should be allowed to continue to place immigrant children in secure, unlicensed facilities despite Judge Gee’s prior 2015 order because the states do not license immigration facilities; in response, Judge Gee ruled that children simply may not be held in those facilities.

    Last, but not least, the Plaintiffs presented evidence that children were being detained for periods in excess of the permitted maximum of 20 days, and cited children who were detained five weeks, eight months and 13 months, respectively. Philip Miller, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations testified in a deposition that the government measures the length of stay for detainees who have been released (and therefore does not include information on detainees that are still currently detained, no matter how long they may have been in detention).

    Judge Gee ordered the government to identify and propose a “Juvenile Coordinator” to report directly to the Court regarding the government’s compliance with its obligations toward immigrant children in detention. If, in a year, the government is still not in substantial compliance, the Court will consider the appointment of an independent monitor.

    https://www.latinorebels.com/2017/06/29/another-blow-to-the-obama-administrations-family-detention-policy-just-happened/

  3. 32 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    A 12-year-old talks about being locked up in a freezing room with her younger sister. No soap, no bed, no toothpaste.

    In 2014

    All part of Obama's plan to deter people fleeing economic devastation and gang/political violence.

    AMERICA!

     

    But Obama wasn't so brazen about violating the rights of children. He kept it on the down low so people wouldn't get upset.

    Seriously, this problem goes back further than Trump and simply electing a regular human being as POTUS isn't going to change things.

     

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  4. 8 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    ok got it.

    so not terrible and ironic.  just terrible.

    thanks for the heads up.

    I believe the wording used for exemptions is "military households" so if the child is married its possible the parents would still get a bill.

     

  5. 1 hour ago, tantric superman said:

    Be interesting to know the history of the Beto campaign, here and especially in the Senate, and find out who the fuck sunk his chance of winning with his utter failure to come up with a moderate immigration approach designed to give people who were predisposed to his style and approach a final policy position that would seal the deal.

    Beto's immigration reform is ass and simply a return to the status quo which was already ass. His immigration reform is moderate and nothing more than a plan to roll back to Obama standards via executive order. Accepting Post-Dubya standards is pretty fucking worthless because another Trump will show up again and reverse direction via EO. Castro was spot on about decriminalizing border crossings and Beto wants to keep it illegal and just use discretion when prosecuting. This is how we ended up with children in concentration camps.

    Other than skateboarding at Whataburger there has been nothing impressive about the Beto campaign.

    War Tax! Fuck this guy.

     

     

  6. 8 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

    It is showing the entire world that America is no longer a beacon of freedom. We closed that chapter on our history. This is a very dark chapter that historians will be denouncing for centuries to come.  

    We didn't close the chapter on that history because we never really had that history. That shit is a myth. America mistreated the Muslims, Catholics, women, gays, communists, Japanese, Chinese, Poles, Italians, Jews, Irish, Blacks, Native Americans and many others. Let's not pretend that the United States was something it never was, that is just an ideal we struggle to work towards. It has and always will be a grind to work towards a better future.

     

     

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  7. There is no doubt that Trump is using the immigration system as tool for evil but to stop this and prevent it from happening again we do need to look at Both Sides. It's not enough to admit the system is fucked up and hope that future Presidents behave ethically. Immigration is in need of massive reform and to do that we need to examine how we got here and how to put laws in place to prevent it.

     

    the Trump administration is not alone in its responsibility for the past two years of brutal immigration enforcement. The administration has taken radical measures, but it also relies heavily on longstanding enforcement practices and on laws passed by Democrats and Republicans in the decades before Trump came into office.

    The next president’s mandate will be to overhaul our immigration system and build one that upholds our values.

    That’s why, as part of the ACLU Rights for All program, volunteers are asking presidential candidates to commit to reforms that represent crucial steps toward a transformation of our immigration system.

    The next president must:

    1) champion legislation to create fair and achievable paths to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
    2) end the use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers, which are the linchpin in ICE’s reliance on local police as “force multipliers” to carry out their mass deportation agenda
    3) cut the size of the immigration prison system by at least 75%

     

     

  8. 1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Unless Biden shows up to the first debate in blackface. 

    I think Biden could get away with doing that on national TV. "He comes from a different time, he isn't really like that."

     

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  9. 39 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

    I was told there is no chance Trump loses the Military/Veteran vote...

    I'm not sure how representative VoteVets is of the military vote. I could be wrong but I suspect they are a minority voice.

     

  10. On 6/20/2019 at 8:13 PM, Aqua Buddha said:

    I like how Trump is a supposed germaphobe but he'll raw dog a porn star.

    Well, this actually makes sense. I've had periods of germaphobia but it's never manifested itself when a naked woman was in front of me.

     

  11. 5 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

     

    This is a demonstration of the banality of evil. The fact that this is being discussed in court as children are being subjected to inhumane treatment by the federal government is fucking insane. Fuck the legal process, that shit should be shutdown immediately and everyone standing idly by including everyone against these practices is guilty.

     

     

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  12. 14 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Obviously football and basketball are extreme long shots for almost every kid, especially gringos.  There's a bit of a different dynamic at play in some of the lesser sports, though.  My son wants to play soccer in college -- he's not looking for a D1 program like UNC or Duke, he'd be cool at Southwestern or some other small school -- and conversations with coaches at those schools have highlighted an important aspect of recruit-ability:  grades.  Their take has consistently been if a kid is a good athlete who basically knows how to play the game and they're pulling maybe 3.5 or so in HS, they'll probably latch on somewhere.  The risk is just way lower.  Is there value in that?  It probably depends on the kid.  Mine is fairly interested in education, and I could easily see him teaching HS and being part of the coaching staff as well.  A small school in Texas is prime for that path.

    It's like this in baseball where they offer a partial scholarship with some academic money.  A lot of people don't understand that you need the grades and the athletic ability to be a college prospect.

    If a teenager approaches the process by putting in the academic and athletic work, it's a win-win no matter what happens. My oldest had partial scholarship offers from several Southland Conference schools and a Sunbelt school for baseball. He ended getting a full ride on an Air Force scholarship and forgoing college baseball. For HS kids, grades will always open up more opportunities than athletics with the exception of the genetic statistical outliers.

     

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  13. 13 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

    I reffed for 5 years (soph hs-soph college).   Mainly basketball with a lot of baseball, and some softball and soccer.  I can’t imagine there are many better paying part time jobs for hs kids, but you earn every fucking penny.  In the early 90’s it started at $15/game,  and when I started reffing older kids when I was in college, I made as much as $35/game.  In hs it was also cash money, no taxes. I could write a book about the ridiculousness I witnessed during that time.  I will say this, it teaches you a lot about dealing with people. 

     

    My teenager has been an umpire and 7on7 ref for the past several years. Baseball pays the best between 30-50 dollars a game but it is definitely work.

    He says the secret is tuning out the parents and vanishing the second the game is over. Never linger around the field after a game.

  14. With the proliferation of video streaming, how is catfishing even possible anymore? If a stranger is making extraordinary claims about personal relationships but can't live stream themselves you should be skeptical. If they are offering you $9 million to rape and murder...

     

     

    Three Alaska teens charged Tuesday with the murder of Cynthia Hoffman allegedly killed the 19-year-old earlier this month as part of an elaborate scheme to cash in on a $9 million offer that didn't really exist from an Indiana man who merely pretended to be a multimillionaire, prosecutors say.

     

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/alaskan-teens-charged-with-murder-after-phony-multimillionaire-offers-9m-for-proof-of-slaying

  15. 6 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

     

    I just spent an unhealthy amount of time deleting a previous response to another post to make sure that this was the only thing I quoted. Go fuck yourself. If you like Europe so much, why don't you move there.

     

    I think you missed the Justified reference.

    With that said...

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  16. 9 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

    It's about that 11:30 Friday night bourbon cloak room time. Make it rain!

    As some one who consumes bourbon while posting in the cloak room I am not sure how to take this comment. On one hand it's nice to know I am not the only one but on the other hand this is an unhealthy habit that shouldn't be encouraged.

  17. Running for President as a mayor definitely has it's disadvantages but this has to be the biggest one. A mayor is so close to the frontline that it's impossible to avoid get splattered with with muck from this kind of situation. A Governor, Senator, Congressman or VP wouldn't have to answer for cops being cops or gentrification.

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