The Briefing Room
General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on December 03, 2019, 02:36:27 pm
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Abolish Immigration Prisons
We should shut down these institutions, end the suffering they cause and redirect the money.
By César Cuauhtémoc GarcÃa Hernández
Near Denver, migrants are locked inside a prison tucked into an industrial quarter. To the southwest, in the vast space between Phoenix and Tucson, they are surrounded by barbed wire in facilities that seem to rise right out of the Sonoran Desert.
Imprisoning migrants this way is lucrative for prison corporations and politicians, and it’s common. But the United States hasn’t always embraced the idea. In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower’s attorney general, Herbert Brownell Jr., announced a decision to shut down major immigration detention centers along both coasts, including Ellis Island. While the policy didn’t abolish immigration imprisonment, it came close. A few years later, the Supreme Court declared this a sign of “an enlightened civilization.â€
https://www.teaparty247.org/feminists-attack-pro-life-doctors-cruel-and-inhumane-attempts-to-help-women-save-their-unborn-babies/ (https://www.teaparty247.org/feminists-attack-pro-life-doctors-cruel-and-inhumane-attempts-to-help-women-save-their-unborn-babies/)
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How about we just abolish the NY Times instead?
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How about...hell no!
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the policy didn’t abolish immigration imprisonment, it came close. A few years later, the Supreme Court declared this a sign of “an enlightened civilization.â€
The Supreme Court also once said blacks had no rights a white man was bound to respect in it's Dred Scott decision. The court does not consist of nine emissaries from God. :judge:
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I would never question the opinion of a man with such an impressive name. Especially on the issue of illegal immigration.
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I would never question the opinion of a man with such an impressive name. Especially on the issue of illegal immigration.
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