"The utterly evil bill that just squeaked through in Congress, among other harms, aims to make many immigrants' lives go from difficult to terrifying nightmare. ...
Many people are simply disappearing, their friends, family, employers, coworkers simply unable to find out where they've been taken."
~ Rebecca Solnit
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps
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"It is a shocking, obscene, and endlessly cruel reign of terror already, and this budget bill intends to make it far worse. Which means all of us are called on to act in solidarity, to stand with immigrants, stand for their rights, and stand against ICE and this regime."
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps
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"There's a racist/white supremacist fantasy that only a certain kind of white and descended from Europeans who got here in the seventeenth-to-early-twentieth centuries is a real American – a descendant of immigrants, but the right kind at the right time (until recently, Protestant was part of the criterion; Jews and Catholics were outsiders to these nativists)."
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps
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"We need to defend immigrants but also value them and respect their contributions, and we need a we in which there is no them, a we that does not divide us, a we as big as this country."
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps
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