It was the longest day of the year, yet among the darkest days for the U.S. 2300+ children still forcibly separated from their parents, “spread across states”: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/politics/migrant-family-separation-what-next/index.html “by thousands of miles and a bureaucratic maze”: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/us/immigrant-children-separating-families.html All due to unacceptable inhumane directives from POTUS and the bible-distorting AG. Backing down to detaining whole families is still just cover for racist internment. More families being detained. More facilities being constructed. Because of an imagined (immigrant) threat. The parallels to WWII Japanese internment are blatant, yet here we are. It’s long past time to have the difficult conversations with friends and family that may have voted for POTUS, and the GOP that’s sacrificed all principles to support him. Keep the pressure up and see it through to making a difference in November. Previously: http://tantek.com/2016/314/t1/doublestandard-wtf

It was the longest day of the year, yet among the darkest days for the U.S.
2300+ children still forcibly separated from their parents, “spread across states”:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/politics/migrant-family-separation-what-next/index.html “by thousands of miles and a bureaucratic maze”: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/us/immigrant-children-separating-families.html

All due to unacceptable inhumane directives from POTUS and the bible-distorting AG. Backing down to detaining whole families is still just cover for racist internment.

More families being detained. More facilities being constructed. Because of an imagined (immigrant) threat.

The parallels to WWII Japanese internment are blatant, yet here we are.

It’s long past time to have the difficult conversations with friends and family that may have voted for POTUS, and the GOP that’s sacrificed all principles to support him. Keep the pressure up and see it through to making a difference in November.

Previously: http://tantek.com/2016/314/t1/doublestandard-wtf