1/22 News Roundup – Sanders “US Would Never Recover From Deporting Dreamers”, 1% Took 82% Of All New Wealth in 2017 & More
Bernie Sanders: US would never recover from ‘stain’ of deporting ‘Dreamers’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that the United States would never recover from the “stain” of deporting young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, who are often called “Dreamers.”
During a Sunday show interview, Sanders said their deportations would be “one of the ugliest stains” in American history.
“If we allow Trump to get away with what he did, and that is repeal the executive order on DACA, and if these 800,000 people, young people, are subjected to deportation, this will be one of the ugliest stains in the history of the United States,” Sanders told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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Should the U.S. deport the immigrants, Sanders said the country will “never recover.”
“Young people who know no other country than this country, who came here at 2 or 3 years of age, to now be subjected to deportation would be a stain that this country would never recover from,” Sanders said.
More news/video/tweets/etc. in the comments, including:
*Women’s March: After First Year of Trump’s Anti-Woman Agenda, Marches Mobilize Voters
*Class war in the American west: the rich landowners blocking access to public lands
*Trump Administration Turns ICE Into Tool for Political Repression
*The DNC promised $10M to rebuild state parties. It has not delivered
*Pipeline news, Water Protector updates & More
Tips, Comments, Complaints, Etc!
Happy Monday friends! It was a long weekend of action in which I managed to make it to several different women’s march events on Saturday and then spent yesterday afternoon with various North Texas candidates at the 360 Dems Candidates Convention. I’ve learned its hard to both ‘cover’ and ‘do/be involved in’ at the same time but did manage to get some pics & such which I’ll try and get added to the thread.
Bernie Sanders on new Trump immigration ad: ‘It is really sad’
Sanders Slams Trump’s Anti-Immigration Ad, Backs Border Wall Talks to Protect Dreamers
Bernie Sanders On Government Shutdown (Audio @ Link)
https://youtu.be/JsdrNmTYm-8
‘Billionaire Boom’: While World’s Richest 1% Took 82% of All New Wealth in 2017, Bottom Half Got Zero, Zilch, Nada
When Economic Growth Indicates Failure
Exceptional Indifference: An International Perspective on U.S. Poverty
US shutdown: White House phone message blames Democrats
WOMEN’S MARCH 2018 CALLS ON WHITE WOMEN TO GIVE BLACK WOMEN A SEAT AT THE TABLE
Women’s marches organizers hope to keep building momentum
Women’s March: After First Year of Trump’s Anti-Woman Agenda, Marches Mobilize Voters
‘Our revolution’: Women march in Seneca Falls, advocate for equality
One year after inauguration, marchers find hope through unity in Columbia
Women’s march in Greenville: ‘Not only are we here but the sun is shining’
This weekend, they marched. In November, they vote
Voices From the Women’s March
As Washington Inflames Tensions in Syria, Turkey Launches Airstrikes Against U.S.-Backed Kurdish Forces
The Immigration Debate We Must Not Lose byJames Zogby
Trump Administration Turns ICE Into Tool for Political Repression
I read about this one this morning. 🙁
I hope he gets a decent lawyer who argues that he should have been informed back when he was 17 that by pleading guilty to those two misdemeanor charges, to get his record cleared when he turned 18, he would still be considered to have a record by ICE (and therefore might have fought harder at the time instead of pleading guilty).
And, since he was NOT informed apparently, his lawyer should be able to have this case thrown out.
It’s crazy that ICE has more stringent criteria than the courts! Are border agents above ‘the law’?
Class war in the American west: the rich landowners blocking access to public lands
Women Aren’t Just Marching Against Trump—They’re Running Against Trumpism By John Nichols
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Reflects On The #MeToo Movement: ‘It’s About Time’