Nearly all of us missed this one two months ago. While enjoying a brief celebration that Jeff Sessions was leaving the Attorney General position, he was doing one last thing to significantly harm our nation. And of course, by the next hour, Trump had done something else stupid and then we had a corrupt acting-AG and this story below never hit the mainstream news.
Expanding the number of immigrants rounded up into jails isn’t just policy; it’s big business. GEO Group expects its earnings to grow to $2.3 billion this year. Like other private prison companies, it made large donations to Trump’s campaign & inaugural.
These are dangerous times for undocumented immigrants. ICE has been super-charged by the Trump administration. And ICE’s empowerment has been lucrative for the companies that both cage and employ immigrants...
THERE IS NO BOTTOM. THIS IS EVIL.
Federal authorities have arrested 170 immigrants who came forward seeking to sponsor migrant children in government custody.... They were the result of background checks conducted on potential sponsors of unaccompanied migrant children placed under the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Trump and Republicans have many ways to destroy Obamacare despite the failure to repeal it in the Senate in 2017. They eliminated the individual mandate in the 2017 tax scam that handed corporations and the wealthiest Americans billions of dollars. They have stripped reimbursements to insurers forcing them to leave the exchanges, ended marketing of the healthcare plans, allowed junk plans that insure almost nothing which crash the system, and more.
The latest came last Friday night:
Stephen Miller and other despicable, xenophobic power-wielding puppeteers of the Trump administration proudly continue to find any way possible to harm immigrants via tear gas, not processing asylum requests, and STILL separating families despite it being ruled illegal by a federal judge.
The Blue Wave on November 6, 2018 included so much good news it was difficult to process it all. Over the next few weeks, Smart Dissent will attempt to recap the progress we made together including well-publicized topics and less covered ones.
Our seventh post focuses on marijuana legalization votes which passed in several states, something long overdue, considering two-thirds of people support legalization per a recent Gallup poll.
The Blue Wave on November 6, 2018 included so much good news it was difficult to process it all. Over the next few weeks, Smart Dissent will attempt to recap the progress we made together including well-publicized topics and less covered ones.
Our fifth post recognizes that Beto O'Rouke's Senate loss was tough to swallow but not without tremendous progress associated. The "Beto Bump" was very real and will have lasting impacts for Texas.
Department of Justice has it's mission in it's name: Justice. Jeff Sessions, a terrible human being, doesn't see it that way. He loves discrimination. That's his justice.
The Justice Department today told the U.S. Supreme Court that businesses can discriminate against workers based on their gender identity without violating federal law.
Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the high court that a civil rights law banning sex discrimination on the job doesn’t cover transgender bias.
Some background on why the DOJ said this:
The following is an important Special Report from Christina Padien. It is published with her permission in conjunction with the Immigration Justice Campaign. Thank you to Christina and IJC for their tremendous efforts and sharing this crucial information with all of us.
The Kennel: What Happens Before the Detention Facility
Trump and the Republicans who surround him are leading our government and country off a cliff. Give corporations and wealthy everything they want from money to eliminated regulations. Take away the hard-fought rights of anyone non-white (or non-male) they can. Hate and stupidity is the only way to conceive of such actions.