That was to remove the Term Illegal Alien.

But yes kids are just kids, they didn't have a say in being here usually.

Beyond that, many US citizens have been picked up in raids and held for days without access to resources to establish citizenship, then released. Have all US citizens been released? There is no way to tell, because ICE is not releasing the names of people detained - so they hold who they want to hold, in secret, and we'll never know whether they are citizens or not. Brown skin, or a Spanish accent is all that is required.

I keep thinking will out themselves eventually…

Anyone with brown skin or an accent is being picked up and detained if they happen to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time. ICE is detaining and then (maybe) releasing them after the dust settles. In the meantime, they are being held secretly and without access to resources to prove they are citizens, or in this country with the proper documentation.

****Calling MIRT****

I figure they've been tossed there twice already, since the second DU sign-up in this thread was seconds after the first set of "post removed" posts. Maybe they will call it a day and find some other sandbox to play in.

She shows up every day.

but it's been a while since I was on MIRT.

Too explicitly right wing, too early in her sequential tenure for LG (the only female I specifically remember).

but only grabbed one of the 4 posts, so I'm not sure who it was. Spammers are thick tonight.

Troll busters!

Regardless of her status, she has a right to he feelings. And that's the way it will be.

I don’t even understand people wanting to do this.

"Unfortunately Dear we have stupid idiot in the White House who's jealous of you and........."

fear.

That is terrible. I am sorry you had to experience this. And I am furious that your student has to worry about this. (If possible, I hope you can tell her that a lot of us are fighting for her.)

without a warrant that is approved by a judge to apprehend a specific kid. And then, they should do it at their home, not at school.

The idea of fishing for children and detaining those who have accents, poor English, brown skin, etc. on the chance that they MAY be undocumented immigrants is outrageous and unconstitutional. They shouldn't detain anybody without demonstrating probable cause related to that individual first.

have to worry about a bunch of ICE thugs raiding their schools, kidnapping them after school or going home to find their parents have been "removed". Thoroughly disgusting.

I wonder if a raid would have picked her up? She is blond and has an American passport, but she didn’t carry her passport around with her, and she didn’t lose her accent completely until she was in college.

They will start turning down those assignments. Maybe instead, they'll go to the churches to make arrests. Oh, wait....

... but the Republicans sure as hell have.

When the dust settles, and Trump and his merry band of psychopaths are rotting in prison for the rest of their rotten lives, some very strong guardrails have to be put in place that no shitstain fascists can remove. Start with NO convicted felon can ever hold elective office in this country ever again. Not EVER. And the Republican Party must join the Nazis on the dungheap of history. Politicians must be qualified, and must run on their own proven merits, with no party affiliations whatsoever.

There's more, but I gotta cook dinner.