ACLU CALL TO ACTION: What Texas is doing threatens peoples' lives 21JUL23

 

PLEASE click the link to send a message to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling on DHS to stop all collaboration with Texas Gov greg abbott's fr* TX cruel and deadly operation lone star. This from the ACLU.....

*****Does anyone else find it ironic that Gov Abbott is such a rabid fascist when back in hitler's fascist Germany as a paraplegic he would have been murdered by the reich for being a burden on the nation*****

LETTER SENT TO DHS, I ADDED THE 4TH PARAGRAPH TO  THE FORM LETTER BY THE ACLU

SubjectEnd Collusion with Operation Lone Star. 

I'm reaching out in response to the alarming reports that Texas state troopers working under Gov. Greg Abbott's multi-billion-dollar anti-immigrant initiative - Operation Lone Star - have been instructed to push young children and nursing mothers back into the Rio Grande. Please, I'm urging you to decisively end any collusion with Operation Lone Star, which has facilitated and encouraged Texas's expansion of a proven human and civil rights disaster, and to do everything in your power to remove Gov. Abbott's dangerous barriers in the Rio Grande River.

Gov. Abbott's approach doesn't just prevent people from seeking protection in the U.S. - it also places their lives in clear jeopardy by setting razor wire traps and other obstructions as dangerous traps in and around the river. 

Texas officials are continuing to use these extremely harmful tactics despite the injuries they know these traps have caused over the last several weeks, including a woman who miscarried while caught in the wire and young children who were injured by the wire. The United States government cannot stand by idly as it witnesses to such inhumanity. 

Gov Abbott is a Christian (I leave the judging of his actual faith to God) who has chosen to ignore the teaching of Jesus Christ  regarding the least among us. Even on a secular level this is wrong and DHS has to stop this from happening now and must publicly reject Gov Abbott's actions and must  end all collaboration with his office on Operation Lone Star.

I urge you to end any collaboration your offices have with Operation Lone Star immediately and work to remove Gov. Abbott's dangerous barriers in the Rio Grande.

ACLU CALL TO ACTION BELOW

We wanted to make sure you had heard the latest horrific news out of Texas – because there is action you can take. According to recent reports, Texas state troopers working under Gov. Greg Abbott's multi-billion-dollar anti-immigrant initiative – called Operation Lone Star – have been instructed to push young children and nursing mothers back into the Rio Grande. These tactics are designed to prevent people from reaching the U.S. and asking to be screened by federal officers for humanitarian protections. Texas officials are also placing razor wire in and around the river, despite the injuries they know these traps have caused over the last several weeks. This includes a woman who miscarried while caught in the wire and a young child who was injured by the wire. The state's cruelty is unconscionable. And while Operation Lone Star may be a Texas program, its execution has too often relied on collusion with federal immigration authorities under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Enough is enough. DHS must end ALL collusion with Texas immediately, do everything in its power to ensure removal of Gov. Abbott's deadly traps, and instead work to provide safe, humanitarian pathways for people seeking asylum. Please join us in our demands right now by sending a message to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urging action now. TAKE ACTION Craig, these reports of Texas' brutality shock our conscience. Since Operation Lone Star started in 2021, it has been rife with abuse – from racial profiling of border residents to deadly vehicle chases to mass arrests that violate due process. Meanwhile, despite the DHS claiming it has nothing to do with this initiative, federal border patrol agents under its command have often helped to facilitate Texas' abusive actions. Unfortunately, what is happening now is consistent with how Gov. Abbott has treated our border communities for a long time – sacrificing our homes and public spaces, while trading basic humanity for his own political aggrandizement. The harm caused and division sowed is on purpose. We at the ACLU will never stop fighting back. Cruelty against people seeking safety and protection is not an acceptable policy solution. Thank you for being with us in this critical fight for immigrant rights, Sarah Mehta Pronouns: She, her, hers Senior Border Policy Counsel, ACLU

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Republican leader Steve Scalise refuses to admit Trump lost election to Biden 21FEB21

 NEO-NAZI Rep steve scalise fr*LA is a disgrace to the US House of Representatives and to the nation as a whole. Unfortunately he is typical of the gop / greed over people-republican party, if he wasn't he would have been removed from his parteifuhrungsposten. scalise followed the lead of  neo-nazi Rep kevin mccarthy fr*CA, the gop oberparteifuhrung in the US House and made a pilgrimage to mar-a-lago to kiss and lick drumpf's/trump's ass so scalise is not going  to go against the party leadership and do the right thing. The only member of the gop House leadership with the courage to do that is Rep Liz Cheney R WY. This from The Guardian.....

Republican leader Steve Scalise refuses to admit Trump lost election to Biden

Martin Pengelly in New York

 @MartinPengelly

Sun 21 Feb 2021 11.56 EST

A senior Republican House leader has refused to admit Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump.

Congressman Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the House minority whip, appeared on ABC’s This Week more than three months after Biden won the electoral college 306-232 and the popular vote by more than 7m ballots and just over a month after the Democrat was sworn into office.

Trump now lives in Florida but he has refused to accept reality and concede, even after having the vast majority of cases mounted to pursue baseless claims of voter fraud laughed and thrown out of court.

He was impeached a second time for inciting the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January, having told supporters to “fight like hell” to overturn the election. Thanks to Republicans in the Senate, he was acquitted.

“Clear this up for me,” ABC host Jonathan Karl said to Scalise on Sunday. “Joe Biden won the election. He is the legitimate president of the United States. The election was not stolen, correct?”

“Look,” Scalise said, “Joe Biden’s the president. There were a few states that did not follow their state laws. That’s really the dispute that you’ve seen continue on.

“And, look, if you’re Joe Biden, you probably want to keep talking about impeachment and anything other than the fact that he’s killed millions of American energy jobs, that … they just signed the Paris [climate] accord. It’s going to kill manufacturing jobs in America.

“But at the end of the day, when you look at where we are in this country, either we’re going to address the problems that happened with the election that … millions of people are still concerned about, the constitution says state legislatures set the rules for elections, that didn’t happen in a few states, and so, going forward – look, Joe Biden’s the president. But does he...”

Karl interjected.

“But, congressman, I know Joe Biden’s the president. He lives at the White House. I asked you, is he the legitimate president of the United States, and do you concede that this election was not stolen? Very simple question. Please just answer it.”

“Look,” said Scalise, not answering the question. “Once the electors are counted, yes, he’s the legitimate president. But if you’re going to ignore the fact that there were states that did not follow their own … laws, that’s the issue at heart, that millions of people still are not happy with and don’t want to see happen again.

“You know, look … you can rehash the election from 2020 all day long, but there are people concerned about what the next election is going to look like. Are we going to finally get back to the way the rule of law works?”

Scalise’s comment about the rule of law echoed statements from Trump, his supporters and his lawyers, who have insisted he represents the forces of law and order despite having incited an assault on Congress in which a police officer was one of five people killed and scores of others were injured.

Scalise told Karl he had recently visited Trump.

“I was doing some fundraising throughout a number of parts of Florida,” he said, “ended up at Mar-a-Lago, and the president reached out, and we visited. I hadn’t seen him since he had left the White House. And it was actually good to catch up with him. I noticed he was a lot more relaxed than in his four years in the White House.

“He still cares a lot about this country and the direction of our country. But, you know, it was a conversation more about how he’s doing now and what he’s … planning on doing and how his family is doing.”

In the long term, Trump’s plans may include another run for office – or other ways of keeping congressional Republicans firmly under his thumb. In the short term, the former president will next week address the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Florida.

His subject: the state of the Republican party.