Today, The Supreme Court dealt a serious setback to American women.
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Republicans hypocrisy.
Can't have it both ways...
A Border Patrol agent reads the birth certificate of Alejandro, 8 -- the only thing he brought with him as he and others crossed the Rio Grande near McAllen rec...ently. Alejandro is one of more than 52,000 minors traveling without parents who've been caught crossing the border illegally since October.
A Border Patrol agent reads the birth certificate of Alejandro, 8 -- the only thing he brought with him as he and others crossed the Rio Grande near McAllen rec...ently. Alejandro is one of more than 52,000 minors traveling without parents who've been caught crossing the border illegally since October.
Seventy-five years ago, the St. Louis, a German trans-Atlantic liner carrying 938 Jewish refugees, was turned away from the United States and forced to return to Europe. U.S. law didn’t allow them sanctuary.
Writes author and former Dallas Morning News reporter Christine Wicker: "The St. Louis is famous now as a failure of compassion that haunts American history. Today we are preparing to send 45,000 children back to Central American countries controlled by drug cartels that routinely torture, rape and kill children who refuse to work for them. So routinely are children menaced that their families sent them away, alone, across thousands of miles on just the slimmest of hopes that they might be safe. U.S. law doesn’t allow them sanctuary.
"They walked through some of the most hostile, hot, barren, dangerous country in the world. They were sent by poor families so terrified for their safety that they paid many thousands of dollars and entrusted their children to criminals hoping they might arrive in America and be safe.
"Our hearts are not touched by these children. We want the law enforced. This is our country. Ours.
And we don’t have to share it. Not now. Not 75 years ago.
"Yes, these are children whom we’ll send back to be raped, maimed and killed. They aren’t our children. Our children are precious."
Read more and share your thoughts: http://d-news.co/yCC21 (Photo: New York Times).
Rand Paul praised yesterday's Supreme Court ruling, stating that "America will continue to serve as a safe haven for those looking to exercise religious liberty...." Ted Cruz also celebrated the ruling, claiming that "cases made by hundreds more plaintiffs will wend their way through the courts."
Writes author and former Dallas Morning News reporter Christine Wicker: "The St. Louis is famous now as a failure of compassion that haunts American history. Today we are preparing to send 45,000 children back to Central American countries controlled by drug cartels that routinely torture, rape and kill children who refuse to work for them. So routinely are children menaced that their families sent them away, alone, across thousands of miles on just the slimmest of hopes that they might be safe. U.S. law doesn’t allow them sanctuary.
"They walked through some of the most hostile, hot, barren, dangerous country in the world. They were sent by poor families so terrified for their safety that they paid many thousands of dollars and entrusted their children to criminals hoping they might arrive in America and be safe.
"Our hearts are not touched by these children. We want the law enforced. This is our country. Ours.
And we don’t have to share it. Not now. Not 75 years ago.
"Yes, these are children whom we’ll send back to be raped, maimed and killed. They aren’t our children. Our children are precious."
Read more and share your thoughts: http://d-news.co/yCC21 (Photo: New York Times).
Rand Paul praised yesterday's Supreme Court ruling, stating that "America will continue to serve as a safe haven for those looking to exercise religious liberty...." Ted Cruz also celebrated the ruling, claiming that "cases made by hundreds more plaintiffs will wend their way through the courts."
Libertarians claim to value individual liberty, but what they really mean is liberty for individual corporations. Remember that when you head to the polls in November.
Via The Blue Street Journal
Via The Blue Street Journal
Jobs With Justice with Daniel Divine and 8 others
What a concept.
"In 2005, Utah figured out that the annual cost of E.R. visits and jail stays for homeless people was about $16,670 per person, compared to $11,...000 to provide each homeless person with an apartment and a social worker. So, the state began giving away apartments, with no strings attached. Each participant in Utah’s Housing First program also gets a caseworker to help them become self-sufficient, but they keep the apartment even if they fail. The program has been so successful that other states are hoping to achieve similar results with programs modeled on Utah’s."
"In 2005, Utah figured out that the annual cost of E.R. visits and jail stays for homeless people was about $16,670 per person, compared to $11,...000 to provide each homeless person with an apartment and a social worker. So, the state began giving away apartments, with no strings attached. Each participant in Utah’s Housing First program also gets a caseworker to help them become self-sufficient, but they keep the apartment even if they fail. The program has been so successful that other states are hoping to achieve similar results with programs modeled on Utah’s."
Learn more: http://bit.ly/M59d7e
Meanwhile in Detroit this is happening
(thanks to Jobs With Justice for the graphic)
(thanks to Jobs With Justice for the graphic)
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