republicans love to break up brown families
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently conducted a large-scale workplace raid in Bean Station, Tennessee, a rural community that overwhelmingly voted for President Donald Trump in 2016.
However, many community members who backed Trump nonetheless found themselves disturbed at the way that ICE had gone about rounding up immigrant families — and now they’re rethinking their past hard-line stance on immigration.
In a lengthy report published by The New Yorker, some local residents say that raids such as the one in their community go against their deeply held Christian values.
“I’m a Christian; God loves everybody equally,” 50-year-old Hank Smith told the publication. “And I never had a problem with anyone being here… immigration didn’t really affect me before. But then this raid happened.”
Pastor David Williams, who leads the local Hillcrest Baptist Church, says he’s seen people in his congregation change their minds about the best way to deal with undocumented immigrants.
“You cannot be a true Christian if you ignore your neighbor in need,” he told the New Yorker. “The people in the middle have had their hearts soften because of the raid.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/rur...ce-raids-town/
Guno צְבִי (04-21-2018)
Living in peace? Feeling a little dramatic today Nordberg? If farmers need workers from other countries, they can follow the law and use the temporary worker program. That's what it's for. The idea that it's ok for people to come and live here in clear violation of US law needs to end. Put your appeals to emotion aside for once.
Actually if you look through american history, the power structure has always targeted the family structure of populations and groups it sought to enslave, remove or subjugate. It's been a very effective and oft repeated tactic. But we don't really learn american history such as the removal of native kids from their families/homes to be white-brainwashing raised in boarding schools where they were brutalized and raped. This continued into the 1970s-80s-90s.
Just one example.
Guno צְבִי (04-21-2018)
But you sure won't go find out for yourself will ya.
"Since those years, tribal nations have increasingly insisted on community-based schools and have also founded numerous tribal colleges and universities. Community schools have also been supported by the federal government through the BIA and legislation. The largest boarding schools have closed. By 2007, most of the schools had been closed down and the number of Native American children in boarding schools had declined to 9,500. During this same period, more Native Americans moved to urban environments accommodating in varying degrees and manners to majority culture."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ...arding_schools
Guno צְבִי (04-21-2018)
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