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Gladwyn d'Souza's avatar

Reestablishing the great southern slave Empire that ended at the end of the nineteenth century with the CECOT carceral empire of what’s assumed by an inbred White House will be multipolar autocracies with “the private prison industry that operates the modern-day system of slavery is about to profit from all the inhumanity.”

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Maria Tambien's avatar

Christian nationalists, what an oxymoron🤮

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brian gilmore's avatar

Thanks for this. I know I thank you a lot but it goes without saying that I agree. Ethnic cleansing. Yep. It is. Keep pumping out the hits.

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Arturo Dominguez's avatar

Thanks, bro. This was inspired by a reader who brought it up. All the evidence is there so I punched it out.

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brian gilmore's avatar

https://rules.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/rules.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/file_8654.pdf

Here it is as passed (I think).

Do you know if those fees for challenging an immigration ruling by an Immigration judge ($900 plus) and to upgrade your status from Permanent Resident to I assume Citizen ($1500) are new or just increases? Is there an ability waive the fee for poverty status?

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Arturo Dominguez's avatar

There are a lot of new fees. I think the ones you mentioned are new. There's a breakdown here in the drop-down menu toward the bottom. The amounts of money are just crazy. I question if they're legal, but I have no idea.

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/house-reconciliation-bill-immigration-border-security/

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brian gilmore's avatar

They also have a no waiver provision. No reduction either. We are in a period of serious eugenicist policy in all respects.

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J Maria's avatar

The fallacy behind this fear of the “browning of America” only reflects the racist conspiracy thinking of its originators. They fear us doing to them what they have done to everyone else!

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Arturo Dominguez's avatar

Yep. They think everyone is just like them.

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Susan Martin's avatar

Thank you for taking a reader's suggestion on this piece. I am horrified because I have lived through all of this and was blind to it at the time. I always deplored Reagan's welfare queen but the ones mentioned by Lee Atwater went right over my head. I always know that this has never been a white country, but the depth of duplicity in language is stunning. Do you have any ideas how we can talk to our white friends and neighbors who are so filled with fear that they are buying this propaganda? I will repost and try to stay focused on truth, but I am so tired. Please keep writing!

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Arturo Dominguez's avatar

I often find myself lost when trying to talk to people who blindly support Trump or policies like his. If they dismiss facts, truth, and context outright, like they did leading up to each election where Trump was involved, the conversation is dead before it starts.

The question now becomes, how can we defeat willful and outright ignorance?

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J Maria's avatar

They are so brainwashed that they will probably need to feel the prolonged pain of his policies before they raise their heads out of his swamp.

They didn’t change even after the felon’s inept mishandling of COVID and the innumerable deaths that could have been avoided with a proper response. The deaths of meemaw and peepaw didn’t turn them off. What will it take?

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Susan Martin's avatar

We keep telling the truth. I am so tired at times and feel that nothing will ever change, but it will. The Civil Rights movement stalled for years before white people were exposed to the brutality of white supremacy. I do not want Brown and Black people to suffer at all. Surely, something will turn the tide. Let's continue speaking truth until we have justice. Your work is so important.

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Arturo Dominguez's avatar

Thank you. That's all we can do.

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Arturo Dominguez's avatar

I'll do my push across social media in the morning as usual. Hopefully, it'll get some traction.

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Arturo Dominguez's avatar

You're welcome. Thanks for inspiring the piece!

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