Oh, Malynda, I could feel and relate to what you're feeling and writing here! Nowadays when I hear someone refer to themself or others as conservative "Christians", I cringe...knowing how hateful, self-righteous and judgemental some so-called "Christian" conservatives can be. It is very sad! Hang in there, Sis.🙏🏽💙
I am so beyond angry. Immigrants doing the right thing, and being arrested in the process is absolutely evil. If we are arrested in the process of getting our driver's licenses, what's the difference. We're following the law. Yes, they would not hesitate to arrest and deport Jesus. They would do it while he was in a immigration hearing.
During Trump 1 I interviewed parents incarcerated in Port Isabel, Texas. All had had their children taken from them. Most had no idea where they were, if they were alive or dead, if they’d ever see them again. All were slated for deportation without their children. I was there to establish whether the deportations could be challenged on the basis of trauma from separation that was so extreme that these parents could be labeled as too disabled by that trauma to have even taken their credible fear interviews. I sat for hours, days, doing protracted interviews with each parent, losing interpreter after interpreter because the pain of witnessing the agony was too much;, of hearing the stories of what brought them, what they’d faced on their journeys, how tortured they were by knowing their children were suffering and yet not being able to reach them, soothe them, protect them.. they couldn’t eat or sleep, many were certain they were hearing their children’s voices at night. All I could think as they wept was how no one could possibly sit with each of these parents and not be transformed by the exquisite suffering that we were imposing on them. I wished there was a camera behind me in the tiny airless rooms where I met with mothers and fathers, recording what I was seeing and feeling. My interviews formed the foundation for a lawsuit - Dora v Sessions. I went on to do many more of families in the Remain in Mexico program.
I thought then that the crimes against humanity that our government was enacting IN OUR NAME could not be
worse. And now they are. What shame we should all carry.
Oh, Malynda, I could feel and relate to what you're feeling and writing here! Nowadays when I hear someone refer to themself or others as conservative "Christians", I cringe...knowing how hateful, self-righteous and judgemental some so-called "Christian" conservatives can be. It is very sad! Hang in there, Sis.🙏🏽💙
It frustrates me so so much
So good! Amen!
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I am so beyond angry. Immigrants doing the right thing, and being arrested in the process is absolutely evil. If we are arrested in the process of getting our driver's licenses, what's the difference. We're following the law. Yes, they would not hesitate to arrest and deport Jesus. They would do it while he was in a immigration hearing.
I am so beyond angry over this.
I've called both senators and my one congressman. I also emailed, for all the good it will do.
During Trump 1 I interviewed parents incarcerated in Port Isabel, Texas. All had had their children taken from them. Most had no idea where they were, if they were alive or dead, if they’d ever see them again. All were slated for deportation without their children. I was there to establish whether the deportations could be challenged on the basis of trauma from separation that was so extreme that these parents could be labeled as too disabled by that trauma to have even taken their credible fear interviews. I sat for hours, days, doing protracted interviews with each parent, losing interpreter after interpreter because the pain of witnessing the agony was too much;, of hearing the stories of what brought them, what they’d faced on their journeys, how tortured they were by knowing their children were suffering and yet not being able to reach them, soothe them, protect them.. they couldn’t eat or sleep, many were certain they were hearing their children’s voices at night. All I could think as they wept was how no one could possibly sit with each of these parents and not be transformed by the exquisite suffering that we were imposing on them. I wished there was a camera behind me in the tiny airless rooms where I met with mothers and fathers, recording what I was seeing and feeling. My interviews formed the foundation for a lawsuit - Dora v Sessions. I went on to do many more of families in the Remain in Mexico program.
I thought then that the crimes against humanity that our government was enacting IN OUR NAME could not be
worse. And now they are. What shame we should all carry.