Let’s take a second to review that there are mainly two different types of camps: ones run by the Department of Health and Human Services for unaccompanied minors (could be those who turned up at the border by themselves/with other children, or who were separated from adults when they entered the country); and camps run by the Department of Homeland Security.
The HHS-run camps are supposed to be places where kids can be until other arrangements can be made, like placing them with family members already in the US or whatnot. The fact is that this has been so screwed up that thousands of kids are essentially lost in the system, making it almost impossible to figure out where they should go.
The DHS-run camps (see here) are typically being held there without choice, either simply as a matter of waiting to have a judge (not actually an impartial judge employed by the third branch of our government, but an immigration judge employed by the Department of Justice who might even get bonuses if their job performance meets what the Attorney General expects) decide what to do with them; or also being held as part of Trump’s effort to end “catch and release” policies.
Keep in mind, the folks in these camps are very likely making a claim for asylum from the campaigns of violence in their home countries attributed to MS-13 and the like. Both U.S. law and our treaties allow them to do this, even if they enter the country illegally. Statistics clearly show that the vast majority of people who apply for asylum who have been released from custody go on to live near family members already in the country, and if they have some sort of intervention after release (e.g., GPS monitoring, or access to an immigration lawyer) their rate of voluntarily showing up for their final court cases (often years in the future) is very high.
So, just like we can agree that a 2,300 mile long wall is a pretty stupid use of $30 billion because there are much better ways to enforce the border, keeping people locked up in these camps as long as the Trump Administration wants them to be is also a stupid use of resources. The main reason it is being done is malevolence, and it isn’t like people stay in these camps because they want to or have no choice.
(Also, something like 60-80% of those coming over the border have some kind of support system here in the US, like a friend or family member that they could live with. In many cases, the American segment of the support system paid the costs of the people traveling to the US.)
Good on AOC. No wonder the insane right is so afraid of her.
It would be wonderful if, when we had a decent human being running the county again, the DOJ aggressively prosecuted all these human rights abuses. It’s been too long since Nuremberg—the insane right has forgotten that decent people will hold these crimes to account.
This have been mentioned before, but I don’t know anyone on the right that feels “afraid of” AOC. She does get mocked, ridiculed, and laughed at a lot by people on the right, but feared very little, if it all.
They deny it even as they bring it up again and again and again, but if they thought she posed no threat they would want her to be the Democratic frontrunner, wouldn’t they?
You’re sheltered. Trust me, the smart ones are scared of her (though I admit we’re talking right-wingers, so “smart” is a remarkably small percentage of the total, I’ll give you that).
All the attempts on AOC have backfired, and every time she slaps down another piece of right-wing slander she gains more fans. Some of the funniest political memes circulating right now involve some right-wing half-wit having a go at AOC and getting humiliated.
Social media helped Trump into office, and right now the biggest political player on social media is AOC, and she’s destroying fools. You see the ignorant right-wingers having a go at AOC, but because you’re sheltered you miss the inevitable devastating public slap-back. The key is that the slap back is what everyone else sees, and then social media goes crazy talking and laughing about it.
What you see as “mocked, ridiculed, and laughed at,” AOC probably sees as a pack of idiots lining up to say stupid things so that she can loudly and publicly knock them down in humiliating fashion. And every time she does it she gets more fans, more followers, more media, and more money.And the people who think it’s funny when she destroys someone are oftentimes people who would have thought it was funny if Trump went after someone.
How are you measuring “biggest political player on social media” anyways? Just a gut feeling? Perhaps with a side of confirmation bias from what you personally read and watch?
72% have been inactive for 120+ days
3% have been inactive for between 90-120 days
3% created their account in the last 90 days
36% use Twitter’s default profile image
39% use display names that include spam words and patterns
92% either don’t use a URL in their profile or employ a URL with spam patterns
60% don’t use a recognized location
27% have set their language to something other than English
54% have gone more than a year without sending more than a handful of tweets
3% send an abnormally large number of tweets per day
96% have been placed on very few (or zero) lists
79% have an unusually small number of followers
76% follow an unusual number of accounts
74% employ spam-correlated keywords in their profile description
Boy, that follower count sure seems a lot less impressive when you know that the majority of them are bots, huh?
Trump has been in the media spotlight for decades. 18 months ago AOC was tending bar. What the fuck were you expecting? She now has more twitter followers than the current Dem frontrunner Joe Biden. She gets more engagement than any other Dem.
Just thought I’d point out that this means Trump probably has about 45 million “Enlarge your pen1s now!” Twitter bots following him. Something something fertile ground? I had something for this.
Uhhhhh…perhaps you missed the point that the majority of Trump’s engagement was penis enlargement* bots retweeting to each other. On an actual engagement basis he’s significantly below Obama and AOC is #1.
It didn’t take you long for you to delete the nine sentences i wrote that made your previous statements look pretty foolish. And three sentences that probably took you seconds to read is not “a long time.”
Trump has 0.2% engagement. AOC has 2.8% engagement.
So when you claim that I am incorrect you are in fact saying that 0.2% of 61.6 million is a bigger number than 2.8% of 4.6 million.
Are you sure you did the math correctly? Carried all the ones? Shifted all the nines? Perhaps, before your victory lap, you should double-check all your decimals are in the right place? Just to avoid looking foolish?
It very much is a propaganda war. That’s why it was, as predicted, counterproductive to label trivial things in the past as Hitler, Nazi, etc. The words don’t resonate as strongly as they should because they’ve been overused.