![]() And conditions in the camps, according to speakers, attorneys who managed to interview migrants, lawmakers and others journeying to the U.S.-Mexico border area, also are reminiscent of Hitler’s camps. There have already been documented preventable deaths of children in Trump’s camps, plus the drowning of a father and his 2-year-old daughter trying to cross the Rio Grande River to seek asylum in the U.S. It’s the original description for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s extermination camps for Jews during World War II. Speakers and sign-holders deliberately used “concentration camps” at the July 12 vigils. ![]() ![]() The ruling House Democratic Caucus unanimously exploded in defense of their colleagues, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will schedule a vote condemning Trump’s “racist” tweets against the four. The practical impact of Trump’s announcement is to play to his racist base while trying to shut off migration from the war-torn and violence-torn countries of Central America through the third country in between, Mexico.įurthering his racist hate, Trump also told the four outspoken first-year female Democratic representatives-Ayanna Presley of Boston, Rashida Tlaib of Detroit, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York City, and Ilhan Omar of Minneapolis, all women of color-to “go back where they came from.” The first three were born in the United States, and the fourth, Omar, is a naturalized U.S. through a third country would be automatically rejected from entry here. ![]() On July 15, he announced asylum seekers who come to the U.S. The resistance did not deter the Hispanic-hating president. mass marches enlisted in protecting vulnerable people from the weekend’s ICE raids and many migrants did not open their doors. Demonstrators take over downtown Philadelphia on Friday, July 12. The speaker called the ICE raids terrorism. One speaker faulted lawmakers for their recent approval of $4.5 billion for supposed humanitarian purposes for the camps, but-thanks to the Senate’s ruling Republicans-without conditions. Other speakers urged Congress to stop GOP President Trump by yanking future funds for ICE and its raids. But we’ll not stop there until that order is a law.” A coalition of churches and synagogues nationwide also offered sanctuary to endangered people in the U.S. “This week, my County Executive issued a general order that prevents police cooperation with ICE. ![]() “Don’t just stand there get involved,” one speaker from the pro-migrant group Casa de Maryland added. “We must do this because we are Americans.” “We must join together to protect” the migrants, Krishanti Vignarajah, who was Michelle Obama’s policy director, urged the D.C. The American Civil Liberties Union sued Trump and ICE on July 11 to try to stop the raids. And they told migrants “don’t open the door” to ICE, because agents lack arrest warrants. Organizers urged participants not just to light candles for the migrants but to shelter them from Trump’s trumpeted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids planned for July 13-14, especially in big cities. WASHINGTON-From South Carolina to South Africa, at least according to speakers at the mass vigil in D.C., “Lights for Liberty” arose worldwide this weekend against what many protesters termed Donald Trump’s “concentration camps” for migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. Susan Kane of Rockville, Md., sits on the grass in front of the White House in Lafayette Square Park, in Washington, Friday, July 12, 2019, with a sign showing the Statue of Liberty holding a child during a protest to "demand that human detention camps in the United States are closed down." | Carolyn Kaster / AP ![]()
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