Will 'Crossing the Line' be in Your Hand, or Banned, Two Months from Today? No matter. Walls of all sorts can be torn down, tunneled under, or tip-toed around.

With special thanks to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie @KehindeAndrews Guerline M.Jozef

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Asylum is meant to protect people from politics (political persecution, oppression, etc).

Countries are increasingly denying asylum seekers because of politics (electioneering, fear-mongering, etc).

That leaves asylum seekers stateless, in the cold, dead.

URGENT CALL FOR SUPPORT: Please consider donating to No More Death's relief efforts for the ongoing humanitarian crisis at the border! Details in the link: bit.ly/NMDWallFund

Aaand we have our answer as to whether DOJ will sue to stop SB4 like it did to stop SB1070 under Obama.

It’s about time!

New — The drastic border and asylum restrictions considered by President Biden reflect a seismic political shift on immigration.

It's a shift that would've been unthinkable 3 years ago, when Biden promised to 'restore' the asylum system.

W/ Ed O'Keefe:
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About half of all farmworkers in the US are undocumented. The people some are calling for mass deportations to target are literally the people ensuring that you have food on your plate.

The people talking about “never voting for Biden” are either those whose lives won’t be made immeasurably worse under another Trump presidency or those who think that their lives can’t get any worse.

FYI: It can get worse.

“…at the southern border, we don’t have the luxury of things just being political and theory. They’re real lives, they’re real moms, dads, sisters, and brothers…”

#asylum #Immigrants #HumanityFirst

That the IDF murdered three hostages bearing white flags is horrifying but also consistent with their usual behavior. This has been documented several times in the case of Palestinian civilians, it's just that Western media doesn't cover it.

5 years ago, we spent Christmas in Tornillo, protesting a prison for migrant children. Now, under a Democratic admin, things might get much, much worse. Pls President Biden Chuck Schumer Chris Murphy 🟧 Senator Scott Bennett #SaveAsylum #WelcomeWithDignity

If the House GOP stick to their demands for the radical HR2 (a bill that would expose millions of legal immigrants to criminal prosecution for minor, even unintentional visa issues), then there will be no “deal.”

WATCH 🎥: “I urge you to contact your Members of Congress and the Biden administration and urge them to vote NO on anti-immigrant measures.

Comprehensive and humane immigration reform should be separate from any spending bill,” Marisa Limón Garza said. #SaveAsylum

SF rally to #SaveAsylum had several dozen people, and speakers from CGRS, MUA, CARECEN, and Alex Padilla’s office. Clear rejection of Biden using immigrants for budget bargaining. CGRS CARECENSF Oasis Legal Services

I spent 8 years in Connecticut before coming to DC. I was a supporter of Senator Murphy, especially his tremendous work against gun violence. I am dismayed at his new goal. Friends and old colleagues in CT: please write and call the Senator!

🚨BAY AREA: Congress is on the verge of enacting legislation that could effectively end asylum for people fleeing danger. Join CGRS and CARECENSF in SF tomorrow for an emergency rally to #SaveAsylum !

⏰Thurs. 12/14 at 2 pm
📍One Post Plaza, 1 Post St, SF

If, like me, you’re concerned Biden & Congress will cut a deal that endangers migrants & creates chaos at the border…

ACT NOW - Tell Senators to oppose this. Help us get to 2k actions by Thursday!!

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I wrote about new pathways in the Americas for this issue of MMR! Please check out the whole issue— packed with analysis and interviews!

There are some numbers that are so ridiculous they don’t pass the laugh test, and this is one of them.

It takes a complete disregard for even the basics of investigative research to suggest that the government is paying 7x the entire annual budget of Homeland Security to house migrants.