Sunday Reads: 3 Mexican Countries
Posted: March 31, 2019 Filed under: morning reads, open thread, U.S. Politics 20 Comments
Ugh….and that isn’t a joke, or the Onion…
Seriously…it was actually on Fox News, as tweeted by editor in chief of Politico:
Check out some of the replies to that tweet. Some are very funny.
I am pretty sure this has been discussed:
(I still have my card in my wallet too.)
Fucking disgusting.
Under the bridge: migrants held in El Paso tell of dust, cold and hunger | US news | The Guardian
For three days and nights, Maria and her 14-year-old son were penned behind barbed wire, under a bridge in El Paso. Cold, hungry, surrounded by sick and crying babies and with only the stony ground for a bed, her first experience of America was not as she had imagined.
“I came here to work and get a better future for my family,” she said. “I never thought I would go through this.”
Maria (who is from Guatemala and who requested the Guardian not use her real name) and her son are among hundreds of Central American migrants who have been detained by US immigration agents in an area of dirt under the Paso del Norte bridge. The full brutality of the conditions in this makeshift prison-cum-shelter is only now starting to emerge.
Reporters are being kept away from the area under the bridge, which connects El Paso with Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. But migrants who have been held there, some for hours, others like Maria for several days, have begun to tell their stories.
El Paso Migrant Holding Pen ‘Looks Like a Concentration Camp’ Says Women’s March Spokesperson
As immigration advocates sound the alarm over “inhumane” conditions for asylum seekers who have been forced to wait under an overpass outside a Border Patrol station in El Paso, Texas, some activists have started to draw comparisons between the holding site and “concentration camps.”
Commenting on photos showing hundreds of predominantly Central American asylum seekers, including many families, being forced to wait under an overpass in El Paso for their asylum claims to be processed, Women’s March director of communications and digital outreach Sophie Ellman-Golan said on Twitter that the site “looks like a concentration camp.”
Who knew you could get a succulent ass for only $6.99!
This is an open thread.
Have a good day.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-refers-to-el-salvador-guatemala-and-honduras-as-three-mexican-countries
Good to have you back !!!! Xoxo
You too, skating vengeance!
Not that he is the cause of that horror in El Paso, but where is Beto? It is his beloved city- his time and money would be better spent shedding direct light on this fiasco than campaigning in Iowa, or am I a bit bitter?
He was in El Paso, yesterday for the official start of his campaign. I’m not a fan but, of course, I’ll vote for the nominee. I would have a real problem “pulling the lever” for Sanders but I don’t think there’s much chance that his name will be on the ticket.
Thanks- I have been on a mini news blackout- did he do anything about the fence under the bridge? I will support him as well if he were the nominee, but would prefer one of the women or Inslee.
Thanks, JJ.
Yes, we need another Daniel Ellsberg.
Love this! Here’s the thread reader link – sounds like she’ll be adding to the thread.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1112379879759273985.html
Yes, we need to have this for ammunition!
Millions of salmon, hundreds of whales, thousands of bear, deer, elk, and millions of trees are celebrating!
One of the comments on this WaPo story:
I would pay to see that!
I say dump down here in the Atchafalya basin and let the alligators sort him out … him and his lil friend Mikey
Alligators might work. Somehow I see the bear turning its nose up and saying, “Don’t you have anything better than just empty calories?”
The gators just love anything that smells really foul.
Or, tie him out in Alaska and suffer death by mosquito.
Retch.
Joe Biden’s affectionate, physical style with women comes under scrutiny
It was pretty sickening listening to the apologists make excuses for him this morning.
Sort of like how no one has ever seriously asked how Poppy Bush grabbed ass for years and no one ever called him on it.
I don’t want the left you eat there own but there has to be accountability.
Biden needs to answer on his treatment of women starting with Anita Hill and he needs to answer on his pre-Obama race rhetoric.
Hills caught Hell night and day for everything she ever said or did. I will be damned if Captain Likability gets a free pass!