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Okay, so I totally stole this diary from an anonymous user somewhere else rebutting on this video.
“But you see this poll about DACA shows 89% oppose it, only 11% support it.”
And the lengthy rebuttal:
That video misstates a bunch of...
by azindy
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on Mon Sep 11, 2017 at 05:44 PM PDT
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Thousands of protesters in California, Idaho, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C. continued to rally Friday and throughout the weekend in support of undocumented immigrant youth and...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Mon Sep 11, 2017 at 02:09 PM PDT
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has made good on the promise he made last week to join the numerous legal actions targeting Donald Trump over his cowardly decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA):
California and...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Mon Sep 11, 2017 at 12:56 PM PDT
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As Kelly Macias wrote this past June, the criminalization of marijuana “sends more black and brown folks to prison and for longer, harsher sentences than it does white people … regardless of the fact that both blacks and whites use the drug...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Mon Sep 11, 2017 at 12:33 PM PDT
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Campaign Action
Imagine you’re a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient. Imagine you’ve persevered through school, despite your legal status and the lingering threat of other undocumented family members getting torn from you. Imagine...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Mon Sep 11, 2017 at 10:52 AM PDT
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Here’s what DACA is: vital protection from deportation, allowing immigrant youth to work legally so they can support their families in the only country they’ve ever called home. Here’s what DACA isn’t: “amnesty,” free college, and government freebies....
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Mon Sep 11, 2017 at 09:23 AM PDT
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Lucy Siale, a 16 year old Bay Area resident, called for, organized and MC'ed Oakland's 1000+ strong DACA rally yesterday, Saturday, Sept 9th at Oscar Grant Plaza.
A large crowd of people came to the rally and heard some fiery speakers...
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by jpmassar
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on Sun Sep 10, 2017 at 01:54 PM PDT
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Put that woman down. I want to see your Green Cards. #DumpTrump #Resist #HurricaneHarvey 3 comments
on Sat Sep 09, 2017 at 06:52 PM PDT
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Despite the negative economic impact, Trump terminated, effective in six months, President Obama’s executive order creating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This is the order that has kept Dreamers – people brought to the...
by bmethven
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on Sat Sep 09, 2017 at 01:32 PM PDT
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It is a simple question, really. Why does Trump do what he does? Why?
In the nonstop stream of statements, tweets, bizarre actions, rallies, scandals, lies, and outrage, it is tempting to react and be gobsmacked and to forget to ask the most...
by Face2Face
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on Sat Sep 09, 2017 at 01:29 PM PDT
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Trump claimed he had a lot of love for DREAMers, yet ripped protections from them by rescinding DACA. Even if he just kicked the can down the road to Congress, he left them exposed to deportation and an unsure future. He is as cruel as his he is...
by laloalcaraz
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on Sat Sep 09, 2017 at 11:50 AM PDT
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Donald Trump showed his self-professed great love for the DREAMers by having racist Keebler elf Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions announce the end of the DACA program for DREAMers. He is a real monster that eats the dreams of young people...
by laloalcaraz
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on Sat Sep 09, 2017 at 11:47 AM PDT
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If anyone had told me I’d be spending my mid-sixties fighting for the same things I fought for in the mid-60s, I’d have said, “Oh, no. We’re making a difference here. We’re changing the world, and things will get better because of us.”
It’s like...
by Grandma Kinne
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on Sat Sep 09, 2017 at 10:26 AM PDT
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by brooklynpaul
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on Sat Sep 09, 2017 at 09:41 AM PDT
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (D. PA):
On Tuesday, the Trump administration cruelly upended nearly 700,000 of our friends’ and neighbors’ lives when they announced that they will end the Deferred Action for...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Sat Sep 09, 2017 at 12:46 AM PDT
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Received this e-mail today from Rep. Jacky Rosen’s (D. NV) U.S. Senate campaign:
I’m utterly appalled. President Trump’s decision this week to end DACA is a cruel betrayal of DREAMers.
DREAMers came here as children. They are our neighbors,...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Sat Sep 09, 2017 at 12:27 AM PDT
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Democrats are willing to play hardball when it comes to the fate of 800,000 Americans.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/08/democrats-dreamers-daca-government-shutdown-242502?lo=ap_b1
House Democrats are prepared to threaten a...
by Mattrek
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on Fri Sep 08, 2017 at 04:26 PM PDT
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More and more it seems that Trump, galled by his flagging approval polling, is retreating to the red-meat policies that appeal to the worst elements of his base… the kind of people who celebrate policy decisions for little more than the fact that it...
by Weakly Political
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on Fri Sep 08, 2017 at 01:44 PM PDT
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Why does Donald Trump go out of his way to find nominees who hate racial, religious and gender equity to oversee racial, religious and gender equity? Perhaps the answer is in the question…
Eric Dreiband is the latest name tossed into the racial...
by ReasonaBill
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on Fri Sep 08, 2017 at 12:40 PM PDT
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Lachlan Markay of the Daily Beast reports that billionaire funders Charles and David Koch will push Congress to enact protections for immigrant youth following Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program,...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Fri Sep 08, 2017 at 01:31 PM PDT
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