Jan 30, 2025, 10:06 PMand, no, i didn’t forget about Haitians.
have not forgotten about how fascist Republicans & Democrats manufactured the Haitian refugee crisis, which was Bill Barr’s claim to fame for wanting to turn Guantanamo into a concentration camp.
this created another conflict with the Cuban government, of international proportions, that didn’t end until the Clinton administration was forced to close it down:
Jan 30, 2025, 10:12 PMand just so we are clear: #Guantanamo wasn’t the final destination for the Haitian concentration camps.
one of them was #PuertoRico. this was a 10 years long crisis en la Isla; so from my sophomore year in high school until 1992 Clinton:
❝ One INS official said that the harsh conditions in the camps were intended to discourage other aliens from trying to enter the U.S. illegally.
https://time.com/archive/6856817/for-1800-haitians-freedom/
so, in conclusion: the United States have had and still have #concentrationCamps
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Jan 31, 2025, 12:20 AMPS:
previously:
❝ On Monday evening, just hours after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Senate passed the Laken Riley Act, an extreme bill that would allow for the deportation and detention of any undocumented immigrant merely suspected of a nonviolent crime. And they did it with the help of 12 Democrats.
“The 12 Democrats Who Voted to Give Trump a Huge Win on Immigration” https://newrepublic.com/post/190217/list-democrats-vote-deport-laken-riley-act
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Jan 31, 2025, 12:24 AMThe following Democrats voted to enact the Laken Riley Act:
Catherine Cortez Masto—Nevada
JOHN FETTERMAN—PENNSYLVANIA (CO-SPONSOR)
RUBEN GALLEGO—ARIZONA (CO-SPONSOR)
Maggie Hassan—New Hampshire
MARK KELLY—ARIZONA
JON OSSOFF—GEORGIA
Gary Peters—Michigan
Jacky Rosen—Nevada
Jeanne Shaheen—New Hampshire
Elissa Slotkin—Michigan
MARK WARNER—VIRGINIA
RAPHAEL WARNOCK—GEORGIA
#ICE #concentrationCamps #USpol #immigration
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Jan 31, 2025, 12:23 AM@blogdiva@mastodon.social oh look: active fucking collaborators to remove from office.
Jan 31, 2025, 12:30 AM@blogdiva Do they think this will help them in their next election cycle or are they really all in, cause it won't help them.
@Andres4NY @SRDas @paul @blogdiva absolutely disgraceful.
Jan 31, 2025, 2:26 AM@Andres4NY @SRDas @paul @blogdiva very disappointing.
@blogdiva I’m shocked at some of those names!
@blogdiva if you're shocked by any of the Dems collaborating with this, you basically have had your head in the sand since... Nixon really. Probably longer. One look at party leadership glad handing with segregationists (Biden too! Though he wasn't leadership back then), through to handjobbing Cheney in the last election to beg for racist votes. They've been telling you who they are the whole time. You didn't do like Maya said and listen the first time, but do it now.
@blogdiva It's extra special painful to me that the two GA senators--the ones whose elections were so pivotal in 2020--are included on this list. (NH...how very NH of them.)
On the plus side, may I never have to hear Mark Kelly floated for an executive nomination again.
Fetterman has been gleefully all-in on the Palestinian genocide, so this doesn't surprise me at all.
@firebreathingduck @blogdiva
Fetterman is the new Liberman/Manchin/Sinema scapegoat for all of the Democratic Party’s evil deeds.
@blogdiva a few names on there I thought I respected?! wtaf
@blogdiva Enemies of the people, each and every one of them.
Jan 31, 2025, 12:43 AM@blogdiva this shit happens and then democrats wonder why they keep losing support
::sigh:: Looks like it's time for me to rethink my political donations
@blogdiva One of them, Janelle Bynum is from #ORD5 (just elected in November) and my rep. I asked our local #Indivisible group if they were planning on doing anything to push back on her vote and all I got was 🤐
This defines why dems continue to lose support, no courage to fight for what's right!
Feb 2, 2025, 6:47 PM@blogdiva Dammit. I gave $ to some of these people.
@blogdiva It's appalling when you really look at the trouble Haiti has had basically boils down to France and the US fucking them over repeatedly for having the temerity to decide they shouldn't be property anymore.
@blogdiva Criminal podcast did a great episode last year on the legal fight https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-287-a-land-without-law-10-4-2024