“All around them people are crying, fainting, & having panic attacks due to the stress,” Welch said. She’s interviewed hundreds of #kids who’ve been detained after crossing the #border. In #Texas, though, she had an unusual experience—some of the #children she met weren’t recent #immigrants. They had been in the country for years.
In late March, Leecia Welch, a deputy #litigation director at #ChildrensRights, a #legal nonprofit that represents #children in government custody, visited a #family #jail in #Texas that the #Trump Admin had recently reopened. The immigrant children Welch met were #hungry, #SleepDeprived, & bored [lacking educational activity].
[This time around, #Trump isn’t just separating & jailing #immigrants, he’s separating & jailing families who are long time residents.]
THE #IMMIGRANT FAMILIES JAILED IN #TEXAS
#Children have long been put in migrant #detention if they were apprehended at the #border. Today, lawyers have found, #families are being removed from stable lives in the #UnitedStates.
#immigration #law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #EthnicCleansing
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-immigrant-families-jailed-in-texas
The grants sent millions of dollars to organizations that support #intervention programs for #nonviolent youth offenders; programs to avert #opioid-related deaths in #Newark; programs aimed at identifying community-based approaches to preventing #HateCrimes against #Arab, #Jewish & #Asian Americans; & a confidential hotline run by the National Center for #Victims of #Crime to inform crime victims about their rights.
#DOJ cancels grants for #GunViolence & #addiction prevention, #victim #advocacy
In an email to staff, the head of the Justice Department’s Office of #Justice Programs said the canceled grants did not align with #Trump administration priorities.
#law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/22/justice-department-grants-canceled/
Harsono met his future wife in 2022 while studying for his MBA, & they married the next year. They now have an 8-month-old daughter, Adalet, who recently learned how to say “da da” during calls with her jailed father.
“I just wanna kiss my wife on her forehead, & hold my daughter as tight as I can,” Harsono said Wednesday night. “I wanna be there for my daughter.”
Fuck this entire administration and every sociopath who voted for it #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
To add some unasked for context, the #TheCrueltyIsThePoint crowd wants The Others™ to be just as afraid as they are of the world, themselves, and things they dont understand.
They want a fearful people to cry.
The tears are what fill their cup.
Being anguished rather than hopeful, joyful, and ruthless is the emotion the Creepy Weirdos are seeking to provoke.
Quite frankly, I don’t know what to do with this cruel immoral dictator Trump.
If I had my way, I would rather hire mercenaries to break into that #ElSalvador prison and BRING HIM BACK!
the cruelty is NOT the point.
they want you dead. they want you defenseless when they come to murder your neighbors.
they aren’t sadists. they aren’t artful.
they are killers and criminals.
not sure why this has become the new thought-terminating cliche. don’t let the conversation stop just because it sounds poignant.
About 60 letters canceling contracts were sent over the past week, including for major projects w/the #WorldFoodProgram, the world’s largest provider of #food aid, a #USAID ofcl said. An ofcl w/the #UnitedNations in the #MiddleEast said the #WFP received termination letters for US-funded programs in #Lebanon, #Jordan & #Syria.
The projects were being canceled “for the convenience of the US Government” at the direction of #JeremyLewin, a top lieutenant at #Trump *adviser* #ElonMusk’s #DOGE whom the Trump admin appointed to oversee & finish dismantling the #USAID, acc/to letters sent to USAID partners & viewed by the AP.
#Trump admin ends some #USAID contracts providing #lifesaving #aid across the #MiddleEast
The Trump admin has notified the #WorldFoodProgram & other partners that it has terminated some of the last remaining lifesaving #humanitarian programs across the Middle East, a #US ofcl & a #UN ofcl told AP on Mon.
#TheCrueltyIsThePoint #SoftPower #geopolitics #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/usaid-trump-humanitarian-aid-1167e0f64dde9ab6cafa0d5e0b812710
#TheCrueltyIsThePoint
Remember always for everything that they do.
Federal Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin ordered the #Trump admin to restore funds for programs that provides legal services to unaccompanied minors in #immigration proceedings.
“Terminating funding for direct #LegalRepresentation for unaccompanied #children, without any plan to ensure continuity in representation, potentially violates Congress's express directive….”
#law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Constitution #RightToCounsel #6thAmendment #CivilRights #HumanRights
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.447078/gov.uscourts.cand.447078.33.0.pdf
What is preventing this regime from disappearing ANYONE — EVEN US CITIZENS — to a foreign GULAG from which they can never be released? ANSWER: NOTHING! This is an outrage and should be universally condemned. I ask you to speak out, protest, and contact your Senators & Congresspersons in every way possible to stop these terrible violations of law and human rights!
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Has the Trump regime lied by saying that the error involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot be corrected and that he cannot be returned? 2xWTF?! Our tax dollars are paying El Salvador $6 million to run a foreign concentration camp for the US from which no one will ever be released and no one can be allowed DUE PROCESS? 3xWTF!?
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I am appalled, alarmed, angry, and disgusted by the news about people being "disappeared" by #ICE and being taken to an El Salvador prison without their due process rights. We must stop the illegal deportations of #immigrants & #refugees with protected, green card, or other approved statuses in the US. The outrageous actions by #ICE to put these people in an El Salvador #GULAG - aka a #CONCENTRATIONCAMP -
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