Yeah, this would happen under basically any administration.

No, most administrations would recognize she’s not a threat and would let her go home and make her attend a court date in the future to sort it out. Locking her up for weeks doesn’t protect anyone and it doesn’t solve anything. They’re doing it just to be cruel.

That’s not the point. Don’t be pedantic. The point is that she shouldn’t be in custody at all. They had the option of letting her go home with a court date. They chose to lock her up for weeks instead.

We have idiots up here too.

Also we didn’t stop counting cases.

It just comes off as cruel and judgy like a juvenile tween.

Just how conservatives like it.

Sounds like the meeting was just long enough for Trump to receive his new orders.

Wikipedia defines an invasion as:

An invasion is a military offensive of combatants of one geopolitical entity, usually in large numbers, entering territory controlled by another similar entity, often involving acts of aggression.[1]

Attacking Mexico would be an invasion.

Just don’t call any of this a plan for an invasion, U.S. government officials implore.

Go fuck yourself. It’s an invasion.

Team Trump Is Actually Drawing Up Attack Invasion Plans for Mexico

Thorward said border officials had the discretion to grant Shaw humanitarian parole rather than detaining her.

There was no need to imprison a non-violent offender who had been doing everything legally and made a mistake in not renewing the travel authorization.

They should’ve released her and given her a mandatory court date.

How could anyone look at what’s happening in the US right now and think “count me in!”?

Donald Trump is heavily linked to Jeffrey Epstein.

Just following orders.

Because Trump is a weak little piss baby.

TACO

Show us the Trump/Epstein files

The most vocal anti-LGBT+ try to convince others, but mostly they’re trying to convince themselves.

It’s just a matter of time. Fascists are not kind to their neighbours.

Elbows up.

“Our society thrived when everyone was smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey,”

Correlation vs causation.

You could say “we became the most powerful nation in the world with leaded gasoline and asbestos”. They were around at the same time too.

The fury has reached finger waggling and strongly worded letter writing levels again.

how are they winning?

Because the American people haven’t stood up to stop them yet.

Dear American people. Please stand up and stop them. It’s your democracy at stake.

The first step to any of these things is explaining to me how we break Americans out of their complacent stupor. And honestly, the only way I can think to do that, is to wait for things to get much much much worse. Not until people are literally fighting for their survival will they be willing to do much of these things.

I think this is true too. People are too fat and comfortable and lazy to bother. It’s going to get so much worse to get them to wake up. Hopefully it won’t be a loved one getting dragged off by the gestapo to convince them to resist.

Defeatism has never changed a thing.

Well enjoy your death camps then since there’s clearly nothing to be done.

I always thought Americans would at least TRY to save their democracy. But making excuses is easier.

Tell us how to fight back against one of the most highly militarized police forces in the world and the most powerful army in the world?

Afghani peasants did it. The Iraqis did it. The Vietnamese did it.

You never fight an enemy on their terms. The military control the guns. American civilians control EVERYTHING ELSE. Authorities can only be in one location. Citizens are everywhere.

Organize.

Block roads. Obstruct government and commerce. Hit infrastructure. Dump manure in the streets like the French. Stop garbage pickup. Bring society to its knees.

If those nations I mentioned can do it then surely the “home of the brave” can too.