Posted on 06/19/2018 7:54:08 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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Word of the Trump administrations new zero tolerance policy, which calls for prosecuting everyone who crosses the border illegally, has been traveling along the migrant trail that winds through Mexico and Central America. People learn of it by television, by social media and, mostly, by word of mouth.
While the policy has stirred controversy in the United States, with lawmakers from both parties calling for its end in the face of defiance from the Trump administration, it has sowed confusion for the migrants bound for the United States, who are struggling to make sense of what it means for the rest of their journey.
Some, like Ms. Flores, are now considering staying in Mexico.
Some are pausing their trips to see if the separation policy is reversed; on Tuesday evening, Republican senators in Washington moved to try to defuse the crisis and find a way to end the policy.
Others are weighing the risks of an illegal crossing against the chances of success with an asylum petition.
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Until the announcement of the zero tolerance policy, and under previous administrations, adults traveling with their minor children were generally exempted from criminal prosecutions.
This was a well-known policy throughout Mexico and Central America, and was often part of the calculus for migrants: Those traveling with their children knew that if they were detained and put into deportation proceedings, they would most likely be released quickly, sometimes with an ankle monitor, to await their day in court.
That was what Ms. Flores understood, until she was told of the new approach.
I had thought that if a mother like me had gone to the border with a child, Id be allowed to leave detention, she said
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The historical record is pretty clear the Emmitt Till was openly rude and disrespectful to the white citizens of the town he was visiting, up to and including being sexually suggestive to at least one white female. Numerous people attested to that fact, even black witnesses.
According to the values of the day, that was not acceptable.
Feel free to point out the “distorted and inaccurate” aspect.
I agree with the Governor.
Don't hold back, FRiend!
I agree wholly.
Till was the Trayvon Martin, Michael "Gentle" Giant Brown of his day, with hoopla orchestrated by the usual suspects.
If bringing children across gets you out of detention and released into the interior of the United States, people will be incentivized to travel with children.
If arriving with children will not get you released, then there is no incentive to cross the border with children.
This policy eliminates the perverse incentive, and therefore protects children.
Again a distorted representation. In Mississippi at that time if a colored person even made eye contact some folks would have that person charged.
A fourteen year old who grew up in the north would not have realized any danger. The people with Till that day did not say he was rude. They said he broke the rules. He talked to a white woman.... the whites are the ones who turned it into something sexual
Even if it was as you describe explain to me exactly how any of that behavior justifies my Ching this fourteen year old?
“On August 24, while standing with his cousins and some friends outside a country store in Money, Emmett bragged that his girlfriend back home was white. Emmetts African-American companions, disbelieving him, dared Emmett to ask the white woman sitting behind the store counter for a date.
He went in, bought some candy, and on the way out was heard saying, Bye, baby to the woman. There were no witnesses in the store, but Carolyn Bryantthe woman behind the counterlater claimed that he grabbed her, made lewd advances and wolf-whistled at her as he sauntered out.”
Read all of it here, including Carolyn Brant’s recanting of her initial claim,
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till
And additional comments in this story. Read it all the way through
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/emmett-till-lynching-carolyn-bryant-donham.html
Now you can quit spreading lies
Part of Big Milam’s interview with Look magazine, $4000 paid for it, after his acquittal
Milam: “Well, what else could we do? He was hopeless. I’m no bully; I never hurt a nigger in my life. I like niggers — in their place — I know how to work ‘em. But I just decided it was time a few people got put on notice. As long as I live and can do anything about it, niggers are gonna stay in their place. Niggers ain’t gonna vote where I live. If they did, they’d control the government. They ain’t gonna go to school with my kids. And when a nigger gets close to mentioning sex with a white woman, he’s tired o’ livin’. I’m likely to kill him. Me and my folks fought for this country, and we got some rights. I stood there in that shed and listened to that nigger throw that poison at me, and I just made up my mind. ‘Chicago boy,’ I said, ‘I’m tired of ‘em sending your kind down here to stir up trouble. Goddam you, I’m going to make an example of you — just so everybody can know how me and my folks stand.’”
Does that make you feel proud?
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