I often talk about the funding mismatch on immigration enforcement vs. adjudication. This graph shows what I mean.
Congress spent $3.4 billion ICE's Custody Operations budget, nearly 3x the combined total spent on our entire immigration court and asylum system.
“Capping entries at the border is not going to stop people from coming. It’s caving into the demands & rhetoric that the Right is setting up. I would hope we would have Democratic leadership that would be bolder in their stance, and center human beings involved” @HFDimmigrants
Update: @ACLU taking legal action to block Biden’s executive order in the courts 👏
Murphy: Biden order on immigration might not pass legal muster | Connecticut Public https://t.co/subpJCCwL3
I went on @democracynow to talk about Biden’s new border rule which directly contravenes US law, guts asylum protections, and will imperil and certainly kill migrants.
Read more about the new rule at @AZLuminaria https://t.co/SUcin8hdxk
what this reads like to me:
We don't have enough resources to consider all claims so we are going to find an arbitrary way to cut their number and target people crossing the border unlawfully-- no matter their claims.
https://t.co/XnqgjAHoj5
ACLU announces it will sue to block the Biden administration's new restriction on asylum, comparing it to the 2018 Trump executive order which cited the same legal authority and which was very quickly blocked in court.
Hartford City Council today voted to throw the students and teachers under the bus, choosing to approve a budget that increases police funding but slashes schools.
City councilor @RSGAT was not having it.
The terrible outcome, which gives us clarity on what our elected leaders choose to do with our money: disinvest in young people and public education, while increasing the budget of police. Shameful.
Hartford parents, students, and neighbors! Join us to demand more funding for our schools!! $30million in public education cuts is criminal. Our kids education will suffer. This is not ok.
@4_Husky advocates for children who are unable to do so for themselves. We demand an increase in coverage this session.
Click here to contact your representative and let them know you stand in support of #HB5048:
https://t.co/bqZeGV5NZ7