Amrit Cheng

🎥: OK Boomer,

[Amrit Cheng @amritcheng]

how to build a life: find the labor that you love and aim it at justice @tanehisicoates #bigideasnight

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

To avoid straining your eyes at work, use the 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, go for a 20-minute hike and spend the next 20 years in the woods.

[Tessa Davis @TessaRDavis]

10 must-know Japanese concepts that will improve your life:

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

The gov pays a company to collect debt. The company mishandles the debt. Then the company purposely increases its profits by criminally misleading debtors. THEN, when the gov tells the company to erase some of the debt, the company sues for profit-loss.

That company is @MOHELA.

[Amrit Cheng @amritcheng]

I'm on hour two of being on hold with @MOHELA. This is my second call this morning - my first one took an hour to get through to someone and then they hung up right after saying, "hello."

#studentloanforgiveness #PSLF

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

The Biden-Harris Administration has made temporary changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program that make it easier for borrowers working in public service to have their student debt cancelled.

Apply by October 31. Learn more at https://t.co/EA6BlglRy5.

[National Immigration Law Center @NILC]

Reminder as #DACA turns 10 this week:
📢Our dreams are too big to squeeze into two-year increments.
📢Our futures are too important to only be temporarily protected.
📢Our demands are too urgent to be ignored.
#HomeisHere #CitizenshipNow

[Amrit Cheng @amritcheng]

"Black is resilient. Black is beautiful. Black is essential.”

I needed this message and dose of poetry in my feed today. #ImmigrantsareEssential #ImmigrationIsABlackIssue

[National Immigration Law Center @NILC]

Hear us loud and clear:
✨There is no recovery without Black immigrant essential workers!✨#ImmigrantsAreEssential

🗣Spoken word by Rashan Brown

📣Join us in our fight for immigrant workers: https://t.co/fObJNTA5h5

[Lindsay Toczylowski @L_Toczylowski]

Spent this morning visiting a shelter for Ukrainian refugees in Tijuana.

Spent the afternoon at a shelter @ImmDef visits regularly to provide legal services to mostly Haitian & Central American families.

The differences between the two are stark and soul-shattering. 🧵

[National Immigration Law Center @NILC]

For lawmakers calling for a plan: The plan is to reopen access to asylum, in accordance with U.S. law, and allow cases to be processed.

This work is difficult, but necessary and entirely possible to do. Elected officials should contribute to making progress, not obstruct it.

[National Immigration Law Center @NILC]

Title 42 illegally shut down our asylum system for 2+ years. It sowed chaos at the border and put asylum seekers in danger. People died as a result.

The claim that continuing this policy is in the interest of "protecting migrants" is disingenuous at best and deadly at worst.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

The funny thing is that this would actually be a great example of the kind of state/federal/NGO joint response that people have been calling for; getting people to their final destination where they will seek asylum while minimizing disruption to border communities.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

I think some folks read these extensions as savvy politics, but I don’t think those folks understand the panic and disorder it causes people to get so close to these deadlines just to extend the uncertainty. It doesn’t have the affect people think it does.

We should cancel them.

[Molly O'Toole @mollymotoole]

Every story written about Title 42 today should include the line: Seeking asylum is a right under US law. (There is no guarantee-legal or otherwise-an asylum seeker will get it.) It is absolutely necessary for accuracy; to exclude is inaccurate, & irresponsible. That is the law

[Amrit Cheng @amritcheng]

Since I heard these words seven (!) years ago, I've kept them close as a reminder that where you invest your time and talents matter.

Now I'm so excited to have joined @NILC as the Head of Digital, where I can do the things I love in pursuit of immigrant justice.

[Amrit Cheng @amritcheng]

how to build a life: find the labor that you love and aim it at justice @tanehisicoates #bigideasnight

[Janai Nelson @JNelsonLDF]

This ad is clear and unfiltered race-baiting by a major political party whose members are charged with a constitutional obligation to advise and consent. @GOP is this how you treat the first Black woman to be nominated SCOTUS and who is eminently qualified to serve on the Court?

[Saeed Jones @theferocity]

WHEW. “We see no reason to celebrate 70 years of the ascension of your grandmother to the British throne because her leadership, and that of her predecessors, have perpetuated the greatest human rights tragedy in the history of humankind.”

[National Immigration Law Center @NILC]

.@POTUS is continuing to use Title 42 — a Trump order that exploits the pandemic to expel people seeking asylum in the U.S. to danger.

Experts agree: Title 42 is inhumane, unlawful, and has no public health justification.

Watch our video on why @POTUS must #EndTitle42 ⬇️

[Brett Kelman @BrettKelman]

In Tennessee, a small predominately Black town is poised to get a huge economic boost from the construction of a big Ford factory. Then the state government gave them an ultimatum: dissolve your town charter, or we will seize control of your finances. https://t.co/ASbvJtxIlj