Kisha Borden

Educator, Traveler, Lover of books. Working everyday to support teachers and students, and defend public education. My tweets are my own.

[VoteVets @votevets]

This is officially the single WORST administration for Veterans in American history.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Why are all of Trump’s spiritual advisors pedophiles and crooks? This is Paula White, his current advisor! His previous advisor, Robert Morris, founder and pastor of Gateway megachurch in Texas, was just released from jail for sexually abusing a 12 yr old. 😡

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents are arresting unaccompanied minors, trafficking them across state borders, and then “losing”them.

Sixteen-year-old Sebastian, an asylum-seeker from Ecuador, was driving in Minneapolis when immigration agents pulled him over in early January. He managed to call his father before they confiscated his phone.

Then he disappeared.

Instead of processing him locally, federal agents moved him from holding area to holding area, kept him overnight in a HOTEL under guard, and then flew him to Michigan.

He was placed in a federally contracted Christian youth shelter, and given 5 vaccines.

All while his family had no idea where he was.

For nearly a week, the government could not… or would not… tell his father where his 16-year-old son had been taken. When his attorney filed an emergency petition, an ICE lawyer responded that it “does not appear that this Petitioner is in ICE custody.”

He had been arrested by ICE… He had been transported by ICE.

But suddenly, according to ICE, he wasn’t in ICE custody.

After agents picked him up, they labeled him an “unaccompanied minor” and issued him a new alien number, even though he already had one as an asylum-seeker.

That second number made him nearly impossible to track once he was transferred into the federal shelter system.

When his lawyer finally located him in Michigan, he had been confined for over a week, he was not allowed to disclose his location to his father, his movement was restricted, and his communication was monitored.

This is what they are calling “ensuring safety.”

The shelter he was sent to… Bridgeway, operated by Bethany Christian Services…has a documented history of violations.

In 2023, a counselor there was charged with sexually abusing immigrant youth. State inspections later found compliance failures, including background check issues and evidence of staff hazing children.

This facility receives millions in federal funding.

Sebastian’s family was lucky. They were able to hire a lawyer. They were able to track him through paperwork the government claimed did not exist. They were able to physically show up and get him out.

How many families don’t have that kind of help?

How many parents are calling numbers that lead nowhere?

How many children are sitting in facilities under new identification numbers, waiting for someone to figure out where they’ve been sent?

If it takes a federal court order, and private investigators, to locate a 16-year-old the government admits it picked up…

That’s a system where the government is knowingly trafficking children, unless their family has the resources to pull them back.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

ICE agents in Minnesota pulled up behind a woman in her vehicle and hit it and then drug her out of her car saying she hit them when it was right in front of another ladies home with a ring camera that captured it all! The woman is an American citizen too!

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Clarice Phelps is the first Black woman credited with discovering a periodic element, Tennessine (Element 117). She works at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and now mentors the next generation. Black women belong in STEM. When we see ourselves in science, we know we belong there too.

[Andrea 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @WholePlateWay]

He’s right…

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Wanda Cooper-Jones continues to honor her son Ahmaud in the most beautiful way, through the activity he loved most. On Monday, she's hosting the 5th annual memorial run in Brunswick to keep his spirit alive. It's healing. It's remembrance. It's a mother's enduring LOVE.

[Kisha Borden @sherm71]

What really happened to Troy?

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Torrance “Tory” Medley was found hanging from a tree in Brookfield, Wisconsin on Nov. 13. His family & the NAACP are demanding transparency, saying his death was reportedly labeled a possible suicide within hours. We echo their call: Tory deserves answers.https://t.co/GA9bByHnep

[Chuck Park @chuckforqueens]

A Queens 1st grader. Looks like my son did at that age. Big glasses. Sweet smile.

Now alone, scared at an unknown ICE detention center. Taken from his dad at a routine check in.

This is what we're fighting against. This kid is who we're fighting for.

https://t.co/WTiMhpfPMt

[Kisha Borden @sherm71]

Disgusting.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Kristi Noem lying again saying Tim Walz committed fraud in Minnesota because 50%of Visas were fraudulent! Visas aren’t issued by the State they’re issued by the Federal Government! This Administration has no clue WTF they’re doing!

[Zack Stephenson @zackstephenson]

What’s happening in Minnesota right now is the worst of what Donald Trump does best; he’s trying to distract us from his own failures by shifting the blame.

But scapegoating the Somali community won’t lower the price of groceries.

In Minnesota, we stand by our Somali neighbors.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Rachel Maddow: “Russia is a podunk country. The idea that we work for him is so humiliating and is such an abject failure on the part of Trump in terms of his weakness. I don’t know what Putin has on him, but he works for Putin and it’s an embarrassment to this country”

[Kisha Borden @sherm71]

These people call themselves patriots…

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Andrew Paul Johnson 44 who was pardoned by Trump for storming the Capitol was just arrested for Molesting his ex girlfriend’s 11 year old son and then trying to bribe him into being quiet with the money he thinks he will get from the alleged January 6th payout! 🤬

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Crockett on MTG quitting:

“You turned on Trump for one week and already folded? Try being in my seat every day.

If you can’t take the heat, Congress was never for you.”

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb:

“The Constitution is not adequate to deal with a President as evil as Trump—somebody whose desire is to accumulate and abuse power. Trump’s abuses of power are unprecedented.”

[Winter @LeftyWinter]

AOC on MTG retiring:

"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office.
She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she's STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes."

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

In Charlotte, NC, @StatusCoup has this man read his poem to their video journalist @JonFarinaPhoto. This is raw, and it hits the heart that our government is doing this to people in our own country; these actions shouldn't be allowed anywhere.
#DemsUnited

[Rep. Summer Lee @RepSummerLee]

It's hypocritical that Republicans are holding hearings about strengthening students' skills while they allow the Trump administration to dismantle the Department of Education—the sole agency tasked with expanding these same students' opportunities.

And it's always our marginalized students who suffer the most.