"Controlled immigration = good. Open borders = bad."
We have the longest open border in the world. It runs from Washington to Maine. Maybe you can build a wall, and get Canada to pay for it.
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"many Swedes probably feel terribly left alone in a country that increasingly resembles a war zone."
Many people here feel the same way. We'd all feel better if Trump went back to where he came from, even if they don't want him.
'Never again means close the camps': Jews protest ICE across the country
A growing group of young Jews formed Never Again Action to protest the mistreatment of migrants in ICE detention.
July 15, 2019, 4:40 AM EDT
By Ben Kesslen
Serena Adlerstein didn’t expect her Facebook status to turn into a nationwide movement but somehow her words managed to mobilize thousands of young Jews to the streets, protesting the treatment of migrants in U.S. detention.
“I made an offhand Facebook post like, ‘What if young Jews occupied ICE detention centers and shut them down?’” Adlerstein, 25, told NBC News.
People responded, and by that evening, on June 24, she was on the phone with other young Jews from around the country planning a protest, and hundreds of people had signed up on a Google doc expressing interest in joining.
Adlerstein is not new to activism; she’s an organizer with Movimiento Cosecha, which works to secure better conditions for immigrants. As she watched pundits and politicians debate whether to call migrant detention centers “concentration camps”, she was reminded of the Holocaust refrain she was raised on: “Never Again.”
“Never Again,” she thought, is now.
A week later, on Sunday, June 30, about 200 protesters under the banner of the newly formed Never Again Action protested outside a detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Thirty-six people were arrested that day, and the demonstration had sparked a burgeoning movement.
“My intent wasn’t to start an organization or a long-term movement,” Adlerstein said. But now that Never Again Action has spread across the country, she’s leaning into it.
Since that initial protest, just two weeks ago, Never Again Action has organized more than 10 different protests around the country, in states from California to Rhode Island, and more are scheduled in the coming weeks.
In Boston on July 2, more than 1,000 protesters gathered at the New England Holocaust Memorial, where they marched to a nearby jail where ICE houses detainees. In Philadelphia, 33 people were arrested when they blocked the city’s Fourth of July parade, holding sings like ‘Never Again Means Close the Camps.”
On Tuesday, Never Again Action has planned what they are saying will be their biggest action yet, hoping to bring thousands to the National Mall in Washington.
Never Again Action, which describes itself as a “mass mobilization calling for Jews to shut down ICE and hold the political establishment accountable,” is decentralized, shies away from calling itself an “organization” and is not receiving outside funding from nonprofits or political groups. Using GoFundMe, the group was able to amass over $180,000 in just over a week to support the legal fees of those arrested at the actions.
The group’s organizers are mostly young Jews, staying up late, taking time off work and using their free time to plan the string of protest. They said they are getting practical advice from Movimiento Cosecha, like making sure they aren’t blocking access to detention centers during visitation hours, and crowdsourcing skills from people who want to help and know what it takes to plan large protests.
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