Graham writes: "Kneeling in front of riot police, 32 religious leaders and activists were arrested at the U.S. border fence in San Diego on Monday during a protest to support the Central American migrant caravan."
The arrests marked the second confrontation with U.S. authorities since the caravan reached Tijuana. (photo: Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
US Arrests Religious Leaders, Activists at Border Protest
11 December 18
neeling in front of riot police, 32 religious leaders and activists were arrested at the U.S. border fence in San Diego on Monday during a protest to support the Central American migrant caravan.
More than 400 demonstrators, many leaders of churches, mosques, synagogues and indigenous communities, sought a halt to detention and deportation of migrants and for the United States to welcome the caravan that arrived in Tijuana, Mexico in November.
Singing and praying, religious leaders moved forward in lines of four to six, some wearing T-shirts reading, �Love Knows No Borders.� They were handcuffed and led away by federal agents upon entering a restricted area in front of the fence.
�As a Quaker who believes in our shared humanity...We�re calling on the U.S. to respect the rights of migrants,� said Joyce Ajlouny, general secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, which has run a week of actions to back migrants.
U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Theron Francisco said 31 people were arrested by Federal Protective Services for trespassing and one was arrested by Border Patrol for assaulting an agent.
The arrests marked the second confrontation with U.S. authorities since the caravan reached Tijuana. U.S. Border Patrol agents fired tear gas at migrants on Nov. 25 after they said they had stones thrown at them.
Thousands of migrants are living in crowded shelters and encampments in Tijuana after traveling from Central America to escape poverty and violence. They may have to wait weeks or months to claim asylum at the U.S. border.
Data released on Monday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) showed asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border rose 67 percent in the 2018 fiscal year from a year earlier.
U.S. immigration officials say these claims, most of which are accepted, exploit a legal loophole allowing migrants to enter the United States while they await a court hearing on their asylum case.
�As the majority of these claims will not be successful when they are adjudicated by an immigration court, we need Congress to act to address these vulnerabilities,� CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said in a statement.
Protest leaders said President Donald Trump had portrayed the caravan as a security threat to advance his �anti-immigrant� agenda and further restrict migrants� ability to seek asylum.
A U.S. judge in November blocked Trump�s proclamation to bar migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally from seeking asylum.
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And you know? The Earth will end before these people are ever thoroughly investigated.
And in this situation we are presently enduring, finding one Republican senator who who vote for impeachment would be so very hard. To find 4 or 5 or even more would be impossible. Mostly because Power is more important than truth, light and the Old American, supposed to be, way.
It is not so hard to understand. Graham is just pissed at democrats and the way they have treated Trump. You saw his anger in the Kavanaugh hearing. He thinks democrats have crossed a line of fairness and truth. On this point, I agree with Graham -- though I am reluctant to admit it openly.
On all other thins Graham is repugnant. Maybe not as bad as his predecessor, Strom Thurmond.
Your state does not have much of a record of sending decent people to congress. You guys need to organize down there and get rid of the Dixiecrats and Reagan Republicans.
Get over it folks, there is no virtue in allowing your ideological enemies to poison the well, define the terrain of discussion, and derail the project of radical social change. Most of the posts in this thread (obviously including mine) are responses to RR. So he wins again. We did not have a serious discussion on an important article in a critical source (Intercept) by a reputable journalist (Mehdi Hassan) because of RR's flame throwing. It does not make us look more noble to allow this prick to use RSN as his soapbox. We pay, he spews, damage is done
PS- I do contribute.
You can't be an honest participant in a discussion if you hide things.
Quoting revhen 2020-01-27 10:58:
- repukes don't feel shame!
it's been drummed out of them by generations of white, racist preachers!
It's also convenient that the Senate trial coincides with the final stumping for the Iowa Caucus, and all the progressives' darlings are stuck in the hearing. But hey, Orange Man bad...
I think you're right about Bloomberg if they can get to a contested DNC Convention. Bloomberg will bribe his way onto the ticket.
Still, I think between the stupor-delegate s and the proportional delegates model, Biden will have it wrapped up after Super Tuesday. It's sad to think that people will rally around Biden or Bloomberg, but it is what it is...
"If we nominate Trump we will get destroyed ...
and we will deserve it." Lindsey Graham,
Republican Senator, 05/03/2016.
Verified at Snopes.com
I'm hoping that if Republican senators fail to vote to remove Trump from office, their party will be FINISHED. For in that case, the old GOP will have morphed completely into the Cult of Trump. The party of Honest Abe Lincoln will have become the cult of a con-artist. Sensible people should abandon this cult by the millions.