Beto O'Rourke leads protest against separation of immigrant families
Source: ElPasoTimes
Hundreds of people from across the region and other parts of the country joined U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, as he led a protest Sunday in Tornillo against the separation of immigrant families.
O'Rourke said, "We're wanting to make sure that everyone in this country knows what is happening here, in their name, in Tornillo, where kids have traveled 2,000 miles, some alone, some with their parents, are being held in detention camps, tent cities that have just been constructed over the course of this last week."
He added, "We want to make sure we help this country to make the right decision, and part of that is knowing what's going on in the first place."
He said, "This is a decision for the country to make. Either we are going to be a country of detention camps for kids, of walls, of sending the National Guard to the border, or we are going to be better than that. But it's not decided by any means, and though we've been able to figure it out in the past, doesn't mean we're going to figure it out this time. It's on us. No one is going to do this for us.
Read more: https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2018/06/17/beto-orourke-leads-protest-against-separation-immigrant-families-tornillo-tent-city-children/708562002/
Senator Joe Kennedy is also participating in the protest.
GOP Congressman Will Hurd says that the Tornillo tent city, now with a capacity of 400, could expand to 4,000 beds for immigrant children.
Emilio Mola
(7 posts)Sharing with friends.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Hurd, a Republican whose district includes the port of entry in Tornillo, said: "At the end of the day, in the land of the free and the home of the brave, we should not be using children as deterrents when it comes to our broken immigration system."
As of Friday, the shelter in Tornillo had 400 beds prepared and Hurd said it is expected to hit its targeted capacity of 360 people shortly. Hurd said federal officials are evaluating whether to increase the number of beds to 4,000.
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herding cats
(19,565 posts)His opponent, Gina Ortiz Jones, the daughter of an immigrant mother.
Woman, Lesbian, Filipina-American, Iraq Veteran: How Gina Ortiz Jones Could Make Texas Political History
https://www.thedailybeast.com/woman-lesbian-filipina-american-iraq-veteran-how-gina-ortiz-jones-could-make-texas-political-history
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)AllyCat
(16,189 posts)With the KKKGOP because that is who he is.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)cats (posted above) says his seat is flippable, and that Gina Ortiz Jones is poised to do just that -
GOOD
AllyCat
(16,189 posts)Can be good humans. And then the vote comes and Lucy/football repeats again.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Tornillo, Texas is somewhere in the desert where people don't go about 20 miles outside of El Paso. I've been in El Paso and Juarez, the rest is BFE to the outside world. This concentration tent facility will be somewhere outside Tornillo.
This picture of the Tornillo area doesn't show the killer summer heat out here. A child just collapsed at bat, from the heat, at our grandson's baseball game in Arkansas (we were following on line). An ambulance took him to the hospital to make sure he was stable. It's full summer in the southwest. These children will be forced to shelter all day inside tents, with temperatures outside routinely over 100 degrees as summer progresses.
This is OUR atrocity and OUR shame.
sandensea
(21,636 posts)'Screw' as in nuts and bolts - but still quite a coincidence, considering what Cheeto's doing to our democracy and the rule of law.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)sandensea
(21,636 posts)I wouldn't put it past these Brownshirts to have deliberately chosen the spot for its name, in case anyone doubted their intent.
Well, I've got another one for them:
Nuremberg.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Or close enough. The death camps were in eastern Europe. Earlier in Germany came the concentration camps, where people were slowly starved and worked to death, but with a few carefully set up tours of charming streets populated with Jews given new clothes and scripts to show the outside world how well treated the inmates were.
The same template. Same Nazis.
LeftInTX
(25,364 posts)which grows in the area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopis_pubescens
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Today:
HERE: FROM APRIL 4, 2018
Representative Joe Kennedy III was Representative Beto ORourkes chauffer in Texas, and was in charge of getting him to his next meeting.
https://nowthisnews.com/videos/politics/joe-kennedy-iii-and-beto-orourke-go-on-the-best-road-trip-ever
mbusby
(823 posts)...is from Texas. He is in Texas a lot to visit his in-laws.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)They obviously have a good friendship as well as political partnership.
And they're funny too
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)duhneece
(4,113 posts)And someone hollered 2020 Running Mates
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)We have the collective wisdom of years with our greats to lead the way, guard their path and hand these two the keys.
But wait..I have to have my fav Sen Kamala in the line-up too.
We have A LOT of superior 2020 candidates.
I do love where these two are taking the future, however!
It is time.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)I am proud and ready to support and follow them in this endeavor.
is the key!
Angel in Texasperated
Blue Wave!
SunSeeker
(51,564 posts)Thank you Beto!!
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)The last time I saw Americans with guns and uniforms putting people (detainees) into tents to be detained (imprisoned) was during OIF3 when I spent a year in Abu Ghraib prison. Our motto in the in-processing center read "Winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people one detainee at a time". Rod Serling couldn't have put it better. If terrifying children and making them wail when separated from their families makes you feel safer as an American, then I can only say with all the venom I can muster - Fuck You with a rusty rake!
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)catrose
(5,068 posts)I'm not sure this is a complete list, but here's a few:
* El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar
* El Paso County Judge Ruben Vogt
* Democratic candidate for Texas governor, Lupe Valdez
Stuart G
(38,428 posts)Perhaps this one idea will get rid of Cruz forever... that would be a very good thing..!!!