ICE is currently sitting on 1,224 complaints of sexual assault and abuse in its detention centers, going all the way back to January of 2010. The Inspector General only investigated 30. That’s not to mention the 33,126 complaints made against multiple DHS agencies since 2010; 75% of those were made against ICE and Border Patrol. The Inspector General only investigated 247.
These institutions are hurting people, and they need to disappear.
One of the reasons it’s important to know that the US has done things like this before (for almost any value of this, not just the current border situation) is because people have fought things like this before. Knowing what tactics they used tells us what worked and what didn’t.
And some of those policies stopped because of activism. It’s possible to win.
All I’m seeing in most “This is America” posts is incitement of despair and hopelessness. Don’t encourage people to give up.
Yes, this! I’ve been trying to be careful myself to avoid reblogging posts with too much despairing commentary, but I see an unfortunate amount of them.
I’ve seen some commentary positing that at least some of those posts are psyops specifically designed to impose a sense of inevitability and helplessness, but whether they are or not (although I’m inclined to believe that at least some are), that is certainly the effect they have.
The other day, I read Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt and loved the cover so much that I got inspired by it. You totally should read the book if you’re into Hades & Persephone, though.
