Tweeting on health care policy, immigration, advocacy in TX, and other topics of interest. Lucky in love. Opinions are my own.
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Cheasty A retweeted
Policies are necessary but they must be humane. Proud to co-author with @CheastyAnderson, a terrific writer. Thanks also to Tatiana Londoño and Jamie Turcios-Villalta.
JUST RELEASED: @CDFTexas's @CheastyAnderson and @TexasSteveHicks's Dean Luis Zayas have co-authored a powerful report on the mental health impacts of family detention and the community alternatives that should replace the inhumane policy. Learn more: cdftexas.org/policy/media/20…
Cheasty A retweeted
Whoa. This is a first to my knowledge—the property owners of detention center (who lease it to a private prison company) suing to terminate the lease.
Big developments for ICE detention in NJ going on right now. Feels like a dam has finally burst.
Breaking: Yet another ICE detention facility may close in NJ. Today the owners of the former warehouse where @CoreCivic operates ICE's Elizabeth Detention Center sued CoreCivic to get out of the lease, alleging CoreCivic endangered detainees' lives by violating Covid rules. 1/
Cheasty A retweeted
This is a great article showing that while the state of Texas is apparently abandoning any role in the safe processing of asylum seekers, local communities are stepping up.
Per @RepEscobar: "Plans are in place for each migrant to be tested and quarantined if they test positive."
El Paso is ready to #WelcomeWithDignity
Grateful to Annunciation House, @HopeBorder and County of El Paso for leading us in welcoming and preparedness. Thank you for helping restore the right to seek asylum in the US. elpasomatters.org/2021/03/08…
Cheasty A retweeted
There are literally no caravans. The last one to leave Honduras in early January was broken up in Guatemala 2,000 miles from the US border and before Biden even took office. Since then, there haven't been any.
But of course facts aren't the point. Xenophobic fearmongering is.
Cheasty A retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Today, the Biden administration agreed to end all SCOTUS appeals of the previous administration’s #PublicCharge ‘wealth test’, which targeted low-income immigrants and their families. This paves the way for ending this dangerous & racist rule.
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Cheasty A retweeted
LIGHTS ON TEXAS, is tomorrow, y'all! So many amazing people have stepped up to support @FeedingTexas, including @joifortexas @wendydavis @BetoORourke @JulieOliverTX & musicians @_jakeetheridge @tiarragirls and @NancyWilson!! Stay tuned for a full slate.
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Cheasty A retweeted
If we go back to the Obama years, the number of families arriving at the border is completely precedented.
In other words, there is not a strong signal of a 2019 level spike in the arrivals of families and children.
What is there a spike of? Single adults, thanks to Title 42.
Cheasty A retweeted
#OTD 1944 activist, Angela Davis was born. This is her childhood home. They were the first blacks to live in the neighborhood. The neighborhood was called "Dynamite Hill" because of homes that were being bombed by the KKK. Follow @SankofaTravelHr
Cheasty A retweeted
#OTD 1947 PFC James Anderson was born. He was the first black to receive the Medal of Honor posthumously for sacrificing his life by curling around a grenade and absorbed the majority of the blast with his body, saving the lives of Marines in Vietnam. Follow @SankofaTravelHr
Cheasty A retweeted
Somehow we weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn't broken
but simply unfinished
There is always light
if only we're brave enough to see it
if only we're brave enough to be it.
— Amanda Gorman
Cheasty A retweeted
Powerful image: Ella Fitzgerald jailed in 1955 for singing to an integrated audience.
via - KYNow – at Maysville, KY
Cheasty A retweeted
As you honor my father today, please honor my mother, as well. She was the architect of the King Legacy and founder of @TheKingCenter, which she founded less than three months after Daddy died. Without #CorettaScottKing, there would be no #MLKDay. #MLK #BelovedCommunity
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#OTD 1891, Bridget "Biddy" Mason, passed away. Born into slavery, she was a midwife, sued her master for her and her families freedom that was granted in 1856, became one of the first black women to own property in downtown Los Angeles in the 1850-60s. Follow @SankofaTravelHr
Cheasty A retweeted
The death penalty is fundamentally a poor person’s issue. Over nearly 40 years of visiting death row facilities across the United States, I have never met a single person with money or resources. Capital punishment means “those without the capital get the punishment.”
Cheasty A retweeted
NEW — At least 701 migrant children have crossed the US border alone after their families were required to wait in Mexico under the Trump admin's MPP policy.
Lawyers say these children are being denied safeguards Congress created for unaccompanied minors.
cbsnews.com/news/children-wh…
Cheasty A retweeted
#OTD 2002 veteran Charity Adams Earley passed away. She was the first black woman to receive a commission in the Women’s Army Corp and commanded the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only unit of black women to serve overseas in World War II. Follow @SankofaTravelHr
Cheasty A retweeted
For those not familiar with the issue, due to green card backlogs, children who are derivatives on their parents' nonimmigrant visas (e.g. H-1B) can be forced to leave the United States when they turn 21 unless they find another status—even if they grew up here.
