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fromacomrade:

Are y’all following the recent news about Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE)?

1. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently announced that ICE will separate children from their parents in detention, with no word on when they will be reunited (More here: http://time.com/5268572/jeff-sessions-illegal-border-separated/)

2. Of the 7,000+ children picked up by ICE and placed in homes in 2017, 1,475 children are currently missing and unaccounted for. (More here: http://time.com/5256734/government-missing-migrant-children/)

3. Documents obtained by the ACLU show massive horrific abuse of children in ICE custody, including kicking a child in the ribs, running over a 17 year old with a patrol car, sexually assaulting a 16 year old girl in a search, and detaining a 4 pound premature baby and her mother in an overcrowded and dirty cell full of sick people. (More here: https://www.aclusandiego.org/civil-rights-civil-liberties/)

4. ICE plans to destroy records of immigrant abuse, including sexual assault and deaths in custody (From an August 2017 report, more here: https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses/ice-plans-start-destroying-records-immigrant)

ICE was only created in 2003, as part of the US’s post-9/11 hyper-militarized, xenophobic frenzy. We didn’t have this department 16 years ago, we do not need it, and we should abolish it immediately. I do not say this lightly: ICE is America’s gestapo and we should treat them with that level of serious resistance.

ghastlyshilo:

aspects of emotionally abusive parent/child relationships that i still can’t believe they included in tangled:

  • gothel appearing genuinely sweet and caring at times, enough to possibly even confuse the audience
  • the mumbling: just having that tiny insignificant little thing be something that gothel consistently, for no discernible reason, gets pissed about
  • having a special “i love you” exchange: seriously like idk if this is common but i had the same sort of thing with my abusive dad and the first time they said the whole “i love you more” “i love you most” thing i was like holy SHIT
  • when gothel says “oh great, now i’m the bad guy”: i cannot stress enough that 100% of the time any parent who complains about being the bad guy is abusive
  • and then later when she’s like “you want me to be the bad guy? fine” as if rapunzel’s making her do all this by not wanting to be locked up forever
  • when rapunzel tells pascal “shh, don’t let her see you”: why wouldn’t gothel want rapunzel to have a pet?? they never explain that, but they don’t need to, because of course she won’t allow rapunzel to have this harmless thing that makes her happy
  • rapunzel having an entire sequence where she struggles with finally feeling free and happy and also thinking that makes her a terrible person because her mother wouldn’t like it

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