#migration law

[dlbconsulting]

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[future-crab]

I need to relearn Mandarin. I can’t let myself be outdone by tiktokkers.

[onlytiktoks]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Violet Miller and Samantha Donndelinger at Uncloseted Media, via Chicago Sun-Times:

Rylee Schermerhorn, an 18-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana, is spending her final high school days pet-sitting in the afternoons and planning to go to college to study dental hygiene. But as a trans woman, she’s worried about President Donald Trump’s executive orders seeking to ban gender-affirming care for patients under 19 through legal action and withholding of federal funds. It’s why she’s eyeing a move to Illinois, or possibly Michigan, as soon as she finishes school and can afford to. She’s one of many considering moving to haven states as Trump increasingly targets trans people and states like Iowa repeal civil rights protections for the community. “Illinois is one of the few states that’s been standing up against a lot of the conservative push against our community,” she said. “I want to be able to start my life and do it in a place where I know I’m going to be accepted.” Schermerhorn, who started on hormones in September and has been out as trans since 15, said her “whole trans experience has been dictated by this state government.” “I don’t want to wait around and watch my life continue to get worse,” Schermerhorn said. “I wasn’t able to have access to health care until I was 18. Now I’m worried it’s going to get taken away. … I don’t get how they can just change what it means to be an adult.” Despite a federal judge temporarily blocking the order March 4 — which could hold enforcement of the order until the case is finished depending on the federal government’s expected appeal — Schermerhorn is still stocking up on her medicines. “This order proved that, even for just a few weeks, it’s possible for our federal government to disrupt the medical care we rely on,” Schermerhorn said. “They’ve proven they can and will shift the goalposts because this was never about minors. I’m a legal adult and I could have been affected. The legal minimums could easily be raised … to them ultimately taking away all of our healthcare.”

Midwest oasis

About 40% of LGBTQ+ youth reported considering moving to a different state because of laws targeting LGBTQ+ people, according to the Trevor Project’s 2024 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People, a survey of nearly 19,000 LGBTQ+ people ages 13 to 24. Nearly 20% of trans people in that age range had to cross state lines for medical care because of the policies. There was no exodus, though, as just 4%, or approximately 266,000 youth total, actually moved. But states that passed anti-trans laws aimed at youth saw suicide attempts among trans teens increase by as much as 72% after the bills were signed. Fourteen states and Washington, D.C., have shield laws for gender-affirming care, which protect patients and providers from legal actions spurred by other states’ laws, though Illinois is considered one of the sole havens for displaced trans people in the Midwest. Illinois law also prohibits discrimination based on gender identity by healthcare providers and requires state-regulated insurance plans to cover hormone therapy. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul vowed last month to protect gender-affirming care in the face of federal funding cuts to hospitals that offered it to people under the age of 19. He and a coalition of attorneys general also secured a win in federal court that directed the government to resume funding that the Trump administration threatened to freeze. But as trans youth are increasingly targeted by executive orders, some providers — such as Lurie Children’s Hospital and University of Illinois Health — have altered or ended certain gender-affirming care programs despite them being protected by state law. [...]

Moving out

Many still fear the worst outcomes, especially in states without shield laws. A 16-year-old high school student from the Western suburbs — who didn’t want to be identified over safety concerns — said their aspirations to double major in STEM and music had already narrowed their college search. But as the orders rolled out, finding a state where they can legally access gender-affirming care — even as an adult — has become a key factor in identifying the ideal college option. “I’m trying to narrow it down to places it won’t be hell to live in,” they said. “That’s my main concern.” After a visit to one dream school in Tennessee, they realized it “wasn’t the environment for me.” “It’s limiting my opportunities, and that’s the worst part,” they said. “As someone with as big of ambitions as I have, it’s hard to think I can’t do this because of my safety.” The high schooler’s trans friends are looking to study in more trans-inclusive countries where they feel they would be guaranteed gender-affirming healthcare, though trans people’s passports have also been targeted by executive orders.

Gender-affirming care bans for trans youths (and increasingly adults) are leading trans people to eye moves to Illinois and other shield law states or even out of the USA entirely for their safety's sake.

[nando161mando]

Ants and borders

[firefighter-diazbuckley]

yk it’s bad enough that we could say that the erie canal was influential in starting the civil war but i truly believe you could make the argument that it also led to the great migration

[sophism]

who wants to give me some career advice on this wednesday afternoon when i should be working my real job.....

[trashbirdthoughts]

I’m tired of my body being grounds for battlelines to be drawn upon in blood.

I am so tired of fighting to have space in the world to exist.

I hope they hear our screams in their dreams never able to rest.

I hope they are haunted by our ghosts, and never allowed to live in peace. May they know the hurt they have caused us.

Fuck them.

[hecateisalesbian]

so like…what was that??

[tearsofrefugees]

[gentrychild]

AND you're denying your involvement! How disappointing. There will be consequences, Gentry, if you want to break the owl oaths

I am not denying my involvement, I am arguing that you can't accuse me of being responsible for this mess as the simps do what they want, I have never been able to control them, and I should not be blamed for their behavior!

[chterzidislawoffice]

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Our request was accepted!

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As a consequence, 

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[dejablonde]

I've seen people say that having tree law trending (among other rarely before seen topics) is a sign of the incoming Redditors but like:

Is this them too? Or is there something else going on? It almost feels like we're bringing back the old thinspo, pro-ana blogs from like 2012, but I'll admit I didn't look too much into the tag, so let me know if I'm too far off the mark.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Rob Rogers

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

January 13, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JAN 14, 2024

Last night a woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande that marks the border between the U.S. and Mexico near Eagle Pass, Texas. 

U.S. Border Patrol agents knew that a group of six migrants were in distress in the river but could not try to save them, as they normally would, because troops from the Texas National Guard and the Texas Military Department prevented the Border Patrol agents from entering the area where they were struggling: Shelby Park, a 47-acre public park that offers access to a frequently traveled part of the river and is a place where Border Patrol agents often encounter migrants crossing the border illegally. 

They could not enter because two days ago, on Thursday, Texas governor Greg Abbott sent armed Texas National Guard soldiers and soldiers from the Texas Military Department to take control of Shelby Park. Rolando Salinas, the mayor of Eagle Pass, posted a video on Facebook showing the troops and saying that a state official had told him that state troops were taking “full control” over Shelby Park “indefinitely.” Salinas made it clear that “[t]his is not something that we wanted. This is not something that we asked for as a city.”

The Texas forces have denied United States Border Patrol officials entry into the park to perform their duties, asserting that Texas officials have power over U.S. officials. 

On December 18, Abbott signed into law S.B. 4, a measure that attempts to take into state hands the power over immigration the Constitution gives to the federal government. Courts have repeatedly reinforced that immigration is the responsibility of federal, not state, government, but now, according to Uriel J. García of the Texas Tribune, “some Texas Republicans have said they hope the new law will push the issue back before a U.S. Supreme Court that is more conservative since three appointees of former President Donald Trump joined it.”

On January 3 the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the new law, saying: “Texas cannot run its own immigration system. Its efforts, through S.B. 4, intrude on the federal government’s exclusive authority to regulate the entry and removal of noncitizens, frustrate the United States’ immigration operations and proceedings, and interfere with U.S. foreign relations.” 

Abbott and MAGA Republicans are teeing up the issue of immigration as a key line of attack on President Joe Biden in 2024, but while they are insisting the issue is so important they will not agree to fund Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s 2022 invasion until it is solved, they are also unwilling to participate in discussions to fund more border officers or immigration courts. Today, once again, Biden reminded reporters that he has asked Congress to pass new border measures since he took office, but rather than pass new laws, Republicans appear to be doubling down on pushing the idea that migrants threaten American society and that an individual state—Texas, in this case—can override federal authority.

Abbott has spent more than $100 million of Texas tax dollars to send migrants to cities led by Democrats. These migrants have applied for asylum and are waiting for a hearing; they are in the U.S. legally. In September 2023, Texas stopped coordinating with nonprofits in those cities that prepared for migrant arrivals. 

Yesterday, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker wrote to Abbott, calling him out for choosing “to sow chaos in an attempt to score political points.” Pritzker noted that Abbott is “sending asylum seekers from Texas to the Upper Midwest in the middle of winter—many without coats, without shoes to protect them from the snow—to a city whose shelters are already overfilled with migrants you sent here.” Chicago’s temperatures are set to drop below zero this weekend, Pritzker wrote, and he “strongly urge[d]” Abbott to stop sending people to Illinois in these conditions. “You are dropping off asylum seekers without alerting us to their arrivals, at improper locations at all hours of the night.”

Pritzker wrote that he supports bipartisan immigration reform but “[w]hile action is pending at the federal level, I plead with you for mercy for the thousands of people who are powerless to speak for themselves. Please, while winter is threatening vulnerable people’s lives, suspend your transports and do not send more people to our state. We are asking you to help prevent additional deaths. We should be able to come together in a bipartisan fashion to urge Congress to act. But right now, we are talking about human beings and their survival. I hope we can at least agree on saving lives right now.”

Speaking on the right-wing Dana Loesch Show last week, Abbott said, “The only thing that we’re not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border, because of course the Biden administration would charge us with murder.” 

On January 13, 1833, President Andrew Jackson wrote to Vice President–elect Martin van Buren to explain his position on South Carolina’s recent assertion that sovereign states could overrule federal laws. “Was this to be permitted the government would lose the confidence of its citizens and it would induce disunion everywhere. No my friend, the crisis must be now met with firmness, our citizens protected, and the modern doctrine of nullification and secession put down forever…. [N]othing must be permitted to weaken our government at home or abroad,” he wrote.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[joe-england]

Michigan police officers' union should be ashamed of endorsing Trump