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This is shameful. Immigrants’ lives and families are being sacrificed, again and again, to opportunism and crass political calculation. But the careers of Democratic politicians are not more important than people’s lives and livelihoods. What makes it worse is that this move is as completely predictable as it is morally grotesque. Progressive electoral politics is like building an extraordinarily expensive, Rouge River scale machine plant to build cars. Then after the plant opens to great fanfare, billions of dollars are spent, and a couple of go-karts roll off the line as a test, the manager tells you that there won’t be any more cars coming off the line, because all the wear and tear on the machines would destroy their ability to make cars some day in the future. So instead the machine whirs along, sucking down more and more money and never making any more cars, because of course the output has been sacrificed every time to make sure the machine keeps idling smoothly. But it is so perfectly polished. #Not1More #NoBorders #StopDeportation #AbolishICE