Well, of course I support the right of immigrants who are accused of being “gang members” or who are convicted felons to remain in the United States. Everyone has a life to live and people have rights, even if they are bad or dangerous people. (*) I don’t think that USAmericans who join gangs or commit crimes should be thrown out of the country for what they did; I think that they should be allowed to get on with things and try to rebuild their lives. Why would I think that people from other countries should be treated worse, just because of where they were born? There is no non-discriminatory reason at all to justify deporting immigrants with criminal records, if you’re not proposing to permanently exile everyone who ever got a criminal record. And if you are proposing to permanently exile everyone who ever got a criminal record, then you are advocating political brutality of a kind that frightens me far more than any kind of street crime. #Not1More #NotEvenOne #NoMatterWho #EndDeportation

I am glad to see something, anything happening at last on immigration, and I am immensely happy for the families that will be able to sleep a little easier tonight. But this so little too late, and it is not nearly enough. No oone should face deportation. Not the families and not the singles. Not the straight immigrants and not the queer immigrants. Not the hard workers and not the no-account. Not the “good” immigrants, and not the “bad” immigrants. Nobody should be thretened with being shot at the border, thrown out of their home, turned out of their job, cut off from their life, just because of where they were born. That is ridiculous: of course people should be left alone, free, to live their own lives, withut needing a permission slip from the United States government. No one should be threatened with deportation. Not “just” 400,000 a year (!), not even one more. No human beinf is illegal. Not one. Here is a good analysis of who may be helped by expanding deferred action, and who the president is still throwing under the bus, in the name of respectability politics: http://ift.tt/1xVeRvW

This is happening too.

Yo North Carolina

FW Joe Hill (Oct 7, 1879 – Nov. 19, 1915). “My will is easy to decide For there is nothing to divide My kin don’t need to fuss and moan ‘Moss does not cling to a rolling stone’ My body? Ah, If I could choose I would to ashes it reduce And let the merry breezes blow My dust to where some flowers grow Perhaps some fading flower then Would come to life and bloom again This is my last and final will Good luck to all of you, Joe Hill.”

“Gang conspiracy” laws are a hideous assault on freedom of speech and freedom of association; they also have the direct effect of imprisoning people, mostly people of color, without the slightest bit of evidence that they have ever done anything to violate the rights of a single living soul, solely on the basis of what other people around them are doing; they are structurally racist in effect, and sheer, naked tyranny in their means. #FreeTiny #AbolishGangConspiracyLaws #NoVictimNoCrime

Thucyides Book III, Cleon on the revolt of Mitylene. This dude also has some problems.