My letter to my MoC tonight

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Last edited Sun Jul 8, 2018, 09:42 PM - Edit history (1)

Missing some of the formatting (like center) -- feel free to borrow if you find anything useful. And oh - civility be damned. This isn't a drill, it's the real thing.

AND, ETA: should've included this info from the get-go

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Human Rights violations and atrocities are STILL being committed against asylum-seeking families – and their children – at the border. Some of the people involved belong at the Hague.


There Was Never A Plan to Reunite Them
Records linking children to their parents have disappeared, and in some cases have been destroyed, according to two officials of the Department of Homeland Security, leaving the authorities struggling to identify connections between family members.
. . . In hundreds of cases, Customs agents deleted the initial records in which parents and children were listed together as a family with a “family identification number,” according to two officials at the Department of Homeland Security, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the process. As a result, the parents and children appeared in federal computers to have no connection to one another. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/us/migrant-children-chaos-family-separation.html


If It’s TRUMP, There’s CORRUPTION
Someone recently said: “Trump does not have ‘policies.’ He has investment strategies.” And they often involve his buddies.

These kids were sent straight to “adoption centers,” and at a premium rate:
Bethany Christian Services, an adoption center with financial ties to [Education Secretary] Betsy DeVos, has taken 81 immigrant children who were forcibly separated from their parents at the border. Most have had no contact with their families. They’re charging $700 per child per night. This isn’t foster care, this is state-sponsored kidnapping.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/06/26/bethany-christian-services-family-separation-betsy-devos/



The two largest private corrections corporations, GEO Group and CoreCivic, each gave $250,000 to Trump's inaugural festivities.
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/21/565318778/big-money-as-private-immigrant-jails-boom


Where Are the Infants - And the Girls?
Those 2 questions have never been satisfactorily answered. WHY ARE THEY NOT TELLING US? What has happened to these innocent children?

WHY is the Republican caucus not demanding answers? Why are you allowing this total lack of transparency, to include having members of Congress refused entry to any of the facilities housing the children? Why the lies and obfuscations in general? It’s been totally outrageous.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?

If you are not PERSONALLY raising hell in
whatever committees you’re in
or to those in relevant committees
AND to the President,
then YOU ARE COMPLICIT.

SILENCE CONDONES

We need answers and transparency, we need the President to stop these
brutally harmful and illegal practices, and we need the children re-united
IMMEDIATELY.

Again:
What are you personally doing about it?

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1. If you can, show up at his/her office and ask the staff. And send this as a letter to local paper!

Letters to the editor are WAY WAY WAY more impactful than letters to the MOC. Because the Congresspeople read the local papers and care about them.

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2. Thanks

but no thanks.

Can't show up at his office; don't want my name in the paper. BUT, those are good suggestions for others.

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5. Standing offer: I will help anyone edit/send a letter to editor to local paper

Everyone's gotta do what's best for them. Carry on!

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6. Why not make this an OP??

It's a wonderful offer --

please??

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7. sounds good!

too late now but tomorrow

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3. Thanks RandomAccess

I cut and pasted your letter, and added some information about the length of hearings for Benghazi and Clinton's emails, and send it to my Congress Critters. You inspired me!

[RandomAccess]

4. THANK You

I appreciate that you're doing something with it.