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ICE Detains Pregnant Women Against Its Own Policy

 

“According to its own policy, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, only detains pregnant women if they pose a public safety threat—but new evidence illustrates the practice is quite common.


Over at Fusion, Cristina Costantini found that at 559 pregnant women have been detained by ICE in just six facilities since 2012, and there’s no reason to believe they meet ICE’s own policy for holding expecting mothers. At least 14 women suffered miscarriages while in detention in 2012. According to Fusion’s estimate, up to 57 pregnant immigrant women are being detained per day.

Read more over at Fusion.”

 

Source: colorlines.com

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Mom beaten, only toddler intervenes – CNN.com Video

 

Cell phone video shows the moment a mother was beaten by another woman while her toddler looked on.

Source: www.cnn.com

 

Well, not only men are violent.

 

And guess who didn’t show up for that job that she ‘almost lost.’

 

Did somebody call someone a terrorist? Who is the terrorist?

 

And not a soul stepped in to protect the toddler when threats where made to the toddler.

 

PS – Police brutality videos also show the ‘moral breakdown of our society’. Has U.S. society every been angelic? 

 

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Touch your own hair. (yes, still)

 

“Why am I still talking about this?

 

This is a picture of me from 2007. I made these t-shirts back then, and you can still buy them here.

 

The phrase is a sentiment I began to feel much earlier of course, sometime in my early youth when the kids and teachers in my mostly-white school poked and prodded at me from everything from my skin, to my hair, to getting tan, to why my hair didn’t look the same as theirs when it was wet. Curiosities that expressed once or twice can be dismissed as the process of learning and growth of youth, but when expressed daily, continually, become instead the failure of an educational system that allows some children to remain ignorant of those with whom they share their classrooms.

 

But then it continued, well into my teenage years, adulthood, and now *cough* middle-age—right up to yesterday.

 

I don’t feel like describing the idiot in the grocery store who got angry at me when I was not flattered by his attention to my hair…because, sure my expectations for “regular” people might be too high. Instead let me tell you that two days ago, I was talking to a black friend in academia whose boss (yes, boss), in front of a group at a work-related event (yes, in-front of everyone) grabbed her hair and commented on it (yep).

 

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Click through for full article.

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Now I understand why my wife got mad at me when I moved her bangs from her forehead and asked other ladies to comment if she looked better without bangs.

 

*woops!*

 

🙁

See on us1.campaign-archive2.com

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The Border Patrol has a big problem with excessive force

 

“The US Border Patrol has a problem. And the face of that problem is Esteban Manzanares.

 

Manzanares, a Border Patrol agent, was on duty along the Rio Grande in March when he came across a Honduran woman and two girls who had crossed the river illegally. Instead of apprehending them, he sexually assaulted the woman and her 14-year-old daughter, slashed the mother’s wrists, and tried to break the teenager’s neck. Then he abducted the other daughter and tied her up in his home before returning to finish his shift.”
See on www.vox.com