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theeternalsunshineofsarahsmind:
Many people I have met in Tucson say “as goes the border…goes the rest of the country” and that the border can be seen a laboratory. For example, SB1070 was passed in AZ, then what happened? The same legislation popped up in Indiana, Georgia, and Alabama.
Read more on Operation Streamline:
http://www.borderbybicycle.blogspot.com/2011/11/operation-streamline.html
theeternalsunshineofsarahsmind:
These are 5 connections I learned about when visiting the Border Patrol facilities in Nogales, AZ.
1. Reading is FUNdamental
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/community/bp-agents-take-time-to-read-to-rd-graders/article_a6f50452-46a2-11e1-a40f-001871e3ce6c.html
Why would Border Patrol agents participate in Reading is FUNdamental? I was told by my tour guide that they don’t want kids to be afraid of them. It’s also obviously community service as a publicity stunt.
Should Border Patrol be allowed into school when in uniform? Most Border Patrol agents consider themselves agents even when they are off duty or plain-clothes. It is illegal for schools to inquire into children’s immigration status. The tour guide told me that one child at a school told him “You deported my uncle.” Schools are not safe spaces if Border Patrol is visiting in my opinion, even if they would not inquire into a child’s status.
2. McDonalds…or Burger King…(both tour guides said something different) brings in a truckload of lunches for the young people being detained at the facilities. I don’t know if Border Patrol thinks that we will think that is some kind of special treat for the children but I see it as nutritional torture techniques. These children have most likely gone weeks without a full meal, are not used to eating greasy, fatty fast food burgers in their places of origin, and their stomachs will probably not be able to handle these lunches. Part of degrading someone can be deteriorating their health.
3. Fords makes many of the vehicles used by Border Patrol.
4.Border Patrol uses Google Earth for training and in their surveillance facilities. They have a contract with Google Earth
5. AT&T is called for an interpreter when someone who is being detained cannot speak English or Spanish. If a Border Patrol agent can speak a language other than English or Spanish, such as Chinese, then they are constantly being called to do interpretations. Also, btw, detainees are sorted by Mexican and OTMS=Other than Mexicans, and then are sorted by country.
Deformed puppy, rescued from trash, learns to walk | Today
Harper the pit bull was born with a condition called “swimmer puppy disorder,” and most dogs born with it don’t survive. The disorder causes rigid limbs and tight muscles, leaving puppies lying flat on their chests with their legs splayed out.
After being found in a garbage bag and taken to an animal shelter where she was scheduled to be euthanized, Harper was rescued by shelter worker Erica Daniel and can walk now thanks to hydrotherapy and love.
Awww, I want to smooch that happy puppy face!
ART WE LIKE THIS WEEK: Christain Faur’s ”Crayon Art”’
How fantastic is this? The combination of so many different colours of crayon placed together to trick the human eye, making your brain put an image together that may not actually be there….do we really see what the artist intends us to see?
Love it!
