Trump's border record: A brief, incomplete history w. links and numbers. Thread -->

1) Border wall construction. CBP recently touted over 400 miles of construction. Only 80 miles is actually new wall, but the construction has nonetheless caused great harm to native lands and cultural sites, to the environment, to people whose homes are nearby.
Links:

https://t.co/iEpykHtkcW

https://t.co/HjGJKRRybN

https://t.co/HZDm3KfiNv

https://t.co/zYgeySWdYL
2) The border has been the site of family separations. Over 5,000 children were separated from their families at the border. The rollout was chaotic, and the trauma, immeasurable.

https://t.co/gUEvWKv9Mi

https://t.co/41Q6VCE2eh

https://t.co/zuYIdn9ULI
The administration forced families seeking asylum to wait in Mexico while their cases wound through imm courts. Then the court hearings were suspended. ~60,000 people were placed in this program, in shelters and makeshift camps in Mexico, waiting indefinitely.
In some cases, family members were separated, with one allowed to pursue claims in the U.S. and the other sent to Mx.

https://t.co/4FdmAU1yZH

https://t.co/cghhstGOYe

https://t.co/iDysgY3n1B
Many faced violence and deaths in Mx. @humanrights1st has documented ~1300 cases of murder, rape, kidnapping, torture, and assault.

https://t.co/dHLq5N0Klb
In Oct, a govt watchdog report found that CBP purposely drew down processing capacity at the borders so as to not let people who wanted to request asylum into the country, they also turned people away after they had already entered, in violation of law.

https://t.co/YZaKCwXJ6i
As of December, 15,000 people were still on waitlist per the Strauss Center. After months of being told to stay in queue indefinitely, many left, or crossed unauthorized, just like experts said they would.

https://t.co/cSA7Pg8OjW
The Trump administration also rolled out secretive pilot policies at the border that rushed the process typically by which people request asylum.

https://t.co/AWF3PGStNE
In Feb, 2020, CBP gave these numbers for people in the above programs and those turned away through other policies.

https://t.co/zjlZh2SKZ5
In Sept, 2020 in a hearing, Sen. Sinema had updated numbers for one category:

https://t.co/LTwzyNPTMq
In March, 2020, the admin put out a public health order to summarily turn back ALL migrants coming to the border -- including unaccompanied children -- without allowing them to request protection. Altogether, in FY 2020, they "expelled" ~200,000 people. In FY 2021, ~190,000.
LINKS: CBP stats, add up "title 42" expulsions.

https://t.co/IQJQjKtK0f

https://t.co/wCcExdI8tI

https://t.co/PlTJA1WQ3S
Morgan told members of congress that the children were being screened for all types of persecution according to trafficking laws, but later told reporters that they were only being screened for torture.

See: 1) https://t.co/RGIhq17laP

2) https://t.co/3SYScJ30nO
Morgan has also insisted in many a briefing that the public health order is not an immigration enforcement tool, but a public health tool. See: https://t.co/YFekg3xQ3t

But there's plenty of reporting to suggest otherwise. See: this by @itscaitlinhd

https://t.co/XRxvhJNa98
There's a lot more, such as keeping asylum seekers and their children in detention in overcrowded facilities and mismanaging humanitarian funding, but I'll leave it at this for now.

https://t.co/b1eIPo3ZCl

https://t.co/Oc9OrbNdAD

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OK, #Squidigation fans, I think we need to talk about the new Wisconsin suit Donald Trump filed - personally - in Federal Court last night. The suit is (as usual) meritless. But it's meritless in new and disturbing ways. This thread will be


Not, I hope, Seth Abramson long. But will see.

I apologize in advance to my wife, who would very much prefer I be billing time (today's a light day, though) and to my assistant, to whom I owe some administrative stuff this will likely keep me from 😃

First, some background. Trump's suit essentially tries to Federalize the Wisconsin Supreme Court complaint his campaign filed, which we discussed here.


If you haven't already, go read that thread. I'm not going to be re-doing the same analysis, and I'm not going to be cross-linking to that discussion as we go. (Sorry, I like you guys, and I see this as public service, but there are limits)

Also, @5DollarFeminist has a good stand-alone thread analyzing the new Federal complaint - it's worth reading as well, though some of the analysis will overlap.

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Legacy site *downloads* ~630 KB CSS per theme and writing direction.

6,769 rules
9,252 selectors
16.7k declarations
3,370 unique declarations
44 media queries
36 unique colors
50 unique background colors
46 unique font sizes
39 unique z-indices

https://t.co/qyl4Bt1i5x


PWA *incrementally generates* ~30 KB CSS that handles all themes and writing directions.

735 rules
740 selectors
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730 unique declarations
0 media queries
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32 unique background colors
15 unique font sizes
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The legacy site's CSS is what happens when hundreds of people directly write CSS over many years. Specificity wars, redundancy, a house of cards that can't be fixed. The result is extremely inefficient and error-prone styling that punishes users and developers.

The PWA's CSS is generated on-demand by a JS framework that manages styles and outputs "atomic CSS". The framework can enforce strict constraints and perform optimisations, which is why the CSS is so much smaller and safer. Style conflicts and unbounded CSS growth are avoided.