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

More from Trump

1. Yes, Trump will claim to intend to target GOP senators up for reelection in '22 (like he did to Thune with Kristi Noem) if they don't join in @HawleyMO's sedition on Jan. 6, but the fact is, it's not clear whether Trump will be successful in ANY of those efforts & voting yes


2. to hedge off these threats will also create fissures & fractures for these incumbents among other elements of their party that could complicate their renominations. Indeed, what worries me the most about the potential for the country to slip into @anneapplebaum territory is

3. that what should be robust and intense push back from the party establishment against actually ending democracy- bc that's what Trump's request would do, if it was granted, is fairly muted. What we SHOULD be seeing from the mainstream of the party is threats to strip committee

4. assignments, chairs, privileges, even reelection funds, if anyone gets involved in this bullshit- in the House & the Senate, and the fact that you don't see it is more than a story of McConnell & McCarthy being afraid of Trump & his base. Its a story of receptivity, of the

5. level of receptivity the congressional and party leadership is dealing with both within the rank and file membership of the party and within its donor class, and THAT, my friends, is why you find me so concerned. That, and my decision to finally pull @anneapplebaum's book
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Stop saying "it's not censorship if it's not the government"; Trump's swamp gators find corporate refuge; and more!

Archived at: https://t.co/7JMcAbaULj

#Pluralistic

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Monday night, I'll be helping William Gibson launch the paperback edition of his novel AGENCY at a Strand Bookstore videoconference. Come say hi!

https://t.co/k3fvBdqOK0

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Stop saying "it's not censorship if it's not the government": I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

https://t.co/7I0MpCTez5

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Trump's swamp gators find corporate refuge: The Swamped project.

https://t.co/MUJyIOr2iw

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#15yrsago A-Hole bill would make a secret technology into the law of the land https://t.co/57bJaM1Byr

#15yrsago Hollywood’s MP loses the election — hit the road, Sam! https://t.co/12ssYpV46B

#15yrsago How William Gibson discovered science fiction https://t.co/MYR0go37nW

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The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x

Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x

It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x