A chilly, cloudy, breezy late May day. By Thursday a nor’easter is due to arrive with wind driven rain and cold.
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court gave the current administration permission to deport people who are here under temporary citizenship, a category for persons fleeing persecution and harm. Shockingly (or perhaps not), only one of the nine judges dissented.
As a blended Jewish-Native family, this is all too familiar and unsettling. I wonder how many people remember that the U.S. government turned boatloads of European Jews away and forced them to return to Europe and the Holocaust. That the U.S. government sent innumerable Natives on death marches. We have all been here before and it will not end well.
Here is a brief piece in response to that inhumane, unjust, and dystopian ruling:
Deportations
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