I’ll have to double check my sources, but I’m recalling that in the 80s it was very common to deport people not long after arrest and conviction. I remember mention of many people being deported due to overcrowding and underfunded jails who never served their sentences...but I’d have to find the documentaries I’ve…

Good for you then. May you and yours never be forced into making that life and death situation. Enjoy your priviledged, judgmental perch.

So instead of sending them to prison like our born and bred rapists, we send them back to their home countries where they will likely be released and free to rape again? This is how MS13 became the biggest, most violelnt gand in the workd. LA gang members convicted of rape, murder, etc were deported back to Central…

Because you could literally be talking about mine, enjoy a big middle finger from a person who worked hard to contribiute to society as a teacher and is sick of immigrants being made out to be criminals for trying to give their children better lives. Her parents likely fled the devastation of Colombian cartels and…

As far as I know from second hand experience, either to live with resident/citizen relatives or placed into the foster system.

Yes kind of how I’m American by birth, but my once undocumented parents are not. My father is just this year eligible for citizenship after 5 years of residency and 25 years of being here “illegally”. Her reality was my daily nightmare until about 10 years ago when my parents gained protected status.

So frustrating to be labeled anti-feminist by white feminists who don’t understand intersectionalism. Fuck, as if WOC aren’t alienated enough.

A lifetime of being wrongly called “El Salvadorean” makes this something that’s just especially annoying to me, even more so when all it takes is looking it up in google.

Fucking really though. My family is from El Salvador, and after talking with my parents/family about how life was and still is as well as studying the economic and social history of the region, I can safely say the majority of the problems in the region can be tied to European and American interference as far back as…

Annoying grammar point: the country name is El Salvador, people and things from El Salvador are Salvadoran (no “El”, no “e” in the suffix.

I’m wishing for a tour in the next year or two like they did for If/Then recently.

This is why I feel icky about her. I will vote for her if she’s the nominee, but not in the primary. Need to at least try for better.

My two prior experiences of it are this episode and the creepy guy in my freshman dorm who tried to hit on me by talking (in detail) about how much he wanted to try it after he walked into my room while I was painting. I stopped leaving my door propped open after that.

Agreed. My patents are “illegal” immigrants who fled the civil war in El Salvador (mostly caused by US policies in the region). My father applied for asylum and was denied even though his father had been murdered and the same people had threatened to kill him. My mom says the last straw for my grandmother was when she…

I have bipolar disorder and completely agree. I’m legally not allowed to own a gun and happy for it. The last time I was in the psych ward was because I wanted to kill myself and had become extremely upset that I didn’t have a gun. My husband took me to the emergency room not long after he realized what was going on.

As a person who legally can’t obtain a gun due to mental health reasins, the only factor I kmow of is involuntary commital. In my state at least after two 72 hour holds, one is placed on an additional two week hold that may be extended up to 30 days after which one is entitled to a hearing about being realeased. When…

I was just diagnosed this month with hypermobile type. My genetic tests came back clear. It took 16 years to get a diagnosis. Time to start treatment. Vascular type sounds terrifying. I’m honestly surprised that I didn’t have it cause my mom might (not tested/diagnosed) since she was born with a rare heart defect that…

I watched my dad beat on my mom for 17 years. I called the cops dozens of times, always anule witnessing abuse (screaming in the background as I gave 911 our info). Police would show, my parents woukd deny, I would get a lecture from a cop about calling in when it was “just an arguement” mor DV. My dad has never been…

It’s a sit down diner, but fast food quality food tbh.

It’s like one step above fast food. It’s a chain diner and shockingly (not really) has worse food than real greasy spoon diners.