Trump Administration Cuts Education And Legal Services For Unaccompanied Minors

[Splash Attack]

The Trump administration is canceling English classes, recreational activities including soccer, and legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children who are staying in federally contracted migrant shelters.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is charged with caring for minors who arrive at the southern border without a parent or legal guardian, says the large influx of migrants in recent months is straining its already threadbare budget. ORR is part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
In an emailed statement, Health and Human Services spokeswoman Evelyn Stauffer said ORR is instructing its shelters to scale back on activities "that are not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety," as it is required to do under the Antideficiency Act.

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/05/730082911/administration-cuts-education-and-legal-services-for-unaccompanied-minors

[Bald & Beautiful]

'what if we made life harder for people who's lives are already hard?'
'great idea!'

i really just don't understand the thought process

[Judas]

they arent white so they deserve to suffer

[GHOST!!!!]

Can we just cut Trump out of existence please? The world would honestly be a better place without him.

[Grenadiac]

The Trump administration is canceling English classes,
I live in Texas and while most people are cool as fuck and racism is honestly dying fast and dying hard here, I still often hear "if they don't wanna learn English they should just go home" - now it turns out they do wanna learn English and you're not gonna let them?

[hops]

OR

OR

FIX THE FUCKING BUDGET?

[Mark9013100]

nope nope nope need money for bombs and walls

[GHOST!!!!]

Apparently English lessons only apply to non-English speakers, so how are kids gonna learn English, by hearing it from other kids and over time having it get butchered?

[JennyC6]

It's easy to understand. They want to deny them entry fullstop, but they can't simply say 'NO BROWN PEOPLE ALLOWED', so they have to try to make it nigh impossible for their targets to get in by making things even harder for them.

[arlygoodbrownie]

It's literally Jim Crow laws again. Don't make laws that target them, just make laws that happen to target them.

[Firgof Umbra]

Even though the intent of this conversation was Atwater basically saying 'racism should bring about its own end by being forced to retreat to such absurd obscurity that nobody would be entreated to racist ideas', I find it always a useful quote to basically describe 'but why do the Republicans want to hurt people'.

Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry Dent and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now [Reagan] doesn't have to do that. All you have to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues he's campaigned on since 1964 [...] and that's fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster...
Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?
Atwater: Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."

Racism and classism: it never left - it just got more obfuscated. They can't say "the poors should just die" or "fucking aliens, the lot of them, should be culled like we do an overly-large pack of wolves". So they say "government spending is too high, we have to conserve money" and "Americans are losing their jobs due to illegal immigrants" because they can't sit around yelling "fucking poors are stealing our money and I have a right to self-defense" and "the only right skin is white skin".