Thank You
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I want to thank all of you for donating and caring about what happens to Donna Milne, a woman most of the subscribers on my Substack don’t know.
Most of you are aware that in New Orleans Donna Milne was abducted by ICE in her front yard while gardening. She was walking to the next-door neighbors to see if their five-year-old boy would like to come pick figs from her fig tree. Instead, she was ambushed, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked pickup truck, and taken away without informing her family, who were inside the house at the time.
Thank you for caring, thank you for sharing, thank you for donating. A large group of people including Substack readers and writers, reporters, friends, family, and perfect strangers are doing all they can to help get Donna released. Lawyers are now on the job, as well as the ACLU. Senators have been contacted, some are helping.
If you know of anyone who may want to help in any way – please forward the story of Donna to them.
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Again, Thank You.
T
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The saddest part is that there was absolutely no way for her to “do it the right way” as the anti-immigration/right always screams. What are you supposed to do when you are here on one kind of visa, you can’t go home because of a revolution and enter again asking for asylum? You get caught in bureaucratic neverland, in a forty+ year cycle of reappearing before an immigration judge every six months. There are so many people appearing every six months before an immigration judge. We have all read about them and how ICE has swept many people up in just such circumstances. In the late 1950’s/early 60’s, after the Cuban revolution, those refugees were allowed to come and stay, and become citizens. And the Vietnamese, some of them if they came at the right time. But no group as a group since. Now all of them - Somalis, Afghans, Haitians, etc. Are being rounded up, their 6 month check-ins used against them. All because since the early 1980’s our congressional representatives and senators have been unable to update immigration laws. They almost did under Boehner but he tells in his book how the Tea Party and unelected people (Norquist) scuttled it all. Then just a short year ago, Trump demanded they scuttle the hammered out bi-partisan agreement and threw a far right wing Senator, Lankford, under his bus. The system is broken because a small minority of people called a “base” are bigots.
We all want Donna’s immediate release from this unjustified detention. It is our honor to donate to her cause. We hope she knows, as well as all the others like her, that we doing what we can to stop these insane acts.