My thoughts on the Malarkey

I work for a non-profit that has extended its services to help Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC's). This means that this child is under the age of 18 and crossed the border without a parent/guardian. What happens once they get caught crossing the border illegally is that they get transported to a DHS facility (Department of Homeland Security). The process for the transfer of children from a DHS facility is SUPPOSED to take no more than 72 hours. However, with the heavy flux of immigrants that have been flowing to and through the border, one can imagine how hard it is to document the thousands that in need of services.

On August 21, multiple reports from a variety of credible news sources announced that the Trump admin. is moving to change one of the key takeaways from the Flores Settlement Agreement (FSA) that allows children and other immigrants to stay in ORR custody for no more than 20 days. This would make it easier for immigrants to get deported back to their home country.

This is very controversial. Critics are, for a lack of better words, WILDING THE F**K OUT about what this means for those who are seeking asylum in the United States and how it undermines the humanity of those trying to make their lives better than they were before.

If I'm being honest, I truly believe that this is unconstitutional. I mean, for one we are keeping kids and their families in cages. We aren't giving them proper medicine. We aren't giving them proper sleeping materials. We aren't giving children access to their family members. We ARE proposing that trauma for these children is better than giving them a chance at a better life. We ARE proposing that family separation is good as long as it doesn't affect OUR citizens. We ARE initiating an action that in its entirety goes against what our American morals should be.

This is a scary time for immigration, asylum seekers, pro-immigrant advocates, and our nation as a whole.

A-hem *send tweet*
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Midlo Tuesday

First of all, what is a Midlo?

Answer: THE DAILY DOUBLE

A Midlo is someone who is from Midlothian and goes to the local bowling alley for $1 beers and $2 games. That's a Midlo.

Or someone that went to Midlothian High School. It can be either. The first one is way cooler, though.

This steal of a deal was found by fellow Midlo Alums that didn't get married, still live at home, and update their LinkedIn profiles daily.

A Midlo Tuesday usually goes as follows:

1. Get off of work at 5
2. Stay in traffic for 30 minutes
3. Linking at an associates house
4. Actually bowling
5. Shooting the shit for a solid 30 minutes after the bowling sesh
6. Crying yourself to sleep
7. Alright maybe not #6

So that's it. A Midlo Tuesday. When we're 30 and stable financially, King Pin will be where we have our annual bowl-a-thon.

que te diviertas

Post Labor Day hangover. What does that exactly mean?

1. Feeling the aftershock of being bodied by a 220 former football fallacy's elbow during a pickup game of basketball

2. Waking up at 6:30 this morning and wondering why I was awake (I had to go to work, hilarious right?)

3. Seeing a text in the group-chat saying "I think I broke my foot lol" and then actually seeing the person's SnapChat only to see that they actually broke their foot

4. The weird crave for Kombucha (I'm not too sure how this fits on the list but I decided to put it anyway)

So, what is Labor Day anyway? Is that the day where we all, the under-represented yet innumerable proletariat rise against the bourgeoisie in order to establish a proper welfare state for a real, interactive representative democracy where the voice of the 99% doesn't necessarily trump the 1% but has a pretty damn loud voice that is heard? Which might, in fact, lead to the defeat of the 1%? 

Or is it just another day that we have off and read discussion forums to get a cheap laugh?

Or is it just another day for a cookout?

You decide.

Work has been.......slow.