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Chahta Ohoyo. Mother. Word writer. Postulant for Holy Orders in the Diocese of the Rio Grande. OK to BK to NM to ATX. Opinions are mine, but you can blame the Holy Spirit a little bit, too.
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Man, this whole deep seated belief in a just and divine triune God sure comes in handy sometimes, huh?
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Our client worked in the arts in Venezuela. He is LGBTQ. His tattoos are benign. But ICE submitted photos of his tattoos as evidence he isTren de Aragua. His @ImmDef attorney planned to present evidence he is not. But never got the chance because our client has been disappeared.
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The law specifically says it can only be used during a "declared war" (i.e. declared by Congress) or during an invasion "by any foreign nation or government." So it quite obviously does not apply here.
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My ancestors were force marched from their homelands in Mississippi to Oklahoma because of the Indian Removal Act, a law, at the behest of our current prez’s role model Andrew Jackson. How could I have been so naive?
Anyway, it’s time for ethics para joder like, yesterday.
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In my 20s, at a stop and frisk protest, where I was pinned against some hedges on Park Avenue by NYPD before reflexes kicked in and I started yelling “Am I free to go? Am I being detained?”, I stopped and asked the legal observers how it was legal that we weren’t allowed to protest. They laughed.
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So it sort of shakes me to my core to see these executive orders, so clearly unconstitutional, acted upon and complied with. I lost faith in the federal gov’t years ago, putting my trust in local and state politics, but I think I had some basic expectation of, I dunno, not-a-coup?
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Then I started working professionally for legislators and legislation, up until I came to seminary. Which is all (a lot) to say—I have put a lot of faith in the law. Even when I was farther to the left than the people or issues I was working for, I put trust in what we put on paper.