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Per WAPO, this is heinous. 😠

Three U.S. citizen #children from two different families were deported with their mothers by #Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the early hours of Friday morning. One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was #deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors, the family’s lawyer said.
According to their lawyers, both families were taken into custody while attending routine check-ins this week in New Orleans.

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Activist and legal scholar Michele Goodwin claimed on MSNBC that President Donald Trump’s plan to #incentivize women into having #children is motivated by a “fear of the browning and blackening” of the country.

Goodwin, a Georgetown law professor and author of Policing the Womb, joined Velshi on Saturday and claimed that potential plans from the White House to incentivize more child #birth are motivated by “child labor” and “#ReplacementTheory.”

#SickAF 🤦🏻‍♀️

mediate.com/tv/activist-on-msn

alojapan.com/1258472/japans-le Japan’s legal system struggles to deal with AI child pornography #AI. #ChildPorn #children #deepfakes #Japan #JapanNews #news #Pornography Disturbingly realistic sexual images of children generated by artificial intelligence are spreading worldwide across social media and online forums — often based on real photos scraped from the internet or school yearbooks. In Japan, these images fall into a legal gray zone that leaves those who have had t…

"...An additional 4,000 unaccompanied #children are held in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (#ORR), awaiting placement with parents, #family members, or friends. While these children are not held for any criminal or delinquent offense, most are held in shelters or even juvenile placement facilities under #detention-like conditions."

prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie20

...another, nother, nother side to #prison #reality this article covers many quite well

www.prisonpolicy.orgMass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2025The big picture on how many people are locked up in the United States and why

My easiest action of resistance: me, a trans enby guy, very obviously queer, wearing my pronouns/LGBTQ flag buttons doing tours for schools at my local art museum.

It might not be much but I do believe being openly who I am in front of young people, unafraid and proud, is one way to show them it's ok to be whoever you are and that they're not alone. :intersexprogresspride:

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"The arrest of a judge for not facilitating immigration enforcement and the removal (indeed kidnapping and trafficking) of U.S.-born children, represent the escalation of this regime’s lawlessness and inhumanity—part of its expanding commitment to stoke fear, ignore its constitutional obligations and threaten the lives of everyone in America, non-citizen or citizen."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #ICE #deportations #DueProcess #children
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americaamerica.news/p/how-much

America, America · How Much Injustice Will Americans Take?By Steven Beschloss

Today in Labor History April 26, 1924: The U.S. House of Representatives passed House Joint Resolution No. 184. It was a constitutional amendment to prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age. The Senate approved the measure a few weeks later, but it was never ratified by the states and is still technically pending. Even so, the act included many exclusions, like in agriculture. From 2015 to 2022, the number of kids working in violation of child labor laws rose by 283%. And, as you all probably already have heard, many Republican leaders are weakening child labor laws to make it even easier, and legal, to exploit kids in dangerous, low-paid jobs.

usafacts.org/articles/is-child