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Letter from the ABA on forced separations of immigrants

Colleagues: Earlier this week, the media reported that a ...
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Date: June 18th, 2018 7:13 PM
Author: slate idea he suggested

Colleagues:

Earlier this week, the media reported that a Honduran woman was breast-feeding her daughter at a Texas detention center when a government agent took the infant from her arms. The official said the child would be returned, but she was not. Unfortunately, that story was not an outlier. ABA staff and volunteers who provide legal services to children in border shelters have witnessed first-hand the traumatic effects of separation on these children and their parents.

We can differ on issues of national immigration policy, but don’t we all agree that it is simply shocking that hundreds of young children are separated from their parents just because their parents brought them across the U.S. border illegally? It’s worth noting that first-time illegal entry is a misdemeanor.

The American Bar Association has asked the Trump administration to stop routine family separations intended to deter entry into the United States by asylum-seekers and others. I issued a statement calling for an end to this disturbing policy on May 30, and in a letter earlier this week to the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security, I spelled out arguments against this inhumane and arguably unlawful practice. I concluded: "The systemic practice of separating parents and children is antithetical to our values as a country, appears to violate longstanding precedent protecting rights to family integrity, burdens the federal criminal justice and immigration adjudication systems and increases costs to the government." Read the entire letter here.

While members of both parties - from Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) - have called for a halt to this very recent practice, no specific bipartisan legislative measure has yet emerged to address it. The time for congressional action, not just speeches, has come.

I ask you to contact your senators and representative with a simple message: "Enact legislation to stop routine separation of immigrant families at the border." As lawyers, you can stress the due process implications of using family separation as a weapon in the efforts against illegal immigration. (I discuss this more fully in my letter linked above.) You can make your voice heard by logging onto the ABA Grassroots Action website here, where you can get information about how to contact legislators with this straightforward request. Please lend your voice to this important effort.

Sincerely,

Signature

Hilarie Bass

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36268028)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 7:15 PM
Author: idiotic comical puppy

Ljl @ idiots who support the ABA

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36268037)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 7:15 PM
Author: Jet-lagged school

The kid-cages just got reinforced with barbed wire, bitch.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36268038)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 10:44 PM
Author: Aquamarine deep dingle berry



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Date: June 19th, 2018 1:01 AM
Author: Transparent Library Sweet Tailpipe

mexico gonna pay for it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36270145)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 7:20 PM
Author: adventurous pontificating orchestra pit



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Date: June 18th, 2018 7:23 PM
Author: apoplectic parlor

Kids get separated when parents smoke meth, drive drunk, and do all sorts of things that can lead to arrest.

So, no, mere separation doesn't shock me.

You're not claiming *permanent* separation, are you?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36268084)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 7:25 PM
Author: offensive becky marketing idea

"It’s worth noting that first-time illegal entry is a misdemeanor."

no, it's not worth noting.

jfc, every lawyer reading this, please fucking kill yourself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36268100)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 7:48 PM
Author: slate idea he suggested

Wait im a trumpmo but I got this in my inbox, why do I have to kill myself?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36268235)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 10:09 PM
Author: Stimulating sanctuary persian



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Date: June 18th, 2018 7:26 PM
Author: self-absorbed magical gas station

Thanks for reminding me why I'm not a member of this shit organization.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36268108)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 7:27 PM
Author: sepia alpha nursing home



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Date: June 18th, 2018 10:38 PM
Author: Fuchsia razzmatazz shrine boistinker

I give a load of shit to the poor person who calls me once a year to try to get me to give them money. Fuck these guys.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36269470)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 7:28 PM
Author: Citrine Slimy Pit Son Of Senegal



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Date: June 18th, 2018 7:32 PM
Author: Racy blue scourge upon the earth

"but don’t we all agree"

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Date: June 18th, 2018 7:46 PM
Author: idiotic comical puppy



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Date: June 18th, 2018 8:31 PM
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Date: June 18th, 2018 8:37 PM
Author: Cerebral cruel-hearted chapel laser beams



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Date: June 18th, 2018 10:12 PM
Author: burgundy space



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Date: June 18th, 2018 10:35 PM
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Date: June 18th, 2018 10:37 PM
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Date: June 18th, 2018 11:08 PM
Author: Arousing hissy fit



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Date: June 18th, 2018 11:28 PM
Author: free-loading boiling water ratface



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Date: June 18th, 2018 7:51 PM
Author: Rose Bawdyhouse Mediation



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Date: June 18th, 2018 7:59 PM
Author: misanthropic institution

Obama was putting kids in cages. What is the ABA's sudden interest in this?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36268343)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 8:14 PM
Author: dashing set

Don't we all agree trump said pussy

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Date: June 18th, 2018 8:27 PM
Author: autistic trailer park



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Date: June 18th, 2018 10:37 PM
Author: Rose Bawdyhouse Mediation



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Date: June 18th, 2018 8:25 PM
Author: Vigorous pale rehab boltzmann

Fuck libs

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Date: June 18th, 2018 8:29 PM
Author: apoplectic parlor

She didn't even spell her name right.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36268631)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 8:32 PM
Author: Sick home macaca

oink

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36268656)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 8:36 PM
Author: primrose spectacular theatre

wow this seems like someone who i would respect as an intellectual and a leader

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36268691)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 10:08 PM
Author: 180 overrated prole brunch

J.D., summa cum laude, University of Miami School of Law, 1981

Editor, University of Miami Law Review

B.A., magna cum laude, George Washington University, 1975



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36269258)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 10:13 PM
Author: Floppy puce knife



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Date: June 18th, 2018 11:30 PM
Author: apoplectic parlor

No treble.

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Date: June 19th, 2018 1:09 AM
Author: Frozen lodge cuck



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Date: June 18th, 2018 8:42 PM
Author: Aggressive mental disorder

180 send them both back

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Date: June 18th, 2018 10:07 PM
Author: slate idea he suggested



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Date: June 18th, 2018 10:15 PM
Author: Violent pea-brained step-uncle's house

Goddamn I’m so fucking tired of fraudulent arguments such as these. These people are supposed to be lawyers? Lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36269285)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 10:16 PM
Author: slate idea he suggested

Letter she wrote with more detailed arguments here, and citations

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/uncategorized/GAO/ABALetterFamilySeparation%20061218.authcheckdam.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36269290)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 10:45 PM
Author: Ruddy Razzle Locus Community Account

"On behalf of the American Bar Association and its more than 400,000 members, I write to express our strong opposition to recent actions by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security that have resulted in a drastic increase in the separation of children from their parents when arriving at the southern border."

wtf, I did not sign-off on this letter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36269531)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 11:09 PM
Author: Arousing hissy fit

You knew what u signed up for

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36269688)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 11:30 PM
Author: apoplectic parlor



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Date: June 18th, 2018 10:37 PM
Author: Fishy Sandwich Field

not a lawyer, why is the aba engaging in politics

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36269454)



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Date: June 18th, 2018 11:31 PM
Author: apoplectic parlor

It's a voluntary professional organization. That's the sort of thing they do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36269855)



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Date: June 19th, 2018 1:15 AM
Author: Fishy Sandwich Field

can i voluntarily shove my cock in her ass?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36270177)



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Date: June 19th, 2018 1:49 AM
Author: Sick home macaca

why the fuck is their judicial nominee rating the "gold standard"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36270247)



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Date: June 19th, 2018 9:34 AM
Author: Cowardly Azn Lettuce

It wasn't always that way. They are becoming less of a legal organization and more of a generic left-wing political group. This seems to be the tendency of all organizations like that, for instance the Sierra Club

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36270936)



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Date: June 19th, 2018 12:18 AM
Author: Painfully honest mind-boggling center

The #ABADOESNOTSPEAKFORME

I have never, and will never, be a member of the ABA.

Anyone who is, should not be appointed to any position on the judiciary by president TRUMP.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4005017&forum_id=2#36270037)



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Date: June 19th, 2018 1:49 AM
Author: Sick home macaca



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Date: June 19th, 2018 11:17 AM
Author: slate idea he suggested



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