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The issue with the plate collection dates to April 2016, when BART’s elected leaders told staff to delay a pilot program to use license plate readers that already had been installed without public notice at the MacArthur station in late 2015.

Somehow, the license plate readers were turned on anyway. BART spokesman Chris Filipi said it was an “accident.” Board directors Lateefah Simon and Debora Allen said they hadn’t been briefed on the situation until a reporter brought it to their attention.

From at least January through August of last year, BART sent pictures of 57,632 license plates to the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC), which partners with ICE and other federal agencies, according to public records that Mike Katz-Lacabe, a San Leandro resident and privacy advocate, obtained in November and later shared with this news organization.

It kept sending that data even after BART’s board, in June 2017, adopted its “Safe Transit” policy, which mirrors “Sanctuary City” policies throughout the state and prohibits the district’s employees, including its police officers, from using the agency’s resources to help enforce federal immigration laws.

"Somehow"

09-14-2018 , 05:20 PM

#978

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Even in San Francisco. Wow. There's no place that's safe in America if you're brown.

09-14-2018 , 05:28 PM

#979

goofyballer

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I think it's like how the ****tiest people in society are drawn to border control job openings like moths to a flame - people who work for BART must hate the people who use it, or something.

09-14-2018 , 05:44 PM

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Did someone say, BART?

Holocaust Deniers Running Ads on BART
A new set of ads running at two S.F. BART stations are paid for by a group that claims there is "no evidence for Nazi gas chambers."

http://www.sfweekly.com/news/holocau...g-ads-on-bart/

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Those video screens at the Montgomery and Powell Street BART stations currently have an ad in rotation that declares “History Matters!” against a clip-art backdrop of the planet Earth and the name of the ad’s buyer, the Institute for Historical Review (IHR). That sounds innocent enough! But the Guardian’s San Francisco bureau reports that those BART ads are paid for by a Holocaust denial organization that has a history of anti-Semitic views.

The Institute for Historical Review website insists in a press release announcing the BART ad campaign that “The IHR does not ‘deny’ the Holocaust.” (Yes, they put the word “deny” in quotes.) But that very same website also hosts an article with the headline “There is No Evidence for Nazi Gas Chambers.” The Southern Poverty Law Center designates the IHR as a hate group, as does the Anti-Defamation League.

Heck, when even Fox News is calling you out for running ads from a Holocaust denial group, there is a high likelihood you are running ads from a Holocaust denial group.

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It’s not the first time BART has found itself in hot water over political advertisements. Back in March, BART stations hosted a series of “Seek & Hire U.S. Workers!” ads that were pretty transparently anti-immigrant. With Nazis and racists running for office everywhere, these ads — and the free publicity they produce — may be an emerging tool of the alt-right.

09-15-2018 , 05:19 PM

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ScreaminAsian

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Quote:

Originally Posted by goofyballer

I think it's like how the ****tiest people in society are drawn to border control job openings like moths to a flame - people who work for BART must hate the people who use it, or something.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1041041760959557632

09-19-2018 , 11:44 PM

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uDevil

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These people only understand one thing. I'll bet they're busy appealing to whatever political authority they can to get DHS to back off instead of meeting their ****ing responsibilities.

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The state Department of Health Services moved Wednesday to revoke the licenses of Southwest Key's 13 Arizona shelters for migrant children, citing the nonprofit's failure to provide proof that its workers had received the required background checks.
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DHS Director Cara Christ chastised Southwest Key's CEO and founder, Juan Sanchez, in a letter notifying him of the state's intent to pull its health-care licenses. The company, she wrote, displayed an "astonishingly flippant attitude" in meeting requirements it had agreed to just last month.

The company only provided documentation to DHS after state officials called to inquire about the missing report. And even then, no information was provided until Tuesday — information that DHS deemed "wholly inadequate."

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...rs/1364066002/

09-20-2018 , 01:06 AM

#983

OneEyedPoker

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This is just crazy. Oh and **** all of these nazis in the white house

https://twitter.com/zekejmiller/stat...69004169265152

09-20-2018 , 08:09 AM

#984

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jesus ****ing christ i hate these people so much

when it's time to pass the sentence, can i be the one who swings the sword?

09-20-2018 , 11:36 AM

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SuperUberBob

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Federal agency says it lost track of 1,488 migrant children

I honestly thought the number was a joke. I mean maybe there's some way to alter AP headlines to make this a joke. But if it's not, jfc.

09-20-2018 , 02:31 PM

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There was a lot of outrage when it was 3000 kids, and a lot less now that it's 12000. That won't go unnoticed. There will be 50000+ families separated by the 2020 election. The effects of this will go on for decades like with the children from the Romanian orphanages in the 80s and 90s.

09-21-2018 , 01:34 AM

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...pting-retrieve

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ICE Arrests Dozens of Family or Guardians Attempting to Retrieve Children From Detention

09-21-2018 , 05:04 PM

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Thread: on what it's like to work with ICE and file an asylum claim as a lawyer, in 2018

09-21-2018 , 05:20 PM

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SuperUberBob

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It's our generation's internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

09-21-2018 , 10:08 PM

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zikzak

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We didn't rip apart Japanese-American families when we put them in concentration camps.

09-21-2018 , 10:37 PM

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No ****.

I'm talking about an event that occurred during our generation that we'll regard with great shame for the rest of human history.

09-25-2018 , 08:29 PM

#992

goofyballer

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Kirstjen Nielsen probably lied to Congress about family separation

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• On May 10, she told NPR: “It’s not our intent to separate people one day longer than is necessary to prove that there is in fact a custodial relationship.”

• Under questioning by Sen. Kamala Harris of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on May 15, Nielsen stated: “We do not have a policy to separate children from their parents.”

• And on June 17, she tweeted: “We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period.”

Now the memo reveals that this was in fact a policy that she did apparently sign off on.

That memo—sent to Nielsen by Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan, Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services L. Francis Cissna, and Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan—offered three possible options for enhanced border enforcement.

Homan, Cissna, and McAleenan recommended “Option 3 as the most effective method to achieve operational objectives and the Administration’s goal to end ‘catch and release.’” That third option involved prosecuting and separating those “presenting with a family unit, between ports of entry in coordination with DOJ.”

09-25-2018 , 11:16 PM

#993

uDevil

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Damn these people.

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Some physicians who examined immigrants while working for the federal government had histories of diluting vaccinations, exploiting women and hiring a hit man to kill a dissatisfied patient, according to a scathing report released by the Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog.

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/25/65152...ts-report-says

10-01-2018 , 06:56 AM

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We already knew that the Tornillo tent city was terrible. Now they're taking children away from regular, licensed, monitored shelters across the country that have safety and education requirements, moving them in the middle of the night so they won't escape, and forcing them into the Tornillo tent city that is not supervised except loosely by DHHS. This also means that they're making room to detain more children. The number of detained children will be going up much higher than 13,000 in the future.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/u...ity-texas.html

In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in West Texas.

Until now, most undocumented children being held by federal immigration authorities had been housed in private foster homes or shelters, sleeping two or three to a room. They received formal schooling and regular visits with legal representatives assigned to their immigration cases.

But in the rows of sand-colored tents in Tornillo, Tex., children in groups of 20, separated by gender, sleep lined up in bunks. There is no school: The children are given workbooks that they have no obligation to complete. Access to legal services is limited.

The roughly 100 shelters that have, until now, been the main location for housing detained migrant children are licensed and monitored by state child welfare authorities, who impose requirements on safety and education as well as staff hiring and training.

The tent city in Tornillo, on the other hand, is unregulated, except for guidelines created by the Department of Health and Human Services. For example, schooling is not required there, as it is in regular migrant children shelters.

Several shelter workers, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being fired, described what they said has become standard practice for moving the children: In order to avoid escape attempts, the moves are carried out late at night because children will be less likely to try to run away. For the same reason, children are generally given little advance warning that they will be moved.

10-01-2018 , 10:09 AM

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Unless Kavanaugh is personally rounding up these kids this is not getting covered. The news cycle has moved on.

10-01-2018 , 12:47 PM

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The fact that this story has been dropped with hardly any ****s given and absolutely nothing done is why I remain incredibly pessimistic about November and the future on general.

10-01-2018 , 02:57 PM

#997

SuperUberBob

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Government child sex trafficking.

I mean there's no way those kids haven't been molested yet. Probably why they're being moved around so much.

10-08-2018 , 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by zikzak

The fact that this story has been dropped with hardly any ****s given and absolutely nothing done is why I remain incredibly pessimistic about November and the future on general.

This is bothering me. A google search doesn't give me much recent info. Do you have any recent news on the subject? Is this being noticed and addressed by anyone in our government?

10-08-2018 , 08:38 PM

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MrWookie

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Originally Posted by Mat Sklansky

This is bothering me. A google search doesn't give me much recent info. Do you have any recent news on the subject? Is this being noticed and addressed by anyone in our government?

The government is engaged in cartoon villainy here. They certainly aren't oblivious.

That NYT article above is the latest.

10-08-2018 , 08:50 PM

#1000

Fabian

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Mat,

I'm a politics lurker, but I've been reading your atf posts and your recent foray into politics. I feel compelled to tell you that, yes, this is indeed cartoon villainy. The government are/were (I hesitate to say are, because that implies it's something that they are currently thinking about) well aware. It just doesn't matter to them. Contrary to the point you were making earlier about senators surely being the voice of reason, they just don't care about it.

This is why you really, really should vote for someone who does care about it, even if you're not 100% sure you agree with them on every single issue. Don't be on the wrong side of history when this is being discussed in 50-75 years.

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