Trump: “I run the country and the world.”

No shame

Yesterday, Representative Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Cory Booker did a “sit-in” on the Capitol steps to protest and hold discussion for more than 12 hours in opposition to Republicans’ proposed budget plan. I love this idea, and think a rotating set of Congress members should do this on a regular basis. Heck, if I lived in DC, I would join them! I also heard that another protest day is set for country-wide gatherings on May 1st. I have to be working for this live-drawing job here in LA, so won’t be able to join that day.

The Guardian reports that ICE, in a nationwide operations, is seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to detain or prosecute. The Ice document shows “ it’s not just about checking in on kids, making sure that they can account for them and that they’re not being exploited”, said Michelle Méndez, the director of legal resources and training for the National Immigration Project. “It shows they have other goals, and the goals are criminalization of the kid or criminalization of the sponsor. It’s backdoor family separation.” The publicly stated reason for this operation is that it is all about the safety of the children, and they accuse the Biden administration of allowing such children to be placed with smugglers and sex trafficers. But some don’t believe their stated intentions; that rather it is a way to gather…