Posted on Sep 7, 2018
Searching For Deported Parents In Guatemala, While Children Wait In The U.S.
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A rumpled New York lawyer in khakis and a pin-stripe shirt is standing incongruously in the shaded plaza central of Chimaltenango, Guatemala, with a cellphone glued to his cheek. Lee Gelernt — a senior lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union — is a long way from the San Diego federal courthouse where he's been wrestling with the U.S. government for much of the summer.
Searching For Deported Parents In Guatemala, While Children Wait In The U.S.
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Children
Immigration
Refugees
Guatemala
San Diego
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This could have been avoided had the border not been crossed illegally..once again our tax dollars at work for non citizens, when we have 300,000 veterans on the street every day and starving children who are citizens..just saying.
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SPC Chris Ison
The VA estimates 709k veterans are homeless on any given day,
I will tell you what i know about homeless vets. THEY CHOOSE TO BE THAT WAY.
If you are rated, by the va, for anything less than 100% you get your compensation, and any full time job you may have. compensation at 90% is $1783 a month TAX FREE, so it is like earning 2,228.75 a month. or $26,745 annually. Plus you can work for minimum wage, at least, and that is 7.50 an hour in most states. which is $15,600 a year for a total of 42,345. Now one would expect a veteran at 90% to not be able to do much, but that is absolutely NOT true; but let us keep this argument,. That means if i am only getting 30% compensation i should be MORE ABLE TO WORK.
If you are receiving a rating of 100% you get $2973 a month, AND you get any social security you have paid into. Now if you went to boot camp and faked a back injury at 17, this means you get nothing form the SSDI. But if you worked in the military for about 10 years, then you would get, easily, $1500.00 additional money, also tax free. So about the smae as above, a little more.
Both of these figures are for a single veteran of he has dependents the numbers are higher, as he is paid compensation for dependents from both the VA and SSDI.
The next category of homeless veterans are veterans that are not disabled. Absolutely no reason for these guys to be homeless, there are programs, and a special fund of Section 8 housing just for veterans.
Finally, you have those people who say they are veterans but are not entitles to veterans benefits. You know why? Simple they were punitively discharged. So, fuck them.
What puts veterans on the streets is drugs and alcohol. I have no soft spot in my heart for a veteran, or anyone else, that becomes an addict. That shit doesn't happen accidentally.
Look at the history of the opioid crisis, that shit did not happen because people got hooked on oxy, it happened because after they got hooked on oxy they did not give a fuck, and started snorting there meds. Now, at some point you have to think that a reasonable person would go to their doctor and say, hey something is not right here. But instead they are buying pills illegally, seeing multiple doctor's and injuring themselves to get pills. If yo are too stupid to ask for help with that shit going on, well that is a you issue, not an US issue.
Funny how you don't have any compassion for people fleeing from actual oppression for a better life; But you will give the okay to a "veteran" who is just as fucking worthless as that illegal; more so because he has citizenship and has squandered his life on alcohol and pills.
I will tell you what i know about homeless vets. THEY CHOOSE TO BE THAT WAY.
If you are rated, by the va, for anything less than 100% you get your compensation, and any full time job you may have. compensation at 90% is $1783 a month TAX FREE, so it is like earning 2,228.75 a month. or $26,745 annually. Plus you can work for minimum wage, at least, and that is 7.50 an hour in most states. which is $15,600 a year for a total of 42,345. Now one would expect a veteran at 90% to not be able to do much, but that is absolutely NOT true; but let us keep this argument,. That means if i am only getting 30% compensation i should be MORE ABLE TO WORK.
If you are receiving a rating of 100% you get $2973 a month, AND you get any social security you have paid into. Now if you went to boot camp and faked a back injury at 17, this means you get nothing form the SSDI. But if you worked in the military for about 10 years, then you would get, easily, $1500.00 additional money, also tax free. So about the smae as above, a little more.
Both of these figures are for a single veteran of he has dependents the numbers are higher, as he is paid compensation for dependents from both the VA and SSDI.
The next category of homeless veterans are veterans that are not disabled. Absolutely no reason for these guys to be homeless, there are programs, and a special fund of Section 8 housing just for veterans.
Finally, you have those people who say they are veterans but are not entitles to veterans benefits. You know why? Simple they were punitively discharged. So, fuck them.
What puts veterans on the streets is drugs and alcohol. I have no soft spot in my heart for a veteran, or anyone else, that becomes an addict. That shit doesn't happen accidentally.
Look at the history of the opioid crisis, that shit did not happen because people got hooked on oxy, it happened because after they got hooked on oxy they did not give a fuck, and started snorting there meds. Now, at some point you have to think that a reasonable person would go to their doctor and say, hey something is not right here. But instead they are buying pills illegally, seeing multiple doctor's and injuring themselves to get pills. If yo are too stupid to ask for help with that shit going on, well that is a you issue, not an US issue.
Funny how you don't have any compassion for people fleeing from actual oppression for a better life; But you will give the okay to a "veteran" who is just as fucking worthless as that illegal; more so because he has citizenship and has squandered his life on alcohol and pills.
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SSG Steven Mangus
Again the difference is, citizen and illegal alien..there is no law making it illegal to be homeless..you know our ancestors stood up against oppression and become the USA, maybe those coming here illegally should consider changing their country themselves instead of coming here the wrong way..
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Why the government is relying on Lee and all of the other attorneys involved in these cases to track down the parents is beyond the pale. They created the situation by separating the parents and children, not ensuring that they had an adequate way to track the parents and children, and then they bail out on their responsibility to these children. It is shameful, to say the least. Just rely on the private sector attorneys to do the government's job. And don't even get me started on what mental horrors have been dealt to these children when they decided to do the whole separation of families.
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