Remove the ‘A’ from the ACLU.
Via Law and Crime:
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) could never be accused of pulling their punches. Now, the storied civil liberties organization appears to be aligning itself more closely with the burgeoning movement to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
On Monday, the ACLU posted an action bulletin on their website calling for Americans to contact their senators and demand the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) be defunded until the agency is no longer used as a tool to attack undocumented immigrants.
A summary of the campaign appears near the ACLU’s masthead on the bulletin’s page. It reads, “Call Senators: Defund DHS. We refuse to allow our taxpayer dollars to fund Homeland Security’s heartless policies.” The site also provides a sample phone script for would-be callers.
The brief press release accompanying the bulletin unloads on the nearly 16-year-old agency in no uncertain terms:
The Department of Homeland Security is the Trump administration’s key tool for terrorizing immigrants. DHS is responsible for inflicting heinous abuses on children in its custody – long before they started ripping them away from their families and detaining them in chain-link prison camps as part of the vile family separation policy.
The second sentence of the above-quoted passage appears to refer to various incidents of verbal, physical and sexual abuse directed against immigrant children by federal agents under the employ of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.