transartorialism

sistargirl:

dancingonembers:

dreamactnow:

Sign the petition to stop Manolo’s deportation. It’ll takes less than a minute.

from the site:

“Manolo is a young person who would be eligible for the DREAM Act. He is a Chinese-American who has lived in Tennessee for almost his entire life. He graduated from high school with honors, and earned a bachelor’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University.

Manolo’s family brought him to the United States from Venezuela when he was very young. And that’s where ICE now wants to deport him to—even though Manolo has no friends or family there and doesn’t speak Spanish.

It gets worse—if they are forced to leave the US, Venezuela may send Manolo’s parents back to China. Meanwhile, Manolo’s younger brother, who is a US-born citizen, would stay in Tennessee.”

classic example of why these deportation shenanigans are a load of crap.

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and also (though i’m not sure if this is the case) this is a huge reason of why transnational adoptions can be complicated, problematic, and really harmful to the children who are adopted.  i feel like every other day resist racism is blogging about a person being deported because their adoptive parents didn’t make sure all the paperwork was done to make their child a citizen.