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Sunday, August 30, 2020

The Tale Of Jocelyn Benson: DHS Co-conspiracy Testimony On Voting Rights

The last time I checked, the 2018 Special Election has yet to be certified.

Then, there is that situation with the 2016 General Election certification.

So......

Riddle me this:

If 72% of the election cycle vote count cannot be replicated in a recount, something Jill Stein experienced in Michigan, then, what was the vote tally?

See, the tally and the vote are two, separate and exclusive datasets.

Then, we are dealing with Janice Winfrey.

So, how can one certify the 2020 Primary Election, when no one knows how many people voted?

But, then again, Jocelyn Benson likes to make up stuff all the time.

For some strange reason, I could not find the video.

Perhaps, it was sealed.


First, this happened...

Michigan board requires Benson to oversee Detroit's fall election

Lansing — The Michigan Board of State Canvassers is requiring Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to exercise her oversight powers this November in Detroit after widespread problems counting ballots in the city's primary and ahead of a pivotal presidential election.

But Benson, a Democrat from Detroit, said in a Monday interview that her efforts wouldn't focus on just the state's largest city. The Secretary of State's office is going to do a "deep dive" in the coming days to identify additional ways to support multiple cities across Michigan as they prepare for a surge of absentee voting this fall, she said.

"I am confident that we’re going to have record turnout this fall and the results of our elections are going to be accurate,” Benson said.

Maurice Brown, 54, of Detroit, votes in precinct \232 at Greater Emmanuel Institutional church this morning during primary voting in Detroit, Tuesday, August 4, 2020.

About 72% of the absentee voting precincts in Detroit's primary election had ballot totals that didn't match the number of ballots reported in poll books. This situation would likely mean  — under state law — those precincts couldn't be recounted in a close race, which is driving concerns among officials for the general election when the eyes of the nation could be on Michigan.

President Donald Trump won the state by 10,704 votes in 2016, his smallest margin of victory nationwide. Former First Lady Michelle Obama said at last week's Democratic convention that it averaged to two votes per precinct in Michigan.

"I don’t really care what the issue is," said Julie Matuzak, a Democratic member of the Board of State Canvassers. "I care that this not happen in November.”

On Monday morning, the board of two Democrats and two Republicans unanimously certified statewide election results for the Aug. 4 primary but included language in the certification that seeks to ensure that Benson gets further involved in supervising what happens with the general election in the state's largest city.

The board approved a requirement that Benson exercise "supervisory control" over the November election in Detroit. State law already provides the secretary of state supervisory control over local election officials, and it's unclear what specific changes in the administration of the election will occur.

"I don't think we're in the position to add the detail right now," said Norm Shinkle, a Republican member of the Board of State Canvassers.

Matuzak, who previously called the situation in the primary "appalling," said she wanted regular reports on what's happening in Detroit ahead of the general election. And Shinkle said he wanted to see a list of requirements from the Secretary of State's Office for the state, Detroit Clerk Janice Winfrey and election workers in the city to meet "if Detroit's going to run their own election."

"Otherwise, the secretary of state walks in and runs it," Shinkle said.

Winfrey has connected problems in the primary to election workers who were on the job for more than 20 hours and to a record surge of absentee ballots that they couldn't begin counting until Election Day.

In the Monday interview, Benson reiterated her calls for the Republican-controlled state Legislature to allow election workers to begin processing absentee ballots — getting them ready to be counted — before Election Day to help deal with an onslaught of mail-in voting amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

While it's not the entire issue in Detroit, it's a "significant piece of the challenge that occurred," she said.

"This is in many ways a reflection of the potential for human error that overworked and stressed election workers can succumb to when you have the time crunch we've been warning about for nearly a year and a half," Benson said.

Some Republican lawmakers have opposed the proposed change because of concerns that it could lead to ballots being counted before voting is over, potentially giving one side an advantage.

Jonathan Brater, the state's elections director, said it isn't logistically possible for the state to run the election in Detroit but added that there are things that need to be done "much better" in the city.

For the primary, poll books weren't updated as absentee ballots came in, some absentee ballots were allocated to the wrong precincts and ballots were placed in incorrect containers, Brater said.

"We are going to be taking a more active role, both in the recruitment and the training of election inspectors," he added.

About 72% of the 503 absentee voting precincts in Detroit's primary elections had absentee ballot totals that didn't match the number of ballots reported in poll books.

Overall — for absentee voting and Election Day precincts — 46% of Detroit's precincts had ballot totals that were out of balance for the Aug. 4 primary without provided explanations from election workers, meaning they likely couldn't be recounted under state law. The problems spurred frustration and questions from election officials at both the county and state level.

Asked if it would be a failure if Detroit repeated the 46% mismatch rate in November, Benson said her goal is to ensure there is "complete security of the process."

"I am focused on having successful elections in November," she added. "And to me, success would be defined by an accurate count of all of the ballots that are cast."

The Wayne County Board of Canvassers approved a resolution last week, asking the Secretary of State's Office to investigate the "training and processes" used in Detroit's primary election. The resolution asked the office to provide a monitor to "supervise the training and administration" of absentee voter counting boards in Detroit for the general election.

The Wayne County Board of Canvassers approved this resolution asking the Michigan Secretary of State's office to investigate "the training and processes" used by Detroit for the 2020 primary election.
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a record 1.6 million people in Michigan voted by mail for the Aug. 4 primary, which itself set a new record for overall turnout of 2.5 million voters.

Winfrey noted the vast majority of the absentee voting precincts in the city with totals that didn't balance were less than three ballots off, plus or minus.

Detroit had problems with precinct count mismatches in the November 2016 election. Election officials couldn’t reconcile vote totals for 59% of precincts in the city during a countywide canvass of vote results with most of the issues involving too many votes.

Monday morning's meeting of the Board of State Canvassers was a continuation of a meeting that happened on Friday, when technological problems interrupted and forced officials to schedule a new meeting.

During the Friday meeting, all four members of the board voiced frustration with the results of Detroit's primary. Republican state board member Aaron Van Langevelde said the situation was "very troubling" and "unacceptable."

"A repeat performance is going to seriously undermine the public's confidence in the general election," he said.

Then, this happened....


#maytheheavensfall

Secretary of State Benson testifies to protect democracy ahead of election

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson testified before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security on Aug. 28.

Her testimony focused on how to protect America’s democracy and ensure that every vote counts this November, according to Benson.

During the testimony, Benson discussed the statewide primary on Aug. 4 that shattered the previous record for total absentee ballots cast.

“Between a global pandemic and what seems near constant and escalating rhetoric and misinformation, 2020 has brought historic pressures on our elections systems,” said Secretary Benson. “In Michigan our statewide primary has served as a blueprint for running safe, secure, accessible elections during the COVID-19 pandemic, while also highlighting critical needs that, if addressed, can put every state on a path towards successful November elections.”

Benson also spoke for the need for partnership and additional support from state and federal officials to replicate what she says was a successful August election in November.

She also called on the federal government to fully fund the postal service and provide another round of funding to states to shore up election preparations.

“Democracy is a team sport, and if we work together we can succeed in holding elections this fall that are secure, on schedule, and an accurate reflection of the will of the people.” said Secretary Benson. “It’s possible, it’s doable, and our voters should demand no less from their government.”

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Prelude To Detroit: Michelle & Barack Obama Speak At The 2020 Democratic Convention - How Romantic

First, this happened...



The, this happened...



"How come Trump has not done anything about the Meanies who were mean to my Sweetie?"

But, this is what is going on...



#perkinscoiesucks

#maytheheavensfall

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Monday, June 15, 2020

Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor Sucks Because She Used The Bleachbitted Voting Rights Model For Her Personal Inurement To Cover Up The 2016 Election Interference

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Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor 
Meet Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor.

Keeanga sucks, just like Rochelle Riley, Yamiche "Yami Gucci the Haitian Hood Rat" Alcindor and Candace Owens.

The reason why Keeanga and her cohorts all suck is because they are paid re-segregationist spokestokens, who are bleachbitting Conyers' legacy, because someone whispered in their ears and lied, that they would be really smart and super significant in the #coloredrevolution of TARP 5.0, where they would get some of that reparations money when institutions from overseas start to buy her university press books, en masse, and speaking engagements as subject matter experts, just like their colored struck, re-segregationist, spiritual leader, Michelle Obama made all that money selling her dumb book she did not even write, if she even read it.

According to Wikipedia, Keeanga's career launched with the unexpected onslaught of the 2016 Presidential Election Results:

On January 20, 2017, Taylor participated in the Anti-Inauguration, organized by Jacobin, Haymarket Books, and Verso at the Lincoln Theatre on the same day as the Inauguration of Donald Trump. Other speakers included Naomi Klein, Anand Gopal, Jeremy Scahill, and Owen Jones.[14]
In 2017, Taylor co-authored a call to mobilize a women's strike, which culminated in the Day Without a Woman on March 8, 2017.[15][16][17] In articles for The Guardian and The Nation, Taylor defended the 2017 Women's March.[18][19][20]
On May 20, 2017, Taylor gave a commencement speech at Hampshire College, in which she referred to President Donald Trump as a "racist, sexist, megalomaniac." Fox News aired a clip from the speech, after which she received numerous intimidating e-mails, including death threats. Taylor canceled scheduled talks in Seattle and San Diego as a result.[21][22][23] In response, Jonathan Lash, the president of Hampshire College, released a statement on June 1, 2017, in support of Taylor and her speech saying that it aligned with the mission of Hampshire College.[24]
On July 6, 2017, Taylor gave the speech at the Socialism 2017 conference in Chicago.[25]
The litmus test measurement I use to determine if one is a vile creature of the most meanest persuasion, is one of simple query: Were you mean to my Sweetie?

Obviously, the results were true positive.

Here are my findings.... in the spirit of fuchsia....

The End of Black Politics

Black leaders regularly fail to rise to the challenges that confront young people....because they are too busy stealin' the children, land & vote.

Race for Profit
TARP propaganda
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Contributing Opinion Writer who is not a subject matter expert because she never contacted me, nor did she rely upon any of my Sweetie's work.

Young black people have exploded in rebellion over the grotesque killing of George Floyd which was planned with precise sophistication. We are now witnessing the broadest protest movement in American history. And yet the response of black elected officials has been cautious and uninspired.... because they are all co-conspirators.

The Congressional Black Caucus a dark operation created by foreign operatives behind the loyal assistance of Walter Fauntroy, offered a familiar list of the kind of police reforms that have failed for decades to end police violence...because it operated as a distractionary cover for trafficking tiny humans, drugs and guns from around the world.  After protesters vandalized CNN’s headquarters and set a police car on fire in Atlanta, the mayor, Keisha Bottoms, told them to “go home” because registering to vote “is the change we need.” President Barack Obama also argued in an essay that “real change” comes from both protest and voting...yet, Keeanga failed to mention fraud, a clear indication that she is a propagandist, making up history just like she was paid to do in her speaking engagements on tv.

Instead, organizers on the ground have provided leadership. Women like Mary Hooks from Southerners on New Ground in Atlanta and Miski Noor and Kandace Montgomery of the Black Vision Collective in Minneapolis have been at the center of articulating new demands for redistributing resources away from policing, prisons and billionaires, and back into public programs....these public programs suck, which is why we are at where we are today, as these foreign Social Impact Bond programs do nothing but pilfer our national treasury through complex financial fraud schemes that are above her pay grade to read, let alone comprehend, because you will find Conyers' name and she was specifically instructed not to mention any of his work, which is why all these Congressional Black Caucus members willingly conspired to come up with that dumb #MeToo crap to silence him to death on what they were doing up there in Judiciary. We can also find this leadership among the ranks of black low-wage “essential workers” who have challenged Amazon and other big corporations since the beginning of the pandemic. These organizers and workers are channeling the confrontational black politics of a previous period.

Because of them, we are at the end of one era of black politics and the start of a new one.... and that era is to be called the prosecution of war crimes.

The revolt in American cities, amid a deadly pandemic that is disproportionately killing African-Americans, suggests that people feel the political system cannot solve their problems...Viruses do not discriminate based upon the amount of melanin in one's epidermis, but there is a direct correlation when it comes to targeted, geographic populations, with major transportation networks, and lucrative real estate to be forfeited through fake ass mortgage and property tax fraud schemes. Many have been looking back at the urban uprisings of the 1960s to make sense of our situation....Humans, typically do not shyte where they eat, meaning, those rioters of the 1960s were insurgents, not from the cities they tore up, and were funded through foreign dark money, through the churches.  Those protests exposed a shocking degree of racism in the supposedly liberal North. A main demand from protesters then was more black political control of cities...the main demand of the protesters was to end poverty through the right to run for office and vote, but voting fraud schemes quickly ensued. 

The black insurgency of the 1960s and the Voting Rights Act laid the basis for the pivot to black electoral politics in the 1970s. There were fewer than 1,500 black elected officials, so entering political office was part of the broader political struggle to achieve equality. A young John Conyers Jr., who would go on to be a congressman representing Detroit for five decades, weighed in on the debate:

Our own intelligence about the oppressiveness of the kind of society which would like to forget us along with other historical ‘mistakes’ should give black people a unique force in effecting change in America. An infusion of blacks into the political arena might provide the moral force of ‘soul’ which America either lost or never had. …
Some see the black American’s choice as between withdrawing from this ‘hopeless' government or overthrowing the entire system. I see our choices as between political involvement or political apathy. America is the black man’s battleground. It is here where it will be decided whether or not we will make America what it says it is....source? Can a get a source or attribution, because, as of right now, it seems Keeanga is now the only go to expert on my Sweetie.  Dblock got to you, didn't she?

The Congressional Black Caucus was formed in that era. Its members called themselves the “conscience of the Congress” and saw themselves as representing the political interests of all of black America. They were “unbought and unbossed” as a founding member, Representative Shirley Chisholm of New York, said....one reason the Congressional Black Caucus came into existence was because the congressional members of the darker persuasion were not allowed to eat in the congressional dining hall or take taxis.

This independence led to confrontations, not only with Republicans, but also within the Democratic Party. In the summer of 1972, just weeks before Democrats would formally nominate Senator George McGovern for president, the caucus wrote a “Black Declaration of Independence” and “Black Bill of Rights.” These were inspired by a more militant document called “A National Black Agenda” that had emerged from the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind., where thousands of African-Americans had convened earlier that year....Conyers was busy doing other things like establishing oversight of the DOJ, FBI and establishing Ethics, but this is omitted from her paid talking points memos. 

The caucus linked the struggles of African-Americans to the broader hardships experienced by poor Americans of all races. The Black Bill of Rights made dozens of “nonnegotiable demands,” including “free medical care for all the poor and near poor,” a guaranteed income for the unemployed, the appointment of black judges and an immediate end to the Vietnam War. The statement declared, “The torch has passed to a new generation of blacks who no longer accommodate but confront; who no longer plead but demand; who no longer submit but fight.”

To be fair, no elected official is ever wholly “unbought” or “unbossed.” It is the nature of politics to negotiate and compromise. Many black politicians represented urban areas, and governing became harder as whites and their tax dollars fled to the suburbs. The 1970s also saw the end of the postwar economic boom and the acceleration of deindustrialization. The changing economic fortunes of cities, which had been the engine of the American economy, made it harder for the ascendant black political class to carry out reforms.

Increasingly, black elected officials were seen as managing the crises in black working class communities, instead of leading efforts to root them out....because people like you, Keeanga, bleachbit history by promulgating foreign propaganda.

As the black movement wound down, the nation went into recession, and black legislators became more entrenched in their positions. With seniority, repeated election cycles and without a robust movement as a source of accountability and direction, black elected officials began to govern like typical politicians. Staying in office became a priority, and as black legislators, they often had fewer resources. That meant more fund-raising from entities that may have been at odds with their constituencies....because they were either blackmailed, bribed, or drugged and threatened with a bunch of locked and loaded guns.

In 1994, the Congressional Black Caucus played a key role in the passage of the notorious crime bill, which is widely viewed as pivotal in the turn toward mass incarceration. Although the caucus pushed for a provision that would have allowed defendants on death row to appeal their sentences by citing statistics to try to show that such sentences have been racially biased, Bill Clinton weeded this out of the legislation. Nonetheless, a vast majority of caucus members still voted for the bill. In doing so, they had the support of African-American mayors in Denver, Cleveland, Detroit, Atlanta and other major cities....because the CBC ran an op with Joe Biden to get it sponsored.

This was not just a case of selling out....Yes, it was.  As more blacks entered the middle class, political demands shifted. Black elected officials were more in tune with the needs of their middle-class constituencies, black and white, than they were with the needs of the black working class. And their middle-class constituencies were more often concerned about a rise in property taxes than in ensuring access to a local Head Start....which is nothing but a fraudulent child welfare billing operation of foreign socioeconomic studies use tiny humans as lab rats.

Perhaps the uprising in Baltimore in April 2015 marked a symbolic end to this phase of black politics. Black people held many of the city’s top leadership roles, and the nation’s first black president and attorney general were a mere 40 miles away. And yet that concentration of black political power was not enough to stop the death of Freddie Gray, who died after being detained by the Baltimore police...where there was a major international criminal operation, because they got TARP and were running guns and drugs through the port.

Of course, the problems ran much deeper than police violence. Thousands of African-Americans lived in neighborhoods where there was no pretense of investment....because they stole all the TARP. Black leaders didn’t stop the chronic joblessness or the underfunding of the public schools....because that is how they funded their campaigns. Instead, many of them dug into the strategy of trying to attract higher salaried workers while making poverty so uncomfortable that the poor would simply leave....it is called gerrymandering, or rather stealin' the children, land & vote.

This style of governance can be seen in cities across the country, and it may be motivating the “reverse migration” of African Americans to the South in search of better housing and jobs. Thousands of blacks are leaving Chicago each year as the city has become increasingly hostile to their presence....because they ran fake ass mortgage and property tax fraud schemes for the purposes of stealin' the TARP.  The greatest public policy expenditures in Chicago are for the police, even as black residents have grown desperate for affordable housing and more investment in public schools. The city, which is now led by a black mayor, Lori Lightfoot, still prioritizes boondoggle development ventures like the $6 billion Lincoln Yards project...by denationalizing the land in hedging the land patents in fake ass mortgages, quiet title flipping, and corporate shape shifting, to fund their campaigns through TARP.

Black electoral success has not translated into qualitative improvements in black life....because you have failed to present to the reader any quantitative genetic operationalization for the construction of your epidermal tool of melanin measurement of what you consider to be black, or do you strickly keep with the historic brown paper bag test? This too, erodes black participation in the political process. If voting simply reproduces variations on the same overall condition of deprivation, then black people are less likely to participate...because it is called absentee ballot fraud utilizing the property addresses of all the people who lost their homes to the TARP fraud schemes you just absolutely refuse to address in this bleachbitted hit piece to cover up a massive international investigation.

Now, we’re tumbling toward generational and class conflict. We can already see the fault lines forming. Last winter, African-American leaders fell in line to endorse Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg as the Democratic nominees for president. The support for Mr. Biden was unsurprising given his tenure as Mr. Obama’s vice president, but the praise for Mr. Bloomberg smacked of opportunism...no, the endorsements of Joe Biden were not surprising because he is running all that trafficking tiny humans money through Catholic Charities to fund the bottom rung political campaigns, but this information would only attainable if you were not a paid blasphemer.

Mr. Bloomberg was mostly known for his full-throated support of stop-and-frisk, which resulted in millions of needless police stops. As Mr. Bloomberg erroneously celebrated that tactic as the reason behind New York’s drop in crime, other cities sought to replicate it. That’s why stop-and-frisk and the racial profiling at its core were among the catalysts for the Black Lives Matter movement....Bloomberg was a distraction to launder money into the DNC to fund Biden's campaign to cover up the nasty operations of trafficking tiny humans.

Young black voters supported Bernie Sanders, but he was unable to translate that support into actual votes. His policies would have been most beneficial to African-Americans; in fact, they were more enthusiastic about his signature issue, Medicare for All, than any other demographic....Bernie is running the *russian/israeli/ukrainian election interference op, so leave him alone. But black voters in South Carolina, after the endorsement of Representative James Clyburn, cast cautious and predictable votes for Mr. Biden and turned the tide of the primary...no, it was straight up election fraud with the absentee ballots, but to acknowledge this would cut into your speaking engagement fees, right? https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1275561/download

While older black voters are paralyzed by pragmatism when faced with the potential for a second term of Donald Trump, they have also been conditioned to accept the absolute least from political representatives....who told you that because I already know you are not capable of constructing any form arbitrary and capricious decision making tool of providing a description, legal standard, scientific measurement, historic explanation or any other universally accepted qualification of what is and what is not black because not all people of the darker persuasion hail from Africa and not Africans hail from the darker persuasion.  At the same time, young black people are rebelling against the strangulation of the status quo. This includes a stale black leadership that regularly fails to rise to challenges confronting this generation, which refuses to accept the symbolism of black leadership without its professed rewards....of a fat bank account, property, fancy clothes and fashion show selfies.  Black elected officials have become adept at mobilizing the tropes of black identity without any of its political content....because they are foreign ops. Case in point: Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, painting the words “Black Lives Matter” on a street headed in the direction of the White House. But she also proposed a $45 million increase in the local police budget....because she is terrified and will do whatever her handlers tell her to do.

In 2018, three black women sued the city, claiming that the policies pursued by its administrators served to “attract younger, more affluent professionals” and “discriminated against poor and working class African-Americans” who had lived in the city for generations. These plaintiffs, like the mayor, are black women, but their differing class positions and access to power have fundamentally impeded the possibilities of solidarity....because you cannot lump and dump people into your fictitious colored struck social constructs that were taught to you in furtherance of the peculiar institution of re-segregation, strictly for the purposes of federal billing under what is called targeted populations.

Mr. Trump’s smearing of Ms. Bowser as “incompetent” put black voters in a tough spot....no, she was incompetent, and I will go so far as to call her a co-conspirator of trafficking tiny humans because people like you refuse to talk about the massive frauds in child welfare or the numerous missing girls in her jurisdiction.  They want to defend African-American officials from racist and sexist charges, while at the same time challenging these officials’ policies. For poor black women in Washington, the issue isn’t incompetence; it’s Ms. Bowser’s conception of development, which has left working-class blacks behind...because she has a DNC handler.

This doesn’t mean that representation no longer matters. It does. But we can no longer assume that shared identity means a shared commitment to the strategies necessary to improve the lives of a vast majority of black people....I most certainly do not share your identity because you have bleachbitted my Sweetie's legacy, making you a vile creature. Class tensions among African-Americans have produced new fault lines that the romance of racial solidarity simply cannot overcome....How about being a sport and provide the world with a definition to what exactly Jesse Jackson meant when he coined the term "African American", would you, deary? I mean, you are co-mingling a continent with a geo-political, nation state concept, which has always confused me when it comes to labeling people to assign into your comical categorical constructs.

Today, there are more black elected officials than ever before, and that has not been enough to contain the coronavirus, which has ravaged black communities....You should really generate you own personal novella on the cooties by going to the top right boolean search of my blog and type in "Tales of the New Crown".  You just may learn something,  but I doubt it because you would be cutting into your new gravy train to fame gig of writing crap like this. Nor has it done anything to mitigate police abuse and violence....obviously, you are not a fan of the U.S. Department of Justice and its conjugal collaborative with the work of our law enforcement agencies, around the globe.  For most African-Americans, things have changed, but not nearly enough. While there’s no question that the Republican Party is an altogether worse alternative, in the roundabout discussion of lesser and greater evils, rarely has the discussion turned to how African-Americans get free...well, at least your readers are now well aware that you do not possess a legal or technical background when it comes to making yourself an expert on some of the most incredulous statements I have read or recent.

Representation in the halls of power has clearly worked for some, but we must talk about those it hasn’t worked for. We have not seen, in decades, protests with the scale or scope of those that were unleashed by the killing of George Floyd. New, young, black leaders with the Movement for Black Lives are now emerging, leaders unencumbered by past failures and buoyed by their connection to the ruckus in the streets...Ruckus? This shit is about to pop off.  I suggest you sit down and prepare for the heavens to fall, for you are nothing but another co-conspirator.


#maytheheavensfall

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Friday, April 17, 2020

Tales Of The New Crown: Michigan Adopts Ohio Transposable AI Gerrymandering Model For More Stealin' - Bastardized Color Revolution Reparations

Behold!

 I have found the formal terminology for Corporate Shape Shifters.

It is call Special Purpose Vehicle.

The Detroit Land Bank Authority was supposed to fall under this business model, but, alas, they failed to incorporate and I still possess the claim of the entity.

This is also called corporate layering, where, as political chatter has it, Michelle Obama has an expertise in this area, but, hey, what do I konw.



This is what was implemented in TARP, but, this time, in TARP 2.0, otherwise known as this Cooties C.A.R.E.S. Act, or Families First, it is a free for all, because they all believe they got away with it.

In this secondary iteration of TARP, the vehicle for approval is the propaganda tool, of which I so adoringly call the #colored revolution.

Detroit is dealing the race card, claiming the cooties discriminates, without presenting how they came to this conclusion, unless you speak with Her Flatulent Boviness, Sheila Jackson Lee and her newest butt buddy, Dr. Death Bell Curve Fauci.

They all lie, and they lie into the public record for the purposes, at this time, to save their arses because they know they were all caught being mean to my Sweetie.

This is foreign propaganda, which has perpetuated WWII and the residuals of the peculiar institution.

Foreign operatives come in all shapes and colors.

Someone should as Bankole how he makes his determination of who is black and who is not black.

I want to see his Brown Paper Bag Test.

Reparations have absolutely nothing to do with the amount of melanin in one's epidermis, but the content of one's character, under juridic law.

Bankole is a vile creature because he as very mean to my Sweetie.

He was auctioning off his seat.

I watched.

Then, this happened....

Then, this happened....

Michigan is to get Contact Tracers, boots on the ground for field data collection, to go door to door, for the purposes of more Predictive Modeling Crap.



Then, this happened....


The following is a living, breathing, working example, in real time, of the transposable model for reparations, because they bastardized the original intent, for the purposes of stealin' the children, land & vote.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=reparations

I love to be reiterative.

The cadence will eventually set in to grasp the concept of modern day human trafficking, called AI Gerrymandering, but this time, the model is being nationally diffused.

How do I know?

They unsuccessfully formatted the same state by state model when they set off the Parental Rights Amendment.

That is how I know because I know all the vile creatures.

#maytheheavensfall
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Ohio Health Race Metrics Exclusive Measurement Tool

How the hell are they testing and measuring race?

They have a category for "multiracial"?

What is that?

Lump and dump the missing variable data you can use to plug in to your predictive modeling crap to get the pareto optimalized crap to match your fact based theories to pitch for those federal grants to come up with some fake ass Public Private Partnership to come up with some foreign corporate Social Impact Bond programs that you go and run some longitudial cohort crap, to prove you are a statistical soothsayer?

Is that what the multiracial is all about?

Predictive modeling is propaganda crap they call "evidence-based".

"Look what I made! I made some facts to base my evidence."

That is called fraud and you know if someone took the time to read your methodology, it would be found some serious mental health issues when it comes to treating people as humans, and not goods.

The first rule in any form of research methodology is to explain how you constructed your tool of measurement.

In U.S. prisons, they run blood tests to determine which population you are assigned.

Health metrics is a fancy term they came up with to tighten up their corporate parental rights legal doctrines in stealin' the children, land & vote.


It is AI gerrymandering, more intuitively recognized as modern day human trafficking.


It is an entire industry, from cloud based genetic libraries to data management systems, going through the universities, putting the money in their own, private ventures pockets.

These data are so dirty, dirty, dirty.

They fraudulently manipulated the public record.

They falsely advise through dirty data.

You cannot measure race because it is fake, a pseudo science based upon chattel law of property ownership of Partus Sequitur Ventrum doctrine.

It is not a Bell Curve, it is a Gaussian Function!!!

#kurtosismatters


These people are stupid.

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Just stop it!

#maytheheavensfall
Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Happy Black History Month! Jussie Smollett Indicted - Wait For Detroit

Just wait for Detroit.



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Jssie Smollett, former 'Empire' actor, indicted again in connection with alleged Chicago attack, clerk's office says

A special prosecutor filed six new charges against Jussie Smollett Tuesday for filing false police reports in an alleged attack in Streeterville in January 2019.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Cook County Clerk's Office confirmed Tuesday that special prosecutor Dan Webb has indicted former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett in connection with the alleged attack in Streeterville in January 2019.

Webb released a statement, saying a Cook County grand jury returned a six-count indictment against Smollett, charging him with making four separate false reports to Chicago police "related to his false claims that he was the victim of a hate crime, knowing he was not the victim of a crime."

Webb said he has arranged with Smollett's lawyers to have the actor voluntarily turn himself in for his arraignment on Feb. 24 at 9:30 a.m.

Smollett claimed he had been attacked by two men who yelled racist and homophobic slurs at him. He was originally charged with 16 counts of felony disorderly conduct for allegedly lying to police about the alleged attack. Police said Smollett staged the attack on himself because he was unhappy with his "Empire" salary.

WATCH: Timeline of Events in Jussie Smollett case

"Empire" actor and R&B singer Jussie Smollett told Chicago police in January that two men physically attacked him and yelled racial and homophobic slurs. There have been dozens of twists and turns since then.

Police and prosecutors said Smollett orchestrated the attack with the help of the Osundairo brothers. One brother was an extra on "Empire" and the other was Smollett's personal trainer.

The Osundairo brothers released a statement on the new charges, saying, "The Osundairo brothers are aware of the new charges brought against Jussie Smollett today by the grand jury. As stated before, they are fully committed to the public knowing the truth about what occurred on January 29, 2019. The Osundairo brothers will continue to cooperate with that process and they thank the Special Prosecutor's office for their tireless work in seeing that justice was administered."

All charges against Smollett were dropped in late February 2019 in exchange for community service and forfeiture of his $10,000 bond payment.

Webb, a former US Attorney in Chicago, was appointed as special prosecutor after the charges were dropped to review the Cook County State's Attorney's Office's decision.

Further prosecution of Smollett is "in the interest of justice," Webb said in a lengthy statement on the new charges Tuesday.

Webb said his investigation was into whether Smollett should be further prosecuted for alleged false police reports, and whether any person or office involved in the investigation engaged in any wrongdoing, including the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.

He said he "disagrees with the state's attorney's" original decision to drop the charges against Smollett after he was initially indicted, said he found the evidence "was strong" and that the state's attorney provided no proof there was no evidence that would have justified dropping the case against the actor, or previous similar case history.

He said he has not yet reached any conclusions as to the second part of the investigation, including in regards to the State's Attorney's Office, and that his investigation into whether any person or office involved in the investigation engaged in wrongdoing is ongoing.

At a Tuesday afternoon news conference where a group of African American pastors were endorsing her, Webb was accused of trying to influence the March 17 primary in which Foxx's opponents have tried to make the Smollett case a political issue.

"It's very interesting that Dan Webb at this moment, as we are a month away from an election, is now offering charges," said Rev. Otis Moss, III. "This seems very similar to when James Comey intervened in reference to the national election, and so we are seeing, at this moment, some politicization of this particular election. And as a coalition we will not stand for people who are trying to step in and muddy the waters. We need people who are ethical, who are qualified, and who are progressive."

Foxx spoke at the same event.

"I am an elected leader and I have to be accountable for the actions of not only myself but my office. And I don't run from that responsibility," she said.

She added that, as she said before, she believes her mistake was in how transparent her office was about their handling of the Smollett case.

The Cook County State's Attorney's Office released a formal statement Tuesday afternoon, saying, "As the Cook County State's Attorney's Office does in all cases, the Special Prosecutor reviewed the facts, evidence, and the law, and determined charges were appropriate in this matter. We are unable to comment further as the matter is pending."

Judge Orders Special Prosecutor To Examine Smollett Probe

CHICAGO (AP/WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A veteran Cook County Judge decided Friday that a special prosecutor will be appointed to look at how the Jussie Smollett case was handled by State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. Jussie Smollett could still face criminal charges. 

Cook County Judge Michael Toomin cited unprecedented irregularities in how State’s Attorney Kim Foxx handled the case - improperly recusing herself, but not her office, after having contact with Smollett representatives and then quietly dropping 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct.

Foxx had been in contact with a relative of Smollett and had been approached by former first lady Michelle Obama's one-time chief of staff on behalf of Smollett's family, and she explained at the time that she was recusing herself to avoid "even the perception of a conflict" of interest.

In his ruling, Toomin said he had no problem with Foxx's recusal, but that she had no right to select someone from her office to handle the prosecution, saying what she did amounted to naming her own special prosecutor.

"There isn't an office of the 'acting state's attorney.' It existed only ... in the imagination of Ms. Foxx," Judge Toomin said.

Foxx has been under fire for her handling the investigation, including from the Chicago Police Department and the former mayor. Her office charged Smollett with 16 counts of disorderly conduct after police concluded that Smollett had staged the early-morning Jan. 29 attack on himself and had paid two acquaintances to help him pull it off. But it stunningly dropped all of the charges weeks later, prompting an outcry from police and leading a former state appellate judge, Sheila O'Brien, to call for a special prosecutor.

In calling for a special prosecutor, O'Brien said it appeared to her and others that Smollett had "received special treatment" from Foxx's office.

“I did this because it had to be done and no one had done it,” she said. “The law of the special prosecutor is very obvious and it is very clear. It had to be done. Somebody had to do this and who was going to do it – the other state’s attorneys? They can’t do that to their own boss.

“The most important thing, as the judge indicated, the confidence in our judicial system will be restored to all of us; that this case will be handled by somebody who does not have a conflict,” O'Brien said.

Foxx defended her handling of the case and said she would welcome an independent investigation. But her office opposed such a special prosecutor, explaining that the investigation would just duplicate the efforts of a county inspector general's office probe that is already underway.

Jussie Smollett can still be tried for allegedly staging a racist and homophobic attack on himself.

Gloria Schmidt, the attorney for the Osundairo brothers who were allegedly paid by Smollett to stage the attack, said they are fully ready to cooperate.


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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Cocktails & Popcorn: The #HeToo Movement - Trump, Obama & "Protected By The Highest Order" Are CADs

On this exciting episode of Cocktails & Popcorn, Trump forgot to mention that #HeToo has an Inspector General report, obstructing justice in his backpocket.

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"Stop being a CAD and let the heavens fall."
Alas, it seems Obama is also experiencing his own #HeToo moment.

Perhaps, if Trump stops obstructing justice, just being an absolute CAD by refusing to pull that IG report from his backpocket, then we would find out who the other #HeToo is.

#maytheheavensfall

Trump suggests investigation into Barack and Michelle Obama's books, Netflix deals

President Trump targeted both of Barack Obama's post-presidency deals in a series of tweets on Monday, calling for an investigation into the former president's book and Netflix projects.

"House Judiciary has given up on the Mueller Report, sadly for them after two years and $40,000,000 spent - ZERO COLLUSION, ZERO OBSTRUCTION," Trump tweeted. "So they say, OK, lets look at everything else, and all of the deals that 'Trump' has done over his lifetime. But it doesn’t....

In April, the former president and Michelle Obama revealed the initial projects their production company, Higher Ground Productions, would be releasing as part of a new partnership with Netflix.

Spearheaded by Priya Swaminathan and Tonia Davis, the Obamas launched Higher Ground last spring in an effort to produce a diverse mix of content, which includes a scripted series, an unscripted series, a docu-series, as well as documentaries and features, according to a previous press release from the streaming giant, which announced the multi-year agreement.

And in 2017, it was revealed that the Obamas secured book deals with Penguin Random House. The former first lady's memoir "Becoming" -- which was published last year -- has already received a $65 million book advance. Meanwhile, it's been reported that Barack's memoir won't be released until next year.

Many social media users immediately reacted to Trump's tweets, stating that Obama "can make any deal he wants to make money."

"President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama are private citizens entitled to enjoy their success. (And, both are very fine authors.) It’s the American dream," said another individual.
While others simply wanted to see #ObamaNetflix trending on Twitter. "Get the trend going #ObamaNetflix," said one person. "I'm in with this Obama Netflix trend! #ObamaNetflix," echoed another person.

Earlier this month, it was the name of their company. The legal team representing the Obamas filed a petition to cancel the trademark of an e-book publishing company called Higher Ground Enterprises, much to the chagrin of the publishing company.

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Friday, August 23, 2019

Cocktails & Popcorn: What Do A Special Prosecutor, Jussie Smollet, Bobby Rush, Hillary Clinton & Rahm Emanuel Have In Common?

Q: What do a special prosecutor, Jessie Smollet, Bobby Rush, Hillary Clinton & Rahm Emanuel have in common?

Special prosecutor named to look into Jussie Smollett case

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge appointed a special prosecutor Friday to look into why the Chicago state's attorney's office abruptly dropped the case against Jussie Smollett, leaving open the possibility that the former "Empire" actor could yet face charges in what police say was a phony attack on himself that he staged to get attention.

Smollett, who is black and gay, maintains that he was the target of a racist and homophobic attack in January. But if the special prosecutor, former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb, determines that the charges shouldn't have been dropped, he could recommend that they be reinstated or that new charges be brought.

Webb, who was appointed by Cook County Judge Michael Toomin during a Friday hearing, told reporters afterward that he would move the investigation along as quickly as possible. Such probes typically include impaneling a special grand jury, issuing subpoenas, taking witness statements and a final report.

"I intend to expedite everything. But the facts will take me where they take me," Webb said. "I'm going to start fresh and see where it goes."

The Cook County state's attorney's office charged Smollett in February with 16 counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly staging the attack and lying about it to investigators. However, it dropped the charges a month later with little explanation, angering city officials and the police.

Webb, who served as U.S. attorney in Chicago during the 1980s before going on to become arguably the city's most high-profile defense attorney of the last few decades, has been tapped to serve as a special prosecutor on five previous occasions. His list of high-profile clients has included former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, tobacco company Philip Morris and, more recently, Ukrainian energy oligarch Dymitro Firtash.

As a special prosecutor in 2012, Webb was asked to reopen the investigation into the death of David Koschman, who died after being punched in 2004 by then-Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's nephew. After an investigation of more than a year that included testimony from nearly 150 witnesses, Webb determined that charges were warranted.

Toomin said the 73-year-old Webb wasn't the first person he considered for the Smollett case. The judge was required by law to first see if the state attorney general, the appellate prosecutor or a state attorney from elsewhere in Illinois wanted the job. During Friday's hearing, he suggested few expressed interest in leading an investigation whose outcome will inevitably spark outrage in some quarters.

"I might say that the responses were less than enthusiastic, as you might expect," Toomin told the courtroom.

A former state appellate judge, Sheila O'Brien, petitioned for a special prosecutor earlier this year in what many believed was a long-shot to reopen the case. But in a surprise decision, Toomin ruled in June that a special prosecutors was, in fact, called for, citing "unprecedented irregularities" in how the case had been handled.

A Smollett spokeswoman declined to comment Friday. But in court filings last month, Smollett's attorneys sharply criticized Toomin's decision to appoint a special prosecutor with broad powers, calling the process a "travesty of justice."

Smollett, now 37, told police he was walking home early on Jan. 29 when two masked men approached him, made racist and homophobic insults, beat him and looped a noose around his neck before fleeing. He said his assailants, at least one of whom he said was white, told him he was in "MAGA country" — a reference to President Donald Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again."

Several weeks later, authorities alleged that Smollett had paid two black friends $3,500 to help him stage the attack because he was unhappy with his salary as an actor on "Empire" and wanted to drum up publicity for his career.

In his June ruling, Toomin suggested that the county's state's attorney, Kim Foxx, mishandled the case by appointing a top aide to oversee it after she recused herself.

Foxx had been in contact with a Smollett relative and was approached by former first lady Michelle Obama's one-time chief of staff on behalf of Smollett's family. Foxx explained at the time that she was recusing herself to avoid "even the perception of a conflict" of interest.

Foxx has said that Smollett was treated no differently than thousands of other defendants in low-level cases whose charges have been similarly dropped. She also publicly wondered if her being black had anything to do with the criticism she received.

She released a statement Friday pledging her office's "full cooperation" with Webb's investigation.

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Sunday, August 18, 2019

Foster Care & Adoption Horrors Of Guatemalan Tiny Humans - No One Cares About The Savages Unless There Is A Check - United Methodists Of Grand Rapids

Call me a starry eyed gal, but one day, I just know the world will speak upon the horrors behind the iron curtain of Foster Care & Adoption, both foreign and domestic.

Allow me to share a personal story about a 13 year old Guatemalan, traditional native mother, who was forced to give up her child for adoption to a U.S. family, who just so happens be members of United Methodist church, out there by Grand Rapids, who thought it to be a very christian thing to snatch the kid, from the arms of the Guatemalan mother, who lived on the United Methodist human plantation, because she was too young and too poor to care for the child.

Her son was born with deaf.

I have always speculated the deformities to be a result of tiny human lab rat testing.

Not once did this United Methodist family, who hails from Troy, see anything wrong about a 12 year old savage girl getting knocked up.

But I will tell you this.

That United Methodist family out there by Grand Rapids has never sent one penny from the international adoption check they get every year.

It is strictly about the money, the christian way.

Praise the lord.

I will tell you one thing.

Right after that United Methodist Guatemalan adoption, the U.S. was banned from international adoptions, or shall I say trafficking tiny humans.

"Have a great day!"

Claims of abuse in foster homes mount for migrant kids separated at border

Police stand outside an office for the Cayuga Centers in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

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Cayuga Centers in Brooklyn, N.Y., last year. 
Three of the four incidents involving physical harm to immigrant children outlined in new legal filings involve charges of Cayuga Centers, the largest foster care placement operation for migrant children.

This story is part of an ongoing joint investigation by the Associated Press and the PBS series “Frontline” on the treatment of migrant children, which includes an upcoming film.

After local Guatemalan officials burned down an environmental activist’s home, he decided to leave his village behind and flee to the United States, hoping he’d be granted asylum and his little boy, whose heart was failing, would receive lifesaving medical care.

But after the man crossed the border into Arizona in May of last year, Border Patrol agents tore his 7-year-old son from his arms and sent the father nearly 2,000 miles away to a detention center in Georgia. The boy, now 8, went into a U.S.-funded foster home for migrant children in New York.

The foster care programs are meant to provide migrant children with care while authorities work to connect them with parents, relatives or other sponsors. But instead the boy told a counselor he was repeatedly sexually molested by other boys in the foster home.

A review of 38 legal claims obtained by the Associated Press — some of which have never been made public — shows taxpayers could be on the hook for more than $200 million in damages from parents who said their children were harmed while in government custody.

The father and son are among dozens of families — separated at the border as part of the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy — who are now preparing to sue the federal government, including several who say their young children were sexually, physically or emotionally abused in federally funded foster care.

With more than 3,000 migrant children taken from their parents at the border in recent years, many lawsuits are expected, with damages potentially totaling in the billions. Families who spoke to the AP and “Frontline” did so on the condition of anonymity over fears about their families’ safety.

“How is it possible that my son was suffering these things?” the father said. “My son is little and couldn’t defend himself.”

The families — some in the U.S., others already deported to Central America — are represented by grassroots immigration clinics and nonprofit groups, along with some of the country’s most powerful law firms. They’re making claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act as a precursor to filing lawsuits. The FTCA allows individuals who suffer harm as a direct result of federal employees to sue the government.

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“It’s the tip of the iceberg,” said Erik Walsh, an attorney at Arnold & Porter, which has one of the world’s leading pro bono programs.

The firm has so far filed 18 claims on behalf of nine families, totaling $54 million, and Walsh says dozens more are likely coming.

The government has six months to settle FTCA claims from the time they’re filed. After that, the claimants are free to file federal lawsuits.

The departments of Justice and Homeland Security — both named in claims — did not respond to requests for comment.

In a statement, the Department of Health and Human Services — which is responsible for the care of migrant children — said it does not respond to pending litigation and that it serves children in a compassionate and organized manner through its Office of Refugee Resettlement.

“The important work happening in each of the facilities and programs in the ORR network around the country — work ORR has done successfully since 2003 — takes an experienced team of competent, hardworking men and women dedicated to the welfare of the children,” HHS spokesman Mark Weber said. “We treat the children in our care with dignity and respect.”

Last year, the ORR cared for nearly 50,000 children who crossed the border by themselves, as well as children who were separated from their families under the zero-tolerance policy. The agency housed them in foster homes, residential shelters and detention camps around the country, sometimes making daily placements of as many as 500 new arrivals, from babies to teens.

The allegations of abuse and assaults in foster care raise fresh questions about the government’s efforts to place younger children with families in lieu of larger shelters and packed detention facilities.

The legal claims, a recent federal court filing and Health and Human Services documents released by Congress earlier this year allege that children have suffered serious emotional trauma after being physically harmed or fondled by other children while in foster care.

Six of the claims for damages involve children who were in foster care. And one recent court filing refers to a migrant child being abused in foster care.

The records released by Congress show the Office of Refugee Resettlement referred at least seven foster care allegations of sexual abuse to the Justice Department in 2017 and 2018. Because some are anonymous to protect the children’s privacy, it’s unclear if some of the claims are duplicates.

The Justice Department has not responded to repeated queries about those cases from members of Congress.


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Three of the four incidents involving physical harm outlined in legal filings occurred at Cayuga Centers in New York, the largest foster care placement organization for migrant children, housing up to 900 babies and children at a time. The kids are supposed to be placed with Spanish-speaking families who are paid $1,000 per month per child. Cayuga Centers did not respond to requests for comment.

In one Cayuga home, a foster parent found a little girl being forced to touch another child’s private parts and kiss her on the lips, according to a memo submitted as part of a federal lawsuit related to family separation.

The girl was 3 when immigration officials took her from her father in March, after they’d crossed the border in Texas. As a result of her trauma, the little girl began to regress in foster care, having difficulty eating, drinking and using the toilet, according to her attorney. The girl was sent back to Honduras on Wednesday, a month after her father was deported.

One Guatemalan mother whose 5-year-old daughter was placed in Cayuga last year says her little girl still wakes up crying from what she endured at the foster home.

“Now she’s scared each time we go out or when she sees a police car or someone in uniform,” said the mother, who has filed a $6-million claim. “She says ‘Mami, don’t let them separate us again.’”

Another 5-year-old Guatemalan girl said a boy grabbed her chest and touched her inappropriately, both in her foster home and during daytime classes at a Safe Haven for Children New York foster program, according to a $3-million injury claim. The girl was moved to a new foster home, but there she suffered verbal abuse from her foster parent’s mother, who called her names and locked her alone in rooms as punishment, according to the claim.

A spokesman for Lutheran Social Services of New York, which oversees the Safe Haven for Children New York foster program, declined to comment on the allegation.

Two claims blame the government for wrongful deaths, including one seeking $20 million for the wife of a Honduran man who killed himself in a padded cell after officers pulled his 3-year-old son from his arms.

“Essentially what this policy does is it makes examples out of families that get ripped apart to deter others,” said John Escamilla, who is representing the man’s wife and two children. He said he plans to file a federal lawsuit stemming from his FTCA claim as soon as Friday. “The people making these policies intended this level of suffering, and that’s what’s unconscionable.”

In another case not involving child separation, a Guatemalan toddler died after a three-week stay in a family detention center. Her mother’s $60-million claim alleges the government failed to give the girl proper medical attention.

The government has not settled any family separation cases in the administrative claims stage. But one federal lawsuit is currently in litigation in Massachusetts, and in February, a federal judge in Connecticut approved a $125,000 settlement in a separate case, for a Honduran mom and her son, then 6, who had been detained for four months and threatened with separation under the Obama administration.

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Aseem Mehta, a law student at the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School who worked on the case, said the settlement — the first of its kind — sends a clear message that such claims have legal standing. Mehta added that Trump’s significantly harsher border policies, including family separation, could make for even stronger cases before courts.

“Our case is a benchmark,” Mehta said. “The most important takeaway is these claims are viable, and courts will entertain them, and the Department of Homeland Security views them as meritorious; they don’t settle cases unless they think there’s liability they’re exposed to.”

Janet Napolitano, who led Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013, said she recalled a number of tort claims were filed against the agency at the time, though she said family separations were rare. The delays in reunifying families and children under the Trump administration may have left the agency open to legal challenges, she added.

“There very well may be some vulnerability there,” said Napolitano, now the president of the University of California.

Lawsuits stemming from family separation policies under the Trump administration are expected to be filed by mid-August.

Attorneys for migrant children have aimed several recent legal challenges at larger facilities that are not state-licensed and have held thousands of teens. Some say misconduct is less easily identified in foster care because it requires a child reporting or a foster parent happening to walk in on something occurring in the home.

“We may never know the extent to which children suffered particular abuses in foster homes,” said Michelle Lapointe, a senior supervising attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The Guatemalan father, now living in Southern California, is still struggling to soothe his son’s lasting nightmares. He says his once talkative and outgoing third-grader is now withdrawn and frequently says he wants to leave this world.

“This can’t happen again because for those of us who live through this, it is terrifying,” he said.

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