As monarch butterflies are not able to survive the cold winter months in the north, each year, starting in about October, they migrate south and west to spend winters in California or Mexico. In the photos above, millions of monarchs hibernate in the oyamel fir trees that grow in high altitudes in Mexico.
“According to a House Democratic aide, Democrats on the conference committee asked ICE for a breakdown of the current 20,000 or so in custody — how many are dangerous criminals, and how many are merely longtime residents with no criminal record or who have committed minor infractions, like traffic violations?
“The aide tells me that ICE is refusing to answer that question. ‘We have sought a breakdown of how many people in interior enforcement detention are actually dangerous, but they simply won’t engage in constructively answering,’ the aide said.
“Instead, the aide noted, ICE has responded by saying, in essence, that there’s no point in breaking down those detained, because ‘they’re all dangerous,’ as the aide put it. ‘They want us to believe that people with minor traffic violations are dangerous criminals who should be deported,’ the aide says.
…"Democrats are asking the administration to justify their demand for more detention beds, and say they’re getting nothing serious back.
…"This gets at the much bigger argument here: Democrats don’t want to deport longtime residents and want to refocus resources away from that. [t]rump and Republicans do want to deport as many from the interior as possible, with no regard to their status.
…"To clarify, Democrats are proposing to limit the overall number of detention beds to 35,000 over time. That would include people picked up in the interior and at the border. The Democrats’ proposed 16,500 cap would only apply to detention beds for those picked up in the interior – not to beds for those picked up at the border – and it’s this 16,500 number that’s really at the core of the latest standoff.”
As the article points out, Democrats are trying to edge the focus of deportation to prioritize dangerous criminals, and humanely spare communities from mass disruption.
“Instead, the aide noted, ICE has responded by saying, in essence,
that there’s no point in breaking down those detained, because ‘they’re
all dangerous,’ as the aide put it. ‘They want us to believe that people
with minor traffic violations are dangerous criminals who should be
deported,’ the aide says.
ICE continue to be a bunch of filthy lieing pig fuckers all of whom are the single worst kind of scum to ever have UNFORTUNATELY not been aborted before they could INFECT the planet with their existence
The only good thing any of these bigoted right wing sacks of shit will ever do right in their lives is step into the middle of a busy street without looking both ways and get hit and killed by a bus…because ICE and everyone who has ever been a member of said organisation, along with every snivelling parasite that supports them are fucking oxygen thieves whose very existence is a fucking mistake
They probably didn’t even look at crowdfunding considering it’s talking about organizations.
Hey uhhhhh…. this just isn’t true. Millennial actually OUTGIVE their previous two generations percentage wise, they just give differently than the last two gens. We spread out our money instead of doing multiple big donations throughout the year. For one of my masters classes I did my final paper on millennial giving and here is my fav source that breaks it down: “In 2014, 84 percent of millennial employees gave to charity and 70 percent of them donated more than an hour to a charitable cause, according to the Case Foundation’s Millennial Impact Report: 2015 (download required). Sure, boomers and Gen Xers are giving more in terms of dollars ($732 and $1,212 per year, respectively), but at an average of $481 given each year, millennials are quickly gaining influence over the philanthropic space (source: The Next Generation of American Giving, 2018). Considering that millennials earn less than their counterparts did and are often riddled with student debt, years away from owning a car or a home, these numbers are significant. If people become more generous over their lives and are more likely to give if their parents give, millennials will become the most generous generation in history. One can easily imagine this reaching 95 or even 100 percent by the time they reach midlife. As millennials double as a working population, their share of charitable donations is likely to reflect that growth. Organizations should be doubling down on their efforts to connect with and reach millennials.” (Forbes, “How Millennials Are Changing Philanthropy, Justin Wheeler)
In conclusion: If nonprofits are hurting it is because they refuse to engage with millennials and their communities, not because millennials “aren’t giving”.
@arielwasreal nailed it. What’s more, almost all nonprofits are aware of Millennial generosity. There’s study after study about it because we want them Millennial Moneys, so we want to know how and why and where they are giving in order to start stewarding them for more. So this article is either cherrypicking or disingenuous in the extreme.
I didn’t read the article in detail because I work in nonprofit for a living and I go to Tumblr for fun, but it’s important to remember a few things:
1. Most Millennials don’t have the familial wealth that their parents did at their age, because Boomers and Generation X are living longer and healthier lives than their parents did.
2. A vanishing middle class means that there’s a much smaller mid-range between working-class and high-net-worth, so there’s a huge chunk missing from the current Millennial demographic that the Boomer demographic had. Middle class giving has been declining because the middle class is declining. And this is doubly important because…
3. Millennials who stand to become high net worth individuals without inheriting are still ten to fifteen years away from the age when that significant wealth (and significant philanthropy, because their kids are out of private school/college) usually starts to really occur. A handful of baby zillionaires in Silicon Valley aside, most of the ultra-wealthy become ultra-wealthy in their forties or beyond, as investments start to really pay out and they gain seniority in their firms. That being the case, a lot of giving right now is coming from the working class, who…don’t have a lot to give yet.
So right now, with the oldest Millennials not quite yet 40 and almost none of them having received parental wealth via inheritance, it often seems like they’re giving less because there’s no middle class bolstering giving and the wealthy tier isn’t actually wealthy yet. But if you look at the number of Millennials giving rather than the numbers they’re giving, it’s incredibly significant.
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