The president, long a champion of #gunsafety, needs to move quickly to fix this #policyfailure.

The number of semi-automatic #firearms #exported from the US has more than doubled since 2016... generated #bigprofits for the #gunindustry — while causing #mayhem throughout the region, including at the US-Mexico #border.

#StopBusinessAsUsual #degradedspaces #StateSanctionedViolence #ThrowawayPeople #DegradationMakesRefugees

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-22/michael-r-bloomberg-america-s-export-of-gun-violence-is-a-bipartisan-outrage?cmpid=BBD082223_CUS&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230822&utm_campaign=closeamericas

Florida’s and Texas’s governors have enacted #policies that not only subject #migrants to #pain, #suffering, and #humiliation but also #violate #federallaw by placing the states, not Congress and the president, in charge of #immigration rules. Yet the president, Congress, and the Justice Department have, for the most part, stood idly by

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/merrick-garland-is-letting-texas-get-away-with-sadism/

#DegradedSpaces #ThrowawayPeople #CheapLabor #climatecrisis