over the borderline...

so, a bill passed in the house to make all kinds of things related to being in the u.s. illegally punishable by way harsher penalties than ever before, and with way less due process. in one section, the proposed legislation provides that any person (this could mean an individual, a social services organization, a religious charity, etc.) that counsels or helps a person who is an undocumented immigrant could face up to five years in prison. that means people helping undocumented immigrants (not, by the way, aka terrorists, at least in my world) get food or medical care could be put away. it could, at the very least, have a major chilling effect on the people providing already scant services available to undocumented people.

this is real and this is now, people.