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8/07/2018
The Trump Administration Wants to See How Racist It Can Be
You've heard it over and over from Republicans: they are just concerned about undocumented immigrants (or "illegal aliens," as the Justice Department has been ordered to say). If you ignore the fact that Customs and Border Protection treated asylum seekers who presented themselves as such at the proper border crossings - doing everything legally - like they were undocumented migrants, and if you ignore the mostly-Muslim ban, well, you could maybe sort of believe Republicans if you squinted and stuck your fingers in your ears.
Of course, mistreating the undocumented was never the full plan. Because, see, White House adviser and Man Most Likely to Be Caught Eating Hamsters Whole, Stephen Miller, is a fucking ghoul, and he's getting the Trump administration to change how legal immigrants are treated. And if you're thinking, "Oh, they must be getting extra nice to documented immigrants because they've been such pricks to undocumented ones," then you're a fucking idiot who doesn't understand the level of cruelty for cruelty's sake these shitheels exist on.
What they want to do now is get rid of legal immigrants and they're gonna contort the fuckin' law to do it so they don't need congressional approval. The plan: "immigrants living legally in the U.S. who have ever used or whose household members have ever used Obamacare, children's health insurance, food stamps and other benefits could be hindered from obtaining legal status in the U.S." You got that? You have a kid who's a U.S. citizen and is on CHIP? No green card for you. You have a green card and get an Obamacare subsidy? No citizenship and, hey, we'll take that green card away. Back to the unstable visa system for you or, the real goal, deportation.
How fucked do you have to be to believe that this is in any way good for the country? You gotta be some bullshit white genocide-believing, Nazi-loving motherfucker to go along with this. Or, you know, an average Republican in this worthless age of Trump.
So you can live in this country legally for years, have kids here, and pay your taxes. But if you avail yourself of something that your taxes are helping to fund, you can go fuck off back to Mexico or whatever shithole you came from. You're a "public charge" now, even if you're just getting the barest of help from the government.
Trumpistas also say that they are targeting people who did something else wrong at some point in their lives, like lie on a visa application. But, as is the way with Donald Trump, who never met a contract he wouldn't violate, even people who had an agreement with the government are finding that the deal has been broken by this administration.
In one example, a Haitian man who has a green card "had used a fake passport given to him by smugglers when he entered the U.S. from Haiti in 1989, but confessed to border officers and received a waiver from USCIS absolving him of his wrongdoing and allowing him to obtain a green card in 2011." Now, though? Fuck the waiver we gave you. "When he went for his citizenship interview in August 2017, the USCIS officers told him they were going to revisit the decision to waive the fake passport incident, meaning he could potentially lose his green card as well." And then he found out he was denied citizenship. The man works 80 hours a week and takes care of a disabled daughter. He's further fucked because he has used public assistance to help with his American kid. How does this make America great again? If "great" means "whiter," then, sure, goal met.
Here you go, Republicans. Another shot to stand up and say to Trump, "No. Fuck this. This is too far. Fire that Miller cockhole and act like you're a goddamned human being." Except you won't. Because it is you. It has been you for decades. You're just finally getting to be your worst selves.
2naSalit
(86,862 posts)dalton99a
(81,640 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)The question is will the people rise up against this evil administration? Or will they like beaten dogs put the tails between their legs and lick their masters butt. It is coming to the point if the citizens even deserve their freedoms that they refuse to protect. I can only surmise that they have been bought off with a huge debt that their children and grandchildren will have to pay for dearly. Like the hapless Romans they are being bought off with doles and circuses happily oblivions to the impending disaster in the making. Trump and his tribe of nincompoops is making the nation easy picking for its enemies. Singing and dancing like a pack of demented fools as the nation implodes.
calimary
(81,532 posts)Also love how the Miller stuff got picked up by Newsweek!
maxrandb
(15,365 posts)without getting a pie thrown in it every time?
bdamomma
(63,931 posts)to be in the forefront of what is going on, fucking coward. He has a very low opinion of immigrants, he really needs his ass to be thrown out.
Arkansas Granny
(31,536 posts)I wonder how long it will be before they start after naturalized citizens. That seems to be the next logical step in Trumpworld.
babylonsister
(171,102 posts)Niemöller is perhaps best remembered for the quotation:
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for meand there was no one left to speak for me.
calimary
(81,532 posts)Its as relevant today as it ever was, all those decades ago.
AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)Yes, this is the goal.
world wide wally
(21,757 posts)bdamomma
(63,931 posts)is the key manipulator in all of this, his ass should be gone. He is fucked up too.
iluvtennis
(19,883 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)Response to babylonsister (Original post)
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Squinch
(51,058 posts)0rganism
(23,975 posts)> Should we encourage immigrants to come to the country only to get free money from citizen tax payers?
is this something you see happening a lot where you live? people receiving "free money" on immigration?
ETA: damn i missed him!
PISS OFF, GHOST!
he's freakin' gone...