President Biden on Wednesday shielded thousands of Palestinians in the United States from deportation for the next 18 months, using an obscure immigration authority as he faces mounting criticism over U.S. support for Israel in the Gaza war.
About 6,000 Palestinians are eligible for the reprieve under a program called Deferred Enforced Departure, which allows immigrants whose homelands are in crisis to remain in the United States and work legally.
In a memo obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Biden said that “many civilians remain in danger” in Gaza after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas.
“Therefore, I am directing the deferral of removal of certain Palestinians who are present in the United States,” he said.
Oh and what dangers are civilians in Gaza facing?
Edit: this was indeed a sarcastic comment. The correct answer to my “question” is the IDF and American weapons. The point was Biden is willing to admit they’d be in danger over there but is not willing to state the nature of that danger.
Genocide, for one.
Oh, Israel leadership says they’re only going after Hamas, but they’ve also just been gunning down anyone in the streets who aren’t wearing their colours (demonstrated with a few Americans and Australians being shot), bombing hospitals, and opening up evacuation corridors only to bomb them when they get filled up. They’ve also cut off food and water and internet, so even the civilians who aren’t in the immediate line of fire are suffering and dying.
I dunno, sounds like genocide to me!
And Israeli hostages. They killed their own civilians who were held hostage! They’re just seeking violent revenge against anything that moves.
That 12 year old girl that got impaled on rebar? Believe it or not, Hamas.
Israeli defense secretary literally just said that IDF should shoot women and children because they could be hamas
No he didn’t. Ben-Gvir is not the defense minister. He has nothing to do with the IDF and isn’t in the war cabinet.
He’s a minister in the cabinet not the defense secretary? But here is the article I was thinking of
https://www.newarab.com/news/ben-gvir-says-israeli-army-can-shoot-women-children-gaza
If there is no /s then it wasn’t sarcasm. The opinion you thought too stupid to be a real person’s thoughts was absolutely accurate to somebody somewhere.
I don’t think people understood what you were saying…
Just proof of the necessity of that little /s
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Poe’s Law my dude, are you new to the internet?
Yeah uh, I was told that by someone being serious just a couple hours ago. You really need that S.
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