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.
You know shit’s getting electorally relevant when the US starts treating refugees with a hint of basic human dignity.
Pretty sure if no republicunt existed we’d have been treating refugees with basic human dignity the whole time.
I live in a small EU country. Believe me, American Republican are not the reason why refugees are not treated as human being, we don’t do much better despite what we say.
Come down to California and you’ll meet so many “economic anxious” Californians who are rock-ribbed blue-blooded Democrats. But hey, they really would just prefer these ILLEGAL MIGRANTS stop INVADING MY NEIGHBORHOOD and SPEAKING A SCARY LANGUAGE and BREAKING THE LAW (law: vagrancy or using public transportation while poor or perhaps looking kinda scary while eating a sandwich on the corner).
Utterly interchangeable with Texas/Arizona Republicans on every level that counts. But they voted for Dianne Feinstein every year she was on the ballot, so actually they’re so much cooler than you losers in the Red part of the country.
If nobody was fascist then human dignity would be more common place, absolutely.
But the fascist talk radio media crank out these endless “Leper Colony Migrant Rapist Drug Caravan Invades South Texas With Big Reconquista Flag and Ontelogically Evil Taco Truck” screamer headlines.
The Republican Congresscritters rush in to cosplay as valiant border freedom fighters, ready to use their 2nd Amendment Remedies when those communists in the Border Patrol won’t lift a finger.
The Democrats have to send in a bunch of Tacti-Cool ICE Agents in the biggest trucks they can find, so that nobody in South Texas thinks they’re weanie migrant loving losers.
And then CNN gets to report “War On The Border” with a two minute long graphic swoop in, while some guy in front of a greenscreen tries to recreate what the raging firefight for the Rio Grande would have looked like if it had happened.
Now you need to take “Bane, from Batman, is literally doing an International Terrorism in the center of Lubback” seriously if you want to even debate whether nuking Honduras is an appropriate response.
Doubtful, when does the Democrat party do anything except to look better by comparison?
6000 Palestinians don’t have to go back to a genocide zone
Some student loans have been forgiven
A fucktonne of federal weed charges dropped.
There is more but I’m tired arguing with your ilk.
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Do you even know what that means?
What if we just stopped giving Israel all these guns and bombs to do genocide with?
I mean, ffs, there’s only a tiny corner of Rafa where Palestinians can legally be in Gaza without getting bombed. And Israel periodically bombs it anyway. Where would Biden even deport these “illegal” Palestinian migrants to? They’d just end up in Egypt or Jordan. And its not like either country is eager to accept a larger population of Palestinians when Israel’s response to any concentration of the ethnic group is to incinerate the block they live in.
But no actual change in the policy of mass-arrests of future weed users.
We’re all tired, bro.
Didn’t the dems just agree that the border crisis is the top priority?
Only to court the radical right on the Ukraine package
So now the dems endorse the radical rights position on the border. You don’t see how that’s an issue?
You don’t see how your deliberate hyperbole isn’t contributing to the discussion?
Explain to me how what I said is hyperbole, and not facts. Please.
Equating “letting the opposition party fuck themselves as they try to pass a bill THEY don’t even want” to actively endorsing extreme policy is hyperbole.
At a very surface level you’re correct, but using that to state that the entire democratic party has abandoned their morals is absurd.
I disagree. This is how you shift further in your 2 right of center parties. Good luck with that if you think this is sane policy.
You’d think that but you’d be wrong. We’d likely have a well organized second class population instead of a chaotic one. That’s all.
A well-organized second class population might do what the old African American Civil Rights movement did in the 1960s and deprive us of all that cheap/free underclass labor.
Biden is the president right now and tried to enact one of the most conservative border policies ever written.
You can’t say they’re worse when the one in power RIGHT NOW is doing their bidding from across the isle.
Democrats are now republicans. Period.
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It must be so exhausting to live like you do.
The goalposts HAVE moved right with Biden. Everybody forgets that he was the token establishment white guy VP for obama- he hasn’t changed, he is not a progressive superstar. Dude is shitting the bed on a few key points; especially this and climate change.
Did the same thing to Venezuelans. I didn’t know that noncitizens can vote.
You know I mean the issue is getting electorally relevant right?
It’s not. It’s loud, not salient. Americans don’t vote on foreign policy.
They did in 2004
They absolutely did not. Which hot take artist on YouTube told you that?
I was there Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago, when Isildur took the Ring. I was there the day the strength of Men failed.
I don’t think that generalisation is as applicable as it was back when we were a sole superpowerand there was a the bipartisan consensus on foreign policy.
Polls from a month or less back were showing that just over half of all Democrats and half of 18-35 y/os believe Israel is commiting genocide. Of the rest, more were undecided than didn’t think it was a genocide. Democrats and youth care about this issue. Large voting blocks in key swing states care about this issue.
You just can’t support a war that over half your base call genocide and think it’s not going to hurt you. It will absolutely drive down youth and Arab-American turn out, which is very dangerous for Democrats.
I mean, im only one guy, but Biden’s handling of israel has singlehandedly shifted me into being a Never Biden voter.Genocide matters, and if he isnt willing to rip up a treaty over it, it is on all of us to make sure we put in someone who will. Anybody who votes for biden at this point has to admit theyd also have voted for Hitler.
Ok troll, take your sanctimonious BS and go home. If Biden or Trump (or, Godwin’s Law arriving right on time, Biden or Hitler) are equivalent in your eyes, you are lost.
So you are pro genocide, got it
Cause trump would care about Palestinians 🙄
And what’s he said on the subject btw?
Then you are just a fool or a shill. There is no metric in which Trump would be a better president than Biden.
Sure. Are Venezuelans electrically relevant?
Basic human decency is relevant to the electorate. Well, to just over half of the electorate. The rest of the electorate seems to think basic human decency is a weakness that should be scorned.
Basic human decency which I agree is the case here, does not need any other motivation. The US has done this for a lot of foreign citizens who have turmoil in their home countries and are stuck here. Sometime we fail, but it is all about human decency not being elected.
Done for, but also done to.
It’s that “Done to” that requires the largest showing of human decency now. After all, one of the first ways to make up for the wrongs of the past is to stop committing more wrongs.
Sadly, we have two old men to choose from. One of which feels really bad about the wrongs he’s committed, but still hasn’t stopped. The other feels no remorse at all, ever, and will gleefully commit worse wrongs, all while quoting Hitler speeches.
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Political rhetoric should be saved for the soap box or at least forsomeone that appreciates it.
I enjoyed Tom Hardy in The Revenant
“Hmmmmm” - Mad Max Fury Road
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The issue was when the deferment was in place. It no longer is, which is why we’re deporting people back to Venezuela as of October.
It seems like you’re trying to suggest that the impact to democratic turn out in Nov is not a huge factor in this decision, despite the article repeatedly pointing out the problems our support for Israel is generating for Democrats.
The answer is no. The Venezuelans do not represent a voting block that’s electoraly relevant
Issues are relevant beyond the immediate community of the affected. You think only Palestinian people care about this issue?
When the government does this it’s partly to show some action and partly to prevent a headline like “We deported this man. A week later the Israelis killed him in an air strike on a hospital”
If he’s gonna die in a hospital, it’s going to be in an American hospital due to our terrible health care system!
What electoral issue beyond the Venezuelan community? Still a question you don’t answer. Just say I don’t know and I leave you alone. Sometimes we do things I’m this country simply because it’s the right thing to do not because of some reward.
Aren’t Latinos a huge voting block in the US?
So, you think all Latinos are the same? They aren’t. They rarely sympathize country to country.
I don’t know anything about Venezuelan elections but I think your downvotes are due to an unintentional implication that Venezuelan Refugees would vote in the USA, which they cannot. People are misunderstanding your statement.
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Haha, indeed this is so blatantly so.
Holy crap, you’re right. The US should be setting up concentration camps like how China dealt with the Ughyrs.