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.
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.
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’re correct, and I agree. It does shift dems to the right slightly. But again, it’s hyperbole to say dems are now “radical” on the border, which is what I was responding to.
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.
removed by mod
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.
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.
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.