The U.S. Army has stopped discharging immigrant recruits who enlisted seeking a path to citizenship — at least temporarily. https://t.co/Izh11w2Q74
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 9, 2018
Tag: immigration
Kris Kobach, professional racist
Kobach is a truly awful person who specializes in voter suppression laws and anti-immgration policies. I would love this guy to end up in jail, but it doesn’t seem likely. Oh well:
Kris Kobach is a bad lawyer, a great fearmonger, and an even better grifter https://t.co/vbR8P6zgNr pic.twitter.com/jsGHWPCJdr
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 1, 2018
‘No difference’
Yeah, I think there’s an obvious difference:
John Lewis and other Democratic members of the House are sitting in against internment of Central American children and plan to get arrested today.
Both parties are not the same. pic.twitter.com/hInLwlkYvS
— Deniz S. (@MrFilmkritik) June 13, 2018
White supremacists at the wheel
Read what Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III said in praise of this 1924 law. Bannon and Co. really believe this stuff:
In seven years we’ll have the highest percentage of Americans, non-native born, since the founding of the Republic. Some people think we’ve always had these numbers, and it’s not so, it’s very unusual, it’s a radical change. When the numbers reached about this high in 1924, the president and congress changed the policy, and it slowed down immigration significantly, we then assimilated through the 1965 and created really the solid middle class of America, with assimilated immigrants, and it was good for America. We passed a law that went far beyond what anybody realized in 1965, and we’re on a path to surge far past what the situation was in 1924.
The Atlantic writes:
Asked about the interview, Sessions’s spokesperson Sarah Isgur Flores wrote in an email, “As Attorney General, Sessions will prioritize curtailing the threats that rising crime and addiction rates pose to the health and safety of our country and that includes enforcing our existing immigration laws.”
Representative Albert Johnson, a Washington Republican described by the historian Edwin Black as a “fanatic raceologist and eugenicist,” used his stewardship of the immigration committee to ensure that racist pseudoscience provided an “empirical” basis for immigration restriction. Immigration historian Roger Daniels put it even more bluntly, writing in Guarding the Golden Door that Johnson’s “racial theories” would “in slightly different form” become “the official ideology of Nazi Germany.”
When the law passed, its primary Senate author, Rhode Island Senator David A. Reed, expressed relief in The New York Times, writing that “the racial composition of America at the time is thus made permanent.”