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 I mean the issue is getting electorally relevant right?
Sure. Are Venezuelans electrically relevant?
The issue was when we 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
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.
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.
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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 8s 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.
Political rhetoric should be saved for the soap box or at least forsomeone that appreciates it.
It’s not. It’s loud, not salient. Americans don’t vote on foreign policy.
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.
Cause trump would care about Palestinians 🙄
And what’s he said on the subject btw?
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
Then you are just a fool or a shill. There is no metric in which Trump would be a better president than Biden.
They did in 2004
They absolutely did not. Which hot take artist on YouTube told you that?
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