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.
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.