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.
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.