The best Jarvanka and Stephen Miller can do in the face of ICE protests is to make Trump’s racist tweet about antisemitism. Because they somehow have a 600 page immigration policy for that. More Meta, and more likely designed to reassure certain folks like Sheldon Adelson.
Protesters blocked access to the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, calling for the agency to be shut down.
The Jewish and immigrant demonstrators invoked the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust, railing against the conditions of migrants detained at the border while calling for legislators to establish "permanent protection, dignity and respect for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S."
The protests were organized by Never Again Action and Cosecha Movement, two groups that have staged demonstrations across the country since holding an event at the privately operated Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey on June 30. The protest in Washington, D.C., is the fourteenth event calling for the dissoultion of ICE and drawing attention to the conditions of migrants at the border, according to the website of Never Again Action. More events are planned in subsequent weeks.
Genius Kidneys will make you more worthy of migrant preference. Because telling Congresswomen who are PoC to “Love it or Leave it” somehow is about attacking Israel. Who knew?
In a fit of pivoting, and failing to get 45* to have an environmental policy, Jared Kushner apparently wrote the latest Trump tweet, because for some strange reason, “Love it or Leave it” refers to Israel and hence antisemitism.
Perhaps it’s why Kellyanne Conway today questioned a reporter’s ethnicity, presumably because they weren’t wearing a badge.
That Conway actually uttered the words "what's your ethnicity" to a (Jewish) reporter -- and refused to drop her line of inquiry -- amid an ongoing racial firestorm sparked by Trump's own willingness to tell non-white members of Congress to go back where you came from is stunning, even coming, as it did, from an administration that has repeatedly shown there simply is no bottom.
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Don’t ask, it is how they do messaging at the WH. Sleight of hand, because racist hate is transitive when you’re told to go back where you came from. This resembles the tortured logic of making the southern border a proxy for Gaza.
It is better than talking about POTUS* as rapist.
Immigration reform becomes a racist screed when “America First” is the first line in the powerpoint slide.
Doubtless, as active measures, Russian money could next go to the Black Israelites. As street theater, rather than jousting with Covington Catholic punks, they would be best used to confront New Black Panthers at polling places.
President Trump and his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner announced in May and that addressed border security and legal immigration but didn't deal with the millions of people currently in the country illegally, including young people known as Dreamers.
"In Washington, I find a lot of people are very quick to say what they are against," Kushner said during a Cabinet meeting at which he shared details of the plan. "But it's very important for us to articulate as an administration what we're for, but to do it in detail. And we're not afraid to put out details because we think that this proposal is a very very good proposal that really is great for America."
The push for a new immigration bill comes just days after Trump ignited a furious controversy by tweeting that four non-white members of Congress should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came." All four members are American citizens, and three of the four were born in the United States.
Even more challenging for White House officials seeking to gain Democratic support for an immigration proposal is the current controversy enveloping Capitol Hill that stems from Trump’s stream of disparaging tweets about a group of progressive congresswomen. During a press conference Monday, the four Democratic women — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley — encouraged their colleagues to begin impeachment proceedings against Trump, who they accused of “openly violating” his constitutional oath of office.
“Right now, the president is committing human rights abuses at the border,” Omar said. “I believe we are in a pivotal moment in our country. The eyes of history are watching us.”
The White House official declined to provide a timeline for the release of Kushner’s plan, nor would the official identify which Democratic offices worked with Trump’s son-in-law on the proposal.