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Texas Asshole Wants To Share Good News About ‘Mostly Elderly & Hispanics’ Dying From COVID-19
Vance Ginn is one of the worst people in a state with at least one Ted Cruz.
July 29, 2020 03:50 PM
The Texas Department of State Health Services released more comprehensive data about the state's COVID-19 deaths, and it's depressing and shameful. Before Monday, there were significant gaps in the state's racial and ethnic breakdowns of deaths, but now we know that Hispanic residents are disproportionate victims of COVID-19. They are 40 percent of the population but make up 47 percent of total deaths.
This is terrible news — unless you're a racist monster like Vance Ginn, who sees nothing but upsides. The chief economist for the Texas Public Policy Foundation tweeted this data with a twisted joie de vivre you don't see often see among the human soul having.
<p>I don't know how often we have to tell these dummies that opening schools would potentially result in more kids dying, as well as the “vulnerable" people Ginn pretends to give a damn about. (Also: I think Hispanic people also have kids.) Gov. Greg Abbott finally mandated on <strong>July 2</strong> that Texans in most counties wear masks, like he'd just discovered science. Ginn wants to ditch that basic preventative measure and sends kids back to school because apparently not enough people have died. </p><p>This sociopath thinks he's making such a great point that he follows up his tweet with a Prince Harry mic drop gif. How dare he bring <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/harry-meghan-smart-enough-not-to-rely-on-trump-to-keep-them-alive" target="_blank">Meghan Markle's</a> bae into this! The “boom" comes from an adorable 2016 spot promoting the Invictus Games. Harry and the freaking Queen of England share a playful exchange with our last real president and first lady, Barack and Michelle Obama.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>The Invictus Games are an international adaptive sports competition Prince Harry launched in 2014 for wounded service people and veterans. It's not about owning the libs or abandoning the sick to their fates. </p><p>Ginn apologized for the gif <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/ted-yohos-apology-if-jesus-were-alive-today-hed-also-call-aoc-a-b-h" target="_blank">like a white man who never apologizes</a> for shit. He only conceded that his gif was “perceived as insensitive," rather than admitting that it was. He accuses others of “bad faith" for taking his gloating tweet “out of context."</p><blockquote><strong>GINN: </strong>What we're really focused in on is, "How can we best make sure that Texans are taken care of during this time?"</blockquote><p>It doesn't seem as if Ginn is “really focused" on taking care of <em>all </em>Texans when he can't be bothered to wear a damn mask. It's the absolute least someone can do during this pandemic. It's not like you lose a kidney or random body organ every time you put one on. Conservatives keep acting like COVID-19 masks are the same as the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGbg2w_cExA" target="_blank">creepy voodoo ones</a> from <em>The Twilight Zone</em> that disfigure you for life. Besides which, Ginn's tweet says Texas's peak was all of two weeks ago, by their accounting. (This projection <a href="https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/texas" target="_blank">shows no such thing.)</a> Can he literally not remember back to April, when there was another "peak" so that obviously meant COVID-19 was over and done? They can't wear masks for <em>four</em> weeks? Or <em>three?</em></p><div id="573bf" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ce992ccf88b832685e51daa69d81a959"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1288177000478322688" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@VanceGinn @TexasDSHS This is my grandfather Albert. He was an Hispanic citizen of the U.S. & passed from #Covid. H… https://t.co/cmmrrvBD2Q</div> — Jason Villalba (@Jason Villalba)<a href="https://twitter.com/JasonVillalba/statuses/1288177000478322688">1595960304.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Ginn later removed the tweet and wrote this garbage: "I believe strongly based on my deep faith that every life is precious. My intent was to highlight the <strong>positive development </strong>of more data available to make better policy decisions and help the vulnerable."</p><p>He'll forgive us if we're skeptical of his interest in helping the vulnerable. His original tweet, where he used words that are in English, said “target the vulnerable." Target is not a synonym for “help," and “check those from Mexico" doesn't sound like a wellness check.</p><p>According to data from the Texas Education Agency, almost 53 percent of public school students were Hispanic in 2018 and 2019. Hispanic people are more <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/05/a-record-64-million-americans-live-in-multigenerational-households/" target="_blank">likely than white people</a> to live in multigenerational households. It's not entirely an economic issue, either. Hispanics are <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/hispanics-positive-experience-caring-elderly-poll-says" target="_blank">reportedly more likely to have a positive experience</a> caring for an elderly relative. (Only three percent of Fox News's audience is Hispanic. Not saying there's a direct connection. Just putting that out there.)</p><p>Hispanics are also <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2019/02/03/hispanics-are-propping-up-texas-economy-workforce-as-shrinking-white-population-ages-experts-say/" target="_blank">the backbone of the Texas economy,</a> especially as the white population shrinks. They are on the front lines of this pandemic, <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/in-depth/2020/01/14/357177/houston-restaurants-turn-to-immigrants-amidst-worker-shortage/" target="_blank">working in the restaurants</a> and businesses that conservatives like Ginn want open so they can pretend life is normal.</p><p>But all that really matters is that Hispanic Texans are human beings and don't deserve for some crawling piece of slime to dismiss their suffering. Whether he covers his mouth with a mask or not, Ginn needs to shut the fuck up.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/28/vance-ginn-texas-coronavirus/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1595974053&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter" target="_blank">Texas Tribune</a>]</p><p><em>Stephen Robinson on </em><em><a href="https://twitter.com/SER1897" target="_blank">Twitter.</a></em><br></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is 100 percent ad free and entirely supported entirely by reader donations. That's you! Please click the clickie, if you are able!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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2020 presidential election
Move Over Lincoln Project, The Trump Campaign Also Too Makes The Coolest Ads!
Look, Spanish speakers! Canned beans!
July 23, 2020 09:44 AM
If this is the state of the Trump campaign after the demotion of Hairball, everybody better look out, because they are making the coolest, most creative ads. We don't know why they're feeling so threatened by the Lincoln Project that they have to plant hit pieces in the New York Post, because if these ads are any indication, everybody is definitely going to rush to the polls and say, "I stand with Russia and mass pandemic graveyards, therefore I vote Trump!"
Take this Spanish-language ad, which speaks to Spanish-speaking voters right where they want to be spoken to, which is in the language of canned beans. After all, Trump is an expert on Hispanic culture. Except for that time he called Mexicans rapists and stole migrant children from their mommies at the border and put them in concentration camps and deported their families and all the other times. But he ate that taco-bowl-shaped thing from the Trump Tower taqueria, or at least he posed for a picture with it.
ANYWAY. This ad seeks to get Spanish-speaking voters on Trump's side by showing them lots and lots and lots and lots of Goya beans. We are not even sure why they needed to make it, considering how probably all Latinx Americans started donating to the Trump campaign when Ivanka tweeted that picture of herself with the Goya beans and then Trump tweeted that picture of himself with the Goya beans.
Look, Spanish speakers! Beans!
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</p><p>Actual line from ad, translated: "Now the Left has launched a smear campaign against Goya, THE BRAND WE LOVE, just because Goya is working with President Trump." And to sign up for their shitty list, you text "GOYA" to "88022." <br></p><p>Goodness, they sure do know how to talk to Hispanic people. About beans. Of which Hispanic people only ever buy one brand, which is the brand they love. </p><p>Beans!</p><p>OK, so that was a pretty good ad, but this one is also pretty good. It is one of those BOO! ads, meant to make octogenarian white people — the ones who haven't died of COVID in nursing homes yet — very scared of the Antifa and the Black people.</p><p>It's not a video, just a Facebook ad, and it shows "public safety," which is Donald Trump and some mostly white people standing around, we guess they are all fucking cops. On the other side, it shows "chaos & violence," which is a picture of ANTIFA SUPER SOLDIER DOING ASSAULTS TO A BELOVED OFFICER OF THE LAW.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>One <em>teeny</em> problem! (We mean besides what does religious freedom have to do with public safety vs. chaos & violence, looks like they're just doing madlibs with their text and pix now.)</p><p>As <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-ad-police-officer-attacked-2014-ukraine-protests-2020-7?op=1&scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4" target="_blank">Business Insider</a> explains, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_police_officer_attacked_by_protesters_during_clashes_in_Ukraine,_Kyiv._Events_of_February_18,_2014-1.jpg#filehistory" target="_blank">that picture</a> is actually of a pro-democracy protester (an "anti-fascist" if you will) kicking the shit out of a cop IN UKRAINE, during the 2014 FREEDOM DEMONSTRATIONS, taken by a man named Mstyslav Chernov.</p><blockquote>[T[he image the Trump campaign used is not from the US – or from this year. It was <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_police_officer_attacked_by_protesters_during_clashes_in_Ukraine,_Kyiv._Events_of_February_18,_2014-1.jpg#filehistory" target="_blank">uploaded on Wikimedia Commons</a>, Wikipedia's public-domain media archive, in 2014 with the label "a police officer attacked by protesters during clashes in Ukraine, Kyiv. Events of February 18, 2014." </blockquote><p>Children, what was happening in 2014 in Ukraine? Oh yeah, citizens <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/oh-adam-schiff-is-the-dirty-ukraine-corruption-moneylaunderer-stealer-man-got-it-rudes" target="_blank">rose up against</a> — and toppled like a Confederate statue! — garbage pro-Russian autocrat Viktor Yanukovych, in direct response to which Vladimir Putin <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/is-trumps-ukraine-treason-sh-t-about-russian-sanctions-yeah-sure-why-wouldnt-it-be" target="_blank">invaded, stole, and still occupies</a> a large piece of Ukraine. </p><p>Which side of that little historical situation was Paul Manafort on? <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/hey-paul-manafort-remember-all-that-shit-you-pulled-to-sell-the-world-on-the-ukrainian-dictator-robert-mueller-remembers" target="_blank">The pro-Russian authoritarian one,</a> AKA Yanukovych's party and also, for a <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-goon-paul-manafort-made-10-million-a-year-to-benefit-putin-totally-normal" target="_blank">long time before that,</a> on the side of a Russian oligarch "to benefit the Putin government." </p><p>All of which reminds us that Manafort is on COVID parole and <em>probably if we had to guess</em> already working behind the scenes to ratfuck this election for Trump, <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/manafort-mueller-draft" target="_blank">just like he did in 2016.</a> Hell, all the ratfuckers are out of prison at this point, save for Michael Cohen, who has been disowned from the crime family, and is currently in solitary <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/michael-cohen-says-bill-barr-locked-him-in-solitary-to-stop-book-critical-of-trump" target="_blank">seemingly to keep him</a> from writing a book about Trump.</p><p>God even knows what the ratfuckers are doing, but did Manafort just happen to have Chernov's picture on his computer and send it to the Trump campaign as a good example of what happens when freedom-loving citizens rise up against actual human garbage authoritarian shitholes? (Which Manafort obviously considers a bad thing?)</p><p>We are just curious. Because of how it would really be illustrative of the situation we are actually in as a nation, in a "Which Side Are You On" kind of way.</p><p>Anyway, the Trump campaign really makes shit ads, but then again, you would too if you were trying to re-elect the stupidest most unfit man ever to occupy the Oval Office under questionable circumstances.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-ad-police-officer-attacked-2014-ukraine-protests-2020-7?op=1&scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4" target="_blank">Business Insider</a>]</p><p><strong>Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/evanhurst" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE!</a></strong></p><p><strong>Wonkette is fully funded by readers like YOU. If you love Wonkette, WE NEED YOUR LOVE GIFTS TO KEEP US GOING.</strong><br></p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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2020 presidential election
Joe Biden Gonna Ban Windows, And Other Highlights From Trump's Rose Garden Derp Manifesto Of Blarp
He's getting so much worse.
July 15, 2020 12:00 PM
ACHTUNG! BREAKING! Donald Trump is fucking crazy!
Okay, that's not really news. But even the New York Times is like "Holy shit, dude, he's completely off his rocker!" after the president's insane Rose Garden speech yesterday.
"Even for those who follow Mr. Trump regularly and understand his shorthand, it became challenging to follow his train of thought," Peter Baker wrote last night. Which is Timestalk for "MAYDAY! MAYDAY!"
After whiffing his sit-down with CBS's Catherine Herridge, who made her name flogging stories at Fox News about poor, naive Michael Flynn being framed by the Deep State, and can hardly be described as a hostile interviewer, Trump assembled reporters at 5:30 p.m. for a Rose Garden "press conference" to discuss his recently signed order stripping preferential trade status from Hong Kong.
Sorry about your human rights, Hong Kongers. But hey, look on the bright side, if Hong Kong loses, then America must be winning!
And we're going to do a lot more business because of it, because we just lost one competitor. That's the way it is. We lost a very, very serious competitor. A competitor that we incentivized to take a lot of business and do well. And we gave them a lot of business by doing what we did. We gave them things that nobody else had the right to do, and that gave them a big edge over other markets. And because of that edge, they've done really historic business, tremendous business — far bigger than anybody would have thought, years ago, when we did this gift. It was really a gift to freedom.
Then he moved on to his real theme: Biden Wants to Sell the US to China for a Green New Deal.
"Joe Biden's entire career has been a gift to the Chinese Communist Party and to the calamity of — of errors that they've made. They made so many errors. And it's been devastating for the American worker," he blarped.
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<span></span>No other president in modern history has used the White House for campaign events, but Donald Trump DGAF.
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Also the World Health Organization is terrible, and the World Trade Organization is terrible, and he's the only one who understands anything around here.
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Joe Biden supported China's entry into the World Trade Organization — one of the greatest geopolitical and economic disasters in world history. If you look at China, if you look at the moment they joined the World Trade, they were flat lining for years and years and years and decades. And then, all of a sudden, they joined the World Trade Organization, and they went like a rocket ship. They were given all sorts of advantages. They were considered a developing country. As a developing country, they got tremendous advantages over the United States and other countries. And they took advantage of those advantages, and — and then some.
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Biden personally led the effort to give China permanent, most-favored nation status, which is a tremendous advantage for a country to have. Few countries have it. But the United States doesn't have it. Never did. Probably never even asked for it, because they didn't know what they were doing.
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China joined the WTO in 2001, when George W. Bush was president; It was considered a developing country because it
<em><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/china/overview" target="_blank">was</a></em> a developing country; and America has granted <a href="https://www.thebalance.com/most-favored-nation-status-3305840" target="_blank">"most favored nation"</a> status to all 164 countries in the WTO but Cuba since 1964. But why hasn't the US thought to ask the US for most favored nation status? Because Joe Biden didn't know what he was doing, obviously!
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Have you thanked Donald Trump today for saving you from coronavirus? You better get right on that!
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And we saved tens of thousands of lives, but we actually saved millions of lives by closing — by closing up, we saved millions, potentially millions of lives. Could be — a number that we're actually working on — but it could be 2- to 3 million lives. So we're at 135,000, which is terrible; one is too much. But we would've had millions of people dead from this curse that came at us.
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And can we slow the testing down, please?: "Think of this: If we didn't do testing — instead of testing over 40 million people, if we did half the testing, we would have half the cases. If we did another — you cut that in half, we would have, yet again, half of that." Yes, that is just how math and disease works. Also if we banned pregnancy tests, the birth rate would plummet. Thanks, Mister President Science Man!
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There were lies upon lies, too many for the <em>New York Times</em> to even <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/trump-fact-check-biden-police-coronavirus-china.html" target="_blank">factcheck</a>: Hunter Biden took a billion dollars out of China; COVID death numbers are inflated tenfold; Biden has outsourced his economic plan to Bernie Sanders and "AOC, a young woman — not talented, in many ways," so they can murder 25 percent of American jobs as a gift to China; the EU was created to take advantage of poor, gullible America ("And I know that, and they know I know that, but other Presidents had no idea!"); blahblahblah etc.
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There was also insane rambling about pretty white girls getting murdered by killers brought in by Obama and Biden.
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We have great agreements where when Biden and Obama used to bring killers out, they would say don't bring them back to our country, we don't want them. Well, we have to, we don't want them. They wouldn't take them. Now with us, they take them. Someday, I'll tell you why. Someday, I'll tell you why. But they take them and they take them very gladly. They used to bring them out and they wouldn't even let the airplanes land if they brought them back by airplanes. They wouldn't let the buses into their country. They said we don't want them. Said no, but they entered our country illegally and they're murderers, they're killers in some cases.
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Okeedokee!
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The "meat" of Trump's "speech" was a list of "actual key elements of the Biden-Sanders unity platform" drawn up by "my people." Whether that means White House staff paid for by you the American taxpayer worked on this masterpiece, or the Trump campaign cooked it up on their own dime, President Goodwords did not specify. But here are some of the absolutely real, totally not made up elements of Joe Biden's China Lovin', America Last Agenda:
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<li>"Stop all deportations. So in other words, we'll take all of these people — many of whom are in prison for rape, murder, lots of other things."</li>
<li>"Incentivize illegal-alien child smuggling."</li>
<li>"Give all illegal aliens taxpayer-funded lawyers. How does that sound? Pretty good? In other words: Come in here illegally. We're going to give you a free legal advice. We'll take you up to the Supreme Court as much as possible."</li>
<li>"They want to take down the wall, which we fought hard for: up to 259 miles right now of great, powerful wall that's really working because, if you look at the numbers, in addition to the fact that Mexico, for various reasons, has 27,000 soldiers on our southern border to keep people out of our country — and I appreciate it."</li>
<li>"Grant work permits for illegal aliens. So if you come in illegally, you get a work permit. People that live here don't get work permits, in many cases." (Why does Joe Biden oppose work permits for American citizens?)</li>
<li>"Federal Student Aid and free community college for illegal aliens. What do you think about that? Federal Student Aid and free community college. We're going to have every person in the world pouring into our country from all over the world."</li>
<li>"Grant mass amnesty. Everybody gets amnesty. Mass amnesty. Think of that. And this says: Create a roadmap to citizenship for massive, massive numbers."</li>
<li>"Increase refugee admissions by 700 percent." <em></em></li>
<li>"Abolish law enforcement as we know it."</li>
<li>"End cash bail. No bail. Just, we let you right out."</li>
<li>"Appoint social justice prosecutors in order to free violent criminals."</li>
<li>"Incentivize prison closure. So they want to close our prisons. They now want to abolish — they want to abolish our police departments. They want to abolish our prisons, I guess. Incentivize jail and prison closures as populations decline."</li>
<li>"Mandate all 500,000 school buses and all three million government vehicles be changed to zero-emission vehicles within five years. I've heard it's worse than that!" (Worse than that? Egads!)</li>
<li>"End school choice. There is nothing that the African American community wants more than school choice"<span class="redactor-invisible-space"></span></li>
<li>"Abolish all charter schools."<span class="redactor-invisible-space"></span></li>
<li>"Abolish — in the suburbs, you're going to abolish the suburbs with this. Enforce Obama-Biden's radical AFFH — that's the AFFH regulation that threatens to strip localities of federal affordable housing funds unless they change their zoning laws to fit the federal government's demands." (He later promised to cancel congressionally enacted housing anti-discrimination statutes, saying "I spoke with Ben Carson the other day. We're going to be taking it out.")</li>
</ul><p>And if that's not bad enough, Joe Biden wants to make windows illegal!</p><div id="9113b" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="118f4707919582f75c2786dceec1b01b"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1283165032398893057" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">TRUMP: “…mandate net zero carbon emissions for homes, offices and all new buildings by 2030. That basically means n… https://t.co/DRA7Tf6oT2</div> — JM Rieger (@JM Rieger)<a href="https://twitter.com/RiegerReport/statuses/1283165032398893057">1594765358.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Whatever you say, Commander Bananapants!</p><p>In summary and in conclusion, Joe Biden wants to recycle America as a gift to China, and that's why Trump is winning bigly in the real polls of boaters and bikers and Trump rallies.</p><blockquote>I think we have a really good poll numbers. They're not suppression polls; they're real polls. You look at the Intracostal in Florida. You look at the lakes. You see thousands of boats with Trump signs, American signs. You've got the Trump-Pence sign all over. You look at what's going on. You look at bikers, for miles and miles, riding up highways proudly with their signs.</blockquote><p>THE END.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-conference-071420/" target="_blank">Transcript</a>]</p><p><span></span><strong>Follow Liz Dye on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/5DollarFeminist" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE!</a></strong><br></p><p><strong>Please click here to support your Wonkette. And if you're ordering your quarantine goods on Amazon, <a href="https://amzn.to/2wbH77j" target="_blank">this is the link to do it.</a></strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Trump Administration Drops Stupid War On Foreign College Students, For Now
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July 15, 2020 09:15 AM
The Trump administration yesterday dropped its week-old rule that would have forced foreign students to leave the USA if the American schools they're attending held entirely online courses this fall. Harvard and MIT sued the administration the day after the rule was announced last week, and the end of the stupid policy was announced at what was to have been the first hearing in that case, the first of many lawsuits against the rule.
US District Court Judge Allison Burroughs said the school's request for an injunction against the rule was moot because the administration had agreed to rescind the policy, and then presumably everyone at both universities held a toga party, except at MIT the togas were worn by robots.
The proposal, which would have affected an untold number of students attending American schools on student visas, had thrown planning for the fall semester into even more chaos than it already had been because of the resurgence of coronavirus around the country. So hooray, back to the regular degree of Hell Year 2020 chaos!
<p>International students had already been prohibited from attending online-only classes in the US, but when the pandemic hit earlier this year and virtually all schools switched to remote classes, the administration agreed to allow student visa holders to take their coursework online. That previous rule will now go back into effect, so no one will have to leave the US or try to transfer to a school holding in-person classes, risking exposure to COVID-19. </p><p>In addition to the Harvard-MIT lawsuit and other cases brought by educational institutions, at least 18 state attorneys general <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/14/trump-ice-college-student-visa-rule-online-classes-fall-2020/5437654002/" target="_blank">sued</a> the Department of Homeland Security on Monday. Also Monday, the US Chamber of Commerce and over a dozen tech companies, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.223165/gov.uscourts.mad.223165.56.2.pdf" target="_blank">filed a brief</a> in the Harvard-MIT case arguing that the rule would have "serious adverse economic consequences," not just for the students, but for the companies and the US as a whole. The companies said, "America's future competitiveness depends on attracting and retaining talented international students." </p><p>See, they admit the foreigns are taking our jobs! If it weren't for those talented international students, big tech would have to hire untalented Americans, the way it used to be.</p><p>The rule was seen as part of the administration's general war on immigration, like its earlier <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-to-cure-coronavirus-by-screwing-over-legal-immigrants-economy" target="_blank">freeze on issuing new work visas</a> until the end of the year, because "coronavirus," but really because "election." In addition, the universities <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/coronavirus-international-foreign-student-visas.html" target="_blank">argued</a> the administration was trying to use the rule to bully universities to hold on-campus classes as part of its general insistence that the pandemic is gone and everything's normal, vote for Trump. </p><p>If the rule had remained in effect, it would have seriously hurt tens of thousands of students: there are roughly a million people attending US schools at all levels on student visas, and an <a href="https://www.nafsa.org/policy-and-advocacy/policy-resources/nafsa-international-student-economic-value-tool-v2" target="_blank">economic analysis</a> by NAFSA: Association of International Educators determined that during the 2018-2019 academic year, international students "contributed $41 billion and supported 458,290 jobs to the U.S. economy[.]" Further, because foreign students pay full price for their education, they help subsidize lower costs for American students. </p><p>Had students attending schools that went online been forced to leave the US, many would have had to leave family behind here, or find a way to uproot them, too; many might have returned to countries with iffy or censored internet. And of course the time difference would have made online classes hell for many. The <em>New York Times</em> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/coronavirus-international-foreign-student-visas.html" target="_blank">reports</a> that during the single week the rule was in effect, it had already caused chaos: </p><blockquote>In court filings, universities said that some arriving students already had been barred from entering the country by immigration officials at airports who told them that their institutions were going online.</blockquote><p>That good old Trump administration strategy of weaponized incompetence strikes again. </p><p>Universities and higher education organizations said the administration's reversal of the rule was a relief, but they also warned they'd remain vigilant against further fuckery. Somewhere in the deepest sub-basements of the White House, we can only assume Stephen Miller muttered that he would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those darn kids, their universities, the tech industry, and a raft of lawyers. Then he started working on a plan to prohibit green card holders from subscribing to cable TV, probably. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/14/trump-ice-college-student-visa-rule-online-classes-fall-2020/5437654002/" target="_blank">USA Today</a> / <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/coronavirus-international-foreign-student-visas.html" target="_blank">NYT</a>]</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is supported entirely by reader donations. We don't even overcharge international readers! 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