When conservatives rant and rave about how the country is going to be undone by immigrants they willfully ignore the very real fact they a re products and descendants of the very people they demonize. President Biden is right about removing the burden of being undocumented for these people. Let's get this straight -WE ARE A NATION OF IMMIGRANT STOCK. Quit your complaining and get on with the business of including our diverse heritage into American life.
I applaud the Biden administration for this sensible effort.
I am reminded of a Brit who was here in America on a work visa a few years ago bemoaning all the illegal immigrants... who I later found out had his wife & kids here without visas for years. And they would have been *eligible* for them, he just didn't want to do the actual work and pay for them.
People tend to believe your spouse is automatically a citizen -- it's a common trope in TV/movies. It's untrue, of course. My husband is Dutch and we spent a crap-ton of money to arrange everything legally. That's because we COULD. We should make it possible for everyone to do the same.
If Chunky Reese Witherspoon had been shoving her tongue into 20 year old me’s mouth and showing me her boobies, I wouldn’t have been bored. That’s for sure.
Why the NYT gives column inches to Douthat escapes me.
The specific screed from his book in the link above s/b entitled "Why Ross Douthat is so much more moral than you are, and went to Harvard and doesn't like chunky girls."
The subtext reads "Why Ross is probably closeted as deeply as Lindsey Graham but wants you to think he's a worldly man who's above sexual arousal."
I don't know if this is still the case, but we used to ban Nazis only if they were Nazis 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 1945.
I learned this because it was the setup for a joke by Al Franken: "It's probably a good policy. I'd trust a guy who became a Nazi in 1946. You know he's not a fair-weather friend."
Once a co-worker who had been born in the U.S. but married an Irish citizen told me that before they let her husband in, they did everything short of opening him up on an operating table to see if he had any diseases.
What Biden and the Democrats need to do IMO is flood the discourse with stories like Foday Turay's. One after another. Get them talking about what a tremendous burden this has lifted from them and what an improvement it is in their lives and those of their families. And also, how they fear the Republicans coming back into power.
Politics is about stories, after all, and there are plenty of these to tell. Make Americans who aren't utter meatheads see immigrants as people, not menacing statistics.
My doula and her husband (a close coworker) were Austrian citizens, as was their eldest child (a son). Their younger kids were two daughters born in the US.
Their son had dated a DACA recipient since high school. We/they lived in CA and both of those "kids" got Master's Degrees in hard sciences. They married after school and bailed to Austria after their degrees (and a Trump presidency) and she got "papers" in Austria within months.
US lost two awesome workers; Austria gained them.
The idea that "undocumented" folks are all evil criminals sucking from the teat of the state is so absurd. They are friends, family, neighbors, and members of the community.
Seth Cotlar, history professor at Willamette University says his " favorite flavor of Trump voter is a person who a) is very upset about high grocery prices and b) is fired up about Trump's plan to deport 50% of the nation's agricultural workforce."
c) is also very fired up about his plan to impose insanely high tariffs on basically all imports to the U.S., raising prices for consumers across the board.
When conservatives rant and rave about how the country is going to be undone by immigrants they willfully ignore the very real fact they a re products and descendants of the very people they demonize. President Biden is right about removing the burden of being undocumented for these people. Let's get this straight -WE ARE A NATION OF IMMIGRANT STOCK. Quit your complaining and get on with the business of including our diverse heritage into American life.
Let’s be honest. rump invented this policy. He just added the requirement of breast implants.
Now to ensure another four years of Biden/Harris so it isn’t immediately undone by racist shitheads.
Ta, Dok. I appreciate the kitteh portrait.
Me, too.
You mean that episode of Taxi where Lakta married a hooker can’t happen in real life? But Reverend Jim performed the ceremony!
I applaud the Biden administration for this sensible effort.
I am reminded of a Brit who was here in America on a work visa a few years ago bemoaning all the illegal immigrants... who I later found out had his wife & kids here without visas for years. And they would have been *eligible* for them, he just didn't want to do the actual work and pay for them.
Oh, he only meant BROWN illegal immigrants. ;P
People tend to believe your spouse is automatically a citizen -- it's a common trope in TV/movies. It's untrue, of course. My husband is Dutch and we spent a crap-ton of money to arrange everything legally. That's because we COULD. We should make it possible for everyone to do the same.
“Why Biden’s plan to let illegals marry our blonde daughters is costing him votes in the swing states “.
By Ross Douthat
Specifically, blonde daughters who look like a chunky Reese Witherspoon.
https://x.com/Wonkette/status/847892327750389763
If Chunky Reese Witherspoon had been shoving her tongue into 20 year old me’s mouth and showing me her boobies, I wouldn’t have been bored. That’s for sure.
Why the NYT gives column inches to Douthat escapes me.
The specific screed from his book in the link above s/b entitled "Why Ross Douthat is so much more moral than you are, and went to Harvard and doesn't like chunky girls."
The subtext reads "Why Ross is probably closeted as deeply as Lindsey Graham but wants you to think he's a worldly man who's above sexual arousal."
𝘠𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺.
I don't know if this is still the case, but we used to ban Nazis only if they were Nazis 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 1945.
I learned this because it was the setup for a joke by Al Franken: "It's probably a good policy. I'd trust a guy who became a Nazi in 1946. You know he's not a fair-weather friend."
He also had a whole bit about a copier salesman who had to be told to not share “the Nazi stuff” during company time.
But he did have a knack for matching the “right copier to the right customer.”
Once a co-worker who had been born in the U.S. but married an Irish citizen told me that before they let her husband in, they did everything short of opening him up on an operating table to see if he had any diseases.
True. Same for my husband. (Dutch)
Same for a Dutch friend and his wife; they got examined every which way before they were allowed in.
What Biden and the Democrats need to do IMO is flood the discourse with stories like Foday Turay's. One after another. Get them talking about what a tremendous burden this has lifted from them and what an improvement it is in their lives and those of their families. And also, how they fear the Republicans coming back into power.
Politics is about stories, after all, and there are plenty of these to tell. Make Americans who aren't utter meatheads see immigrants as people, not menacing statistics.
“Parole’s been around for decades and decades and used in many different contexts,”
So was RvW until this SCOTUS got ahold of it....
My doula and her husband (a close coworker) were Austrian citizens, as was their eldest child (a son). Their younger kids were two daughters born in the US.
Their son had dated a DACA recipient since high school. We/they lived in CA and both of those "kids" got Master's Degrees in hard sciences. They married after school and bailed to Austria after their degrees (and a Trump presidency) and she got "papers" in Austria within months.
US lost two awesome workers; Austria gained them.
The idea that "undocumented" folks are all evil criminals sucking from the teat of the state is so absurd. They are friends, family, neighbors, and members of the community.
"What kind of name is 'Cenk Uygur'? Sounds pretty furrin, to me! Better check his immigration status!"
It sounds like a hiccup turn to puke-heave
I think Uygur is a Uyghur name.
With that last name, China wouldn't take him.
Seth Cotlar, history professor at Willamette University says his " favorite flavor of Trump voter is a person who a) is very upset about high grocery prices and b) is fired up about Trump's plan to deport 50% of the nation's agricultural workforce."
c) is also very fired up about his plan to impose insanely high tariffs on basically all imports to the U.S., raising prices for consumers across the board.
Oh yeah, the list is loooong. That was just his favorite. November cannot come soon enough.
Obligatory "can't wait to hear what the party of FAMILY VALUES!!! says about this."
And by "can't wait," I mean "OFFS, not this shit again..."