All the GOP has are smears, lies and cheap shots about Immigration
The GOP distorts the truth and uses ridicule and insults to gain power. We shouldn't give it to them, they don't deserve it.
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Dealing from the bottom of the barrell, the GOP resorts to the rudest, bases, and most vile cheap shots they can take against their opposition.
Case in point: Trump calling the Governor of California “Newscum.”
There should be lines in the sand that can’t be crossed. If we going to have a “great country” we should expect the best and highest aspirations from those we choose for leadership. Instead, we get Trump making fun of Joe Biden’s lifelong stutter because he’s classless like that. He criticized Biden for his apology for calling the killer of Laken Riley an “Illegal.” People people aren’t “Illegal” what they may have done can be illegal. Trump claims that this migrant wouldn’t even be in the country if he had his way, but the fact is that Trump granted Temporary Protective Status to Venezuelans on his last day in office.
Trump is using the little-known Deferred Enforced Departure program, or DED, to offer temporary legal status to Venezuelans fleeing the humanitarian crisis brought on by Nicolás Maduro’s regime. DED, similar to Temporary Protected Status or TPS, protects recipients from deportation and allows them to get work permits. However, it is granted directly by the president instead of the Department of Homeland Security.
“The deteriorative condition within Venezuela, which presents an ongoing national security threat to the safety and well-being of the American people, warrants the deferral of the removal of Venezuelan nationals who are present in the United States,” Trump said in a memorandum released Tuesday.
Based on Trump’s memo, the U.S. will defer for 18 months the removal of certain Venezuelan nationals present in the U.S. on Jan. 20. It also allows those Venezuelans to work during that period of time.
That policy had elapsed when Jose Ibarra, along with his wife and his then 3-year-old son were detained by Border Patrol who followed due process assigning him and his family to an immigration hearing since at that time, Ibarra did not have a criminal record.
Ibarra, an undocumented migrant from Venezuela, illegally crossed the border near El Paso, Texas, and was arrested by Customs and Border Protection on Sept. 8, 2022, before he was paroled and released while his immigration case is pending, ICE said.
If Ibarra had come as a single adult, he would have been blocked and expelled but because he had a family — they were allowed to stay together. If Trump had still been in office he still would have assigned Ibarra for an immigration hearing, but the real difference is that he would have stuck him and his wife in a detention camp to wait for years until their hearing and also might have stolen their child from them.
It doesn’t matter that crime rates generally go down in the cities where migrants are sent. This situation is a dramatic exception to the rule, punishing the many for the sins of the very few. This is the Willy Horton ad campaign all over again. The issue is that Trump would stoop to using this tragic and rare event, the loss of this poor girl’s life for his own political gain. He’s a low life. He’s pond scum. He’s a dangerous racist.
And many of the voters who supported Nikki Haley know that and they won’t vote for him.
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