Trump tweets a white nationalist ransom note to immigrants

[babylonsister]

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-tweets-chain-migration-00b289165158/

Trump tweets a white nationalist ransom note to immigrants
So much for a deal to protect DREAMers.
Ian Millhiser
Dec 29, 2017, 11:15 am


As recently as last week, a deal appeared possible that would restore or even expand protections for DREAMers — a group of undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children — while also including undetermined measures to increase “border security.”

Friday morning, however, President Donald Trump may have blown up this burgeoning deal by adding new, very aggressive demands.

Trump’s demands closely track those of white nationalist groups who oppose many forms of lawful immigration and wish to restrict methods often used by non-white immigrants.

Last September, Trump announced that he would end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an Obama-era program that allowed approximately 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children to receive work permits and remain in the country. Trump, however, delayed termination of this program — current DACA beneficiaries will start to lose their protections in March — and initially appeared open to a legislative solution that would restore benefits to people on DACA.

Now, however, Trump is demanding a fundamental overhaul of much of the nation’s immigration system as the price of a DACA fix.

“Chain migration,” which Trump refers to in his tweet, is a derogatory term used to describe the way that family members of current U.S. residents are permitted to immigrate into the United States. Under current law, a U.S. citizen may petition to allow their immediate relatives — spouses, children, and parents — to immigrate to the U.S. More distant relatives, such as the brothers and sisters of citizens, may also sometimes be admitted, although they are restricted by a quota. Lawful permanent residents may also petition on behalf of their spouses and certain children, but these immigrants are also subject to a quota.

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With Friday’s tweet, Trump appears to be doing far more than launching a campaign. He appears to be holding hundreds of thousands of immigrants hostage to pressure Congress into enacting an agenda favored by white nationalists.

[Kirk Lover]

1. He doesn't appear to be holding immigrants hostage...he IS holding them hostage and

so has the whole GOP and their skank base been holding them hostage for years.

[dawg day]

2. his IN-LAWS (two sets) are here because of this thing he hates on

This is the man who married TWO women from Soviet satellites. Both of them, I think, brought their parents -- his children's grandparents-- over to the US through this immigration program. Is he going to send them back?
Not that consistency matters to him.
But of all people to decry immigration-- he really takes the prize. His mother was an immigrant. Two of his wives were immigrants.

[RKP5637]

3. The guy is a loudmouth, vulgar and stupid walking/talking shit storm! n/t

[BigMin28]

4. Trump's

mother followed her older sisters from Scotland also. Not sure if it was referred to a chain migration back then. But that is what it was.

[Igel]

5. "Chain migration" is a term that's been around for a while.

It's good or bad depending on how the person wants to use it.

Now that it's made inroads into the discussion, though, "chain migration" has to be a derogatory term for something that simply is. In other words, it has to have its connotation shifted from neutral to negative in order to produce a nice spiral of silence and keep it from being discussed even neutrally.

Because for some things, neutral is apparently negative.

[PatrickforO]

6. Fricking Nazi.

This is the worst president we've EVER had.