President Biden on Wednesday shielded thousands of Palestinians in the United States from deportation for the next 18 months, using an obscure immigration authority as he faces mounting criticism over U.S. support for Israel in the Gaza war.
About 6,000 Palestinians are eligible for the reprieve under a program called Deferred Enforced Departure, which allows immigrants whose homelands are in crisis to remain in the United States and work legally.
In a memo obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Biden said that “many civilians remain in danger” in Gaza after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas.
“Therefore, I am directing the deferral of removal of certain Palestinians who are present in the United States,” he said.
Did the same thing to Venezuelans. I didn’t know that noncitizens can vote.
You know I mean the issue is getting electorally relevant right?
Sure. Are Venezuelans electrically relevant?
The issue was when the deferment was in place. It no longer is, which is why we’re deporting people back to Venezuela as of October.
It seems like you’re trying to suggest that the impact to democratic turn out in Nov is not a huge factor in this decision, despite the article repeatedly pointing out the problems our support for Israel is generating for Democrats.
The answer is no. The Venezuelans do not represent a voting block that’s electoraly relevant
Aren’t Latinos a huge voting block in the US?
So, you think all Latinos are the same? They aren’t. They rarely sympathize country to country.
Issues are relevant beyond the immediate community of the affected. You think only Palestinian people care about this issue?
When the government does this it’s partly to show some action and partly to prevent a headline like “We deported this man. A week later the Israelis killed him in an air strike on a hospital”
What electoral issue beyond the Venezuelan community? Still a question you don’t answer. Just say I don’t know and I leave you alone. Sometimes we do things I’m this country simply because it’s the right thing to do not because of some reward.
If he’s gonna die in a hospital, it’s going to be in an American hospital due to our terrible health care system!
I enjoyed Tom Hardy in The Revenant
“Hmmmmm” - Mad Max Fury Road
-Venom
Basic human decency is relevant to the electorate. Well, to just over half of the electorate. The rest of the electorate seems to think basic human decency is a weakness that should be scorned.
Basic human decency which I agree 8s the case here, does not need any other motivation. The US has done this for a lot of foreign citizens who have turmoil in their home countries and are stuck here. Sometime we fail, but it is all about human decency not being elected.
It’s not. It’s loud, not salient. Americans don’t vote on foreign policy.
They did in 2004
They absolutely did not. Which hot take artist on YouTube told you that?
I was there Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago, when Isildur took the Ring. I was there the day the strength of Men failed.
I mean, im only one guy, but Biden’s handling of israel has singlehandedly shifted me into being a Never Biden voter.Genocide matters, and if he isnt willing to rip up a treaty over it, it is on all of us to make sure we put in someone who will. Anybody who votes for biden at this point has to admit theyd also have voted for Hitler.
So you are pro genocide, got it
Cause trump would care about Palestinians 🙄
And what’s he said on the subject btw?
Then you are just a fool or a shill. There is no metric in which Trump would be a better president than Biden.
Ok troll, take your sanctimonious BS and go home. If Biden or Trump (or, Godwin’s Law arriving right on time, Biden or Hitler) are equivalent in your eyes, you are lost.
I don’t know anything about Venezuelan elections but I think your downvotes are due to an unintentional implication that Venezuelan Refugees would vote in the USA, which they cannot. People are misunderstanding your statement.
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