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.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
While Mr. Biden’s criticism of the war has grown more forceful since the Oct. 7 attack, the United States has not signaled that it plans major policy changes such as putting conditions on billions of dollars in military aid to Israel.
Palestinians who have been convicted of felonies or those “who are otherwise deemed to pose a public safety threat” would not be protected from deportation, Jake Sullivan, Mr. Biden’s national security adviser, said in a statement.
Representative Ryan Zinke of Montana, a former Trump administration official, introduced legislation in November that would have revoked visas from Palestinians and prevented them from receiving refugee status or asylum in the United States.
Earlier this month, Mr. Biden ordered financial and travel sanctions on four Israeli settlers accused of violent attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank.
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Daily reminder that voting for Biden makes you complicit in Genocide.
Wow, I think he’s set a new record for the least anyone could possibly do. Now if we can get him to string together a whole sentence without forgetting where he is, we’ll have a chance at beating the orange turd this election!
6000 people won’t be sent back to a genocide and you try to play this off as negligible?
How self-indulgent and arrogant of you.
If it had only been 1 person, and that person was your mother, you would be celebrating.
Ah, yes, I forgot we’re supposed to thank you guys for every little crumb you toss off the table for us. Thank you, oh great liberal white man, for the benevolence you show us!
Words cannot describe how glad I am to not be someone like you.
So you admit that it’s a fucking holocaust that it would be unconscionable to send people into, but you STILL continue to support and pay for it.
Fuck you.
And it took 4 months to stop sending people back into the carnage.
Only when they realized it could potentially cost them the election.
If this wasn’t an election year, this would 1000% not be a thing.
It’s going to be fun when the vote blue no matter who brigade starts accosting Muslim Americans for not voting for the ‘lesser evil’ who didn’t lift a finger to stop the slaughter of Palestinians.
There’s just not going to be a fix for this between now and the election, or even for generations.
Don’t worry, thanks to climate change accelerating, it won’t really matter.
Single issue voter here. Voting for whoever shows the most support for Israel’s right to defend itself from terrorism. Hopefully I don’t have to vote for the orange man, but I will if I have to.
Hopefully I don’t have to vote for Adolf, but I will if I have to.
FTFY. I kind of want Trump to win the election. Just to show everyone we’re right about him being a fascist. People just don’t get how dangerous he is.
Look I know the whole situation sucks but Israel is currently our only ally in the middle east we can stage attacks from.
America, left and right, will do almost ANYTHING to keep that foothold.
I’m not saying its right, genocide is happening as we speak and the entire world should come down on Israel hard for this, I’m just saying what is real.
Full disclosure: I condemn every organization that targets civilians with violence, regardless of country allegiances.
MAYBE YOU SHOULD STOP STAGING ATTACKS IN THE MIDDLE EAST TOO!
I AGREE, MY GOVERNMENT IS A WARMONGERING OLIGARCHY SO MY PERSONAL OPINION DOES NOT AFFECT THEIR MILITARY CHOICES AS I AM NOT RICH!
So time to start over, no?
Will you fire the first shot?
The police force responding to peaceful protest will undoubtedly fire the first shot. Its a tale as old as time.
How is that a justification?
I complain on moral grounds that the US is not only being evil by supporting genocide, but being smug-hypocritical-evil by offering a shrivelled scrap of token mitigation that’s offset a thousandfold by their continued funding and political cover.
In response, you point out that the US is only doing this so it can bomb other brown people… and that isn’t the slam dunk you seem to think it is.
That’s not a yes but kind of thing. That’s even worse. You do see how that’s even worse, right?
How, and on what fucking planet, does that invalidate a single goddamn thing I said, especially the fuck you?
How is that a justification? … You do see how that’s even worse, right?
Literally 2/3 of the same comment you’re replying to:
I’m not saying its right, genocide is happening as we speak and the entire world should come down on Israel hard for this, I’m just saying what is real.
Full disclosure: I condemn every organization that targets civilians with violence, regardless of country allegiances.
I don’t understand this obsession with ‘justification’.
I told you what was real, I told you why it is happening.
I don’t agree with it, I think it’s monstrous, but it IS the reason why.
You can complain on all the moral grounds you want, it will affect our government’s horrific actions absolutely zero.
ou point out that the US is only doing this so it can bomb other brown people…
Yes, our country is run by warmongering profiteers that pay our politicians. Like I never said this was good, simply that this is the way it is and will be.
I’m sorry you don’t like it, I don’t like it either
You see that word you used: “but”?
This sucks, but Israel is our only ally in the middle east we can stage attacks from.
That’s literally what ‘but’ means; you’re saying that the benefit of using Israel as a staging area for attacks outweighs the genocide.
Try it out in literally any other context.
I know the traffic is awful, but the burgers at this place are amazing. [therefore, it’s worth the trip]
It is a nice day outside, but there’s a maniac with a machete on the loose. [therefore, we should stay inside]
Why - and how - would anyone read it any differently?
Ok let me rephrase without the but.
The United States government will never give up a military foothold in the middle east willingly.
That’s it.
No buts, no stupid opinions, no fuckdamn condescension.
Good job contributing zero to the discussion.
That’s literally what ‘but’ means; you’re saying that the benefit of using Israel as a staging area for attacks outweighs the genocide.
I don’t think that, but my government obviously does and nothing you or I can say about it will change it.
You are deliberately trying to monolith my personal positions with that of my government, this is a forum sliding tactic common with the alt-right trying to ‘concern troll’ a thread to death, and I really wish that there was a Lemmy version of RES so I could flag you as a likely forum disruptor.
With full sincerity I encourage you choose to make the decision to not reply to any of my posts again. Thanks.
Simplistic comment. Biden would drop them if he could, but it’s not a fucking dictatorship! Israeli supporters in government, on both sides of the
isleaisle, is very real and could easily roadblock any support for Ukraine. Do some math and stop acting like a child - and fuck you too. I hate having to play the grownup in these tiresome conversations.Simplistic comment. Biden would drop them if he could, but it’s not a fucking dictatorship!
He’s going around Congress to deliver weapons. What are you basing the claim that he would drop them if he could? He can and he doesn’t.
Yeah, that’s right. He’s backing up the truck and dropping them off himself.
Please - everything in Washington is a negotiation. Unless you’re a dictator doing thing unilaterally, you have to go through groups of other politicians with their own constituents.
He’s doing what he can. Simplistic arguments are just a distraction. Learn about politics and then comment.
What are you basing this notion on that Biden wants to stop sending weapons to Israel?
He’s just protected them as a group from being sent back. He’s showing he’s sympathetic and trying to work within the constraints but Israel’s is well-ingrained politically. Anyway, enough of this malarky.
Go go gadget … away. Blocked.
Lol so pure speculation. Got it.
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Yes - thank you.
Happy to help
You know shit’s getting electorally relevant when the US starts treating refugees with a hint of basic human dignity.
Pretty sure if no republicunt existed we’d have been treating refugees with basic human dignity the whole time.
Didn’t the dems just agree that the border crisis is the top priority?
Only to court the radical right on the Ukraine package
So now the dems endorse the radical rights position on the border. You don’t see how that’s an issue?
You don’t see how your deliberate hyperbole isn’t contributing to the discussion?
Explain to me how what I said is hyperbole, and not facts. Please.
So now the dems endorse the radical rights position on the border. You don’t see how that’s an issue?
Equating “letting the opposition party fuck themselves as they try to pass a bill THEY don’t even want” to actively endorsing extreme policy is hyperbole.
At a very surface level you’re correct, but using that to state that the entire democratic party has abandoned their morals is absurd.
I live in a small EU country. Believe me, American Republican are not the reason why refugees are not treated as human being, we don’t do much better despite what we say.
Come down to California and you’ll meet so many “economic anxious” Californians who are rock-ribbed blue-blooded Democrats. But hey, they really would just prefer these ILLEGAL MIGRANTS stop INVADING MY NEIGHBORHOOD and SPEAKING A SCARY LANGUAGE and BREAKING THE LAW (law: vagrancy or using public transportation while poor or perhaps looking kinda scary while eating a sandwich on the corner).
Utterly interchangeable with Texas/Arizona Republicans on every level that counts. But they voted for Dianne Feinstein every year she was on the ballot, so actually they’re so much cooler than you losers in the Red part of the country.
Doubtful, when does the Democrat party do anything except to look better by comparison?
6000 Palestinians don’t have to go back to a genocide zone
Some student loans have been forgiven
A fucktonne of federal weed charges dropped.
There is more but I’m tired arguing with your ilk.
Did the same thing to Venezuelans. I didn’t know that noncitizens can vote.
I didn’t know that noncitizens can vote.
You know I mean the issue is getting electorally relevant right?
It’s not. It’s loud, not salient. Americans don’t vote on foreign policy.
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.
Cause trump would care about Palestinians 🙄
And what’s he said on the subject btw?
Never Biden voter on all of us to make sure we put in someone who will
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.
Then you are just a fool or a shill. There is no metric in which Trump would be a better president than Biden.
So you are pro genocide, got it
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.
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
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”
Issues are relevant beyond the immediate community of the affected.
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!
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.
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Pussy.
-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.
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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Haha, indeed this is so blatantly so.
Holy crap, you’re right. The US should be setting up concentration camps like how China dealt with the Ughyrs.
Oh and what dangers are civilians in Gaza facing?
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If there is no /s then it wasn’t sarcasm. The opinion you thought too stupid to be a real person’s thoughts was absolutely accurate to somebody somewhere.
I don’t think people understood what you were saying…
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Genocide, for one.
Oh, Israel leadership says they’re only going after Hamas, but they’ve also just been gunning down anyone in the streets who aren’t wearing their colours (demonstrated with a few Americans and Australians being shot), bombing hospitals, and opening up evacuation corridors only to bomb them when they get filled up. They’ve also cut off food and water and internet, so even the civilians who aren’t in the immediate line of fire are suffering and dying.
I dunno, sounds like genocide to me!
That 12 year old girl that got impaled on rebar? Believe it or not, Hamas.
Israeli defense secretary literally just said that IDF should shoot women and children because they could be hamas
No he didn’t. Ben-Gvir is not the defense minister. He has nothing to do with the IDF and isn’t in the war cabinet.
He’s a minister in the cabinet not the defense secretary? But here is the article I was thinking of
https://www.newarab.com/news/ben-gvir-says-israeli-army-can-shoot-women-children-gaza
Poe’s Law my dude, are you new to the internet?
How is this not the same as “Biden not allowing Palestinians to return to their homeland to fight against the Isreal led genocide funded by the USA”?
“Deportation” means forceful expulsion.
Also, Palestinians aren’t fighting Israel, they can’t. They’re completely at the mercy of Israel. The people fighting Israel in Gaza are Millitant Groups who originated in Iran and Egypt, and who who obtain all of their weapons and funding from Iran, Egypt, and Israel. Some Palestinians might be fighting for Hamas but Hamas was never fighting for Palestine.
Palestinians =/= Hamas. Hamas is attacking Israel, Israel is attacking Hamas and the Palestinians are the casualties from both sides.
Because they’re allowed leave?
