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ted (not lasso)
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i think it’s masterful distraction strategy that we’re discussing immigrants in Ohio eating pets as some abstract definition of racism instead of focusing on the *actual* issues caused by an unchecked border (national security and debt, employment, healthcare), and i think we’re all foolish to be falling for it.
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Hannah
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For folks who want the facts: immigration is not the cause for your high costs of goods and services. But trumps tariffs will! As someone who works in an industry riddled with tariffs, I promise we pass the cost onto you as a consumer. You PAY MORE so corporate executives make more Also: trump is the reason for our “unchecked border” & creating the issues that he’s now ranting about. If you hate immigrants, look to trump bc he’s why they’re pouring across borders illegally “Trump was able to use a controversial 2018 performance quota policy to significantly alter the behavior of immigration judges—particularly among those judges who typically favor noncitizens’ claims in immigration cases—to advance his agenda to drastically reduce immigration. Our findings have significant implications for immigration judge independence, due process protections for noncitizens, and presidential power” https://www.promarket.org/2024/02/21/how-trumps-quota-policy-transformed-immigration-judging/?amp
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Hannah
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(2) “In 2018, then Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a policy requiring immigration judges to complete a minimum of 700 cases per fiscal year and have no more than 15% of cases overturned on appeal, meaning that immigration judges had to be mindful of what the Trump-appointed Board of Immigration Appeals and attorney general wanted in their decisions. While the stated aim of the policy was to reduce the backlog of immigration cases growing exponentially year-over-year, the political motivations were clear: to pressure immigration judges to order more immigration removals and deportations as quickly as possible. From building the wall at the southern border, to family separation policies in detention centers, Trump was unequivocal in his aims: waging one of the most aggressive anti-immigration campaigns in recent history. The policy was certainly controversial and led some judges to quit. The immigration judges’ union campaigned against it.”
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