Pay Attention!! That trump EO about deporting " Pro Hamas" students is another way to target legal immigrants
I searched and could not find the EO to read the exact wording. I am alarmed at this statement from an article posted in another thread.
I do not read that as him going after " Pro Hamas" students. I see it as an attack on legal immigrants. Do not be fooled that this is about Anti semitism.
"The executive order will allow the deportation of resident aliens — including students with visas — who broke laws as part of anti-Israel protests following the October 7th attacks in Israel, DailyMail.com confirmed.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219959761
Resident Aliens are permanent residents of the USA. "Green card" holders. Jamal Khashoggi was a permanent resident.
After 5 years of being a permanent resident, you can apply for naturalization. If not, you renew your permanent resident status every 10 years. Which is usually just a procedural thing, like renewing your license. Pay the fee and move on.
Deporting permanent residents for protesting - even if what they are protesting is disgusting would set a dangerous precedent.
Does anyone think that Pro Hamas protesters would be the end?
What about BLM protests?
Stephen Miller has suggested stripping naturalization from citizens.
I have long thought that this is a group that Democrats should go after. There are many permanent residents that never become citizens. I have some in my own family. They figure they work, pay taxes, not committing crimes, no need to become a citizen. They have all the rights citizens have - except for not being able to vote. They are not at risk for deportation. If you are convicted of a felony, then you can lose your permanent resident status. What I mean by go after is community engagement, boots on the ground to get folks to become citizens as soon is they are at that 5 year mark.
Furthermore, during the first trump admin, they increased the cost of naturalization to deter people from becoming citizens along with just mucking up the system causing longer wait times.
DHS just announced a steep increase in the cost of applying for naturalization, a move that will harm hundreds of thousands of green card holders
Washington, D.C. — A coalition of leading immigrant rights organizations has condemned the Trump Administration’s proposal to drastically increase the cost of applying for citizenship, a radical policy shift that would prevent millions of green card holders from beginning the naturalization process.
Applying for citizenship currently costs $725, which already makes the naturalization process too expensive for many green card holders. The new Trump administration proposal would increase the cost to the applicant by $445, pushing the total cost to $1,170 and creating an unnecessary barrier to citizenship for millions of eligible applicants.
Compounding the damage, the administration also announced plans today to eliminate a fee waiver program for lower-income green card holders. That means any naturalization applicant—regardless of how little they earn—would have to pay the new, higher fees in full.
Another major component of the announcement is just as troubling. The Trump administration said it would transfer $200 million in fees that had been collected by USCIS, the federal agency which processes naturalization applications, to ICE, the agency that is responsible for deportations and which has carried out family separations and the administration's most hardline anti-immigration policies.
If enacted, these changes would sharply reduce the number of new naturalization applications, especially from lower-income green card holders. That will create a wealth test for citizenship, one that could exclude hundreds of thousands—and potentially millions—of otherwise eligible applicants.
https://www.ilrc.org/trump-administration-making-it-more-expensive-apply-citizenship
For those feeling helpless, giving to ACLU, NAACP and other groups that will fight this madness, is one way to do something.
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