DHS Expands Immigration Ban, Ensuring The Only Way An African Can Come To The US Is If We Bring Slavery Back
from the bunch-of-hateful-fucks dept
Ever since Trump took office and turned over immigration enforcement to someone who killed pets more often than she’s experienced moments of joy, the world has been shrinking. It America vs. everyone else at this point, with the Trump administration adding hefty amounts of imperialism to its heady blend of white Christian fascism.
To be non-white is to be less than 2/3rds of a human, which is something I thought we might have moved past during the last 100 years or so. But everything old is new again, especially the stuff that should just be the relics of a shameful history, rather than the latest thing getting gilded by the administration’s ex-Fox News turd polishers.
After an Afghan refugee shot some National Guard troops, Trump and his DHS placed an indefinite pause on immigration applications from a total of 19 countries, including (of course) Afghanistan, a country we hastily exited and turned over to the Taliban.
For no discernible reason, another 20 countries have been added to the immigration ban. Unsurprisingly, none of these countries are mostly white. Here’s NPR with the details on the administration’s latest burst of xenophobia:
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, in a memo released Thursday, said it would pause the review of all pending applications for visas, green cards, citizenship or asylum from immigrants from the additional countries. The memo also outlines plans to re-review applications of immigrants from these countries as far back as 2021.
The list, which is composed mostly of countries in Africa, includes Angola, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Wow. Imagine that. There’s a pattern developing here, and it’s exactly what you think it is. Here’s the full list of countries whose residents are subject to an indefinite ban on immigration applications:
Afghanistan, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Cuba, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Haiti, Iran, Ivory Coast, Laos, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, The Gambia, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Here’s what that looks like:
So, we’ve got more than half of Africa on the blocklist. It will never reach 100% because South Africa is home to some pretty feisty white colonials the president seems to personally appreciate despite (or because of) their white nationalist leanings.
Give it a few more months and the rest of that continent should be colored in. And while this government will pretend this is about national security and/or thwarting the international drug trade, it’s safe to assume any national security threat posed by autocrats Trump likes (Putin, Bukele, Orban, Erdogan) will be ignored to keep them, um, whitelisted. And any other nation that poses no threat one way or another but happens to be heavily populated by people with more skin pigmentation will find their immigration privileges suspended until at least January 2029.
We’re no longer part of the free world. We’re a nation that’s hastily and deliberately backsliding into the worst version of itself, thanks to the irrational hatred of those in power. We may not have forgotten our history, but we’re being ruled by people who want to doom us to repeat it.
Filed Under: bigotry, dhs, kristi noem, mass deportation, trump administration
Comments on “DHS Expands Immigration Ban, Ensuring The Only Way An African Can Come To The US Is If We Bring Slavery Back”
Assholes.
someone who killed pets more often than she’s experienced moments of joy
i would have thought those numbers to be equal.
I can think of one other way.
Republican freedom is when masked thugs kick your door in and use a magic app to decide if you’re a citizen or not.
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Why do they need to come here?
Answer: they don’t. We certainly don’t need them.
Slavery was the democrats, btw. Republicans freed them. But thanks for calling everyone who disagrees with you racist!
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After (and in response to) the Civil Rights Movement, the alignments of those parties switched, such that the so-called party of Lincoln now has people who would very much like to reinstitute slavery sitting in both its leadership roles and its rank-and-file voting base. Trotting that tired-ass line out here won’t work here because only idiots like you think people here are as ignorant (and proudly so) as you are.
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According to democrats who don’t want to blamed for what their party did.
It’s not true though. Biden Eulogized a KKK member, don’t you know.
Oh, and democrats are STILL the racist ones, actually. So no, there was no “switching”, that’s just a lie you tell yourselves.
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Significantly more African American voters vote for Democrats. Significantly more African American candidates run as Democrats. You’re calling black people either racists against themselves or dumb, which makes you racist either way.
So even if this anecdote were true, it still wouldn’t prove the claim. Biden eulogizing a thousand KKK members wouldn’t make the whole party racist.
But also, Byrd had renounced his membership for decades afterwards. The NAACP even acknowledged that he had done so.
That you pull out this false anecdote also shows once again that you just repeat propaganda points instead of actually understanding what you’re talking about. It takes five seconds to search your claim and find the truth, but you wouldn’t question your handler’s take on things.
You demonstrate loyalty through blind belief and repetition of falsehoods as gospel truth.
You seem to think everyone you’re talking to is a Democrat. Makes that “you claim everyone you disagree with is a racist!” claim seems like a reflection of your simplistic thinking, not anyone else’s.
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So we’re arguing that a voter base changes the facts, now?
Yes, it does.
So does things like “if you don’t vote for me you ain’t black” and “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids”
Biden said a thousand races things. Even before he was senile. You guys didn’t care and voted for him anyway.
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Biden said a thousand races things. Even before he was senile. You guys didn’t care and voted for him anyway.
And the brilliant response from you fucking fools?
Elect someone older, who uses 2 hands to drink a glass of water and brags about ‘acing’ a MOCA test.
Fucking fool. Tells everyone how wrong it was to have a senile old man in office. Proceeds to install dementia-ridden stroke-victim to prove point.
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Note that I said voters and candidates. So the actual membership of the party does affect the character of the party.
Yes or no, are the black people in the Democratic Party racist against themselves? Was Obama racist against himself when he voted for himself for president?
The greater amount of diversity in the Democratic Party is proof of the Southern Strategy switch. Black people whose families voted as Republicans since the Reconstruction switched to voting for Democrats between 1970s and 1990s.
You’re operating entirely on the premise that if Biden, a single Democrat, said something racist then it makes the entire Democratic Party, voter base and candidates, racist by association. By that logic, everyone everywhere would be considered racist and the distinction becomes meaningless.
First disclaimer: I’m not a Democrat, so this isn’t me talking about “us.”
The Democratic Party isn’t perfect. It definitely has some racist people in it. But has far fewer white nationalists and overt racists. But more importantly, it has far less overt racist policies and injustices. And that’s infinitely more important than your Biden whatabouting.
You’re pretending like voting for Biden would make one racist, when the only other possible candidate was Trump, who is significantly more racist and not just in words, but in actions, which is, again, far more important.
ICE and CBP picking up people based off of the color of their skin and ignoring and even throwing away their proof of citizenship is from Trump’s actions. That is racism by policy and practice. Nothing Biden has ever said compares to Trump’s racist policies.
Trump erasing people of color, women, and gay people from history and defunding anything his administration labels as DEI is inherently racist.
I didn’t want to vote for Biden. I only voted for him in the general election because he was the lesser of two evils. The other evil, Trump, was infinitely worse, and that’s been played out in the last year more so than it did in 2017.
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And now we have Donald (and vile creatures like Stephen Miller), whose racism is in your face and he simply doesn’t give a shit! The US is only for white people don’t you know.
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No, according to actual history. The Dixiecrats didn’t switch parties until after the Civil Rights Movement, and once they did, the parties realigned so that the DNC became the liberal party and the GOP became the conservative party. If you’re going to argue that the modern Republican Party is still “the party of Lincoln”, you’ll have to contend with the fact that the conservative position of Lincoln’s day wasn’t “free the slaves”.
…who had long since left the Klan, renounced its beliefs, and done the work to repent for his past sins. I know nuance isn’t something you redhats employ until it’s about saving one of your own, but maybe recognize that other people aren’t quite as ignorant of history as you are.
Democrats have more people of color in public offices and in positions of leadership than Republicans ever have (and probably ever will). Republican politicians routinely do interviews with right-wing extremists and antisemites. The current head of the GOP and his legal successor both spread a lie about immigrants near the end of the 2024 election that was predicated almost entirely on racist bullshit. Don’t give me the “Democrats are racist” schtick when, on average, Republicans are far, far, far more racist. You may distrust your eyes and ears because Dear Leader pulled the leash your bitch ass willingly gave him, but I still have a mind of my own.
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Come on, you know damn well you don’t care about slavery. You’re determined to reinstate fuedalism which is just slavery-light.
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Who waves the Confederate flag as a symbol of their heritage?
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Slavery was conservatives. Doesn’t matter what they called themselves. It’s the conservative ideology.
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Definitely something a non-racist person says.
Slavery predated the formation of both parties, dumbass.
Modern Republicans would consider Lincoln to be a far left radical.
This is of course a strawman. But even if it weren’t, you would also be proving it to be true of you at least. But that’s why you’re employing the strawman. You can’t prove you’re not racist, so you pretend the claim is being made of more people like you have camaraderie with a large number of other people.
Wouldn’t that make it a…blacklist?
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A racist would say
We’re definitely bringing slavery back. RFK calls them “wellness farms.” They got one or two hundred million Americans they want to work to death in slave camps before they need to import anyone, though.
I have nothing intelligent to add except fuck these goddamn nazi trash.
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In my opinion, the U.S. isn't serious about immigration to start with, and never was...
DISCLAIMER: I may sound like a trump supporter, but I’m not… {Independent}
I don’t think that the U.S has ever been serious about immigration to start with. I mean, a 30 year wait unless you can get in with an H1-B, or any number of other exceptions (being a foreign actor included…). Really? How is that, in any way, ever been serious about letting anyone into the country?
I know Mike and others have written about the economic benefits of H1-B visa program for technical skills. And I get it. But you carve out exceptions for this and that over the years and here we are, the inevitable conclusion.
I say cut the bullshit. (Sorry Mike…)
If the U.S. eliminated the H1-B’s and all the exceptions (Trump himself uses at least one of the others for his own organization), that would force some things:
1) American businesses would apply political pressure to resolve the 30-year wait problem.
2) Force America to stop belittling science and education and groom the workers we need.
3) Illegal immigration would be less necessary. One could get in before retirement.
I see all of those as benefits. After cutting off the fast pipelines, some of those business people wearing red hats would wake up and go in the direction of the alleged “left”. Less bitching about illegals, a proper emphasis on education, and realizing the stark realities of “no easy answers” for immigration issues. They may even lobby to fix a few.
Politics has always profited off illegals (both sides), recently literally, so the desire to fix it has never been there, by either side of the aisle.
Re: Without H1Bs ...
… Silicon Valley would not exist. Much of the Internet economy would be in other countries.
Re: Re: Exactly my point...
If all those H1-Bs would have had to wait in line, Silicon Valley would have given politicians donations to champion picking up the pace. Politicians do what the donors want.
From 30 years to say, 3 years to get through the backlog.
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Fuck all the way off.
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Re: Re: That's another good point
When the border with Mexico was open, the Mexicans crossing were mostly seasonal workers. They went back home when the season was over. Now MAGA complains that we are stuck with them year-round. Who would’a guessed…
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Okay, but what’s that got to do with you fucking off?
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Hey, so, I have a question for you: Why should I care which patch of dirt someone’s parents fucked on?
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‘Why should I care which patch of dirt someone’s parents fucked on?’
You shouldn’t. I have seen nothing that indicates that violent criminality amoung immigrants is any higher or lower that the base poulation they came from. Illegal immagration is a statutory crime, not violent.
So much for Trump’s “They’re all killers, rapists…” crap.
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Aside from some racist stuff like the Chinese Exclusion Act, the US was generally fine with immigration until the early 20th century. It’s only become significantly more reactionary in the last 70 years.
Broad generalizations that rewrite history aren’t useful.
Efficient!
This is very efficient. If you want to know whether you’re on the whitelist or the blacklist, just look at the name of the list.
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Re: Right?!
I heard ICE might start going door-to-door. Any white man named Muhammad Smith will have to tape a photocopy of his driver’s license to his front door just to save time with the daily visits.
Saving them from themselves
To be fair at this point prohibiting anyone from coming to the US is the equivalent of telling people ‘No you can not jump into the woodchipper.’
Are the new rules wildly racist? Yes.
Are they nonetheless doing the people impacted a huge favor by keeping them out of a country where the government will treat them horribly and has good odds of shipping them off to be tortured in a country they’ve never been in just because someone in the regime thinks it would be funny? Also yes.
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Re: Agreed...
Removing the incentive is definately part of the goal. It is working, in that regard. I am a bit more than upset that that government doesn’t care about collateral damage among its citizens. The tally grows…
The money waste also bothers me. Illegal immigrants as a % of pop in MN is not as high as in several red states. Sure, it’s not partisan revenge… /sarc Send ICE to TX and FL first.
Killing pets & people are ICE Barbie’s moments of joy, them and cosplaying any role with a big hat.
America cannot come back from this, simply say “sorry”, keep the inner workings of the law and media ecosystems that led to this intact/mostly the same, and rejoin the rest of the free world. After all of this, as we rebuild, we are going to need fundamental rewrites of laws, institutions, and regulations up and down the local-state-federal hierarchy to stop another Trump and Trumpist/fascist ideology from taking root and dismantling everything again.
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Re: It's a long road...
It will take decades to re-build this. Greenland is getting European troops to be more prepared. From who? My guess is that they are unsure themselves.
No! Tim, hush!
DO NOT GIVE THEM IDEAS!!!
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You say that like Stephen Miller doesn’t dream every night of whipping Black men in chains. Hell, that’s probably been his wet dream for decades.
So you’re tellin’ me there’s a chance!
To be non-white is less than 2/3 human
So, 3/5ths then?