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USCIS adds new hurdle for Palestinian immigrants seeking legal status

Chris Graham
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The Trump administration, having thought up a new way to stick it to more brown-skinned immigrants, announced on Tuesday that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is going to start “exercising discretion” for those determined to have had involvement in “anti-American or terrorist organizations” who are seeking to upgrade their legal status.

It’s not enough that the administration is actively helping Israel genocide Palestinians in Gaza; now we’re going to get the trickle who the MAGAs haven’t been able to deport yet here on our soil.

“America’s benefits should not be given to those who despise the country and promote anti-American ideologies,” said USCIS spokesman Matthew Tragesser, who doesn’t realize it, but in phrasing what he was trying to say that way, man, he pretty much hates America, for having lived up, for decades, to the ideal inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, of “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”

Trump himself ordered millions of dollars in spending to bulldoze the “wretched refuse” of homeless encampments from view of his limo ride from the White House to his Northern Virginia golf course on Fridays and the weekends – and holidays, and other days of the week ending in -y.

Between that, and Kowgirl Kristi rounding up all of our agricultural and construction workers, roofers, landscapers, the Trumpers are doing their best to Make America White Again.

With this new USCIS policy, there’s no potential for problems at all, giving low-level pencil-pushers the discretion to determine that an applicant seeking to upgrade their legal status is “anti-American.”

Me writing this report probably meets their standard of “anti-American” – because it’s anti-Trump; the Trumpers seem to think that America is theirs now, because a third of the voting-age population voted for racist grandpa.

“U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is committed to implementing policies and procedures that root out anti-Americanism and supporting the enforcement of rigorous screening and vetting measures to the fullest extent possible,” Tragesser said.

“Immigration benefits, including to live and work in the United States, remain a privilege, not a right,” Tragesser said.

Unusual last name there – Tragesser.

Doesn’t sound all that American to me.

Man, will he be surprised when they eventually come for him.

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Chris Graham

Chris Graham

Chris Graham is the founder and editor of Augusta Free Press. A 1994 alum of the University of Virginia, Chris is the author and co-author of seven books, including Poverty of Imagination, a memoir published in 2019. For his commentaries on news, sports and politics, go to his YouTube page, TikTok, BlueSky, or subscribe to his Street Knowledge podcast. Email Chris at [email protected].

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