Republicans discover new pretext for racist immigration restrictions
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Ryan Zinke is putting the lessons learned as a Trump cabinet official who was corrupt even by the standards of a Trump cabinet official to inflict further damage:
House Republicans have come up with yet another plan to kick brown people out of the country. On Thursday, Representative Ryan Zinke introduced a bill that would revoke the visas and refugee status of a number of Palestinians.
The Safeguarding Americans From Extremism Act would require the Department of Homeland Security to refrain from issuing visas or granting refugee, asylum, or temporary protected status to anyone holding a passport issued by the Palestinian Authority. It would also revoke visas and refugee or asylum status for anyone who was granted it on or after October 1.
The bill also directly orders Immigration and Customs Enforcement to remove those who lose their lawful status in the country under the new criteria.
“This is the most anti-Hamas immigration legislation I have seen and it’s well deserved,” Zinke said in a statement that conflated all Palestinians with Hamas.
As justification for this racist immigration overhaul, Zinke in a press release quoted articles from as far back as 2019 that have nothing to do with Palestinians or even threats to America, as well as articles from conservative outlets The Daily Mail and Fox News.
Of course, “supporting evidence” of similar quality was good enough to get Trump’s flagrantly racist and Islamophobic travel ban upheld by Supreme Court Republicans in Korematsu II, of which this must be considered the fruit of the poisonous tree.