The Erickson Report, Page 3: Two Weeks of Stupid: Clowns and Outrages [the Outrage]

The Erickson Report, Page 3: Two Weeks of Stupid: Clowns and Outrages [the Outrage]

Now for the Outrage and it's something I've noted a few times but there is a specific point I want to make. We start with three examples among many more which could have been chosen.

A policy known as expedited removal allows for undocumented immigrants found within 100 miles of the Mexican or Canadian borders and who entered the US in the last two weeks to be deported quickly without going through immigration courts.

The administration is trying to expand the application of the policy to the entire country and to any immigrant who entered the US without official papers in the previous two years.

Then there was ending "medical deferred action" and so beginning to deport people who previously had been protected because they were receiving treatment for serious medical issues.

More recently we have the vast expansion of who could be denied a green card on the grounds that they might be a “public charge,” going from someone who would be primarily dependent on the government to someone who might at some point in the future need government help such as food stamps or housing vouchers or subsidized health insurance, including Medicaid and using the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies when buying insurance on an exchange - a set of requirements that most American citizens could not meet. Could you pay for health insurance out of your own pocket? Neither could most of the rest of us.

The move could bar roughly 375,000 legal immigrants annually - that's 2/3 of the total of legal immigration.

And of course, the impact will not be random but will mostly affect those who enter through what Tweetie-pie sneers as "chain migration," where people enter to join family already here, and those coming in via the diversity lottery - mostly coming from those "shithole countries" full of nonwhite people that Tweetie-pie finds so disgusting.

So when they tell you that it's about "illegal immigration" and "securing our borders," that is utter bull. It's about immigration, period, immigration of non-white people.

People have often spoken of the cruelty of the collection of white supremicist racists populating the White House, have spoken of the cruelty of the cages, the family separations, the deportations of people who have been here decades, the cruelty of so many of the policies. What we need to recognize and always remember is that the cruelty is not a byproduct. The cruelty is the point.

It is an outrage.