One thing about white folks (& current Trump supporters) just feeling they deserve more, or EVERYTHING: back when I was a kid, my parents always had a thing about not letting white people in our house. Some of my white friends could come over, but their parents were NEVER invited- & all of my bday parties were in…

Off topic:

“And they are exactly the kind of high skilled immigrants the GOP wants here.”

My view is simply that any process of accepting asylum seekers should be no more complicated or difficult than previous groups who came here. Why place a two-year wait for refugees when we opposed no such standards on the Italian and the Irish? We know the refugees in the camps are not terrorists. We’re a very rich…

A friend’s father has been living in New York for over two decades now, and running a business, legally. He has been consistently refused permanent residency, let alone citizenship. He can’t leave, because he wouldn’t be allowed back in.

I don’t think it is melodramatic, it is a longstanding tension in our immigration system and one Trump has definitely chosen the side of favoring workers with special skills, basically that we only let in people who we have decided will provide a benefit to the U.S. It is the kind of rule that would have kept my…

You’re being very unpatriotic right now. Clearly, the country needs to be protected from these dangerous people. I have economic anxiety just reading your post. Bad hombres. Benghazi. False news. Safe space. Her emails.

I don’t know her husband’s specialty, but Dr. Ummat is a pediatric neurophysiologist at Texas Children’s who specializes in epilepsy in very young kids - including my best friend’s daughter. Her potential deportation is wrong on a million levels and would be a huge loss to the Med Center.

High skilled doesn’t matter as much as being not white.

I think that actually you will find that the uh GOP does not want them here no matter what they are uh skilled at.

And they are exactly the kind of high skilled immigrants the GOP “wants” here.

For fuck’s sake, they even have a supervillain acronym name.

It happened to the Japanese in America, many of which were even citizens. http://old.seattletimes.com/special/centennial/june/internment.html

Let’s not do conservatives’ job by playing into the idea of good & bad immigrants. I understand the temptation to, but it shouldn’t cause any less outrage if they were working blue-collar jobs.

These deportations have nothing to do with keeping america safe. This is how it begins:

Here is an excellent primer on the Israel/Palestine solution disseminated by Jewish Voice for Peace. It is only a few minutes long, and is civil and historically accurate.

THAT DOESN’T MEAN IT IS ONLY A COUNTRY FOR JEWS, which is another argument a lot of people seem to make. Muslims, Christians, and indeed people of any faith, are afforded the same rights in Israel as Jews are.

This is a wonderful introduction to Rasmea and to broader issues relating to Palestinian liberation, and I’m so happy to see it here in Jezebel. I’m sure the Zio-bots are booting up to post comments as I write with long diatribes about the Hamas charter and the Mufti of Jerusalem, but as this article makes clear,…

Yes, 0.15% of Canadians come to the US for elective or specialist health care. Wow. Canada must really suck.