Immigration

The Brexit: anti-immigrant xenophobia behind exit from EU

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The front page of the Daily Mirror today from Britain.

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Britain leaving the European Union has frequently been portrayed as a desire to leave an overly regulated and overly burdensome economic system in which British “sovereignty” was suppressed in favor of a European identity. Late in the campaign, the UK Independence Party (UKIP), led by a Donald Trump–style populist demagogue named Nigel Farage adopted this nationalistic slogan, ‘Let June 23 Be Our Independence Day’.

The Brexit was never really about the EU economic system. The nationalism expressed by Nigel Farage represents a nativist, anti-immigrant xenophobia in Britain.

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Tie vote in SCOTUS leaves stay order of President Obama’s DACA and DAPA immigration orders in place during litigation

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ImmigrantsThe “Dreamers” (DACA eligible) and their s (DAPA eligible) have been waiting for years and living with doubt and uncertainty as to whether they will be allowed to stay in the U.S., or will eventually be deported.

In the most anticipated case of the term, U.S. v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court today delivered an anti-climactic per curiam opinion because the Court is tied 4-4. Opinion.  The Court effectively told DACA and DAPA eligible immigrants that they must continue to wait, perhaps for years, while this case works its way through the lower courts back to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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The decision to allow the nationwide stay order of U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen to remain in place, upheld by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, would have been the same were Justice Antonin Scalia still on the court, but a 5-4 decision.

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Moody’s: Trump’s economic plan would be a disaster

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According to a new analysis from Moody’s Analytics, if all of the economic policies presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has proposed on the campaign trail were to become reality, the U.S. economy would plunge back into recession, losing millions of jobs. Trump’s Economic Plans Would Result In A Long Recession, Analysts Say:

Screenshot-16The heart of Trump’s economic proposals come down to tax, trade, and immigration policy. He’s put forward a tax package that experts have found would cost $9.5 trillion and hand nearly all of the benefits to the wealthiest. He’s promised to levy huge tariffs on imports from countries like China and Mexico and he’s railed against trade deals. And he says he’ll deport 11 million undocumented immigrants while building a wall along the Mexican border.

If all of that were to happen just how Trump proposes it, Moody’s analysis finds that the American economy would dip into a recession beginning in 2018 that would last through 2020 — longer than the Great Recession. It estimates there would be 3.5 million fewer jobs and the unemployment rate would rise to a peak of 7.4 percent, as opposed to the current rate of 4.7.

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Trump promises to treat Muslim Americans differently based on their religious faith

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Last week, President Obama had this to say in response to the Islamophobic fear mongering of Donald Trump following the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida:

“But we are now seeing how dangerous this kind of mind set and this kind of thinking can be. We are starting to see where this kind of rhetoric and loose talk and sloppiness about who exactly we are fighting, where this can lead us.

“We now have proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States to bar all Muslims from immigrating into America. And you hear language that singles out immigrants and suggests entire religious communities are complacent in violence.

“Where does this stop? The Orlando killer, one of the San Bernardino killers, the Fort Hood killer – they were all U.S. citizens. Are we going to start treating all Muslim-Americans differently? Are we going to start subjecting them to special surveillance? Are we going to start discriminate them, because of their faith?”

To which the crypto-fascist Donald Trump has now responded with an affirmative “hell yes!”Donald Trump Calls for Profiling to Stop Terrorists:

TrumpFascismDonald J. Trump on Sunday renewed his call for the United States to consider profiling as a preventive tactic against terrorism in the aftermath of the mass shooting last week in Orlando, Fla.

“I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to start using common sense,” Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Mr. Trump issued a similar call in December after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., which left 14 people dead and more than 20 injured.

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What Trump means when he says ‘America First’

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Twitter troll Donald Trump sent this tweet on Flag Day. Donald J. Trump on Twitter: “AMERICA FIRST!”.

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Oh lord. I have my doubts whether this crypto-fascist really knows the history behind this motto. There are a lot of Americans who are equally ignorant of the history behind this motto.

Eric Rauchway, professor of history at the University of California at Davis, explains at the Washington Post. Donald Trump’s new favorite slogan was invented for Nazi sympathizers:

Donald Trump greeted Twitter on Flag Day with two words in all caps: “AMERICA FIRST!”

He has made this slogan a theme for his campaign, and he has begun using it to contrast himself with President Obama, whose criticism of Trump’s rhetoric on Tuesday was answered with a Trump statement promising, “When I am president, it will always be America first.”

He wasn’t quite promising “America über alles,” but it comes close. “America First” was the motto of Nazi-friendly Americans in the 1930s, and Trump has more than just a catchphrase in common with them.

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