Normally, I use this column to try to call people’s attention to the immigration-related skullduggery the Trump administration quietly sneaks through while we’re all distracted by the latest tweetstorm. Because my only power is to call attention to those things, these columns tend to end with the text equivalent of that gif of Ilana Glazer screaming.
But today, I have a special treat for you: Something you can actually do something about! And you don’t even need to put on pants.
Last week, on the same day the left was celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock, the Department of Homeland Security announced a proposed rule that effectively guts federal asylum law. The proposal is framed as a series of rules based on United States asylum law, but it could be better understood as an attempt to radically change that law without bothering to get the Congressional approval that the Constitution requires. The proposed rule would deny asylum to:
If you’re familiar with why and how many Central Americans come to this country, it’s difficult not to see these as geographically/racially targeted.