A policy of the Trump administration has the effect of weaving an America First thread into the fabric of life in the United States.
I've told the story countless times - growing up in a working-class neighborhood in western Pennsylvania, populated by folks whose origins covered most of Europe and even some of other continents, of regularly hearing, in one block in that neighborhood, five languages other than English, of my bub never learning more than a few words of it ...
Had she been subject to the immigration restrictions recently introduced by Ken Cuccinelli and the Department of Homeland Security, she might not have been allowed off the boat. It's in that vein in particular that I agree with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayo when she said:
Claiming one emergency after another, the Government has recently sought
stays [on issuing what are known as green cards] in an unprecedented number of cases. It is hard
to say what is more troubling - that the Government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a
matter of course, or that the Court would grant it.
Under what's called the public charge rule, involved in SCOTUS' decision on this matter, I cannot imagine any of my family being granted admission to, or the ability to remain in, the United States..
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