Very Interesting Timing

I asked the president about the Statue of Liberty poem. He said: it’s not fair for the American taxpayer to pay for immigrants to come into the United States pic.twitter.com/hAjDCZXcvL

— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) August 13, 2019

Especially the non-white ones who are not from Europe:

"Of course that poem was referring back to people coming from Europe where they had class-based societies, where people were considered wretched if they weren't in the right class, and it was written one year after the first federal public charge rule was written," he added later.

So the poem wasn't talking about immigrants today, and it doesn't apply anyway because:

"That plaque was put on the Statue of Liberty at almost the same time as the first public charge was passed -- very interesting timing."

And the law he is now enforcing again, hasn't been enforced in this way almost since that law was passed.  "Very interesting timing."

But it's not racism; none dare call it racism.

Without question. And in many ways, he embodies nearly every aspect of a racist. He's someone who regularly expresses racist ideas, like Latinx immigrants are invading this country, that Mexicans are, are animals, that black people live in hell, that their communities are infested. But then he simultaneously is supporting policies that specifically target racial groups. We're seeing what's happening at the southern border, primarily targeted towards Latinx immigrants. We see the ways in which his policies — he's not seeking to protect black people being killed by police. We can see the Muslim ban. And then when you put that all together, when we charge him with being racist, what does he say? He says, "No, no, I'm not racist. I'm actually the least racist person you've ever interviewed. I'm actually the least racist person in the world." And so his consistent denial of his racism is the heartbeat of racism.

Because racism is bad; and we all know, bad people are easily recognized and kept apart from the rest of us; the good people. Who are the people we want to come to America.

"We have a long history of being one of the most welcoming nations in the world on a lot of bases, whether you be an asylee, whether you be coming here to join your family or immigrating yourself," he said at the White House, adding that the regulation "will include a meaningful analysis of whether they're likely to become a public charge or not."

I just don't want my daughter to marry one.

CNN's Erin Burnett challenges acting US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on the Trump administration's new immigration regulation, saying her grandparents came to America with no education and that the rule would exclude people like her. pic.twitter.com/kyzZLpW5lj

— OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) August 13, 2019

Cuccinelli thinking:  "Feature, not bug."