The Trump administration will revoke temporary protected status for thousands of Somali nationals in the United States in the face of White House claims that the diaspora community in Minnesota participated in widespread fraud, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday.
Noem told Fox News that Somalis with temporary protected status would be required to leave the country by March 17. She argued that conditions in Somalia have improved and added that “allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interest. We are putting Americans first.”
In a separate social media post, the Department of Homeland Security wrote: “Our message is clear. Go back to your own country, or we’ll send you back ourselves.”
The move would affect thousands of Somalis in the United States, though not the majority of the U.S. Somali community, many of which are already permanent residents or U.S. citizens. Yet the announcement comes as the federal government ramps up its immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, the state with the largest Somali population in the United States.
Yes, I can, because that’s exactly what liberals were doing in 2020-2022 in the wake of the George Floyd riots.
Also, ever heard of affirmative action? That’s where you get passed over from being hired or promoted for being white, even if you are in fact the most qualified candidate. This is usually justified by historical oppression (such as slavery), which makes it a collective punishment that’s applied regardless of guilt (even at the height of slavery in the US, less than 2% of the population were slave owners).
That’s not at all what affirmative action is or means.
In fact, it’s literally the opposite, the goal is to make sure someone is not passed over from being hired or promoted because they’re a person of color when they are indeed the most qualified candidate.
If you squint real hard and spin it around you might be able to argue that if we’re talking about filling quotas for a university or something like that. Thinking affirmative action is something that takes opportunities away from what people is just plain wrong.
Why would you need to force a business to hire the most competent person for a job?
Man it’s like, people are bigoted or something to the point where they had to make laws specifically saying that you have to hire the most competent person, and people still whine about it.
We both know there’s racist people out there, towards blacks and whites and Asians or anyone else. Or people who hate gays. Or people who hate straight people. So if you really believe in meritocracy, where people naturally rise from their own effort and the better people get the jobs, you should be in favor of laws that keep things fair. Then the better people will get hired.
But capitalism is about making a profit above all else, isn’t it?
If you purposely ignore 20-50% of the potential hiring pool regardless of qualifications simply because you’re a bigot, someone else is going to hire them (potentially for less) and simply outcompete you.
So you’re saying that making it so people hire based on how qualified they are rather than, say, race, is actually good for business. Because there are flawed and bigoted people out there, and even though a capitalist business is about making a profit, there’s people out there who would rather screw up the system over petty differences than have business be better and innovate more.
Sure, there probably are people like that, but they deserve to fail and go out of business, don’t you think?
Well the problem with that is that there’s some businesses that wouldn’t fail and go out of business even if there were instances of bigotry in hiring. So that’s why people had to step in.
Like, if you tried to get a job at Starbucks and weren’t hired because you were white, that one store isn’t going to fail, much less the company. And it wouldn’t be fair to hire or not hire people based on your race, right?
So people set up rules so that hiring people based on race is illegal, which works out better for businesses and people overall.
Why would you want a law that forces a business run by bigots or racists to hire you despite hating you for your skin color? Don’t you think they’ll just find other, legal ways to mistreat you or discriminate against you? And if you fail, they’ll feel more righteous about their bigotry, but if you succeed, they’ll resent you for that.
I’d honestly rather just have them tell me upfront if they’re racist, that way I won’t waste my time with them.