A Win For Trump
- fionacsweet
- Jun 25, 2020
- 2 min read
As I am sure many of you know, last Thursday the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from ending the DACA program. This allows nearly 650,000 young, undocumented immigrants to live and work in the United States without having to worry about deportation. This was a huge win for immigrants, but unfortunately, they just lost a little of what they had gained.
Today, the Supreme Court handed a huge win to Trump on expelling immigrants seeking asylum. In other words, this 7-2 ruling states that "people who fail to make a valid case for asylum in their initial screenings, by credibly claiming that they fear persecution at home, can be fast-tracked for deportation and cannot challenge that decision in federal court."
One case NBC cited was that of a man named Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam of Sri Lanka. As part of his home country's Tamil minority, he faced harm if he returned and he had once been kidnapped and beaten. His asylum claim was rejected, and so he went to the federal court for help by invoking the Constitution's guarantee against unlawful detention. The Supreme Court said the option was not open to him.
The Trump administration has said that the US asylum system is abused and most claims have no merit. NBC writes that "undocumented migrants could be subject to quick deportation, without federal court hearings, if they were detained within 14 days of entry and within 100 miles of the border." The Trump administration wants to amend this law to apply to people anywhere in the United States within two years of their initial entry.
I feel as if Trump has the same response to anyone he feels inferior to him. He believes they must be lying because their claims do not fit his version of the truth. He has discredited many women for accusing him of rape, just as he discredits immigrants seeking asylum because he believes their claims are mostly inaccurate. He discredits African Americans' claims for equality by tweeting pictures of black men attacking white people. Make America Great Again is not what he truly wants. What he really wants is to Make America White and Male Again.
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