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Two Jewish Democrats are leading the charge against a repugnant proposal floated by Montana Republican Representative Ryan Zinkea bill that seeks to deport Palestinians from the United States.
Representatives Greg Landsman and Dan Goldman, both of whom are staunchly pro-Israel in the ongoing conflict between that nation and Hamas, have come down hard on Zinkes xenophobic proposal, which the former Trump secretary of the interior dubbed the Safeguarding Americans From Extremism, or SAFE Act, countering it with a resolution rebuking the bill and condemning its 10 Republican co-sponsors.
Theyre trying to expel an entire community of people from the United States, Landsman said in a press release. Its un-American. Its not who we are. And its going to get people hurt. We need these folks to pull back on this dangerous rhetoric and to stop adding fuel to this fire. Its not helping the Israelis, its certainly not helping the Palestinians, its absolutely undercutting our role in pursuing peace and stability in the region and here at home.
If passed, the SAFE Act would render Palestinian Authority passport holders inadmissible to the country, revoke visas issued to Palestinian passport holders on or after October 1, revoke the parole of passport holders on or after October 1, and direct Homeland Security and ICE to identify and remove Palestinian passport holders living in the U.S., according to a release by Zinkes office.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/montana-republican-repulsive-palestinian-proposal-212351407.html
CurtEastPoint
(20,095 posts)Prairie Gates
(8,474 posts)2naSalit
(103,805 posts)Constituents in his district, all I can say is
HELP!!!
Deep State Witch
(12,755 posts)Okay.... this is a worse idea than the Japanese internment. I didn't think that was possible.
Tom Rinaldo
(23,193 posts)Full blown American citizens were subject to our WWII Japanese internment program, not just Japanese passport holders.