Thread by @HMAesq

It's Saturday, but there's no day off of this administration's oppression of aspiring Americans... especially the poor.

Most immigrants have always had to prove they're not a public charge: it's been the law for over 100 years.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1043621616905859072

But the administration now wants to greatly expand what a public charge is...meaning the types of public funds an aspiring American can lawfully use.

And also be able to deny green cards based on an officer's belief of an immigrant's likelihood at becoming a public charge.

I gave this example in a piece I wrote for @qz:

But this has much further reaching consequences, because this is the system being used offensively to *keep people down.*

A whirlpool, or a black hole that can't be escaped.

Food or lawful status?
Child safety or green card?
Shelter or citizenship?
Medicine or visa?

But this didn't just appears. We've been expecting this.

The far right, white nationalist group Center for Immigration Studies published a wishlist in April 2016 of 79 hardline anti-immigrant things the next President could do. Here's no. 60:

CIS started as an offshoot of the Federation for Immigration Reform, FAIR, founded by Dr. John Tanton, a white nationalist who believed America must sharply limit non-white immigration in order to survive.

He was obsessed with race science and eugenics.

splinternews.com/the-eugenicist…

This, to me, is just another example of white nationalist policy coming out of the White House.

Don't be fooled. It has nothing to do with economics. This is hatred of the foreigner, pure and simple.

I hope you will #RememberInNovember.

But there's more you can do.

Make sure your Congressmen - and local state elected officials - don't meet with these 3 groups:

@FAIRImmigration
@CIS_org
@NumbersUSA

These are the 3 groups most directly responsible for policies like this "public charge" one.

They will continue their assault on aspiring American communities.

And even naturalized citizens aren't off the radar of our ideologically driven administration:

https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1042547993541468160?s=19

The irony here is the policies of FAIR, CIS, and NumbersUSA have COST us more money than immigrants ever did: the massive detention budget of ICE is just the tip of the iceberg.

The anti-immigrant movement is the real public charge.

Let's pledge to vote for candidates who run on platforms of inclusivity and empowerment.

This isn't right vs left or progressive v conservative.

It's just being a decent human being.