wizardwatson
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I honestly did not believe this was substantive when I first read the Tweet.
I even skimmed over the EO's, and didn't see anything jump out, but then I re-checked the Tweet and he links this one:
PROTECTING THE UNITED STATES FROM FOREIGN TERRORISTS AND OTHER
NATIONAL SECURITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY THREATS
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presiden...rnational-security-and-public-safety-threats/
From the text:
Section 1. Policy and Purpose. (a) It is the policy of the United States to protect its citizens from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our national security, espouse hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes.
To be fair, there is some direct deportation language, but it's directed at countries with lax screening processes and aliens who were admitted in the last four years (during Biden's reign). Also, it is just an EO, and I'm not sure how much of the law supports this EO.
But it does leave the door open for basically anyone who says anything the U.S. doesn't like, or rhetoric supporting "terrorist organizations". That list grows by the minute and includes Hamas, and now the Houthis.
So if you just married your pen pal from England, she moves over here with you. You've been living together a while, she's got her permanent resident card, then one day she retweets a pro-Palestinian post with an added quote "F$%# Israel", well, this EO would be a foundation for sending her back. This is just a step away from where England is, with our citizens getting jail time for "supporting terrorists".
When you pair this EO with the Tik Tok saga, it's very clear that this looks great on the surface (we don't want to import terrorists!) it also can work the other way (do not disparage the terrorists America does support).
American's are trained like dogs to hate the Chinese, but they will brand social credit to fit our American egos and my gut says we'll love it way more than the Chinese. It will just be private and crypto based. Crypto for climate snitching. Crypto credits for flagging mean posts. Instead of authoritarian government edicts, you'll have squads of individuals working for private interests, but it will be the same thing.
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