I’m not disputing your comment, but care to elaborate for the rest of us unversed in the nuances?
It’s like an Alien chestburster only the other way.
It’s complicated. I’m not sure I can explain it in a forum post.
But consider, employment authorization is just that: employment authorization. It says nothing about the legality of one’s presence in the US or, for that matter, one’s immigration status.
It’s possible (again, very kafkaesque) to be lawfully present in the US… but have neither lawful immigration status nor work authorization. An example would be someone in the US on something like humanitarian parole (many variations of which have been summarily terminated in recent months). Although being in the US on a program like parole might allow someone to apply for work authorization (but not receive it automatically).
Another example of someone who may be (1) lawfully present but not have (2) lawful immigration status or (3) employment authorization would be someone in the US on a non-immigrant visa that does not allow the recipient to work (such as a tourist visa).
Likewise (and to the case at bar), people who entered the US unlawfully, or who have overstayed a visa but applied for asylum, may be considered lawfully present while their asylum application is pending, but as yet have no lawful immigration status.
…and I am getting the impression (from recent rhetoric) that the Trump administration is further taking the stance that merely having an asylum application pending, even if it does carry with it a right to remain in the US while it is pending, does not mean it cannot detain the applicant while the application is being adjudicated. As in, just because someone can’t be deported, doesn’t mean they have to be allowed to go free.
And how long does it take the government to adjudicate an asylum application? Quite often many years.
Very kafkaesque.
Nitpick: it’s People Against Goodness And Normalcy.
I love that movie.
Thanks. I’d have assumed being legally in the country was a prerequisite to being issued a work permit.
But that assumes we have a designed system designed to logical goals. Not a hodgepodge representing 75 years of partisan bickering and little else.
I loved the movie too.
But I prefer my version of the acronym. At least as a renaming of MAGA. It’s what they actually stand for: a goodness & niceness-free society.
Keep in mind the advantage of workers not officially being allowed here. They won’t dare complain about mistreatment, don’t get government benefits while still paying taxes, and you can have them deported after they do the job instead of paying them.
I have a feeling the trump admin is moving swiftly toward the position that 99% of the time, only citizens have a legal right to be in the USA. And 1% of citizens might be subject to deportation at trump’s whim.
Lots more than 1%. Roughly 50% of Americans are Democrats. Over 50% live in blue states. They’re all anti-trump terrorists in his febrile toddler imagination.
Okay, they’re not actually voters, but this has strong Leopard face-eating vibes.
However, the reality for the Afrikaner family appears to be considerably different from their expectations.
According to the TikTok user, the family were under the impression that upon their arrival, they would be provided with comprehensive assistance including housing, jobs, and healthcare.
Unfortunately, their experience has been marred by the harsh reality that few have the resources or network to facilitate such support in a new country.
Healthcare? They really expected healthcare out of the GOP government?!? Hahahahahahahaha!
We’ve got
Traitorious
Rapist
Uninformed
Myopic
Peckerwoods
Pancho Barnes: See, some peckerwood’s gotta get elected. And some peckerwood’s gotta destroy the America we knew. And that “peckerwood” is called Donald Trump.
Thanks for sharing. I was wondering how long it would be before we got a story like this.
Like, I don’t get all the people who imagine that immigrants are coming to the US to “leach” off our “amazing” social safety net. I mean, like, LOL, what social safety net. To the extent we have the remnants of one, most new immigrants, including new legal permanent residents, aren’t even eligible for it. Those who are… well, you see what this family of white supremacists is crying about.
Fuck 'em. For the first time ever, I will say it: go back to Africa.
The one that exists in their own head. The Right thinks poor people live in state-supported luxury.
I hear that in some states the poors are guaranteed running water and sometimes it’s even slightly heated.
Yeah. Gutters in southern states are often warm.
Her reason for voting for Trump is incredible:
…she’d hoped that his Department of Government Efficiency would bring technical expertise and upgrades to the Social Security Administration.
“But what they’re doing now is just eliminating the people and leaving the rest with the outdated computer system,” she says.
She worked for the federal government for over three decades, and she hadn’t figured out that one of the nation’s parties is absolutely committed to ensuring that the federal government cannot do its job - and, moreover, actually votes for that party? Talk about your low-information voter. I can’t even…
Hint: they’re all that way. Every stinkin’ one of the 77 million people who voted for a kleptocratic autocracy led by a splenetic retarded toddler.
Just want to quote something I wrote in my Medicare thread, a pastiche of a passage written in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. The specific topic I was addressing was Medicare, but this is applicable to almost any government program enjoyed by Republicans:
Low-information indeed!
Maybe they are having a few regrets. Healthcare is often free in South Africa (and we have an incredible public hospital system). You pay based on your ability to pay, the government handles the rest. I’m happy that is where some of my tax ends up.
I pay for health insurance, which gets me into a more comfortable hospital with better food, but often - especially for major surgery - people are transferred to government funded public hospitals, because that is where the expertise is. The worlds first heart transplant was done in a government funded hospital just about 500m from where I am now. (Granted, different government, but the policies on public health have not changed)
Absolutely the opposite of the USA. And we are a “shit-hole country” according to TACO Trump.