Mayorkas was 1 year old when his family left Cuba, so I'm not really sure you can blame him for that. About 4/5 of Cuban Jewish people left Cuba between 1959 - 1965, so he was hardly an outlier. If all you've got is speculation that his dad might have been a bad guy then I think I'm happy enough with the pick.
I dunno why you'd care so much about the CIA asset the Saudis killed in Turkey. Everyone was complicit in his death - the americans knew about it in advance (they caught conversations regarding it), the turks DEFINATELY knew about it and practically set it up so they could document it all, and of course the Saudis which did the deed. This was an entire puppet-show.
If you're gonna use it as a bullet point on a CV, you're damned well liable for it. I would give a fuck less about his personal background if it weren't a talking point for his presumed competence and appropriateness for the job.
Well, it really boils down to which you feel is better-suited to the job and least capable of wreaking havoc with American economics and politics: incompetent malfeasants, or competent malfeasants. The latter's competence is what created the socioeconomic conditions ripe for the ascent of the former. I'd rather not have malfeasants in the job at all, but the Democratic party has all but openly declared that to be too radical a concept. I'll take the kleptocrats whose own incompetence serves as a limiting factor on the long-term damage they can do to the country, thanks.
He's liable for it? At one year old? Okay. Well, either way, you've only provided speculation about his dad, so you haven't actually got anything on his background.
Not sure how you expect the Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services to regulate the labour market. Also unsure why you wouldn't want him to implement the reforms that actually do fall under his purview, just because the entire system isn't fixed in doing so.
I love that you expect me to be against an amnesty. It's such a fundamental misapprehension of what my position is.
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Well golly gosh gee, I'm not sure, is amnesty on the table right now? I would venture a guess that advocating for, and changing internal policy towards, such would eminently fall under USCIS's purview as an executive agency. Chevron deference ain't an administrative law doctrine that applies exclusively towards the EPA, nor when administrative rules changes would only benefit major corporations.
No, I expect you to ignore that I put that dastardly A-word on the table in favor of other cherry-picked counter-arguments, like for example "also unsure why you wouldn't want him to implement the reforms that actually do fall under his purview, just because the entire system isn't fixed in doing so".
Considering that 4/5 of all Jewish Cubans left, the "just so happened to flee" is rather misplaced: they'd have been outliers if they stayed. My explanation is that he... was probably a factory owner, who left because he didn't want to lose his wealth. Shock! His child must be unfit for office!55 Years Later, US Official Prepares for Emotional Return to Cuba
Alejandro Mayorkas fled Cuba when he was 1 year old.
Speculation my ass.
"...55 years after his family escaped to the United States.
"We came to this country as political refugees, my father did not want to live nor raise his family in a communist country," Mayorkas told ABC News. "We came to the United States to be able to live in a democracy and my father wanted for his children like so many parents do a better life than he himself had enjoyed."
In 1960, his family fled Cuba for Miami and settled finally in Los Angeles.
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But Mayorkas also plans to visit a few places of historic importance to his family, including the family cemetery, and the steel wool factory his father once owned..."
So we have a man who just so happened to be wealthy enough to have a family cemetery and own a steel wool factory, that just so happened to exist under Batista's infamously corrupt, nepotistic, and despotic junta, who just so happened to flee a year after the Cuban revolution. Do you have an alternative explanation for how this incredibly coincidental and extraordinarily unlikely confluence of events might otherwise have happened?
And which Congress & President from 2009 - 2014 do you think would have provided the legislative route for an amnesty to have the faintest chance of becoming law?
Huh! Probably a shame that I addressed it, then.
In other words, his familial and past history has absolutely nothing in common with that of the overwhelming majority of Latin-American immigrants in this country, and acting as if it did and using his heritage as any kind of positive checkmark let alone for liberal policy is a colossal lie manufactured solely for the purposes of keeping anyone from looking too closely at it, lest they raise the spectre of "racism".
Funny you think Congress remotely fucking matters, here. USCIS is an executive administration, Congress delegated its authority to it and SCOTUS created the doctrine of Chevron deference, and any sitting US President can grant amnesty by executive order exactly as Reagan and Bush, Sr., did. Congress can piss, moan, whine, threaten, complain, and stamp their feet in impotent rage all they like, a stroke of a pen from the Resolute desk is all it would take. Fuck "legislative routes", Congress can't agree on a national pancake without some turkey-dick from Lockheed Martin weighing in on the issue.
No, you simply dropped a hot take and I responded to it. Visa abuse is still the root cause of this issue, and there's not a thing you can say about it. 60-70% of undocumented immigrants in the US are "illegal" because of what, again?
Did he act as if his past is a particularly typical one?
Yup, a President can do it, too. So we're looking at Obama, then. He hasn't been picked for a cabinet post yet, but there's always the rest of the week.
Right, the visa process, yes, that'd be USCIS. Originally you said "regulating corporations".
I believe I saw that he has already preemptively declined, for whatever that's worth.
Implying that being north american protects against humanitarian disasters? The country with the greatest wealth inequality in the developed world?
That would be part of the "poor besotten refugee who fled for their lives and blah-blah-blibbety-fuckin'-blah" shtick, yes. Which is literally what I just said.
In other words you're well aware of this and are just chucking out red herrings.
Yes we would be looking at the man whose stellar immigration policy earned him the moniker "deporter-in-chief", and would be the same one under whose administration the goddamn kid cages were built, and whose administration argued before federal court the administration had a right to put kids in cages. Twice.
In other words you're well aware of this and are just chucking out red herrings.
Yes, yes I fucking did. Because visa reform is only one part of a much bigger problem.
And we return right back to my "it's a band-aid without addressing the root cause" argument. Funny how that works with you.
Oh shit, forgot to say.... isn't it funny how we took out some enemies of the Saudis due to these planes going into buildings. What a coincidence...
