The Trump administration will revoke temporary protected status for thousands of Somali nationals in the United States in the face of White House claims that the diaspora community in Minnesota participated in widespread fraud, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday.
Noem told Fox News that Somalis with temporary protected status would be required to leave the country by March 17. She argued that conditions in Somalia have improved and added that “allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interest. We are putting Americans first.”
In a separate social media post, the Department of Homeland Security wrote: “Our message is clear. Go back to your own country, or we’ll send you back ourselves.”
The move would affect thousands of Somalis in the United States, though not the majority of the U.S. Somali community, many of which are already permanent residents or U.S. citizens. Yet the announcement comes as the federal government ramps up its immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, the state with the largest Somali population in the United States.
If you think the cream rises to the top by itself, despite any obstacles, then you would also think that it would be impossible for someone to get a job based on being a minority. If cream naturally rises to the top regardless, like a force of nature, then making people not hire folks based on race would be a non-issue.
So why get mad about it?
So you’re saying hiring based on race instead of qualification isn’t a problem?
Yeah, I’m saying it is.
What I’m also saying is that the government and mainstream media have lied to you about people trying to fix it.
All that affirmative action, DEI stuff? If you actually look at it, and look how it’s been used and the effects it’s had, it’s not been what they say it is.
It’s not letting some unqualified person get a job, it’s making sure the qualified person gets the job without the old bigotry getting in the way of a college application or a new job, for any race, even white people.
But there’s people who do everything they can to talk shit about the law, because they benefit from talking shit about it and people benefit from being able to discriminate.
They get the clicks, the views, and the donations just by saying “oooo that DEI is bad, gonna put a black lesbian in charge of a surgery” because there’s people who are racist assholes who love to hate stuff like that and could never imagine a black lesbian actually being a qualified surgeon, and then there’s not racist people who just want everyone to get a fair chance at competition and think that it’s getting in the way of that.
And then some Democrats lump the two together, pushing the more reasonable people in with the bigots, to the point that if anyone has any concerns with affirmative action gets yelled at.
You’re free to believe that, but that’s not what actually happens IRL. How it really works is that someone will look at the race and gender makeup of the team and if there aren’t enough women or POC, they’ll focus hiring a black lesbian, or a transgender Asian, or whatever else they can find, even if their qualifications don’t quite hit the mark.
The point of DEI is to increase “diversity, equity, and inclusion”, it’s literally right there in the name. Do you see competence, excellence, or qualification in there anywhere? Me neither. And that’s because that isn’t what DEI is about.
Sorry man, you’ve been lied to. Those are the things bigots say to make white people scared and it’s just not a thing that happens. Even if it did, you believe cream naturally rises and it’s inevitable for it to do so, so why worry about it?
I don’t think you have a problem with diversity, equity and inclusion, because you just described a problem DEI policies solve. If someone is passing over someone else because they aren’t a minority, that’s not DEI. DEI is for people who are in a majority, too, it’s just bringing more voices to the table. So yeah, competence, excellence and qualifications aren’t part of that acronym, because that’s assumed and baked into the cake.
So you care about people being qualified for their job. What do you think people should do about things like, hiring unqualified white people over qualified black people, for example?