{"id":37348,"date":"2019-08-14T10:17:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T17:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37348"},"modified":"2019-08-14T10:17:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T17:17:33","slug":"republicans-on-parade-8-14-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/14\/republicans-on-parade-8-14-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade – 8\/14\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the one hundred sixty-fifth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winner is Trump’s Republican Acting Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Ken Cuccinelli. He is so honored for rewriting Emma Lazarus’ poem about Lady Liberty, converting it to racist Republican propaganda.<\/font> <\/p>\n

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It’s practically a parody of Trumpian ignorance and bigotry: Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, offering a rewrite of the famous Emma Lazarus poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. <\/p>\n

Instead of reading “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free<\/strong>,” Cuccinelli suggested<\/a>–in answer to a reporter’s question about whether he agreed with Lazarus’s poem–that maybe it should say, “Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge<\/strong>.” <\/p>\n

This is in line with a new Trump administration regulation that could dramatically reduce the number of legal immigrants to the United States by allowing officials to reject green card and visa applicants if they are low-income, have little education or have ever relied on social assistance programs like Medicaid or food stamps. “This will help Citizenship and Immigration Services objectively determine whether the applicant is likely at any time in the future to receive public benefits,” Cuccinelli wrote in a CNN op-ed<\/a>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I strongly suspect that right-wing Caucasians from Europe would automatically pass the Republican tests.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Lawrence O’Donnell exposes his hate and hypocrisy.<\/font> <\/p>\n