I've watched some version of the #DREAMAct pass many times in the last 15 yrs, w/Lucy's hand always ready to pull away the football as Charlie Brown makes yet another run at it. But I keep watching.
Your ball @SenateDems
#DreamAndPromiseAct #HR6
Your ball @SenateDems
#DreamAndPromiseAct #HR6
#DREAMandPromise presents the first new major pathway to residency and citizenship in 25 yrs. It is a chance to reconsider everything we think we know about immigration to the US--especially the current criminal bars to admission--and I hope the Senate takes it up in that spirit
We urgently need to give #DACA and #TPS recipients a chance to stay in the only country most of them have ever really had any life in. But that doesn't mean we have to cut & paste current bars to admission, most of which tie to bad late-1900s drug & mass incarceration policy
The main criminal bar still in effect is a century older than even that, going back to a time when people still knew what "moral turpitude" actually meant.
If English is your first language, can you define "turpitude"? Like, right now? (Hint: it has nothing to do with paint)
If English is your first language, can you define "turpitude"? Like, right now? (Hint: it has nothing to do with paint)
"Moral turpitude" is so meaningless that courts have had to agree it is undefinably "nebulous"--and yet residency is routinely denied on these grounds.
There are plenty of other reasons to do away with criminal bars, at minimum ppl have a right to know what the law is and means
There are plenty of other reasons to do away with criminal bars, at minimum ppl have a right to know what the law is and means
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