The acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services dug himself into another hole on Tuesday evening.
After appearing to rewrite the famous Emma Lazarus poem emblazoned on the Statue of Liberty — “Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet. And who will not become a public charge,” he told NPR earlier this week — Ken Cuccinelli told CNN that the poem was actually meant for Europeans.
“That poem was referring back to people coming from Europe where they had class-based societies — where people were considered wretched if they weren’t in the right class,” he said, expounding on the history of the “public charge” rule that the Trump administration wants to reinvigorate.
Cuccinelli: Lazarus poem was referring to "people coming from Europe" pic.twitter.com/AVqn62f1BT
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) August 14, 2019
The move could curb legal immigration by restricting green cards for would-be immigrants who might use public funds, like welfare.
Sociology lessons from the acting Ken Cuccinelli.
Oh, joy.
Racist asshole!
Give us your white immigrants.
Shouldn’t he be trying to ban oral sex between consenting immigrants? That is more in Cuccinelli’s wheelhouse.
This administration becomes more blatant in its fascist language and action by the day without any repercussions besides the pearl clutching of pundits. Give tRump officials about another week before they are appearing on camera in brown shirts and closing their interviews with a Heil Hitler salute.