[throwmehaweh]

> by the white supremacists and nationalists currently running our government and deciding our immigration

This type of baseless rhetoric is rooted in identity politics and underlies the current division in the US.

Directly from the Whitehouse Proclamation[0]:

"American workers compete against foreign nationals for jobs in every sector of our economy, including against millions of aliens who enter the United States to perform temporary work. Temporary workers are often accompanied by their spouses and children, many of whom also compete against American workers. Under ordinary circumstances, properly administered temporary worker programs can provide benefits to the economy. But under the extraordinary circumstances of the economic contraction resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak, certain nonimmigrant visa programs authorizing such employment pose an unusual threat to the employment of American workers."

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation...

[akhilcacharya]

As a person of color whose parents immigrated to America via H1B and saw the footage out of El Paso and Charlottesville and the murder of people that look like my uncles in Olathe Kansas the rhetoric has tangible effects and is anything but “baseless”.