{"id":17014,"date":"2018-05-08T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17014"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:31:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:31:53","slug":"oh-no-president-trump-angered-fashion-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/05\/08\/oh-no-president-trump-angered-fashion-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh No! President Trump Has Angered the Fashion Police!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gentleman\u2019s Quarterly<\/em>, known colloquially as GQ, <\/em>is a fashion magazine. It provides penetrating analysis in pieces like, \u201cBuy the J. Crew Nike that Always Sells Out \u2013 While You Still Can\u201d and \u201cGucci\u2019s Latest Chunky Running Sneaker Is Alessandro Michele\u2019s Loudest One Yet.\u201d But it should probably stick to providing advice about what shoes are hip this season. Because its reporters and editorial staff clearly know nothing about immigration.<\/p>\n

GQ recently published a piece titled, \u201cWaging War on Documented Immigrants,\u201d<\/a> which makes the preposterous claim that, \u201cThe Trump administration is trying to deport as many people as possible, even if they\u2019re here legally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe only need to look at how they’re treating law-abiding, documented immigrants to know that they don’t draw a distinction between criminals and everyone else,\u201d claims the newsletter of today\u2019s fashion-forward male.<\/p>\n

Huh? Apparently, the Zoolander<\/a> contingent is miffed that President Trump has decided to end, \u201cTemporary Protected Status [TPS]<\/a> for more than 50,000 Hondurans living in the U.S. since the late ’90s.\u201d<\/p>\n

They\u2019re also upset that the Trump administration has rescinded the TPS designations previously granted to populations from Nepal, El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, and now Honduras.<\/p>\n

GQ<\/em> whines, \u201cThat’s hundreds of thousands of people whom the White House has essentially marked for deportation, exposing them to the abuse and dehumanization that’s now become synonymous with ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement].\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, what the clothes horses over at GQ<\/em> don\u2019t seem to understand is that TPS was never intended to be a backdoor<\/a> to permanent residence of any kind. It was enacted for the administrative convenience of the United States, as a limited measure<\/a> to temporarily defer the removal of people whose deportation wasn\u2019t practical due to chaotic conditions in their home country.<\/p>\n

Therefore, it\u2019s neither wrong nor immoral to withdraw an explicitly temporary status from foreign nationals, just because they\u2019d prefer to stay here. And there\u2019s nothing dehumanizing or abusive about ICE<\/a> enforcing American immigration laws.<\/p>\n

Perhaps, after the next fashion extravaganza in Paris, the GQ <\/em>editorial staff should insist on their right to remain in France because they\u2019re dissatisfied with the Trump administration? (It\u2019s safe to say that wouldn\u2019t end well for GQ\u2019s haute couture<\/em> scribes.)<\/p>\n

But clearly, the fashion police are using a different type of law enforcement logic. GQ<\/em> claims that arguments regarding the temporary nature of TPS are,\u201d bunk because we could just make the temporary [protection]permanent.\u201d Mmm\u2026sure. And we could also eliminate drunk driving by making it legal to operate a motor vehicle when totally soused. But that approach eliminates any consideration of why we outlawed the conduct in the first place. And it makes a mockery of the law, the same way immigration amnesties do.<\/p>\n

While the buffoonery that GQ <\/em>is peddling as hard news is shocking, what\u2019s really amazing is that a publication that is supposedly dedicated to keeping its finger on the pulse of American fashion, style, and culture could miss this essential fact: Immigration enforcement is the \u201cin thing\u201d this year. And Donald Trump predicted the trend. That\u2019s a large part of what put him in the White House.<\/p>\n

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