The Trump administration will revoke temporary protected status for thousands of Somali nationals in the United States in the face of White House claims that the diaspora community in Minnesota participated in widespread fraud, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday.
Noem told Fox News that Somalis with temporary protected status would be required to leave the country by March 17. She argued that conditions in Somalia have improved and added that “allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interest. We are putting Americans first.”
In a separate social media post, the Department of Homeland Security wrote: “Our message is clear. Go back to your own country, or we’ll send you back ourselves.”
The move would affect thousands of Somalis in the United States, though not the majority of the U.S. Somali community, many of which are already permanent residents or U.S. citizens. Yet the announcement comes as the federal government ramps up its immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, the state with the largest Somali population in the United States.
Why would you need to force a business to hire the most competent person for a job?
Man it’s like, people are bigoted or something to the point where they had to make laws specifically saying that you have to hire the most competent person, and people still whine about it.
We both know there’s racist people out there, towards blacks and whites and Asians or anyone else. Or people who hate gays. Or people who hate straight people. So if you really believe in meritocracy, where people naturally rise from their own effort and the better people get the jobs, you should be in favor of laws that keep things fair. Then the better people will get hired.
But capitalism is about making a profit above all else, isn’t it?
If you purposely ignore 20-50% of the potential hiring pool regardless of qualifications simply because you’re a bigot, someone else is going to hire them (potentially for less) and simply outcompete you.
That’s not how it works in real life and I think you know that.
Capitalism is its own complex beast and one I’m not going to opine on here but I fucking wish we lived in a meritocracy where you could just hire people that are good and magically crush it in the market. We very much don’t.
Cream rises to the top all by itself, doesn’t it? You don’t need to legislate that. Neither do you need to legislate gravity.
The reason there is no meritocracy in our economy is precisely because we have laws against it, not in spite of it.
Or are you saying that hiring the most competent people isn’t an automatic guarantee that you’ll crush it? In which case, why would you be in favor of a law that requires employers to hire the most competent candidates?
But you do need to legislate against discrimination and pollution and etc (insert long list of heinous shit that’s happened in American history that led to legislation).
No. It’s because of crony capitalism and human nature and more but it definitely isn’t because we have laws against it. That doesn’t even make sense.
I’m saying you can have more talented people and still lose in the marketplace for a zillion reasons. I’m in favor of laws that protect people from being discriminated against, which generally leads to more qualified people getting hired regardless of their skin color.
Anyways, on the off hand change you’re engaging in good faith and not just a troll - I highly suggest you read up some on the history of minority groups in the USA; particularly how former slaves were treated and how the reconstruction era after the civil war really fucked them over. Plus just the general exploitation of cheap migrant labor.
That’s all I’ll say about all this.
I’m not sure I understand. Are you saying that even though cream always does rise to the top, passing a law requiring to do so would make it go faster? Or simply that it would make you feel more reassured that it eventually will? If it’s the latter, should we perhaps also pass a law requiring the sun to rise every day, or that objects must always fall down instead of up? Where do we draw the line?
Anyways, on the off hand change you’re engaging in good faith and not just a troll - I highly suggest you read up some on the history of minority groups in the USA; particularly how former slaves were treated and how the reconstruction era after the civil war really fucked them over. Plus just the general exploitation of cheap migrant labor.
That’s all I’ll say about all this.
Are you actually this naive or are you engaging in bad faith? Are you unaware that racism exists and is rampant? Are you aware that capitalism as practiced is not remotely a meritocracy and there’s no actual free market?
So you’re saying that making it so people hire based on how qualified they are rather than, say, race, is actually good for business. Because there are flawed and bigoted people out there, and even though a capitalist business is about making a profit, there’s people out there who would rather screw up the system over petty differences than have business be better and innovate more.
Sure, there probably are people like that, but they deserve to fail and go out of business, don’t you think?
Well the problem with that is that there’s some businesses that wouldn’t fail and go out of business even if there were instances of bigotry in hiring. So that’s why people had to step in.
Like, if you tried to get a job at Starbucks and weren’t hired because you were white, that one store isn’t going to fail, much less the company. And it wouldn’t be fair to hire or not hire people based on your race, right?
So people set up rules so that hiring people based on race is illegal, which works out better for businesses and people overall.
Why would you want a law that forces a business run by bigots or racists to hire you despite hating you for your skin color? Don’t you think they’ll just find other, legal ways to mistreat you or discriminate against you? And if you fail, they’ll feel more righteous about their bigotry, but if you succeed, they’ll resent you for that.
I’d honestly rather just have them tell me upfront if they’re racist, that way I won’t waste my time with them.
Another person answered you but yeah the (very) short answer is the history of institutionalized racism in the USA. There’s been plenty of books and articles written on the topic so if you’re interested in learning more about the history of racial injustice and how affirmative action works to address that you definitely can find tons of info.
At the end of the day, affirmative action is a means to try to right historical wrongs and implement laws against discrimination.
I think if you took the time to read more about why it came into being and what the situation was for formerly enslaved people after the civil war* you’ll see why affirmative action is still an important practice that continues to this day.
*It was bad, really bad. Sharecropping, for example, was really just slavery with extra steps.
Okay, so you admit that it IS about collective punishment, then?
No because that’s not punishing anyone.
What you’re saying is a classic strawman fallacy.