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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Apr 15, 2021, 08:00 PM Apr 2021

Kristi Noem's posturing on 'illegal' immigration spotlights a common misrepresentation

South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) is ambitious. She’s leaned into her hands-off approach to the coronavirus pandemic, earning her outsize media attention given the size of her state, though at some obvious cost to South Dakotans. She embraced former president Donald Trump (kissing his enormous ass), endearing herself to his base. And she’s been eager to leverage right-wing cultural fights to raise her profile.

On Wednesday, that instinct led to this bit of posturing.

Republicans have been eager to use the increase in migrants apprehended at the border with Mexico to pressure the Biden administration for several weeks. Noem’s statement goes a bit further, claiming that she will object to any attempts by the federal government to relocate undocumented migrants in her state. Even beyond the immediate irony of the White governor of a state in which 1 in 11 residents are Native American proclaiming who is American enough to reside there, there are obvious flaws in the line Noem is drawing.

For one, those who enter the country illegally are almost never able to gain citizenship, as immigration attorney David Leopold explained to The Washington Post in 2016. In other words, undocumented immigrants won’t be able to call Noem when they become American because they probably won’t be able to.

But the more important issue here is the use of “illegal immigrant” as a broad descriptor for whom the administration is dealing with.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kristi-noems-posturing-on-illegal-immigration-spotlights-a-common-misrepresentation/ar-BB1fGM1y

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Undocumented Migrant IbogaProject Apr 2021 #1

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1. Undocumented Migrant
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 04:34 PM
Apr 2021
Undocumented Migrant is now the formal term for those who enter our country without either a visa or a waiver.
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