Ken Cuccinelli wants immigrants who’ll enrich America. For Trump, that means white people. zakcheneyrice writes
Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images Acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli went on CNN Tuesday evening. That morning, he’d given NPR his revision of Emma Lazarus’s poem “The New Colossus,” which is inscribed at the base of 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,” Cuccinelli said.
In both appearances, Cuccinelli advanced the argument that immigrants who don’t enrich America don’t deserve America. This is a crucial distinction from the ideals expressed in Lazarus’s text, which explicitly references “exiles” and “homeless” people — groups that, by most definitions, would require some form of assistance before standing on their own. But it’s even more crucial when President Trump sets the terms of enrichment.
Cuccinelli is a fitting spokesman for this vision. As a Virginia state legislator and later attorney general, he fought to repeal birthright citizenship and force employees to speak English in the workplace. He has compared immigration policy to rat extermination and described Representative Steve King — an open white nationalist — as “one of [his] very favorite congressmen.” He now does the bidding of a like-minded president.
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