Joe Biden's "Juban" and other weaponized immigrants
Nothing gets Americans squirting from their tear ducts like stories about
you being rescued from communism.
Yasha Levine
Nov 26
Watching Joe Biden's Cabinet announcements, I realized his people are gonna
be going full-bore with this weaponized immigrant business. We're never
gonna see the end of it.
First I give you Alejandro Mayorkas: Beverly Hills native, fed prosector,
immigrant, victim of Cuban communism, and, now, Joe's pick for the
fascist-lite Department of Homeland Security - the first Latino in history
to be responsible for making sure Fortress America isn't breached by the
brown barbarian hordes lying in wait just behind our holy borders.
Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower
Introduced by #Biden, our next @DHSgov Secretary Ali Mayorkas just said, "My
father and mother brought me to this country to escape communism. They
cherished our country and were intensely proud to become American citizens,
as was I."
November 24th 2020
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If Alejandro Mayorkas looks a bit too pink for a Latino Cuban (see
below).well.don't worry, there's nothing wrong your eyes. He's less of a
Cuban.and more of a Juban. His mother is a Romanian Jew who married a Cuban
Jew after escaping to Cuba in the 1940s. They lived and had little Alejandro
there. But, once the Cuban Revolution finally succeeded, they took off and
moved to LA to "escape communism." And they didn't move to just any dirty
ol' part of LA, but Beverly Hills. A true Latino immigrant success story!
"We came to this country as political refugees, my father did not want to
live nor raise his family in a communist country," Alejandro explained to
ABC News back in 2015. "We came to the United States to be able to live in a
democracy and my father wanted for his children like so many parents do a
better life than he himself had enjoyed."
Not much is known about Alejandro's dad's history, other than he was a
Sephardic Jew and his family owned a "steel wool factory." Apparently lots
of Sephardic Jews came to Cuba from the Balkans at start of the 20th
century, so maybe that's where his dad's family is from. His mom ended up in
Cuba because her family couldn't get into the nativist United States, which
had closed its borders to most immigrants from eastern Europe - and
especially to Jews fleeing the coming Holocaust. And back then even Cuba
didn't let everyone in.
Whatever the circumstances, one thing is clear: to set the family up in
Beverly Hills, the Mayorkas were able to flee the evils of communism with a
big pile of cash, so the Cuban steel wool factory business must've been an
alright line of work.
"First Latino to Run Homeland Security," says the New York Times.
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I gotta give it to Alejandro. He's in a great position, able to weaponize
both sides of his immigrant identity. With Joe Biden's neoliberals going
full identity politics, he's able to deploy his "Latino side" to buttress
the progressive nature of our new drooling White House overlord, all while
heading a federal agency whose primary function is to terrorize immigrants
who snuck into America for work and to deport them on an industrial scale.
But Alejandro's just as comfortable weaponizing his Jewish victimhood.
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