Today's Must-Read: Preserving Whiteness

Via Digby, from Jamelle Bouie, writing in Slate:

Under the Trump administration, even naturalized citizens are now a target. The government agency that oversees immigration applications is hiring lawyers and immigration officers to review cases of immigrants suspected of obtaining citizenship through fake identities or other false information on their applications. Cases would be referred to the Department of Justice, where offenders could lose their citizenship or legal status.

“We finally have a process in place to get to the bottom of all these bad cases and start denaturalizing people who should not have been naturalized in the first place,” L. Francis Cissna, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said in an interview with the Associated Press last month. “What we’re looking at, when you boil it all down, is potentially a few thousand cases.”

Strangely enough, the "bad cases" all seem to involve naturalized citizens who are not white.

That's just part of it: The military is discharging immigrant recruits who enlisted under a promise of a path to citizenship:

Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned.

The AP was unable to quantify how many men and women who enlisted through the special recruitment program have been booted from the Army, but immigration attorneys say they know of more than 40 who have been discharged or whose status has become questionable, jeopardizing their futures. . . .

Some of the service members say they were not told why they were being discharged. Others who pressed for answers said the Army informed them they’d been labeled as security risks because they have relatives abroad or because the Defense Department had not completed background checks on them.

Tom Sullivan has more on this at Hullabaloo.

Add in voter suppression at the state level (for non-white voters) and Trump's very public disdain for immigrants from everywhere but Europe, and you have the racist Republican party working overtime to preserve a white majority.