Bannon Vows To Use Anti-Migrant Law Against Musk
The New Republic reports:
Republicans may not know it yet, but they’re in the process of handing Steve Bannon a powerful weapon to wield in his war with Elon Musk over visas granted to high-skilled immigrants. The weapon in question, it turns out, is buried in the Laken Riley Act, the controversial bill that would mandate the detention of undocumented immigrants accused of minor nonviolent crimes.
The law would authorize state attorneys general to bring lawsuits to force presidential administrations to deny visas to any country that isn’t accepting deportees. Bannon can now enlist a right-wing state attorney general—like Ken Paxton of Texas—to bring a lawsuit designed to halt visas to, say, people from India, which supplies many high-skilled tech workers. “We’re definitely going to use it, and we’re going
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