Greg Palast:: "For July 4, Deport My Wife" Enewsletter

 

For July 4, Deport My Wife by Greg Palast Here Swiss-British investigator Leni Badpenny celebrates Britain’s independence from America. Despite two decades in the USA and recent marriage to an American (me), she refuses US citizenship, and therefore, like 9.3 million other green card holders, suppresses her own vote. My to-be-deported wife Please vote on my solution: “Deport My Wife, Please!” from How Trump Stole 2020. (Follow along as I read it to you. Or download the entire audiobook and/or e-book gratis.) Warning: this chapter could end in divorce. Here’s another way to defeat the vote suppressors…become a freaking citizen. There are 9.03 million legal permanent residents in the USA. Nine million green card holders eligible to vote if they take citizenship. Take a look at this chart with the number of citizen-eligible green card holders in swing states:   In other words, if green card holders had taken citizenship and voted, Stacey Abrams would be Governor of Georgia, Beto O’Rourke would have crushed Ted Cruz, and Hillary Clinton would have won the Electoral College on roller skates. So, Mr. and Ms. Alien, what do you say? Or were you not bothered by Trump putting kids in cages? In fact, I have a modest proposition: Ban green card renewals. Instead of green card renewals, there should be automatic citizenship after 10 years on a green card. After their allowed ten years on a green card, millions of alien residents apply to renew it. Basta! If you don’t want to become a citizen after living here ten years, get the hell out. You send your kids to US schools, go to America’s national parks, and use America’s hospitals. But the schools are crap, the park is closed over a budget dispute and you have to sell your Chevy to pay the hospital bill. You, dear green card holder, can change that. You’ve been paying taxes to Uncle Sam all these years. You’re even liable to the US military draft. The only thing you can’t do is vote. So it’s time you became a citizen and have to make the same lousy choice we do every four years. Or leave. This is not an easy thing for me to say, because my wife just renewed her green card. After two decades here, the alien of the house refuses to become an American. It’s rough, but if my no-green-card renewal becomes law, I’d have to have her deported. See the sacrifices I make for my country?

Greg Palast (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, out as major non-fiction movie: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case of the Stolen Election, available on Amazon and Amazon Prime.    Support The Palast Investigative Fund and keep our work alive. Become a monthly Contributor.   Or support us by shopping with Amazon Smile. AmazonSmile will donate 0.5% of your purchases to the Sustainable Markets Foundation which automatically goes to the benefit of The Palast Investigative Fund and you get a tax-deduction!   Follow Palast on Twitter and Instagram | Like Palast on Facebook | Forward to a friend  Subscribe to Palast's Newsletter or his separate list for Poems & Stories. Share this with     Copyright © 2021 Greg Palast, All rights reserved. You are receiving this Newsletter because you are a subscriber. Our mailing address: (Check donations are payable to: SMF (our fiscal sponsor) Memo: Palast Fund Greg Palast 3357 Cahuenga Blvd W, #13 Los Angeles, CA 90068