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'Squad' Members Urge Biden to Extend Marijuana Pardons to Illegal Aliens, Allow Deported People to Come Back

November 16, 2022

Drug use progresses and doesn't just happen overnight

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan  Omar, and Jesús G. "Chuy" García have sent a letter to President Joe  Biden asking him to include illegal aliens in his marijuana pardons.  The far-left lawmakers also called on Biden to "prioritize  decriminalizing and rescheduling marijuana and reopening the immigration  cases of those who were deported for marijuana-related offenses."... The extremist politicians argued that the US should not be deporting illegal aliens for possessing the drug — because of racism. "However, continuing to deport immigrants for simple marijuana  possession will only exacerbate racial disparities, traumatize families  and communities vital to this country's fabric, and create ineffective  legal regimes at taxpayers' expense," the letter said.

"The letter said that since marijuana possession became a crime in the  1970s, it has "upended too many lives, families, and communities for  conduct many states no longer prohibit.."  Syracuse University  found that, between 2003 and 2018, over 45,000 people were deported  nationwide for simple marijuana possession.

No one to help homegrown "zombies"

"After decades of the failed war on drugs and the countless lives and families it ruined, our country must begin repairing those harms," the letter added. "Granting pardons to all simple marijuana possession offenses – regardless of immigration status – demonstrates genuine compassion while ensuring that our country continues to mitigate the inhumane and ineffective drudge policies that have ravaged communities of color for so long."...  These actions would restore the lives  and dignity of thousands of migrants who were deported...

'Squad' Members Urge Biden to Extend Marijuana Pardons to Illegal Aliens, Allow Deported People to Come Back
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