Chuck Darwin<p>Buried in the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Laken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Laken</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Riley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Riley</span></a> Act, <br>-- the controversial bill that would mandate the detention of undocumented immigrants accused of minor nonviolent crimes <br>-- is a provision which would authorize state attorneys general to bring lawsuits to force presidential administrations to deny visas to any particular country that isn’t accepting deportees. </p><p>That provision has attracted public criticism, but Republicans have been unmoved.</p><p>If Laken Riley becomes law <br>Bannon can enlist a right-wing state attorney general — like Ken Paxton of Texas — to bring a lawsuit designed to halt visas to, say, <br>people from India, which supplies many high-skilled tech workers. <br>Under the law, it’ll be perfectly plausible that a handpicked judge could stop the issuance of such visas.<br>⭐️“We’re definitely going to use it, and we’re going to get after attorneys general,” <br>Bannon told me when I contacted him to ask whether he sees the law as useful to him.</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/190405/trump-bannon-weapon-elon-musk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/190405</span><span class="invisible">/trump-bannon-weapon-elon-musk</span></a></p>