Should we be subsidizing small business loans for foreigners? Should we be doing so at the expense of Americans? Should Americans have to wait in line behind foreigners to get loans. Bizarrely enough we have been doing all of the above.
But in February, the Small Business Administration under Kelly Loeffler issued a policy notice effective March stating that “100% of all direct and/or indirect owners of a small business applicant be U.S. Citizens or U.S. Nationals who have their Principal Residence in the United States, its territories, or possessions.”
Democrats who oversee cities filled with non-citizens whom they illegally represent in fake census districts are responding about as expected.
Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to pursue legal options challenging a new federal rule that would prevent lawful permanent residents — green card holders — from obtaining Small Business Administration-backed loans. The Board of Supervisors approved a motion directing the county’s legal staff to explore litigation after the SBA announced the policy change.
“SBA’s new rule limiting small business loans to only U.S. citizens — excluding permanent residents — threatens the survival of immigrant-owned small businesses that have long contributed to our local economies,” Hilda Solis said in a statement.
That’s nice. The immigrants should be able to build their businesses without taxpayer subsidies.
Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell said the rule reflects a broader pattern of federal policies affecting immigrant communities.
“This is not accidental. We are witnessing the deliberate construction of a systematically racist system designed to marginalize immigrant communities and communities of color,” Mitchell said.
Citizenship isn’t racist. African-Americans all have U.S. citizenship. This would actually advantage African-American entrepreneurs, but Mitchell obviously doesn’t care about them because they’re not the ones funding her.
Anyway we can predict how this will play out.
The lawsuit will claim that it’s an APA (Administrative Procedures Act) for the administration to do what it campaigned on and promised to do. A handful of sympathetic test case litigants, probably a veteran, a disabled guy and a non-cartel member will tour the media. A judge will declare that they (and millions of others) will suffer “irreparable harm” if they aren’t allowed to get their grubby hands on taxpayer cash. The Trump administration will appeal. The appeals court will uphold it. It’ll file an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court which, if Americans are lucky, will ask the judges to stop their coup. Of course the case will have to wait in line behind 100 similar cases.
This is why we launched the Judicial Accountability Project.
