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Post by jdredd on Jan 20, 2018 2:41:17 GMT -5
So the government is shutting down over issues I don't give a crap about. We are the laughing stock of the world. Or not. But immigration has been claimed by many to be the reason Trumpty was elected.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 23, 2018 13:49:51 GMT -5
So McConnell has promised to bring up DACA. But he has no control over the anti-immigration extremists in the House. I'm still glad the Dems are putting their party on the line for the Dreamers. I might be tempted to rejoin, but I still can't handle their pro-war stance.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 24, 2018 12:11:53 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/us/politics/immigration-wall-mexico-smer-senate.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"WASHINGTON — Senate negotiators found themselves back at Square 1 on immigration on Tuesday, as the Senate Democratic leader withdrew the biggest gesture he had made to strike a deal: an offer to fully fund President Trump’s proposed wall at the Mexican border. “The wall offer’s off the table,” the leader, Senator Ch%ck Sch&mer of New York, told reporters at the Capitol a day after senators overcame an impasse to end a three-day government shutdown. Mr. Smer’s decision to renege, made on Sunday but revealed publicly on Tuesday, marked another turn in the fluid debate over how to shield from deportation hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children." While I understand why the Dems are against the morally repugnant and environmentally destructive wall, this is probably politically a mistake. I would trade the useless wall for the Dreamers.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 29, 2018 13:57:53 GMT -5
One of the issues the anti-immigration fanatics bring up is "assimilation". Frankly, assimilation is a subjective crock. Who gets to decide what is "American"? Or "French" or "German", for that matter. I also think English-only is bullshit. We don't have an "official" language. Never did and never should. Personally, I like hearing different languages when I go out. I should have learned Spanish a long time ago but now I'm too lazy.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 31, 2018 2:32:26 GMT -5
Well, in Trumps' dog and pony show tonight, he paraded around some relatives of a kid killed by an illegal. And the logic is, of course, if all the illegals were gone we'd have no crimes committed by them. Makes sense, doesn't it? Of course, the same logic could apply to Italians. If we hadn't let them in we'd have no Mafia. And if the indians had been able to keep all the European scumbags out, there would be no problems at all.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 30, 2018 11:41:43 GMT -5
It is interesting to me how immigration has become such a big concern to so many people in the world. Well, actually, it isn't. Interesting, that is.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 3, 2018 22:07:34 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/opinion/sunday/millionaires-fleeing-migration.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region"Tracking the rich has become a voyeuristic global industry, a form of celebrity worship. But it can also provide serious clues about where countries are headed. When a country begins to fall into economic and political difficulty, wealthy people are often the first to ship their money to safer havens abroad. The rich don’t always emigrate along with their money, but when they do, it is an even more telling sign of trouble. Since 2013, New World Wealth, a research outfit based in South Africa, has been tracking millionaire migrations by culling property records, visa programs, news media reports and information from travel agents and others who cater to the wealthy. In a global population of 15 million people each worth more than $1 million in net assets, nearly 100,000 changed their country of residence last year." Haven't I been telling you for years that borders are only for the poor? The whole immigration debate is just class war in disguise.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 22, 2018 16:15:18 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/politics/donald-trump-immigration-midterms.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-newsFor the past week, Mr. Trump has demanded changes in the United States’ immigration laws and encouraged Congress to act with urgency. But on Friday morning, he appeared to give up hope that the Republican-controlled Congress could succeed in passing an immigration bill this year, urging lawmakers in a Twitter post to stop “wasting their time.” His advice is likely to kill current efforts to pass a measure that had little chance of succeeding. Instead, Mr. Trump said a vote on immigration legislation should be postponed until after the midterm elections in November, when he expects Republicans to pick up more seats and create a stronger majority — a prediction that is far from guaranteed. Donald J. Trump ✔ @realdonaldtrump Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave! 4:06 AM - Jun 22, 2018 So Trumpty believes in the "Red Wave" happening in November. It's possible. As I have said before, if I had to make a living predicting how Americans would vote, I'd starve to death.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 4, 2018 12:08:12 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/us/politics/trump-angel-families-bond-backlash.html?hpw&rref=politics&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump first reached out to them about three years ago, when he was regarded as a political sideshow and they were desperate for any attention to their plight. Today, thanks to the platform now afforded by President Trump, the group he calls “ angel families” — relatives of people killed by undocumented immigrants — have grown into a political force, helping him justify the most unpopular aspects of his administration’s immigration crackdown, and championing other candidates and causes devoted to limiting illegal immigration. It is a mutually beneficial, and deeply felt, relationship that resonates well beyond the families who have grown so close to Mr. Trump that he remembers their names and those of their deceased loved ones, and privately relays praise of their appearances on Fox News." While you can't have anything but sympathy for families that have lost loved ones to murder, Native Americans were the first ones to deal with violent illegal immigrants, and the logic that "these victims would still be alive if the murderers had been kept out" is nothing new. But it's politically useful, and the families have been given a catchy nickname, dripping with religious hokum.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 30, 2018 4:11:48 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/07/29/world/europe/spain-property-boom-venezuela.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=sectionfront"Venezuelans are also among the main applicants to Spain’s “golden visa” program, which grants residency to foreigners buying a property worth €500,000 or more, or about $582,000, a measure instituted in 2013 to help revive the crisis-hit economy. “Madrid is becoming for Venezuelans what Miami once was for us — and remains for Cubans,” said Mr. Seijas of SNB Capital, who also heads an investment association and estimates that about 280,000 Venezuelans now live in Spain, of whom about 120,000 have acquired Spanish citizenship. Tomás Páez, a professor who studies immigration at the Central University of Venezuela, said Venezuelans now formed the fastest-growing foreign community in Spain, more than doubling their presence in the past two years." I keep telling you borders are only for the poor, and here is some evidence. Same class warfare, different bottle. But immigration is a useful issue for "populist" demagouges. Class war is also what is happening in Venezuela.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 4, 2018 12:59:11 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Aug 26, 2018 1:02:57 GMT -5
So some twenty-something creep with too much money goes a hundred miles an hour in a McLaren the wrong way in an HOV lane, killing himself and a mother and daughter in another car. And guess what? He wasn't an illegal. Who knew non-illegals commit crimes?
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Post by jdredd on Sept 3, 2018 2:27:09 GMT -5
So the "Deport them all" freaks are making a lot of political hay out of the Mollie Tibbetts murder. My question is, if tomorrow it was discovered that the suspect was actually in the country legally, would it make her murder any less significant? Sadly, of course it would.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 20, 2018 1:30:05 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/news/mike-pompeo-america-approaching-immigration-crisis/"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that the U.S. is quickly approaching a “moment of crisis” when it comes to immigration. Speaking at a press conference in Mexico City alongside his counterpart, Mexican foreign secretary Luis Videgaray Caso, Pompeo stressed the need to address the influx of immigrants to both countries. “We are quickly reaching a point which appears to be a moment of crisis,” he said.A caravan of about 4,000 Honduran immigrants, including children and fragments of families, reached the southern Mexican border on Friday, prompting the Mexican government to request humanitarian aid from the United Nations to help address the asylum seekers. “We are deeply aware that the way that Mexico will handle this is your sovereign decision,” the secretary of state said. “Mexico will make its decision — its leaders and its people will decide the best way to achieve what I believe are shared objectives” such as “stopping this flow before it reaches the U.S. border.” Tea Party Mike has spoken. Can a Secretary of State get any sillier or more partisan? Like 4,000 poor Hondurans will bring down the USA. When did the USA become the Land of Frightened Mice? 9/11/01, I guess.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 23, 2018 14:48:20 GMT -5
I gotta say Trump is a man of his word. I was cruising south on I-5 this morning 15 miles from the border when I passed a 4-truck military convoy, the last truck towing a big-ass artillery piece. Then I remembered how Trump had promised to put the military on the border, and they were probably going to dig that mother in down there. You can be certain it would make short work of the Terrorist Caravan heading our direction. Appropriately, the nickname "Gettysburg" was painted on the barrel, referring to the last time we had to deal with a threat from the south.
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