NBC dumps Trump
what do you think about this? . there are many young women
caught up in the tussle. -- j
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caught up in the tussle. -- j
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I'm a long way from being considered The Donald's biggest fan. With that said, why does the media feel that he and all of his business relationships should be destroyed because he simply refuses to toe the PC line?
working out the figures right now. -- j
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anathema to them. . they couldn't defecate on his limo's hood,
so they fired him. -- j
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It is, however, unfortunate that many people out there agree with him in condemning an entire group of people.
The political correct police just got the confederate flag removed from history. What is next. It seems like everyday it is another thing that caused false outrage.
If people like Trump can not say what they think we will be back to a bunch of candidates that say nothing but platitudes and end up doing nothing to fix our country if elected. We desperately need Trump or someone like him if America is ever going to be a great country again.
Remember in the old days if someone said something you disagreed with you said I disagree. You did not assignate them.
To me, the trend itself is disturbing. How long before they get to Objectivists? They are already after the TEA Party and the "Don't Tread On Me" flag.
keeps you from being bored! -- john
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Per usual, the professionally offended feign outrage but never actually address the facts.
25% of Mexico's population has illegally entered the US.
By definition, they're all criminals, as they're breaking into America illegally (hence "illegal alien"-- it's right in the name).
Many are bringing drugs into country.
Many are rapists.
They disproportionately break the law and end up in jail once they're in America (after breaking the law to get here in the first place). This is found by simply reading FBI uniform crime statistics.
Again, they're not all rapists and drug dealers, but they're all criminals by definition for breaking out immigration laws. We can no longer allow poetry to serve a immigration policy.
well-made statements.
And, there is also overwhelming proof that Mexican government is coordinating illegal movement into the US (as was evidenced by last year's explosion of minors via transit through Mexico). The Mexican government openly discussed the coordination of that effort, including the opening their borders to coincide with the train schedules. There are actually ad campaigns run in Mexico advocating to illegal entry and how to access welfare programs once here.
Our immigration policy should be (and prior to Kennedy immigration bill was) based on what value immigrants brought to the US. Entry into US should not simply be based on that fact that a person wants to come here. Immigration policy shouldn't be based on a poem. CA is a sterling example of the folly of such a policy.
The solution to Mexican poverty should NOT be US welfare, it should be Mexicans ousting their socialist government and improving their own country.
Milton Friedman said is best when he said, you can not have a welfare state and open immigration.
If we are to preserve America, our immigration policy must be changed to one that: 1) radically reduces immigration at a macro level (as was done for the first 50 years of the 20th century), and 2) prioritizes by value the immigrant is bringing with them.
Simply being poor or wanting to come to America should not be ones ticket in. Entry in the US should be a privilege, not a right.
The advertising was in coordination with the Mexican/Central American governments/US interests, and it was outrageous.
We're approaching a tipping point where the entire US will go the way of CA. We're importing entire generations of new Democrat voters, which shouldn't surprise anyone, as he told us his objective was to fundamentally transform America.
The most vexing part of this is how the GOP can be so tragically short-sided in their support of amnesty. The DNC has a gun pointed at the GOP's head, and the GOP is offering to load it for them.
It's also cultural issue. In Latin American countries, it's acceptable to have sex with underage girls that would be correctly classified as rape in the US.
Our culture (the distinctly American culture and values) is superior to that of any country from which any immigrant will hail. It's for this reason that we must adopt more a stringent immigration policy and demand that immigrants assimilate to our culture. This will benefit the immigrants and America.
Comprehensive study linked below (see page 15) plus link to second story indicating 60% number has increased significantly to estimated 80%. Third link is yet another story of young girl raped in US by illegals.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/12/central-america-migrants-rape_n_5806972.html
http://fusion.net/story/17321/is-rape-the-price-to-pay-for-migrant-women-chasing-the-american-dream/
https://fusiondotnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/amr410142010eng.pdf
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/13/police-illegal-immigrants-rape-year-old-texas-girl-july-th-party/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/30/coulter-im-offended-is-not-an-argument-against-trump-facts-back-him-up/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governme...
70,000 rapes isn't exactly minuscule... especially if you're one of the 70,000.
Immigration generally (no matter the country of origin) should be radically reduced, if not halted altogether for a period of time, as was done in the first half of the 20th century.
But, even if it were 5%, that would be 5% higher than it should be. To my point, we need to radically reduce immigration, period.
To accept your premise, one must believe that these hardened violent criminals were pure as wind-driven snow in Mexico, and only turned to life of violent crime upon their entry into the US.
Of course they were violent criminals in Mexico. Those crossing illegally commit a remarkably disproportionate percentage of crime. That information is easily available by bureau of prisons and federal court registry.
Illegal commit crime at much higher rate than Americans, which is not surprising as they broke the law to get here in the first place.
It's this willful suspension of disbelief that results in parents/loved ones testifying before Congress about the deaths of their children at the hands of career criminals in our country illegally.
How do you account for the radically disproportionate percentage of illegals convicted of violent crimes? The numbers don't lie. Do you actually think they were innocents before arriving on our soil?
I dispute your assertion and everyone else's as being anecdotal, not factual.
Since they are here illegally they are all criminals by definition. That is a FACT, much as you might choose to deny it.
I don't have accurate numbers, neither do you or anybody else.
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(Be advised that the above is an Old Dino attempt at sarcasm).
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
He then should end with this: If I am your President I will gut programs that hinder opportunity for productive citizens. I will hog tie agencies who believe their policies can be above the law in our land. Heads are going to roll Washington! You are fired! but he didn't say that
Jan
We spent some time working with an entrepreneur from South Africa to move here -- it was a long and expensive process. We seem to be blocking admission to educated tech people from India and other places.
Yes, you are reading all about it, it is part of the dichotomy between the media advocating for the low skilled illegal workers and against high skilled H1B visas. We are biasing our immigration to protect middle class jobs and to hell with the poor.
I do believe that immigration built this country by selecting for the people who were more likely to take the risk to create a new life. Either we should have a more rational selection process or we should open the door and let competition decide who gets here, but the 'look the other way' system is inducing an unproductive bias.
p.s. http://www.libertystatepark.com/emma.htm...
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Equal rights- special treatment; my rights trump everyone else's
Illegal- just good folks who want to come to the U.S., and don't really want to get free stuff paid for by our tax dollars
Freedom of speech- I say whatever I want. If you disagree, you are a racist.
(See also Privacy- colloquial- things said and done in one's own home; not meant for mass dissemination)
Freedom- bow to the wants, needs and opinions of the government rulers, elected by the ignorant masses
Southern California is already turning into subdivision of Mexico. Maybe Mexico should just annex it and get it over with.
Why do we hear so little about our border with Canada? Are Canadians illegally entering the US and taking over specific areas too?
What kind of immigration should we control? Or should we just open our borders to anyone that wants to come? What so other countries do? Can you just walk into China, Russia, Great Brittan, Czechoslovakia?
1) Eliminate all welfare
2) Eliminate all laws on drugs.
A free person should be able to travel freely between countries and work wherever they want. Republicans (all of us) need to focus on the underlying problems, not restrict peoples' freedoms which will just cause more problems.
There is absolutely no doubt that Trump, Cruz, and the others now drawing attention to this genuine crisis are right.
Your assertion is based on anecdotal evidence, Our assertion is based on actual prison bureau and federal sentencing data. This is not a debatable point and more than gravity is.
By they way, Trump does none of this analysis. He just bloviates about building more walls. Just like the law of gravity you cite, if you build more walls people seeking opportunity will find a way over, under or through them.
Will a wall keep every single, solitary illegal out, of course not, but it will certainly prevent the vast majority from entering. The notion that walls don't work is patent nonsense. Much like wheels roll, walls create a barrier... that's their function.
California, they have decreased crossings significantly everyone agrees. But walls alone don't solve the problem in themselves. Note that all your cited walls required lethal force to be really effective. Do you (or does Trump) advocate shooting border crossers like Kira? And you didn't answer my questions about real issues regarding conviction and sentencing of illegal crossers. More prisons? Longer sentences?
Regarding sentencing, YES, there should be mandatory sentences for those illegally entering America. And, once that sentence is served, they're then deported. If they come back again, it's life. If we can have mandatory minimums for US citizens, then mandatory for non-citizens is a no-brainer.
With a crack down that profound, it would not take any time at all to end the flow of illegals. And, the cost would be a fraction of the cost of welfare goodies (food stamps, education, anchor babies, etc.) currently being doled out to illegals.
Furthermore, life imprisonment would be remarkably rare, as once it's known that the game has changed, the flow of illegals would slow to a trickle. As in the cold war, the nuclear option doesn't need to be used to be an effective deterrent.
Similarly, there would be no "blood bath" at the border for the same reason. These criminals need to understand that the game has changed, and it could be a matter of life and death (or life in prison).
They have NO right to be here, and it's high time we put the security of American citizens ahead of the desires, or supposed entitlement, of foreigners no matter their country of origin.
America is not the refuge for the world's poor, despite what Emma Lazarus penned. Poems should not substitute for immigration policy.
Regarding the debates, if a candidate were to actually espouse such a profound shift in immigration policy, he/she would be overwhelmingly welcomed. Trump is soaring in the polls in large part because of his tough talk on immigration. The first priority of a US President is supposed to be the security of Americans.