I am and always WIL BE ANTI- ILLEGAL immigration. and definitely keep the Islamic wave to the barest minimum and screen them like no body's business.
On Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 8:41:03 AM UTC-6, Perplexed wrote: > > > The author of this column is seriously tone deaf and completely out of > touch with what is going on in America (and in the world). Weekly we are > seeing the negative effects of countless nations refusing to protect their > nation's borders. The poor and working classes have been devastated here by > illegals taking over construction and hospitality and even fast food jobs - > and no segment of the population has been hurt more than young blacks. And > notice how she employs the dishonest leftwing tactic of conflating ILLEGAL > immigration with legal immigration. Thankfully more and more Americans > aren't falling for this bull shit anymore. > > And now we can add the examples all over the world of what allowing > radical Islamic terrorists to infiltrate countries results in - lots of > dead bodies piling up. > > Polls also show that Americans in general are smarting than out-of-touch > leftwing pundits at the WaPo: > > Most voters continue to favor stricter border control over granting legal > status to those already here illegally and believe amnesty will just > encourage more illegal immigration. > > A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of Likely > U.S. Voters think gaining control of the border should be the priority when > it comes to immigration reform. Thirty-four percent (34%) disagree and say > it’s more important to grant legal status to those already living here. (To > see survey question wording, click here > <http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/questions/pt_survey_questions/february_2016/questions_illegal_immigration_february_17_18_2016>.) > > > > These findings are consistent with regular surveying for the past four > years > <http://www.rasmussenreports.com/platinum/historical_data/immigration_trends>. > > Prior to 2012, support for stricter border control was generally in the low > to mid-60s. The number who say legalizing the status of those already here > is more important reached a high of 38% in December 2012 but fell to a > recent low of 30% in April of last year. > > > > http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/immigration/immigration_update > > > > > On Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 8:06:13 AM UTC-4, MJ wrote: >> >> >> July 14 2016 >> >> *Why Republicans’ new anti-immigrant platform likely spells doom for them >> *By Catherine Rampell >> >> The Republican Party had a chance to disavow Donald Trump’s xenophobia >> and nativism. Instead, the GOP doubled down. In the new 2016 Republican >> platform, delegates not only promised a wall along the southern border; >> they also decided to replace the term “illegal immigrants” with the more >> pejorative, dehumanizing epithet “ illegal aliens >> <http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/07/12/donald-trump-republican-platform-trade-foreign-policy/86980912/> >> .” >> >> If history is any guide, these choices could prove very, very costly. >> >> It’s true that Americans, or at least a vocal subset of Americans, have a >> long history of hostility >> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/from-benjamin-franklin-to-trump-the-history-of-americas-nativist-streak/2015/08/27/d41f9f26-4cf9-11e5-84df-923b3ef1a64b_story.html> >> >> toward immigrants. But for the most part, presidential candidates and their >> parties have been punished whenever they’ve indulged that hostility during >> election years. >> >> The past century and a half provides case after case of candidates >> getting electorally pummeled after explicitly or implicitly endorsing >> anti-immigrant rhetoric. In almost every instance, this loss persuaded the >> defeated party to pivot toward more immigrant-friendly policies by the next >> election. >> >> In 1844, the Whig presidential ticket actively solicited endorsements >> from nativist groups. Whig vice-presidential candidate Theodore >> Frelinghuysen even led several organizations that were “openly hostile to >> Catholicism and new immigration,” as recounted >> <http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7288.html>in the book “ Dividing >> Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America >> <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691088055/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thewaspos09-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0691088055&linkId=7abe94a56eb123fe1380c9192af39333>,” >> >> by Daniel J. Tichenor, a political scientist at the University of Oregon. >> >> >> *Here are some of the people who are speaking at the 2016 Republican >> National Convention in Cleveland and some who've opted to skip the event. >> (Sarah Parnass, Danielle Kunitz/The Washington Post) * >> >> * http://wapo.st/29A4g37 <http://wapo.st/29A4g37>*When the Whigs lost, >> party leadership concluded that Democrats’ support among immigrants and >> Catholics had swung the election. Accordingly, the Whigs severed ties with >> their nativist allies. >> >> Or consider 1884. A week before that election, at a Republican rally, a >> prominent Protestant minister impugned Democrats as the party of “rum, >> Romanism and rebellion.” >> >> Republican leadership failed to denounce the comments, which were widely >> interpreted as slurring Irish Catholic immigrants (among others). Democrats >> reprinted the minister’s words near and far, and the speech is believed to >> have cost Republicans the election. >> >> Through the early 1890s, Democrats played up the Republican Party’s >> connection to the American Protective Association, a virulently >> anti-Catholic, anti-Irish-immigrant secret society. This cost Republicans >> more ground among Irish and German Catholics and newer immigrant groups, >> Tichenor writes. >> >> One of those Republican casualties was William McKinley, who lost his >> U.S. congressional seat in 1890. When he ran for governor of Ohio the >> following year, he realized he needed more immigrant and kindred ethnic >> votes to have any chance. So he chucked the nativist baggage. >> >> On the campaign trail, McKinley declared >> <https://books.google.com/books?id=Qe5gk4hoJXAC&pg=PA547&dq=%22native+and+naturalized%22+william+mckinley&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiU9vLf6vPNAhVFlB4KHeaCDu4Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22native%20and%20naturalized%22%20william%20mckinley&f=false> >> >> that his economic vision “believes in America for Americans, native and >> naturalized”; and that U.S. shores must remain open >> <https://books.google.com/books?id=Qe5gk4hoJXAC&pg=PA525&lpg=PA525&dq=%22those+who+are+well+disposed+to+our+institutions,+seeking+new+and+happier+homes,+ready+to+share+the+burdens+as+well+as+the+blessings+of+our+society%E2%80%9D%22&source=bl&ots=a7diOM91I-&sig=jaAm9E4lyWQRQ8M1hTMsp-5L_gQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjW0ObU_vHNAhVHXh4KHRPnAgUQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22those%20who%20are%20well%20disposed%20to%20our%20institutions%2C%20seeking%20new%20and%20happier%20homes%2C%20ready%20to%20share%20the%20burdens%20as%20well%20as%20the%20blessings%20of%20our%20society%E2%80%9D%22&f=false> >> >> to “those who are well disposed to our institutions, seeking new and >> happier homes, ready to share the burdens as well as the blessings of our >> society.” >> >> He repeated this strategy in his 1896 presidential run and worked to >> purge the influence of the nativist secret society from his party. In a >> show of “cultural harmony,” Tichenor writes, a rabbi gave the opening >> prayer >> <https://books.google.com/books?id=cp04AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=rabbi+1896+republican+national+convention&source=bl&ots=OgDdgdg04a&sig=43aebKvkeQANbMMDkmiYqV7PWV4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitkv3ihPTNAhXGdh4KHaOKB_IQ6AEIRTAF#v=snippet&q=samuel%20sale&f=false> >> >> at the Republican National Convention. The party also distributed campaign >> pamphlets in foreign languages. The about-face helped bring more immigrants >> in to the GOP fold, and McKinley took the White House. >> >> There are more recent analogues, too. >> >> In 1996, Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole was weighed down >> <http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/24/us/dole-rejects-a-party-plank.html> >> by anti-immigrant measures championed by his party, including opposition >> to <http://www.calinst.org/bulletins/bull334a.html> public education of >> undocumented children and support for >> <http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25848> a constitutional >> amendment to deny birthright citizenship to children born to undocumented >> parents on U.S. soil. >> >> This resulted in a huge boost in Latino and Asian votes for Democratic >> rival Bill Clinton. Clinton won in a landslide, and Dole became the first >> Republican candidate in two decades to lose immigrant-heavy Florida. >> >> Not just coincidentally, in the next presidential election, Republican >> nominee George W. Bush worked hard >> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/05/06/image-conscious-bush-targets-calif/58f6e526-9579-42fc-8a6c-668b60b09cd6/> >> >> to remind Latino voters that he didn’t “bash immigrants.” >> >> Opinions newsletter >> >> Thought-provoking opinions and commentary, in your inbox daily. >> >> Even more recently, Mitt Romney’s comments encouraging “self-deportation” >> lost him a majority of Latino and Asian votes in the 2012 election. The >> GOP’s >> post-election “autopsy” >> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/opposite-day-at-the-trump-campaign/2016/03/31/92032d00-f77c-11e5-8b23-538270a1ca31_story.html>lamented >> >> this language and urged the party to embrace immigration reform ASAP. >> >> Trump’s assessment was even more damning. Just weeks after Romney’s >> defeat, Trump declared >> <http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Donald-Trump-Ronald-Kessler/2012/11/26/id/465363/#ixzz4EPV6JogL> >> >> the self-deportation comments “mean-spirited” and “maniacal.” A Republican >> Party pivot on immigration was in order, Trump announced, if it wanted to >> win back the presidency. >> >> But of course, this time, that pivot never came. >> >> These many historical precedents are not dispositive. But they are >> instructive. Like it or not, we are a nation of immigrants. Naturalized >> immigrants, and their children and kindred ethnics, are almost always a >> large share of our electorate. Today, as in other periods, they are also a >> growing share of the electorate. >> >> Politicians alienate the “aliens” at their peril. >> >> >> >> https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-republicans-new-anti-immigrant-platform-likely-spells-doom-for-them/2016/07/14/4a40f204-49fc-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html >> >> -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
