Sorry, but it’s not racist to screen
out migrants who’ll be a burden
by
Jonathan S. Tobin
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
8/13/2019 5:32:46 AM
Last week’s mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, has sent public discourse about immigration off the rails.
It has allowed radicals to frame as racist normal law enforcement activities and immigration rules. We saw this in New York recently, with anti-ICE protesters stopping traffic on the West Side Highway and holding sit-ins at an Amazon store to protest the company’s compliance with immigration rules.
In the left’s telling — and it’s increasingly hard to distinguish the hard left from the soft — the administration and those who support it are no better than the insane white nationalist who committed the El Paso atrocity.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
ireneR 8/13/2019 6:16:01 AM (No. 150643)
Well I'm confused, I thought I was told that they come here to work and that they DON'T use welfare benefits. So when did that change? Yesterday?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/13/2019 6:48:34 AM (No. 150662)
Screening of migrants to verify they are working is good policy. Thank you, Mr. President. Obama should have done this, but he was more interested in creating a welfare state indebted to the Democrats since they are completely dependent on the government.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 8/13/2019 6:58:26 AM (No. 150675)
Bravo President Trump!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
1976Ag 8/13/2019 7:54:11 AM (No. 150702)
Illegal alien is not a race. Neither is "Hispanic". Why do we allow the enemy to use the terms "racist" or "racism" to describe everything they disagree with. They use it because they think it makes everything sound worse that is. There are three races and that is a biological term not a social construct. Why do we keep letting them have a free pass on this???
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LesUNo 8/13/2019 7:58:53 AM (No. 150707)
The application to emigrate to the States requires proof of birth, proof of citizenship, college transcripts and even a police report. A chest X-ray is also a part of the application, for obvious reasons. In my professional capacity i was required to have a job waiting upon my arrival. Never did I feel put upon. It was a long and arduous process that I never questioned. Merit based immigration is the only sensible course. This immigrant is not only a naturalized citizen, I have been accused of becoming a naturalized “Republican”. Guilty as charged. Married a Conservative and raised three more. God Bless America.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 8/13/2019 8:42:39 AM (No. 150762)
Absolutely. It has been the law for well over 100 years. Just enforce the laws.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/13/2019 8:53:20 AM (No. 150781)
A good friend of mine was an immigrant from China. He went through the green card and sponsor process all the while working for various computer software companies and went through ten years of hell wondering if his citizenship would ever be approved. Shortly after it was granted he started a software support company and is now a multi-millionaire. That is the kind of person I want to see being allowed into this country. I think the number of illegals on welfare would shock all of us, including the government because it's all out of control.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 8/13/2019 8:59:11 AM (No. 150788)
ICE, this is your invitation to Adams County, PA. I was told by a farmer's relative that the immigrant workers want to be paid in cash. This way it shows that they are not making money and they apply for social benefits. The cash is sent home or stored in their mattress. I'm not sure how much of this is true, but it's not up to me to investigate it. It's up to ICE and IRS....go for it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Jebediah 8/13/2019 9:22:39 AM (No. 150833)
Originally, entry into the United States via Ellis Island had some strict requirements, beyond an exam showing there was no disease. Applicants had to show that they had a legitimate sponsor who would meet their financial needs, and also proof that they had some hireability, so that they wouldn't be a burden on the American taxpayer.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
planetgeo 8/13/2019 9:51:29 AM (No. 150886)
I too am a proud naturalized citizen. I have no doubt whatsoever that if there was a poll of those of us who came here legally and followed the required process it would be nearly unanimous in favor of these rules. It boggles my mind how the Democrats and the enemedia have managed to put so much of the public and the politicians on the defensive on this issue. And not just on the defensive but treated as evil racists. It's absurd.
You should be laughing in their faces or angrily telling them off. This is complete nonsense and normal people should be retaking control of not just the immigration laws but also the entire concept of what constitutes normality.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/13/2019 10:09:13 AM (No. 150908)
One of my grandparents came through Ellis Island as a two-year-old- with her mother and siblings. Her father had come before she was born and had been working in the mines in Pennsylvania, sending money home. Meanwhile his wife - my great-grandmother - had been running a little baking business out of her home. She was able to surprise him when they were reunited by handing him all that he had sent her. She and the little family had lived on what she had earned.
That is what people went through to come to the United States in the past.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
padiva 8/13/2019 10:43:04 AM (No. 150943)
My sister married a man from South America in 1974. My parents had to sponsor him and support him until he found a job.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 8/13/2019 11:34:55 AM (No. 151008)
Twenty years ago our neighbor in the adjoining townhouse was an 87-year-old Russian Jew immigrant, born in 1912. When she was 4 she witnessed her Rabbi being killed by the Cossacks in her village square, on which her house faced. When she was 5 her mother was ill at home while her father was in the hospital with typhus. Her mother sent Bernice and her older brother, 7, to the hospital to inquire about their dad. They were told their father was dead, but neither of them understood the meaning of "dead", so they continued to wait on the bench in the hall. The nurse became so frustrated with them she eventually took them into the morgue and showed them their father's body, "This is dead."
The Bolshevik Revolution was gaining strength and her mother's relatives in Chicago sent money to get the small family out of Russia. Along with a few other families from her village, they escaped across the Black Sea to Istanbul. Her mother was literate in several languages and organized their small Russian Jew exile community, becoming their de facto leader. They were in Istanbul for over two years living off the charity of their American relatives, as it was against Turkish law for migrants to work. Eventually, and somehow, her mother saved enough for passage to the US for her children and they landed at Ellis Island in 1919. They were there for two months waiting out their health quarantine; her mother and herself were separated from her brother because he was 12 and sent to the men's section. They could only visit between a chain-link fence. They eventually made it to Chicago, where Bernice began working in a potato chip factory when she was ten.
She married and moved to Los Angeles where she and her husband ran a gift shop and raised a family. As life would have it, her brother owned a hardware store in the San Fernando Valley and it turned out to be the one my Dad frequented and I knew her brother when I was a little girl.
This is the story of immigrants in America.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Franz 8/13/2019 12:14:12 PM (No. 151044)
If I remember correctly, It is the Progressive/Democrats that claim immigrants "come here to work and that they DON'T use welfare benefits." This is true of the legal immigrants that come to our country.
But, this is not true of the illegal aliens that cross our boarders illegally. A small number want to work, but most come to this country for the benefits. Their claims that they are seeking sanctuary from death threats ring hollow when you consider that Mexico offers sanctuary, but they track all the way across Mexico so they can enter the United states illegally.
The only reason the Progressive/Democrats want them to come in and be given citizenship is to have a captive voting block bought and paid for by welfare programs paid for by tax payers..
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/13/2019 12:33:33 PM (No. 151069)
They should try emigrating to Australia. I’ve been there several times and on one trip chatted with my taxi driver who was from Turkey. He told me that you must already have a job waiting for you before you are allowed to set foot in the country and that you must keep that job or always be employed to be allowed to stay. Since their population is so much smaller than ours, they are able to keep track of their immigrants.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/13/2019 12:53:36 PM (No. 151090)
Try to get a work permit in a country like the Czech Republic. My nephew had to prove he had a job waiting and $6,000 in the bank before he could get the permit. Sounds good to me. They don't want hundreds of thousands living off their taxpayers as we allow here.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
moebellini3 8/13/2019 2:51:59 PM (No. 151220)
To a democrat, everybody with an opposing view is a racist. Democrats in general are morally corrupt, weak minded hypocrites who believe anything their nazi party leaders tell them. They want you to believe that all of the illegals pouring across the Mexican border are coming here to get a job. Yea, right. What job. Take a look at those caravans. Hundreds of thousands crossing our borders and 99% are total illiterates. They coming here for one thing, benefits. Coming here to be supported by our tax dollars. You see democrats see one thing, votes. Votes so they can turn us into Cuba or Venezuela. Think about it, what have democrats ever done to educate people. Look at every democratic run city and you will find that each generation is more iklliterate than the previous one. Its called the democratic plantation. Thats where all of these immigrants go, right onto the plantation. Got it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jorgecito 8/13/2019 3:21:49 PM (No. 151232)
My dear grandpa had to have a sponsor. He emigrated from Sweden as a young man in the late 19th century.
And he did list a sponsor.
But I know his sponsor never had to help grandpa support himself.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/13/2019 6:03:36 PM (No. 151348)
I say we extend this culling to those infesting America...
Within a few months there will be 2% Leftists still around hiding...
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