There's an undercurrent of racism & intolerance in the immigration debate. If we avoid talking about it, we miss part of the story… https://t.co/0Augr3ktVu pic.twitter.com/dACvN4wBU3
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 25, 2018
Category: Immigration
Trump’s threat to Maxine Waters
Lots of people disagree with Waters but only Trump threatened her. He is such a scumbag. He also slammed her IQ but I bet she can spell better than he can.
I can see both sides of comments on Waters. On the one hand, you don’t want to stoop to Trump’s level and it will turn some people off.
On the other hand, Trump’s team lives in a Fox News bubble and they need to know their policies are wrong and not popular. I would not want to eat in a restaurant that served a Trump cabinet member.
There is certainly room for civil disobedience. Don’t forget American history.
Immigrants add to the economy but the Trump administration doesn’t want you to know that
The facts don’t support Trump’s policy so they will suppress them
The article states: “Trump administration officials, under pressure from the White House to provide a rationale for reducing the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year, rejected a study by the Department of Health and Human Services that found that refugees brought in $63 billion more in government revenues over the past decade than they cost.”
Sad!
Private prisons who donated to Trump’s inauguration benefit from his policy
Most immigrants are legal
This article shows that most immigrants to the US are legal.
It states: “Border crossings don’t even account for a majority of the people joining the unauthorized population in a given year. In fiscal 2016, for instance, the Department of Homeland Security estimated 628,799 people who had previously entered the country legally overstayed their visa that year. Other groups, such as the Center for Migration Studies, have similarly estimated that visa overstays account for about two-thirds of the total number of people joining the undocumented population in any given year.
“The number attempting to get across the Southern border is probably the lowest it’s been since at least the 1970s,” said Robert Warren, a demographer with the Center for Migration Studies. “I’m surprised the [Trump] administration hasn’t really focused on overstays. That’s where the action is.””
Trump’s idea to deport immigrants without seeing judges is unconstitutional
Trump doesn’t believe in due process.
Detaining families does not deter other migrants
Trump doesn’t want to follow the immigration laws
Trump claims to support law and order but doesn’t want to follow the laws when it comes to immigration. Hypocrite. He’s playing to the bigoted part of his base.
Sad! 