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On one hand, I understand why some would want to limit immigration, on the other, US immigration policy is historically racist. Apparently, all those immigrants pouring through Ellis Island and piling on top of each other in tenements weren't a drain on our system. We had no immigration laws whatsoever until non-whites started coming. The first immigration law in the country was literally called the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Immigration has always been central to the American experience, and for most of that time it was free and unfettered...open borders, if you will. Most of you are here, right now, because of open borders. But, of course, your ancestors did it the wi...I mean "right" way.
Do you think labor needs are the same today as they were in the 19th and early 20th Centuries? Then it took ten people to do the work of one person now in a lot of fields. Allowing Latin American countries to offload their poor (but often brilliant) citizenry on us has kept their countries in the crapper. They would be better off without the brain drain, and this generation of activists could probably effect some changes there if they would expend as much energy fighting for reforms there as they do fighting for open borders here.
I would love to see this entire hemisphere thriving.
On one hand, I understand why some would want to limit immigration, on the other, US immigration policy is historically racist. Apparently, all those immigrants pouring through Ellis Island and piling on top of each other in tenements weren't a drain on our system. We had no immigration laws whatsoever until non-whites started coming. The first immigration law in the country was literally called the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Immigration has always been central to the American experience, and for most of that time it was free and unfettered...open borders, if you will. Most of you are here, right now, because of open borders. But, of course, your ancestors did it the wi...I mean "right" way.
Our population is at the high side of ideal right now.
Why would we want to keep bringing people in? There is nothing in the Constitution about perpetual immigration.
GOP State Rep. Matt Rinaldi says he called Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the protesters, several of whom carried signs proclaiming "I am illegal and here to stay."
At this point, Rinaldi says that Romero "physically assaulted" him, and that another Democratic lawmaker, Poncho Nevarez, threatened to "get" Rinaldi on his way to his car."
On one hand, I understand why some would want to limit immigration, on the other, US immigration policy is historically racist. Apparently, all those immigrants pouring through Ellis Island and piling on top of each other in tenements weren't a drain on our system. We had no immigration laws whatsoever until non-whites started coming. The first immigration law in the country was literally called the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Immigration has always been central to the American experience, and for most of that time it was free and unfettered...open borders, if you will. Most of you are here, right now, because of open borders. But, of course, your ancestors did it the wi...I mean "right" way.
Ya, it is a privilege to come here and be apart of the greatest nation ever.
It is not a right and we get to choose who comes and who stays out.
Actually, they were assumed to be because they had signs saying they were illegal and not going anywhere.
Ditto.
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