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Don’t fall for Trump’s pivot toward ‘humane’ immigration policies [barf alert]
Washington Post ^ | August 22, 2016 | Editorial Board

Posted on 08/23/2016 9:26:12 PM PDT by grundle

... at least 8 million unauthorized immigrants are employed, most have been in this country for 15 years or longer, and typically they do jobs — tending crops, washing dishes, mowing lawns — that native-born Americans do not want. In basic economic terms, illegal immigrants meet the labor market’s demand for lower-wage employees, for which there is a shortage of available legal workers.

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To: Williams

It makes no real sense.


21 posted on 08/23/2016 10:05:28 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: grundle

Part of the reason they can’t get a higher paying job is: THEY CANNOT SPEAK ENGLISH .. and when they come here, English is not demanded of them.

Several years ago in SoCal, they had a thing called “Bi-lingual Education”. What a joke. We ended up with almost a whole generation of young people who could not speak English .. and therefore could not get a job .. ANOTHER GREAT ACHIEVEMENT BY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.

Finally, enough Repubs ended up in the State House, and changed the policy. Emergence into English - ONLY.


22 posted on 08/23/2016 10:51:39 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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To: grundle

Sorry, but I am waiting for the Washington Post to apologize and straighten out all its past rabid lies about Trump before I can take them seriously.


23 posted on 08/23/2016 11:21:08 PM PDT by AndyTheBear (Hating Islam is the natural consequence of caring about people in the Middle East, including Muslims)
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To: CyberAnt

Yeah. Bi lingual teaching meant that Hispanics never learned English, and English speakers never learned anything because the class became so slow they got nothing done.


24 posted on 08/23/2016 11:41:28 PM PDT by Noob1999
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To: stars & stripes forever

No offense but there are jobs I had to do that I hated, and I knew others that scrubbed toilets for a while for they needed the work, they can go F**k themselves, I swear these people piss me off.


25 posted on 08/23/2016 11:52:23 PM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: grundle

All Trump has to do is beat again and again how unfair it is to allow ANY sort of legalization for illegal immigrants when LEGAL immigrants have to wait years for citizenship let alone government funds.


26 posted on 08/23/2016 11:58:33 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: jobim; grundle

>>that doesn’t mean that we must read them, or post them.<<
Amen. Well said.


27 posted on 08/24/2016 12:40:33 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: grundle

Unadulterated crap from The Post.

Aren’t they embarrassed to be putting out this bum fodder?


28 posted on 08/24/2016 1:24:50 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: grundle

Guy posted on another website:

“Why do they keep saying Trump wants to rip families apart? Didn’t the illegals rip a Mexican family apart back home when they snuck into the US? Maybe Trump’s just a re-uniter, who wants to re-unite these illegals with their back-home families!”

Funny


29 posted on 08/24/2016 2:54:47 AM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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To: grundle

If breaking our laws is allowable for people who are not citizens, then it MUST be allowable to citizens. I volunteer for bank robbing.


30 posted on 08/24/2016 3:42:50 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: grundle

Ignorant snobs.

My classy white neighbor cleans houses for wealthy clients and makes $150 per day. Another immigrant (Polish) couple cleans homes for realtors before ‘open house’ showings - earn $300 per house.

Also, all the grass cutters in our neighborhood are young, white entrepreneurs with equipment and drive. They earn great, regular income during the summer and clean snow in the winter.

These are the true American workers - no welfare - no excuses - finding opportunity and success.


31 posted on 08/24/2016 3:47:04 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers.)
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To: grundle

Exactly! It’s weird to see fishwapo arguing for lower wages.


32 posted on 08/24/2016 4:09:18 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: grundle
native-born Americans do not want

If they stopped giving them "native born Americans" a comfortable life for doing nothing, and told then to either work or starve, I bet a lot ore would decide then jobs are OK....

33 posted on 08/24/2016 4:09:37 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: grundle

Americans’ wages have been cut in half, if not more. Their standard of living has remained about the same only because most women are working along with their husbands.

Illegal immigration has forced down wages all across the economic spectrum. The cure for these people is more immigration.


34 posted on 08/24/2016 4:35:00 AM PDT by odawg
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To: grundle
Washington Post hasn't a clue of what the word ILLEGAL means
35 posted on 08/24/2016 4:43:46 AM PDT by IC Ken
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To: grundle

Trump’s immigration policies have ALWAYS been humane.

No one says we should mistreat illegals.
No one says we should beat them.
No one says we should waterboard them.
No one says we should hit them with electric cattle prods.

We just want to SEND THEM HOME. Something EVERY country on earth does to one degree or another.


36 posted on 08/24/2016 6:07:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Williams

“Just maybe bums on welfare should be told to take these jobs rather than take more money from productive Americans.”

Agreed, but you realize that this statement also accepts the liberal premise that all illegal immigrants are hard-working job-seekers.

Before I buy into that, I’d like an objective audit of how many illegals are on welfare of one kind or another. Then, if you can’t figure out how to get all illegals to leave at once, you can start by throwing out the welfare cases.


37 posted on 08/24/2016 7:58:22 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

The humane thing to do for all American citizens would be to give the illegals 48 hours to get themselves on transportation out of here or walk back across the border. No exceptions. Let the countries them came here from worry about their humane treatment.


38 posted on 08/24/2016 8:10:54 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Trump has terrified the world's elite.)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Agreed


39 posted on 08/24/2016 9:13:03 PM PDT by Williams (Make America Great Again)
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