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John Kelly: Illegal immigrants don't have skills, can't 'integrate' well into modern US society
Washington Examiner ^ | May 11, 2018 | Katelyn Caralle

Posted on 05/11/2018 1:46:48 PM PDT by EdnaMode

White House chief of staff John Kelly said in an interview set to air Saturday that the majority of people who enter the U.S. illegally do not “assimilate” easily into modern American society.

“The vast majority of the people that move illegally into the United States are not bad people … but they’re also not people that would easily assimilate into the United States into our modern society,” Kelly told NPR.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; assimilation; illegalimmigrants; illegalimmigration; illegalsaliens; immigration; johnkelly; kelly
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The left is going crazy over this.
1 posted on 05/11/2018 1:46:48 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

What kind of crap is he trying to pull? I think the Botox Buffalo speak with fork tongue.


2 posted on 05/11/2018 1:50:13 PM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: EdnaMode

True, otherwise no one would ever have to push ‘1’ for English!


3 posted on 05/11/2018 1:50:15 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: EdnaMode

A primary reason that they don’t assimilate well is that there is a critical mass in their ethnic groups so that they stay within those familiar boundaries. Another reason is because these low-skilled workers are here to provide cheap labor. Their low levels of income make it near impossible to leave their familiar environment.


4 posted on 05/11/2018 1:50:16 PM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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To: EdnaMode

Speak the truth..Commies go nuts


5 posted on 05/11/2018 1:50:44 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: EdnaMode

About time Kelly started sounding like he was on the side of the citizens and the rule of law.


6 posted on 05/11/2018 1:51:19 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: EdnaMode

He speaks the truth. How many immigrants end up living off US taxpayers? There shouldn’t be a one. Either they have jobs or they have sponsors when they come here. To freely hand out taxpayer benefits is stupid.


7 posted on 05/11/2018 1:51:28 PM PDT by Wm F Buckley Republican (?)
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To: EdnaMode

“… but they’re also not people that would easily assimilate into the United States into our modern society,” Kelly told NPR.”

We had this brought clearly home to us earlier this week. We own a small commercial office building in a “well-known North Bay city. We have had a problem with unauthorized parking taking up tenant parking space. So when one tenant told us that a particular car had been parked there all day and that the woman who left it walked down the block away from our building. We found her in a Mexican market down the street. She runs the “remittances window” there. We had to stand in line with the Mexicans (probably ten or more) there sending money “home” to speak with her. On the outside, the place looks like a small supermarket, but inside, it’s all Mexico, all the way. It is a true statement that they have no intention of “assimilation.”


8 posted on 05/11/2018 1:55:59 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: EdnaMode

but voting Dem is just like voting back home ,LOL


9 posted on 05/11/2018 1:57:09 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: EdnaMode
Did John Kelly mention that he and DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen publicly supported DACA Amnesty during their Senate confirmation hearings?
10 posted on 05/11/2018 1:59:02 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Wm F Buckley Republican

Here’s what he said.....I pulled it together...

.....”Let me step back and tell you that the vast majority of the people that move illegally into United States are not people that would easily assimilate into the United States, into our modern society...............They’re overwhelmingly rural people. In the countries they come from, fourth-, fifth-, sixth-grade educations are kind of the norm........... They don’t speak English; obviously that’s a big thing. ….... They don’t integrate well; they don’t have skills......... They’re coming here for a reason. And I sympathize with the reason. But the laws are the laws..... … The big point is they elected to come ‘illegally ‘into the United States, and this is a technique that no one hopes will be used extensively or for very long.

(White House Chief of Staff John Kelly )


11 posted on 05/11/2018 1:59:12 PM PDT by caww
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To: pgkdan

They enter the country illegally. They won’t learn English so that they can function in an English speaking country. They don’t become citizens. How *can* they assimilate? Why would any rational person think otherwise? Of course,the liberal agenda appeals to the irrational.


12 posted on 05/11/2018 2:00:04 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide
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To: EdnaMode

The multitude of Spanish language tv and radio stations are dispositive evidence that the illegals do not want to assimilate and have no intention of doing so.


13 posted on 05/11/2018 2:01:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EdnaMode
The TRUTH always sticks in the lefties' craw.

Puerto Rico is a protectorate of this nation, so members of that populace are allowed to come here, LEGALLY, and stay.

During WWII and right afterwards, a HUGE amount of them flooded into NYC. The vast majority didn't know any English, had never lived in a city of any size, didn't have running water, and so...had a GIGANTIC problem adapting! They threw garbage and "night waste" ( and yes, there were bathrooms in the apartments they were living in, but they didn't use them )off fire escapes. Many of the kids joined/formed gangs. It took about a generation or so, but they DID integrate and assimilate.

The garbage that is coming here from Central America and Mexico, ILLEGALLY, today...they're much lower down on the human totempole! Kelly is 100% correct.

14 posted on 05/11/2018 2:02:22 PM PDT by nopardons
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pgkdan wrote:

True, otherwise no one would ever have to push ‘1’ for English!
(I wish I had posted that first.)


15 posted on 05/11/2018 2:02:37 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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To: EdnaMode

Uh oh! John Kelly is a non politically correct truth talker. The media is stunned and disoriented.


16 posted on 05/11/2018 2:02:57 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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Yes! My RN Wife has been nursing for 47 years and was told by an “Illegal Alien” Lady with several ninos in tow for sniffles at an Urgent Care that she needed to learn Spanish. My wife responded politely that the lady was in America, learn to speak English. Of course, that was several years ago; now she’d probably be fired.


17 posted on 05/11/2018 2:03:38 PM PDT by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is a man's gives to himself." ~ Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: EdnaMode

So true!


18 posted on 05/11/2018 2:05:48 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: EdnaMode

All one needs to do to verify this is walk into any Home Depot restroom and look at all of the used toilet paper that is deposited into the trash cans.


19 posted on 05/11/2018 2:08:36 PM PDT by Howie66 ("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
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To: EdnaMode

What does he mean that they have no skills. Have you seen the tattoo art work that they perform in jail? They are also skilled at using machetes to decapitate their victims.


20 posted on 05/11/2018 2:13:02 PM PDT by forgotten man
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