Legal immigration is far more insidious and dangerous than illegal aliens. We have just had three of the four highest decades of LEGAL IMMIGRATION in our history. 80% of our population growth is due to legal immigrants and their children.
Few people realize that immigration was virtually shut down from 1920 until the late 1960’s. I think Johnson eased up because he saw the rising standard of living in the US as eroding the Democrat voting base plus the impact of civil rights legislation going into effect. Now Democrats want to totally ignore the law and for us to stop enforcing the laws we do have on the books. Why the GOP does such a piss-poor job of getting this message across just baffles me.
The GOP has totally lost its spine. We conservatives have given them the House, the Senate, and now the WH, and what have they done with that power for us? Absolutely nothing. McConnell can’t even get them to pass tax reform, let alone repeal Obamacare and immigration reform like EVERY ONE OF THEM PROMISED! Sorry, GOP, but until I see you doing something for US, my wallet’s closed.
Part of it is political correctness.
We live in a politically correct world now.
There is such fear of being called racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, all that stuff — this affects our social/political debates and discussions of what our laws and policies should be in this area.
So in the area of immigration, we are told “we are a nation of immigrants”, and how you are xenophobic if you oppose illegal alien amnesty, and then the debate is shut down. Then people are put in the position of trying to show they are not bigoted or xenophobic, rather than being allowed to discuss the merits of the actual issues involved.
The same thing happens with other issues too.
If you oppose affirmative action, you are racist.
If you oppose all this LGBT transgender bathroom business, you are bigoted against transsexual peoples.
If you opposed homosexual marriage, you are likewise bigoted against LGBT peoples.
If you oppose global warming, you are said to be in favor of pollution.
If you favor repeal of Obamacare, you want 20 million people to lose health insurance. You are a heartless bastard.
If you favor making changes to Medicare so it doesn’t go broke as scheduled, you want to throw Granny off the cliff. Likewise, you are a heartless bastard.
The left does this on so many issues. They call you vile names, and put you in the position of trying to demonstrate that you aren’t some sort of heartless bigot, rather than being able to discuss the merits of laws and policies. And the politicians among us have those fears too.
You need to stop hiding false premises in statements like this. McConnell's K-street paymasters want none of this stuff.
Legal immigration is far more insidious and dangerous than illegal aliens. We have just had three of the four highest decades of LEGAL IMMIGRATION in our history. 80% of our population growth is due to legal immigrants and their children.