[xzins]

Trump not out of the mainstream at all. In fact, 55% of Americans supported the MOST restrictive position on immigration. And that makes obvious sense....why would Americans cheer for foreigners to come in and take their jobs, live off their welfare, and provide security risks to their safety?

[ek_hornbeck]

When the media characterizes views as "mainstream" vs. "fringe/extreme," they aren't referring to any kind of statistical majority among Americans. They're referring to the spectrum of opinion allowed by the political establishment, i.e. the range of views acceptable to the DNC and the RNC. The GOP establishment has embraced amnesty and has jumped aboard the liberal bandwagon on immigration generally, so with both parties championing illegals, anything contrary to open borders and amnesty has become "extremist" or "fringe," even though a majority of Americans oppose them.

When you get to define the limits of acceptable dissent, all definitions are self-referencing.

[JediJones]

Why in the world do current immigration policy and the advocates for more immigration constantly say we’re in need of both low-skilled and high-skilled immigrants? Who DON’T we need more of according to them? Do we not already have a country? You’d think we were trying to populate a barren desert for the first time judging by what they say.

We need more of everybody according to them because Democrats want to increase their non-white voting blocs and big business knows the more immigrants that come, the more the supply of labor goes up and the less they can pay their workers. We can’t stay a rich country if we continue “melding” with the third world. Our wages will end up averaging out with those of what the third-world immigrants are willing to accept until we’re just as poor as they are now.