Immigration
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This is a sequel to yesterday’s Substact: Trump and MAGA cohorts don’t lack empathy. As sadists, they have perverse empathy. I wrote this in part as a reaction to the following: ‘Cruel’: Ex-GOP lawmaker slams Trump’s border czar for Dr. Phil stunt: RawStory Needless to say, Phil McGraw is an embarrasment to me and any…
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There was one line that struck me as particularly telling in The NY Times (subscription) article How Trump’s Border Czar Thomas Homan Found MAGA. It isn’t about Homan. Is is about Trump. The goes beyond Trump saying he admires someone who is tough on policy, which Homan is. Trump was saying he admires him because he sees him…
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The H1-B visa controversy is all over the news (see Google News search). It involves immigration but has nothing to do with our southern border. Click image above to enlarge. The vast majority of Trump’s base never heard of H1-B visas or other kinds of visas until recently. At times in my life a few people have called…
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You can watch the video of him saying this here. I read about this in Trump’s lie-industrial complex by Lucian Truscott, IV in Salon today. Excerpt: He tells this lie at every one of his rallies, accusing President Biden and Vice President Harris of “letting in criminals from “insane asylums which are mental institutions on steroids”…
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Trump spoke in Aurora, CO where he says Haitian immigrants are eating cats and dogs while standing in front of signs that said “Occupied America” showing photos of purported gang members. He not only wants to deport criminals, he wants to deport legal immigrants. As if this isn’t fascistic enough, he wants to prosecute his…
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The GOP is desperate to make immigration their top campaign issue but Biden has thrown a monkey wrench into their plan.
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There are 333 million people in the United States and we grow by a million legal and illegal immigrants a year. This is a growth of .01 percent. We also have 3,533,038 square miles of land. In addtion to the above, in 2022 the US had its lowest unemployment rate ever (reference). The issue of immigation…