Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·11hIn light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!
Again, do not be fooled by those who have been saying this (The Wall, Sanctuary Cities, etc) is about illegal immigration, not legal immigration. The line continues to blur.
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·11hIn light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!
Again, do not be fooled by those who have been saying this (The Wall, Sanctuary Cities, etc) is about illegal immigration, not legal immigration. The line continues to blur.
Did he offer any evidence that immigration (legal or otherwise) was bringing the virus into the country? Yes, that was a rhetorical question.
Location: Perched on the precipice of the cauldron of truth
Posted:
Apr 21, 2020 - 6:25am
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·11hIn light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!
Again, do not be fooled by those who have been saying this (The Wall, Sanctuary Cities, etc) is about illegal immigration, not legal immigration. The line continues to blur.
Location: Perched on the precipice of the cauldron of truth
Posted:
Feb 12, 2020 - 9:36am
Do not be fooled by those saying this is about illegal immigration, not legal immigration. That is a smokescreen
The number of refugee admissions to the U.S. fell to the lowest level on record last year. This year, the Trump administration set the refugee cap even lower, reserving just 18,000 spots. (Source: Washington Post story today).
Then there is this whole proposal to admit only based on âmeritâ and the implementation of the âpublic charge rule.â
The academic literature on the impact of immigration is clear: immigrants help â not harm â the U.S. economy as a whole and commit crimes at lower levels than do native-born Americans. But the impacts of immigration in communities across the country gets muddled; some Americans donât see the positive benefits of immigration. While itâs accurate that more than half of Americaâs billion-dollar startups have an immigrant founder, the truth is that an economy is more than just the Fortune 500.
The U.S. has just 5 percent of the worldâs population; like a sports team, the U.S. must recruit talent from outside to promote its prosperity and maximize the contributions of all on the team, or the country. Immigrants continue to serve the American people well, despite the deep, structural flaws in a U.S. immigration system that hasnât been modernized in decades. By fixing that system, we can leverage immigration policy even more effectively to directly aid Americans.
Thanks. Lots of good talking points there; I shared it out in the wild...
The academic literature on the impact of immigration is clear: immigrants help — not harm — the U.S. economy as a whole and commit crimes at lower levels than do native-born Americans. But the impacts of immigration in communities across the country gets muddled; some Americans don’t see the positive benefits of immigration. While it’s accurate that more than half of America’s billion-dollar startups have an immigrant founder, the truth is that an economy is more than just the Fortune 500.
The U.S. has just 5 percent of the world’s population; like a sports team, the U.S. must recruit talent from outside to promote its prosperity and maximize the contributions of all on the team, or the country. Immigrants continue to serve the American people well, despite the deep, structural flaws in a U.S. immigration system that hasn’t been modernized in decades. By fixing that system, we can leverage immigration policy even more effectively to directly aid Americans.
Congress envisioned a white, Protestant
and culturally homogeneous America when it declared in 1790 that only
âfree white persons, who have, or shall migrate into the United Statesâ
were eligible to become naturalized citizens. The calculus of racism
underwent swift revision when waves of culturally diverse immigrants
from the far corners of Europe changed the face of the country.
As the historian Matthew Frye Jacobson shows in his immigrant history âWhiteness of a Different Color,â
the surge of newcomers engendered a national panic and led Americans to
adopt a more restrictive, politicized view of how whiteness was to be
allocated. Journalists, politicians, social scientists and immigration
officials embraced the habit, separating ostensibly white Europeans into
âraces.â
Some were designated âwhiterâ â and more worthy of citizenship â than
others, while some were ranked as too close to blackness to be socially
redeemable. The story of how Italian immigrants went from racialized
pariah status in the 19th century to white Americans in good standing
in the 20th offers a window onto the alchemy through which race is
constructed in the United States, and how racial hierarchies can
sometimes change.