El Universal is a national paper in Mexico with a
paper circulation of >180,000. I have no idea how large their
digital presence is.
Today this appeared:
From Trump to Trump: American Nativism
This
is a screed PURPORTING to be not just another in the long line of
indictments against Trump as a racist, but one of AMERICA AND AMERICANS.
Because historically, we hate immigrants.
Since its foundation at the end of the 18th century, the U.S. has lived through a number of episodes of this kind.
From 1880-1924 TWO MILLION ITALIANS
LEGALLY
The following is from a FRENCH historical text (emph mine)
The
United States is a society of immigrants. Since its early days, the
country has admitted more than 50 million newcomers, a larger number of
immigrants than in any other country in history. Most people came, and
still come today, for wealth, land and freedom
Between
1840. and 1880, new European groups migrated to the United States.
During this period, 10 million people came to America LEGALLY
With
the end of the Mexican-American war (1846-1848), 80, 000 Mexicans in
Texas, California and the Southwest were given American citizenship. LEGALLY
A
new wave of immigration began in the late 1880s. Millions of the new
immigrants poured into the U.S from Eastern and Southern Europe and from
Mexico. They included Slavic people like Russians, Poles and
Ukrainians,
Mediterranean groups like Italians (because of
overpopulation, poverty and natural disasters in the 1910s), Sicilians,
Greeks, Turks and Armenians and religious groups like the Eastern
European Jews (because of the Pogroms against Jews in Russia between
1880 and 1906). These TENS OF MILLIONS arrived here LEGALLY.
Did this cause friction? YOU BET and SO WHAT? Welcome to earth. However,
nothing has changed in our POLICY towards those who wish to come here LEGALLY and become AMERICANS.
In
1965, the United States revised its immigration laws and eliminated all
race-based quotas, making it possible for millions of new immigrants to
enter the country (especially from the Third-World)
The newest
immigrants include tens of thousands of people from the Caribbean, South
and Central America, West Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia. These people
seek work and economic, political and religious freedom. Some flew to
the US after upheavals in their countries (Vietnam in 1975, Iran,
Cambodia…).
• In the 1980s, pressure grows to curtail illegal
immigration and tighten the border with Mexico. But the effort was
viewed as a failure as the US did not regain control of the border.
The US did not regain control of the border.
With
no control of the border, the CRIMINALS arriving here will immediately
face dislike from almost every American, whose parents, grandparents,
and great grandparents probably endured hardship, privation and
separation from their entire family to get here
LEGALLY. And this
dislike is not limited to them, but to the system which DRAWS THEM HERE
(Hello Corporate Republicans and Wall Street Democrats)
That is the reason for Trump.
Until
Mexico CONTROLS ITS BORDERS, as well, blocking transit from other
places to our border, and controls exit from their nation, Mexico as a
nation, and the ILLEGALLY ENTERING CRIMINALS will face a growing,
GROWING enmity form a very dangerous place…. THE MAJORITY OF THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE, who WANT to see us as we always were, the place people
come to LEGALLY.
HIGH WALLS, WIDE GATES for legals
Among
all likely voters, 51% favor building a wall on the border; 37%
disagree, and 12% are not sure. Eighty percent (80%) support the
deportation of all illegal immigrants convicted of a felony; only 11%
are opposed.
2 comments:
The reason these imbeciles refuse to distinguish between legal immigration and illegal invasions is because in Latin American countries, including Argentina and Mexico, they have this weird theory that "no human being can be illegal". Of course, logically that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever when you're talking about breaking the law. But making sense is not what you really expect from these idiots.
This is the reason that Ramos, after getting kicked out and being let back in, tells Donald Trump, "No human being is illegal" while whining about his points on illegal immigration.
Doesn't really change reality, they think it does.
I think illegal immigration should be punished just like any other crime is, except, maybe even a little more seriously. What is the logical conclusion when someone, knowingly, breaks the law of the country they're trying to get into because of selfish reasons? That they will go on to live like decent residents no matter what happens? Breaking the law is the same whether you break it in more or less serious ways. Once you know you can get away with it, psychologically you're more prone to think you'll get away with it again.
This madness needs to stop! Build the damn wall now and punish those who break your laws.
Nico,
You're absolutely correct!
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