grasping the after wind
That's grasping after the wind
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-He seeks to rollback birthright citizenship
-The Trump administration embraced the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act in August 2017.[11][12] The RAISE Act seeks to reduce levels of legal immigration to the United States by 50% by halving the number of green cards issued.
-In December 2015, Trump proposed a temporary ban on foreign Muslims entering the United States (the U.S. admits approximately 100,000 Muslim immigrants each year)[61] "until we can figure out what's going on".[62][63][64][65] In response to the 2015 San Bernardino shooting, Trump released a statement on "Preventing Muslim Immigration" and called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on"
I would suggest that the above things are not anti immigration. They do not stop immigration from happening they regulate it. Unless you contend that regulating a thing makes it ant i that thingI do not see how you can call these anti immigration policies. Are regulations on what a businesses or citizen might do anti business or anti citizen policies?
Unless someone is deliberately playing naive for purposes of deniability, it's as plain as day that these proposals are nothing more than a pandering technique for people who have anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim sentiments. Basically...the kind of folks who falsely think "our economy is hurting from all the Mexicans coming over" and who think every Muslim immigrant is a small piece of the Trojan horse from which Sharia Law will somehow emerge.
I would say it is plain as day that those policies are addressing actual problems within our previous immigration law enforcement. I do not read minds so I cannot tell you what Trump thinks and I really wouldn't venture to guess at that as from his public pronouncements the man seems not to know himself what he thinks from minute to minute. . Frankly ,I do not need to read minds I simply look at whether a policy makes sense or not and is legally allowable . From my perspective the policies you quoted ( with the exception of RAISE as that is not a policy nor would Trump have the power to institute it only congress makes laws. ) are simply a practical way to enforce immigration law through regulating how many are legally allowed to come into the country. If our previous policies were allowing, by non enforcement of laws, a larger percentage of people coming from Mexico and people coming from primarily Muslim countries than from elsewhere, was the previous policy bigoted in favor of those groups and against all non Mexicans and non Muslims? I would assume that one should be consistent in their arguments So, if policies aimed at enforcing immigration laws could be considered bigotry because it ends up curtailing immigration from two groups more than other groups then non enforcement of immigration laws could be considered bigotry against those not included in those two groups.
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