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I suddenly got this thought of the Tribes of Isreal. Then I though wait no Jesus did not support tribalism. All were the same within Christ. All are Gods children.LOL.
Fair enoughOf course you do, because you are disagreeable.
Nevermind. You clearly didn't understand what I wrote and there is too much that is more interesting to discuss enforcement, so I won't.
I think the lines more blurred today. The threshold for what is a refugee, like economic refugee and immigrants is burring.I said immigrants. You are mistakenly thinking most are "refugees". They aren't. I know many immigrants, none are refugees.
Nevertheless even the management and intergration of immigrants has been overlooked and this has allowed many undocumented people. Normally a nation who is inviting others to come will want to ensure they fit in and contribute and not cause additional problems that will affect locals. Whether economically, socially or culturally.
Theres been a complete lack of integration. Just an open policy to bring in millions with no real plan to integrate them properly.
My nation is a little similar. We are both founded on the Brits and a mix of Europeans. We both have Indigenous populations. We both are built on foreign immigrants to the land.That's a lot of fear mongering. Maybe it works in your nation, but frankly it doesn't hold in mein. We've had mass immigration before for 50+ years between the fall of the Confederate traitors and the second rise of the Klan. In 1890, long ago and long after the nation was founded, the population with at least one foreign-born parent (including immigrants themselves), was 33% of the whole US population. The US survived that (we made it better) and in the upper Midwest it was *way* higher: Illinois 49% , Michigan 55%, Wisconsin 73%, Minnesota 75%, and at the top of the chart North Dakota 78%. (I will posit here that one of the major problems with the south is a lack of immigrants at this time
But I have always seen immigration being successful up until recently. Immigrants became part of the host nation and took on their way of life. Most came from a similar worldview. But it seems there is a growing identity crisis as to what the US should look like.
Not just the US but most western nations. It is happening in Australia as well. We just had massive immigration protests. People coming out into the streets to voice their anger and also some becoming violent.
I agree.Sorry, the black economy is not a good thing and I don't know any serious person that thinks it is.
Yeah sorry I didn't mean to expand this into economics.I understood the incentives and why it is bad.
Of all the wrong things in your post, this is the wrongest. Cutting off immigration or deporting massive numbers of people is not going to drive manufacturing. Some of those people actually work in manufacturing. The US has near full employment. Driving *more* economic activity is going to require *more* people, not fewer. (Not to mention, that Trump's illegal tariffs have really made things hard for US manufacturers with tariffs on inputs, machines, etc.)
Yeah the name "identity politics" is itself become a meaningless word and even hated. Call it whatever you like. What we are seeing with the culture wars is exactly what it says, (culture war). That entails everything, belief, race, who you are ect. Unfortunately its become the way people see the world. See politics. The political became the personal and in doing so this made it about what identity you belongs to.I thought all of you "identity politics" complainers put way more into it that just "race". (Gender, sex, religion, orientation, etc.)
Thats your narrative. "Invades cities". That in itself is loaded language. If ICE officers can have federal jurisdiction to enforce immigration law. They then act on that by going into a city. Is that an invasion. Most of the rest of the nation just thinks this is normal and legal law and order and welcome it. Getting rid of bad people makes the place safer.Well let's see, ICE recruits using (subtle) white nationalist memes and they invade cities and send people snatching squads in unmarked cars to inflict terror. Sounds pretty sketchy to me. But lets get back to our topic...
I am getting bored now. I have said what I said and am not going to change my view. Your entitled to yours. Only time will tell.That is obvious.
They are like a recurring cancer. Here are just a few outbreaks:
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Naturalization Act of 1798 - Wikipedia
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Philadelphia nativist riots - Wikipedia
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Know Nothing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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Chinese Exclusion Act - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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Bennett Law - Wikipedia
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Immigration Restriction League - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphenated_American#Hyphenated_Americanism,_1890–1920
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Ku Klux Klan - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Minuteman Project - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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Stop Islamization of America - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Travel bans under the Trump administrations - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I limited myself to those aimed directly at immigrants and omitted various movements against their descendants.
I'm not sure how well these other "western" nations (mostly Europe) and very narrow time scale impacts the US. For starters, restored immigration to the US has been going on for 60 years, not 30. Second the US has a much more robust history of immigration, and third, I don't think Canada has had the same "problems" as Europe and it has similar immigration as the US.
It works just fine. I grew up in a multicultural democracy. We even had a few "English" people around. (Though, not that many.)
That's a very nativist viewpoint you are taking.
How boring. (Also, you can't force everyone to believe in your religion, it never works.)
I don't know you well enough to determine why you are confused.
I'm not discussing ICE tactics and counter tactics.
I'm not discussing ICE tactics and counter tactics.
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I'm not going to discuss the secret police with you.
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