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| VDH: The Weirdness of Illegal Immigration |
| 2016-03-14 |
| h/t Instapundit Set aside for a moment all the controversies over illegal immigration--the wall, deportation, amnesty, Donald J. Trump, "comprehensive immigration reform," etc. Instead, contemplate what happens in a social, cultural, and economic context when several million immigrants arrive from one of the poorest areas in the world (e.g., Oaxaca) to one of the most affluent (e.g., California). For guidance, think not of Jorge Ramos, but of the premodern/postmodern collision that is occurring in Germany, Austria, and Denmark. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 Yeah...he's a big talker alright...I'll give em that. He is a blow hard. And just think, he does it all without a teleprompter. :) |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-14 18:00 |
| #8 that is a border security issue No. I call it a "unilateral abdication of national sovereignty issue". For the DL-DNR crowd, call it "national suicide". |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-03-14 17:48 |
| #7 I would be happy with someone who will will call it what it is - a border security issue - instead of what it isn't - an immigration issue. You want to make a change in the immigration forms, requirements, processes, and/or fees - that would be an immigration issue. You want to grant 20+ million people amnesty for violating federal law and violating our borders - that is a border security issue. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-03-14 17:45 |
| #6 Yeah...he's a big talker alright...I'll give em that. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2016-03-14 16:33 |
| #5 Trumps fantastical "solutions" do nothing to address this dynamic. Maybe. Maybe not. But, like he said in one of the first debates, if he hadn't started talking about it nobody else would have. If nothing else he lit a fire under some big fat asses. I like that. Here in San Diego, on the border, I've seen my fill of what illegal immigration can do. I'm sick and tired of Bush-Clinton trying to ignore it. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-14 16:23 |
| #4 VDH is spot on. The idea to not only tolerate and to some degree encourage lawlwssness amongst non-citizens is beyond "weird". Unless there's a Clowerd-Piven type strategy at work it's counterintuitive to believe that poverty stricken cultural enclaves are in anyway benificial. And BTW, Trumps fantastical "solutions" do nothing to address this dynamic. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2016-03-14 15:45 |
| #3 True that Trump started the talk but Cruz and Bernie Sanders have both talked about securing the borders. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-03-14 14:50 |
| #2 It's very simple, Bobby. I want a guy who will secure the damn border. Trump is the only candidate who is even talking about it. Apart from that I want a guy who is not beholden to the Chinese and the Soddies. Is that really too much to ask? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-14 14:34 |
| #1 If me of the folks that are Trump-aphobic were to read this article - I know it has a lot of words, and some of them are big words, too - they might develop an understanding of Trump's popularity. You don't have to agree with Trump to understand his appeal. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-03-14 13:16 |