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Bloomberg for president?
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You’re just not paying attention.
I actually made my comment tongue-in-cheek, but if you really don’t get what he and Miller are shooting for, here are a couple of things just off the top of my head.
For starters, there is the attack on family migration, pejoratively called “chain migration”. Most migrating Asian women that I know come from Asia leaving a son or daughter behind for the express purpose of improving their lives to the point that they can bring their family over. The ban on bringing family members to America effectively ends the “American Dream”, whatever is left of that, for a huge fraction of immigrating women.
Then there is the proposal to change the lottery immigration system to a so-called “merit system”. That’s just camouflage for stating what they really mean, which is wealthy, white, educated Europeans.
Consider the effort to eliminate or greatly curtail American participation in political asylum. Most of my Chinese friends are here as political asylees. They follow the rules, get working cards, pay taxes, stand in line with every other immigrant, and then one day, maybe after five years or so, they have their case heard and get a green card. The president wants to limit that and further prevent asylees from integrating into American life until having a hearing. Again, he pejoratively frames the argument with a sound bite catch phrase like “catch and release”.
How about the recently proposed change to the immigration rules requiring immigrants to be able to demonstrate self sufficiency before entry? Using social safety nets like Medicaid or any public assistance automatically disqualifies an immigrant from citizenship. Almost everyone who comes to America looking for political or personal asylum is going to need assistance to get on their feet. It’s peanuts compared to what the average immigrant repays the country in taxes and contributions to the economy.
I have to think that half of the coal miners in West Virginia need to avail themselves of public help. Should they also forfeit the right to citizenship?
And the biggest proposed affront to immigrants and American citizens in general is the idea that somehow he can end by Executive Order the constitutionally guaranteed birthright citizenship. That is so outrageous it should make everyone shudder.
There are countless other examples of his assault on immigrants, not the least the family separation policy. I will pejoratively call that “babies in cages”, because that is exactly what it is.
Seriously, I’m not just making things up. Pay attention. No one is going to announce that America is going to change overnight, as a step function, into a hostile land for all people not like us. It’s just going to be a slow linear decline into oblivion and irrelevance. It will be chinese Ling Chi-death by a thousand cuts.
I actually made my comment tongue-in-cheek, but if you really don’t get what he and Miller are shooting for, here are a couple of things just off the top of my head.
For starters, there is the attack on family migration, pejoratively called “chain migration”. Most migrating Asian women that I know come from Asia leaving a son or daughter behind for the express purpose of improving their lives to the point that they can bring their family over. The ban on bringing family members to America effectively ends the “American Dream”, whatever is left of that, for a huge fraction of immigrating women.
Then there is the proposal to change the lottery immigration system to a so-called “merit system”. That’s just camouflage for stating what they really mean, which is wealthy, white, educated Europeans.
Consider the effort to eliminate or greatly curtail American participation in political asylum. Most of my Chinese friends are here as political asylees. They follow the rules, get working cards, pay taxes, stand in line with every other immigrant, and then one day, maybe after five years or so, they have their case heard and get a green card. The president wants to limit that and further prevent asylees from integrating into American life until having a hearing. Again, he pejoratively frames the argument with a sound bite catch phrase like “catch and release”.
How about the recently proposed change to the immigration rules requiring immigrants to be able to demonstrate self sufficiency before entry? Using social safety nets like Medicaid or any public assistance automatically disqualifies an immigrant from citizenship. Almost everyone who comes to America looking for political or personal asylum is going to need assistance to get on their feet. It’s peanuts compared to what the average immigrant repays the country in taxes and contributions to the economy.
I have to think that half of the coal miners in West Virginia need to avail themselves of public help. Should they also forfeit the right to citizenship?
And the biggest proposed affront to immigrants and American citizens in general is the idea that somehow he can end by Executive Order the constitutionally guaranteed birthright citizenship. That is so outrageous it should make everyone shudder.
There are countless other examples of his assault on immigrants, not the least the family separation policy. I will pejoratively call that “babies in cages”, because that is exactly what it is.
Seriously, I’m not just making things up. Pay attention. No one is going to announce that America is going to change overnight, as a step function, into a hostile land for all people not like us. It’s just going to be a slow linear decline into oblivion and irrelevance. It will be chinese Ling Chi-death by a thousand cuts.
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