"Immigrants"??? Could you provide an example of my “usual xenophobic crap”?being your usual xenophobic crap
Nope, there is nothing xenophobic about the word immigrants whether it’s “immigrants”, immigrants or (immigrants)."Immigrants"??? Could you provide an example of my “usual xenophobic crap”?being your usual xenophobic crap
I apologize for implying you were xenophobic.Nope, there is nothing xenophobic about the word immigrants whether it’s “immigrants”, immigrants or (immigrants)."Immigrants"??? Could you provide an example of my “usual xenophobic crap”?being your usual xenophobic crap
Anyway, more fool me for thinking there was a conversation but you revert to your typical name calling shtick.
You didn’t imply I was xenophobic, you flat out called me xenophobic and also said I am usually xenophobic.I apologize for implying you were xenophobic.
I am sorry. You are not xenophobic.You didn’t imply I was xenophobic, you flat out called me xenophobic and also said I am usually xenophobic.I apologize for implying you were xenophobic.
Xenophobia is an irrational fear and dislike of foreigners.Regardless we are not equipped to handle an endless flow of thousands of people per month. most with little education, skills, and language.
Indeed.Xenophobia is an irrational fear and dislike of foreigners.Regardless we are not equipped to handle an endless flow of thousands of people per month. most with little education, skills, and language.
And this is utter nonsense. Our present system was created by the passage of the Refugee Act of 1980, which raised the limit of permitted asylum seekers to 50,000 and changed the definition of asylum to better reflect the United Nation's resolution on the same. The major motivator was an enormous influx of refugees fleeing the wars we had exacerbated in Southeast Asia, and this was made very explicit by the framers of the bill: we were opening our doors wider, on purpose. It passed with unanimous consent in the Senate. The entire point was to accept thousands more per year, and program has been a considerable success over the past forty years, saving hundreds of thousands of lives and bringing considerable material prosperity to our nation, which is among the wealthiest and most powerful countries on the planet. Not despite our cultural and linguistic diversity, or our young and constantly renewed and revitalized population, but because of it.The asylum laws involved were meant for limited political refugees, not for wholesale migration.
Show me a company with a staff of monolingual English speakers, and I'll show you a company that only does local business.
And in certain parts of the country, those that do local business do it in Spanish. I lived in southern New Mexico and El Paso for years. The best places to eat were often the little "hole in the wall" Mexican restaurants where you placed your order in Spanish.
Nowadays, I work for a tech company based in San Francisco, and the level of diversity would absolutely terrify some of the people in the lily-white town where I grew up. Of course there's plenty of Asian Americans (with names like Tan, Lau, Nguyen, Chu, etc.), most of the managers in my department are women, and when I went through the interview process for my upcoming job, only one of the people I talked to was a white, straight male.
The "Make America Great Again" crowd doesn't want that. "Wait...your boss is a woman? And she's black?" Yes. She's awesome. And a few months from now my boss will be a black immigrant. To my mind, this is what makes America great. Not Lumpy's dream of sending migrants who show up on these shores into camps where they can work for half as much as everyone else, but welcoming people who may not have names like "Smith" or "Jones" but have worth that can enrich our society.
Is there a point? I know US citizens who enter the US multiple times in a year.The estimated number of border crossings this year is 1.9 million people.
The estimated number of border crossings this year is 1.9 million people.
The migrant crisis is getting so hard for New York City to handle that Mayor Eric Adams sees a policy that could send thousands of people into the streets, many with nowhere to sleep and nowhere to work, as his next best move.
That's completely bullshit.1.9 million people with little English, education, and skills. Wherever they end up they will be wards of the state. Unaccompanied kids, single parents.