Being anti-illegal immigration was a perfectly democratic stance in 2005. Actually, there was a notion that republicans and their corporate partners prevented us from doing anything about it. Lou Dobbs was really big on this. Ed Schultz too. Bernie Sanders as well.
You could practically mark on a calendar when the shift occured. The democratic platform was very much about getting illegal immigration under control in 2008. By 2010 they weren't calling them illegal anymore.
Obama's first campaign involved a border wall was also very open about disliking the concept of sancturary cities (actually opposed them heavily until the end of the presidency). He didn't think they shoud be hirable.
(This post was last modified: 06-14-2018 03:05 PM by nomad2u2001.)
I’m not a big fan of the wall, just because I think it’s more about show and a waste of money, but other than that I’m far more aligned with the right on immigration than the left. I can not understand any opposition for example for making visas merit based. My brother lives in Australia now and they have a merit based visa program based on points for education level, profession, years of work experience, number of languages spoken, etc. I don’t understand any rational reason to oppose something like that. My gf was born in Nigeria and her family immigrated here when she was 10, but her mom is a nurse, dad is in finance, and she has multiple cousins that are doctors, lawyers, and PAs. That’s the type of people you want coming to the US, regardless of what country they were born in. I don’t this this has anything to do with race, or at least it shouldn’t as long as you are basing merit on the persons merit and not what country they were born in.
(06-15-2018 09:06 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote: I’m not a big fan of the wall, just because I think it’s more about show and a waste of money, but other than that I’m far more aligned with the right on immigration than the left. I can not understand any opposition for example for making visas merit based. My brother lives in Australia now and they have a merit based visa program based on points for education level, profession, years of work experience, number of languages spoken, etc. I don’t understand any rational reason to oppose something like that. My gf was born in Nigeria and her family immigrated here when she was 10, but her mom is a nurse, dad is in finance, and she has multiple cousins that are doctors, lawyers, and PAs. That’s the type of people you want coming to the US, regardless of what country they were born in. I don’t this this has anything to do with race, or at least it shouldn’t as long as you are basing merit on the persons merit and not what country they were born in.
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Next time people yell about the border.....
