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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    My father came here as an unemployed 16 year old boy with a scholarship to study violin, and with no prospect for a job.

    My grandmother, aunt, and cousins fled communist oppression without any real job skills, and with something like 50 dollars in their pocket,

    If you and your president had your way, my relatives probably would have been shut out of North America and the United States in favor of some skilled workers from your Aryan Master Race.
    Scholarship?
    Escaping communism?

    What's the problem?
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
    empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
    pain in abortion.

    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
    which has begun. To abort life is to end it.



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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    correct. The Dems will never pass immigration reform -
    they would rather have a million Guatemala dirt farmers illegally immigrate instead
    My immediate family came here with very little money and no job or career prospects.

    Exactly the type of people you are your fellow Trump boot-lickers would have fought tooth and nail to keep out.

    But over the course of their lives, and the lives of their progeny, there is zero doubt in my mind - none whatsoever - that my family contributed more to the United States economically, civically, and communally than any of your buck-toothed, red-necked, white trash, Trump boot licking buddies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    The hilarious thing about this is Melania and her parents would never been allowed to come here if this had been the law. Isn’t it ironic.
    It's ironic you guys say he's anti-immigrant, yet he married and had children with 2 of them.
    The anti-Trumper's new mantra:

    “B-b-but muh White supremacy”

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    its dead in the water
    If they are willing to lose the house you may be right. But that means its a gimme after 2020.
    "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
    The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Celticguy View Post
    If they are willing to lose the house you may be right. But that means its a gimme after 2020.
    dear fucking idiot


    the people voted for them to be there


    fuck you

    you lost the last election remember

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heff View Post
    It's ironic you guys say he's anti-immigrant, yet he married and had children with 2 of them.
    he welcomes mail order brides

    he hates everyone else

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    he welcomes mail order brides

    he hates everyone else
    All you guys have are your lies.
    The anti-Trumper's new mantra:

    “B-b-but muh White supremacy”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    I think a big merit would be that one would come to America with the ability to speak English, open a bank account with a year's worth of potential living expenses already covered, ability to pay for their own shelter, proof of being gainfully employed and/or not living off of American taxpayers. That's the way it is in most other countries.
    My family did not have any of that.

    My family came here barely speaking any English, they had very little money, and they certainly did not have a years worth of savings or proof of a career they could step into.

    I guess I have to count my blessings that Trump ass-lickers were not in charge of immigration policy in those days.

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    The moron did not even speak about the dreamers who have MERIT! The moron never mentioned a policy for refugees fleeing violence. The moron never mentioned the children that were separated from their parents at the border. The moron birther-in-thief.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    The hilarious thing about this is Melania and her parents would never been allowed to come here if this had been the law. Isn’t it ironic.
    What's truly ironic is that most of the standards Trump has put in place he probably couldn't live up to himself.

    I heard that he wants to include a civics test.

    Bet the dumbass couldn't pass his own test!!!
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    C'MON MAN!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    President Donald Trump on Thursday formally rolled out his proposal to overhaul the country's approach to immigration, saying the U.S. must prioritize younger and highly educated immigrants to "contribute more to our social safety net" and "restore the integrity of our broken asylum system."

    Trump also said the U.S. should crack down on asylum seekers, as migrant caravans continue to flow from Central America.



    Immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship legally should also be held to a strict, point-based merit standard, Trump said. Under his plan, the younger and more educated a person is, the more likely they are to have their applications approved. Points would also be added for having a "valuable skill, an offer of employment, an advanced education or a plan to create jobs."

    Immigrants would have to prove they're financially self-sufficient, learn English, and pass a civics exam prior to entry into the country.


    This plan would not change the overall number of immigrants allowed in the U.S. legally — only attempt to change the composition of immigration. It also wouldn't address the illegal immigration population currently in the United States, an issue Trump has controversially railed about for years.

    Also within his speech, Trump touched on the issue of security at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying the immigration proposal would ensure investment in technology that would "scan 100 percent of everything coming through." This would largely be funded, he said, by fees and revenue generated at the border
    https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...policy-1329380
    The drooling xenophobic base will go wild with this happy crappy plan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    The hilarious thing about this is Melania and her parents would never been allowed to come here if this had been the law. Isn’t it ironic.
    I'm sure there will be exceptions for medically-enhanced sex workers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heff View Post
    All you guys have are your lies.
    No, we've got yours too.

    And those far outnumber ours.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    My family did not have any of that.

    My family came here barely speaking any English, they had very little money, and they certainly did not have a years worth of savings or proof of a career they could step into.

    I guess I have to count my blessings that Trump ass-lickers were not in charge of immigration policy in those days.
    If only the indigenous ppl had had higher immigration standards, eh? lol

    My grandmother came here from Switzerland. The Toadstool probably would have loved her because, like me, she had red hair and freckles and was glow-in-the-dark pale. None of them had any money, education and few skills, and barely spoke English as well. Within a generation though they were prospering, which is true of most immigrants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heff View Post
    It's ironic you guys say he's anti-immigrant, yet he married and had children with 2 of them.
    Lusting after sexy, Eastern European models half his age does not qualify Trump as pro-immigrant.

    It qualifies him as a dirty old man with a penchant for mail order brides.

    I judge him by the words that come out of his mouth. He despises immigration from "shit hole" countries, and he despises immigrants with brown skin. He only has an affinity for immigrants of the Aryan Master Race with advanced degrees and professional certifications

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