Showing posts with label immigrants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigrants. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Don't Let Anyone Say President Biden Is Doing Nothing at the Southern Border
Check this out. For any and every member of the Republican Party who might try to say President Biden is ignoring or doing nothing for or about the situation on the Southern border:
“At the end of March, there were more than 5,000 children in Customs & Border Protection Patrol stations. Today, that number is approximately 600…. The amount of time children spend in CBP facilities is down by 75% — from 131 hours at the end of March to under 30 hours now.”
--Heather Cox Richardson
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Who the Hell Are We America?
Who the Hell are we, America? Who and what have we become?
We put immigrant children in cages at our Southern border and now we're forcing hysterectomies on immigrant women??Really?? This is who we want to be??
And now we have a President that has been accused by more than 2 dozen women of sexually assaulting them?
And now we have a President that has been accused by more than 2 dozen women of sexually assaulting them?
The 25 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct
So what? They're ALL lying? Really?
And that's not bad enough, now another woman just came forward and accused him of same.
And then there's this.
Can you even imagine the outrageous uproar that would have uttered forth from the Right Wingers and Republicans and conservatives across the nation if the previous President, Obama, did anything remotely similar to this? Does the Emoluments Clause of our Constitution mean nothing now, with this Trump, this President?
Really?
Is this what and who we want to be?
America?? Americans??
America?? Americans??
More. Believably/unbelievably, still more:
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Monday, August 19, 2019
Immigrants Are Bad For America, Mr. Trump?
Immigrants are bad for America? Bad for our country? Our nation? Really, Mr. Trump? Republicans?
Forget that we're a nation of immigrants, of course, this article points out exactly why we, uh, actually NEED IMMIGRANTS?
A bit from the article:
“The disconnect between Maine’s aging population and its need for young workers to care for that population is expected to be mirrored in states throughout the country over the coming decade, demographic experts say. And that’s especially true in states with populations with fewer immigrants, who are disproportionately represented in many occupations serving the elderly, statistics show.
Care workers in Maine were paid about $11.37 an hour in 2017, according to an AARP report, with a 2019 minimum wage of $11 an hour. As Kristi Penny, who has cared for Honey for four years, noted over the phone: ‘Even Dunkin’ Donuts pays you more.’
So actually, folks--this is especially to the anti-immigrant crowd--AMERICA COULD USE AND IN FACT, NEEDS IMMIGRANTS.
You racist rocket scientists.
Monday, December 3, 2018
Did You Know This About Tear Gas?
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018
What Canadians--and the World--Are Seeing Here In the US
I saw this today out on the interwebs. I couldn't confirm it's written by a Canadian but seriously, think about what they write. It seems a very real, fair and at least sad, if not ugly comment on America presently.
And he didn't even touch on shoveling yet more money to the already-wealthy and corporations while taking it from the middle- and lower-classes.
Again, thanks, Republicans!
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
US Immigration Over 100 Years
"We cannot afford to continue to use hundreds of thousands of immigrants merely as industrial assets while they remain social outcasts and menaces any more than fifty years ago we could afford to keep the black man merely as an industrial asset and not as a human being."
- Theodore Roosevelt, in speech to the Knights of Columbus, Carnegie Hall, New York, 12 October 1915.
Sunday, February 26, 2017
The Complete, Total, Even Outrageous Hypocrisy of This Donald J. Trump
You can't really comprehend the really complete and total, utter hypocrisy and even stupidity of Trump's "Muslim ban"--because that's what it is, let's face it--until you see this very brief (3 minutes, 36 seconds) video from Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times.
And besides his grandfather, think, too, of Mr. Trump's wife.
Besides being a nearly unimaginable hypocrite, the man doesn't know America's own history.
"Bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free..."
Sunday, January 29, 2017
The Unprecedented, Even Outrageous Presidency That Already Is Donald J. Trump, One Week In
Okay, end of week one of the Trump Presidency, weekend number two and what do we have yet again?
This was last weekend.
Women lead unprecedented worldwide
mass protests against Trump
There were, as I pointed out earlier, an unprecedented number of protests not just all across the nation, which I don't believe ever occurred before, but all across the world, as well, and on all 7 continents.
So here we are, one week later and he's done it again. First, across the nation.
Then, again, once again, across the world.
It's important we both know and keep in mind that all of these protests are, in fact, not just unprecedented for even a US President but especially a just-inaugurated President. Two weekends in a row of protests in the home nation and across the globe and we're only 9 days in to the administration.
Lots of us across the nation predicted a Trump Presidency would be turbulent. None of us, I think it's safe to say, thought it would be this much. It seems clear it's going to be a far wilder ride with this man, this Mr. Donald J. Trump than we would have ever imagined.
Links:
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
15 Warnings On the Upcoming Trump Presidency
Professor Robert Reich wrote and warned the following, early this month. I thought it important and that more should see it.
The 15 Warnings Signs
of Impending Tyranny
1. Exaggerate their mandate to govern – claiming, for example, that they won an election by a landslide even after losing the popular vote.
2. Repeatedly claim massive voter fraud in the absence of any evidence, in order to restrict voting in subsequent elections.
3. Call anyone who opposes them “enemies.”
4. Turn the public against journalists or media outlets that criticize them, calling them “deceitful” and “scum.”
5. Hold few if any press conferences, preferring to communicate with the public directly through mass rallies and unfiltered statements.
6. Tell the public big lies, causing them to doubt the truth and to believe fictions that support the tyrants’ goals.
7. Blame economic stresses on immigrants or racial or religious minorities, and foment public bias and even violence against them.
8. Attribute acts of domestic violence to “enemies within,” and use such events as excuses to beef up internal security and limit civil liberties.
9. Threaten mass deportations, registries of religious minorities, and the banning of refugees.
10. Seek to eliminate or reduce the influence of competing centers of power, such as labor unions and opposition parties.
11. Appoint family members to high positions of authority
12. Surround themselves with their own personal security force rather than a security detail accountable to the public.
13. Put generals into top civilian posts
14. Make personal alliances with foreign dictators.
15. Draw no distinction between personal property and public property, profiteering from their public office.
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Here's hoping he, Mr. Trump, proves us wrong.
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Things I Can Hardly Wait For With Trump
Yes, things I can hardly wait for with Donald J. Trump next year.
I can hardly wait until he realizes he can't actually build a wall across the US' Southern border, between us and Mexico.
Trump's Impossible Wall
Trump's Wall: Impractical, Impolitic,
Impossible
I can hardly wait until he realizes there is no way for one man, one government, one nation, to force another to pay for a border wall.
I can hardly wait until his followers and supporters get word the US will never build this Southern wall.
This hit yesterday. I can hardly wait for his Right Wing and Republican friends to flip on this little announcement.
This hit yesterday. I can hardly wait for his Right Wing and Republican friends to flip on this little announcement.
And this is just for starters.
I've said this before about other, again, Right Wingers and Republicans but it's especially true of Donald Trump.
What I don't hate, I love.
What I don't hate, I love.
Thursday, September 1, 2016
The Lies, Impossibilities--and Racism--of Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign
For once and for all, let's be clear. This needs to be said. Far too many times in the past and repeatedly now, with Donald Trump running his fateful campaign for the presidency and saying he and we will "send 11 million 'illegal immigrants' back to Mexico'", when, in fact, they come from all over South America, it should also be noted, here's the facts, here's what needs to be said:
Trump and Cruz Want to Deport
11 Million Immigrants. That's Literally Impossible
And if it were possible? What about the cost? What would that be?
And even if it were possible--and it's not--you can't try to deport more than 11 million people AND go on a spending spree at the same time, as he has proposed.
You Can't Deport 11.4 Million People and Simultaneously Grow the Military
And this same title is from only 3 days ago, to be clear.
And the fact is, these immigrants to our nation pay far more IN to our country than they take out, besides the fact that most are showing up and working at their jobs.
Study Finds Illegal Immigrants Pay $11.8B in Taxes
Here are the facts:
- It's logistically impossible to deport more than 11 million people
- It would be outrageously expensive, even if it were possible
And then, we have to ask ourselves, is this who we are? Is this who we want to be? Does not the idea of rounding up more than 11 million people in this nation, people that, some, anyway, have lived here for years and plenty who have family here, do we want to be the ones searching these people out and "sending them back where they came from"?
Does that not remind anyone, anyone of the Nazis, rounding up Jews in the 30s in Germany?
And that's who we want to be?
The fact that any, any candidate for the highest office in our nation is running on this platform and, for that matter, the platform of building a wall, too, across our Southern border and that it would be a centerpiece of his candidacy and that he would get as far as he has on all this nonsense is just stunning. Let's be clear on that, too. Building a wall across our Southern border is also impossible.
And again, even if this Southern wall along our border with Mexico WERE possible, the cost of it would be outrageous, even by itself, let alone if one thought they could deport 11+ million people.
Going off of materials estimate we have… 167,272,000 cubic yards of cast-in-place concrete at $93/cubic yard = $15,556,296,000 1,030,000 segments of 10’ pre-cast panels at $17/panel = $17,510,000 2,500,000 tons of steel rebar at $600/ton = $1,500,000,000 Total Material Cost Estimate:
$17,073,806,000
That's 17 billion dollars.
Just to keep people out. Or, rather, just to TRY to keep people out.
The U.S. government would have to pay to maintain the wall, which could cost as much as $750 million a year, according to an analysis conducted by Politico. And then if it wanted to man it with personnel, that would be an additional cost — border patrol has an operating budget of $1.4 billion for 21,000 agents.
Anyone who knows anything about international politics knows that one nation cannot, patently cannot, make another nation pay for anything. Well, nothing except, after the fact, possibly paying for war retributions. And that would have to be decided from an international court, long after the war was over and the losing, aggressor side would have to be found liable for damages.
Then there would be the cost of maintenance, manning and upkeep. From the same article, above:
And again, a wall?
Does that not remind anyone who knows anything about history of Nazi Germany and their wall?
Finally, here's one last insanity and this is from the last 10 hours, from Mr. Trump's trip yesterday to Mexico.
The fact is, the facts are, the presidency of Donald J. Trump are based on impossibilities, at least, and maybe emotionalism, if not out-and-out misrepresentations, if not lies.
Why are we paying any attention to this man, this Donald Trump?
And why is he seriously being considered for the highest office in our nation?
Sunday, August 21, 2016
On Jesu Cristo
Quote from FB friend Diana Pleasant-Hughes' page:
“Let’s remember, Jesus was a Jewish man of color, born homeless to an unwed teenager, who spent his formative years as an illegal immigrant before returning to his home country to hang out with twelve men, prostitutes, and socially untouchable tax collectors while he taught a radical social doctrine of equality, love, and forgiveness that included paying taxes, free healthcare, and the sharing of resources within a community.”
Thursday, November 20, 2014
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