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Associated Press reports:
While 41 percent of Republicans of all ages believe immigrants face a lot of discrimination in the United States, the percentage increases to 60 percent among Republicans between 18 and 29 years old, the survey found. That's a stark contrast to GOP voters 65 and older — only a third of that group says immigrants experience discrimination.
Researchers also found that 74 percent of young whites believe that immigrants are targeted for discrimination a lot, compared to 57 percent of white Americans of all ages. However, among Republicans, only for the youngest group, between 18 and 29, is that view in the majority. Even 30-to-39-year-old Republicans are evenly split, 48 percent to 48 percent, on whether immigrants undergo a lot of discrimination.
[...] "Closed-minded Republicans need to expand their perspective to see how immigrants are helping us all create a better America. I believe that this will change with the younger generation of Republicans," Kromsky said.
[...] According to the PRRI poll, 64 percent of all Americans, regardless of political affiliation and age, believe that immigrants in the U.S. illegally should have a path to citizenship if certain conditions are met; only 16 percent say they should be deported. Among Republicans of all ages, support for a path to citizenship is lower, at 55 percent. But when only Republicans between the ages of 18 to 29 are accounted for, that number rises to 62 percent.
[...] The age gap among Republicans also surfaces on gay rights: 54 percent of Republicans between 18 and 29 believe that gay and lesbian couples should marry, while half as many Republicans older than 65 agree. Younger GOP supporters are more closely aligned with the majority of Americans than their older counterparts: Overall, 58 percent of Americans support gay marriage. However, they are far from the average among young people of all political leanings: 74 percent of them support gay marriage.
From the same source, comes news on a class-action suit challenging a once-secret government program that delayed immigration and citizenship applications by Muslims; a suit that was okayed by a judge in Seattle:
U.S. District Judge Richard Jones in Seattle on Wednesday denied the Justice Department's request to dismiss the lawsuit, which was filed in February by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.
The lawsuit claims the government since 2008 has used the Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program to blacklist thousands of applications for asylum, legal permanent residency or citizenship as national security concerns.
The program imposes criteria on the applications that go far beyond what Congress has authorized, including holding up some applications if the applicants donated to Muslim charities or traveled [sic] to Muslim-majority countries, the complaint alleges.
The program was not publicly discovered until 2012, when an immigration officer discussed it during testimony in a different lawsuit. Immigrant rights advocates then filed Freedom of Information Act lawsuits to force U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to turn over more information about it, the lawsuit said.
In addition to challenging the program, the lawsuit seeks to block any other "extreme vetting" that President Donald Trump's administration might impose as an updated version of it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @09:44PM (4 children)
Globalism killed those jobs. You outsource and import and hire immigrants, and fashion the law such that alternatives are uncompetitive, because those fly-over people are sub-human to you. They don't matter in your world.
They don't wish to leave communities filled with family and long-term friends.
People of your ilk don't care for our nation. You never fly the flag. You don't have children, and thus don't have investment in the future of the nation. You don't give a shit about America. The very idea of patriotism is offensive to you.
Without the sort of people who vote for Trump, you'd soon lack the international influence required by your economy and you'd soon discover that the immigrants reshape culture in a way that is against everything you believe in -- well I assume you don't think gays should be tossed off of buildings or that parts should be cut off of girls, but maybe you'll be cool with that. If you "win", you lose.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @10:01PM
Plus you invent new things, like computers and technology, that destroy real American jobs in typing and labor. For Chrissakes, the vacuum cleaner alone cost Americans billions of good paying cleaning jobs. Modern cutlery and its fancy liberal "knife" with a silent k and have literally dessicated the American street hand washing business.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday June 26 2017, @11:02PM
On the contrary, I'm empathetic with their situation.
Not that I approve the way that they tried to solve it.
Given that I'm not an American, I find this accusation as mildly amusing.
Like the way the Italians and Irish [nationalpost.com] shaped New York at the beginning of last century? Yes, the end result is horrible indeed, one can't even sleep anymore in that city.
That's the only true part of your post (the rest is delusional).
Pity it doesn't go deep enough - it's not the globalism itself, it's your illusion that money/capital is a purpose/end, not a mean (e.g. to have a balanced society).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @02:25AM
Fuck the fly-over states.
Fuck communities filled with family or friends.
Fuck the flag.
Fuck having children.
Fuck the future of the nation.
Fuck america.
Fuck patriotism.
Fuck Trump.
Fuck the economy.
Fuck the gays.
Fuck winning.
Pull that red white and blue cock from your fetid mouth for a second and realize that true liberty means people don't have to conform to your phony, commercially manufactured cultural ideals. Those same people who manufactured that bullshit and spoon fed it to you sold this nation down the fucking river. Finally, fuck you.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 27 2017, @05:46PM
Without the sort of people who vote for Trump, you'd soon lack the international influence.....
You mean the international influence that is currently in free-fall because of Trump?
U.S. Image Suffers as Publics Around World Question Trump’s Leadership [pewglobal.org]
Hell, even Americans are starting to think we suck!
Americans See US World Standing as Worst in a Decade [gallup.com]