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posted by NCommander on Monday June 09 2014, @10:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the unbelievable dept.

Texas Republicans have decided on a platform that includes abolishing minimum wage, cancelling climate research, banning the teaching of evolution at schools, and repealing the voting rights act, among other things, but hilariously (or depressingly) the one thing on this laundry list that people are angry about is their plan to "rehabilitate" homosexuals, a practice that many say is harmful.

BBC News has more: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27774102

 
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  • (Score: 2) by evilviper on Tuesday June 10 2014, @02:40PM

    by evilviper (1760) on Tuesday June 10 2014, @02:40PM (#53775) Homepage Journal

    I'm not so convinced of the whole "extrapolate a graph into the infinite future therefore in 2030 Texas alone will have ninety billion illegals"

    The illegals can't vote, so they don't count. What counts is their legal children, and the fact that they have far, far more offspring than their white counterparts. No more illegal immigration is needed. The numbers will shift in short order, no matter how much you dislike lations and want to pretend they don't exist.

    Imagine if we repealed prohibition and all those guaranteed Democrat voters all went back home?

    We have immigration problems long before the modern drug cartel violence.

    Once they're here, they aren't going back, even if things at home improve. The economics are so much better in the US, that they're staying. Not to mention they lose all connection to Mexico after just a generation. There was a tiny amount of emigration when the economy crashed, but I never expect to see even that tiny reversal, again.

    Many hispanic/latino immigrants are from Central America, NOT (originally) Mexico, and drug violence is hardly ever an issue for them. They just all get mindlessly lumped into the same group, since they've got brown skin, speak spanish, and come from "south of here".

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 10 2014, @03:22PM

    by VLM (445) on Tuesday June 10 2014, @03:22PM (#53803)

    "The illegals can't vote"

    Must depend on state and voting laws. Around here its no problem, they all vote.

    Its kind of a catch-22, if federal policy is to not enforce existing immigration laws against illegal hispanics, and if they only reason they can't vote is violation of immigration laws, then not seeing a problem here. Enforcing the voting laws would mean enforcing the immigration laws which we aren't going to do, so...

    If the purpose of voting is to tranquilize the population by making them think they have a choice between two almost identical hand picked candidates that only differ on irrelevant PR campaigns, then whats wrong with the illegal population being tranquilized like the legals?