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
(Score: 2) by evilviper on Tuesday June 10 2014, @02:40PM
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.
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".
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 10 2014, @03:22PM
"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?
(Score: 2) by evilviper on Tuesday June 10 2014, @06:49PM
It's a common right-wing talking point, but all evidence indicates it's extremely minuscule.
The overwhelming majority of voter fraud is from US citizens, most often felons, or people registering and voting twice in different districts. Illegals are at the very end of the list, in incredibly insignificant numbers:
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/we-don-t-have-any-problem-illegal-immigrants-voting-us-dem-congressmen-say [cnsnews.com]
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.