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on Sunday March 17 2019, @07:12AM
from the at-least-the-House-and-Senate-agreed-on-something dept.
from the at-least-the-House-and-Senate-agreed-on-something dept.
breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/15/donald-trump-vetoes-attempt-to-block-national-emergency
President Donald Trump vetoed a bill designed to block his emergency declaration at the Southern Border on Friday, in a ceremony at the White House.
“Today, I am vetoing this resolution,” Trump said. “Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and I have the duty to veto it. And I’m very proud to veto it.”
Also at CBS News, CNBC, and USA Today.
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(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Sunday March 17 2019, @10:18PM
> Another thing: I'm descended from immigrants. My ancestors got off a boat from England. No one stopped them and said "you can't come here." That was in 1634, BTW. It's only relatively recently that the whole "only legit asylum seekers" attitude has arisen.
Times change. "Well, back in the day" is a pretty shitty argument.
> They were hurting no one — there wasn't a Mexican restaurant here before, and now there isn't one again. They weren't taking anyone's jobs.
I don't think any one individual is qualified to make such an assessment. Even if we were able to assess that this was in fact the case, we simply can't assess every single case of "unlawful presence" and hand out exemptions. There is a process. The process may be flawed. But if you're violating the process and you get caught, of course you're getting deported. Them's the breaks.
> I see no problem with people coming here to better themselves, and (hopefully) better our country in the process.
As someone whose parents immigrated here and naturalized legally under merit, I have no problem with this either. Except by anecdotal accounts, many illegal immigrants and so-called asylum seekers are coming strictly to better themselves with zero care about the county. I try to stay out of polarized political arguments since they are just "he says, she says" and even the cited studies on both sides tend to be biased, but from anecdotal evidence through everyday conversation, legal immigrants are the biggest opponents against illegal immigration. They did the hard work to earn their citizenship, so they detest the people who think they can just waltz in and get naturalized through what is effectively pity.
I wasn't at all surprised that Trump got elected. If you found it surprising, you're part of the reason why Trump got elected. There is a huge proportion of US citizenry who feel like they aren't being heard. Whether or not they're correct, they feel like they are being neglected in favor of immigrants, and they are pissed that as American citizens they are somehow being treated as less important than non-American citizens. I won't talk about whether or not voting for Trump was the right decision for those people, but that's the reason Trump won.
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