He’s not blowing dog whistles, he’s slapping his thighs and saying “Wer ist ein gunter Hund?”
Trying to get to into the United States. Now would you care to answer mine?
Not if they are just show ponies, who will just lay down barb wire, deliver lunches or maybe call border patrol.
But yes if they try to actively enforce the law it will violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
Mostly it will just cost a ton of money and accomplish nothing but keeping military personal away from their families during the holidays. These individuals are looking to apply for asylum which legally has to happen in the country or at a port of entry. They already have “walls” there.
So you are anti-legal immigration? Applying for asylum is legal and must happen on US soil (including a boarder crossing or port of entry)
Why are Hondurans uniquely disqualified from perusing legal immigration?
You make a lot of assumptions. To answer your slanted question, no, I don’t consider myself “anti-legal immigration”. And I don’t believe I’ve ever said anything remotely likely “Hondurans [are] uniquely disqualified from [pursuing] legal immigration”, so perhaps you should find someone who thinks that and pose your last question to them.
How about this?
Seems to me a true American-loving patriot should man up and go down there with their God given right to have M4’s and fend off the evil scourge that is coming to take away their jobs and way of life.
That’s a pitifully weak argument. I’m embarrassed for you.
‘There might be another kerfuffle’ != ‘I’m afraid’, for the easily confused.
Because a group of people, who have stated that they are forming a carvan to apply for asylum are being discussed.
You are arguing in favor of tactics that are in violation of these potential immigrants rights under federal law and federal law and international treaties.
You are actively arguing to block people from legally applying for asylum which is legal immigration.
Which means you are arguing against legal immigration, and you are focusing on a caravan that is from Honduras.
I am simply reading in to your arguments on this thread.
Where did I do this? Please be specific.
Where did I do this? Please be specific.
Good, that should make this a simple exercise for you: Which post(s) of mine were “arguing in favor of tactics that [are] in violation of these potential immigrants rights under federal law”? Which post(s) of mine were “actively arguing to block people from legally applying for asylum”? Again, please be specific.
ISIS, smallpox and leprosy I would assume. Exactly what Trump told him to be afraid of.
Fair enough. Let me expand my point. Every post you’ve ever made on this board makes you sound afraid.
You are doing your side a disservice. Best to be quiet …
Well, you seem to think the caravan constitutes an “invasion” and being invaded is scary.
I thought, like a number of other posters in this thread, that some of the various definitions of “invasion” could reasonably be applied to the caravan. Nothing about that statement indicates that I’m “afraid”.
Well the other possibility is that you feel like dehumanizing humanitarian immigration is appropriate then.
“invasion” is almost universally a pejorative term.
We’re approaching a historically high percentage of our population being foreign born (Pretty graph). Over 1 in 8 of us wasn’t born here. That’s in a country that continues to take about 1 of 5 immigrants worldwide; total immigration was even up in 2017 under Trump. A larger chunk of our population is foreign born than when we implemented pretty restrictive immigration policies to end the Ellis Island era. Bipartisan attempts to reform immigration policy in the last couple decades have failed to gain traction with the ideologues of either party. Without a prospect of reasoned and deliberate change from the political process, we’re looking at the percentage of foreign born continuing it’s strong upward trend.
So now we’re to the freaking out phase where any given incident can be whipped up into a froth. That’s pretty normal historically. Europe’s struggling with anti-immigrant movements freaking out despite lower levels of foreign born in their population. We seem to take longer to get to the freak out stage about immigration than most countries. It’s not any prettier when we get there. This is America. It’s always been us. Nothing happened. Trump’s immigration rehtoric is a reasonably predictable response to the circumstances.
Using the word “invasion” carries with it certain connotations. If not “afraid” for you then perhaps “worried” or “bothered” or “troubled” or “deeply concerned”. It certainly does not carry a connotation of “unconcerned” or “not bothered” or “meh”.
Since you are being coy about it all we can only read into why you think “invasion” and the feelings that word invokes is the right word to use here.
I asked you some questions in post #69. You ignored them and are back to slinging more accusations without any evidence. Is that just your shtick?
I didn’t say it was “the right word to use here”. I responded to a thread that asked “Is there any way to justify labeling the caravan an invasion?” I can see how it meets some of the provided definitions, and said so, even though it wouldn’t be my preferred label. In another thread, I said this about this same caravan. I think you’d be well-served by reading it and I’d be interested in your thoughts after doing so. Does that sound like someone who is closer to “deeply concerned” or “unconcerned”?
Which is what prospective asylees would be doing, so I don’t understand why you are casting doubt on this caravan being comprised of primarily such people.
You want to build a wall to keep people who are fleeing murder and war out of this country. It sounds like you are generally good with the idea of using the military to keep these tragic wretches away from us, too.
There’s only a few explainations I can think of for such an opinion, and fear of them seems most likely. I honestly can’t understand why anyone should be bothered by people running for their lives across several thousand miles on foot, only to subject themselves to a legal process that is about as selective as an Ivy League college; with failure probably meaning being sent back to a possible death sentence.