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Keith Gilbertson's avatar

Very good summary of immigration to USA going all the way back to the Alien and Sedition acts. I am teaching immigration history this semester to my international ESL students. Many are confused why Americans don't welcome them here. Irish Catholics are part of the topic today. Religion predjudice. Then there is racism towards non European. Many Trumpists check both boxes and several more. Glad you called out the Afrikaner Elon. He learned it is pre immigrant country. Big shows make it look like Donnie is ridding us of the invasion. Glad to hear the results don't match the previous numbers and I hope it stays that way. I will look at the table on a big screen. Thanks for your details. I will use some of them in my classes.

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Stephan Cook's avatar

Biden border policy helped lose an easily winnable election for Harris. You had 11k encounters a day at one point and by his last year in office he had to change tack. The inflow of documented and undocumented migrants was around 10m in his 4 years - up to 65/70% were the latter. Working class voters showed what they thought of this. What choice did they have. Biden’s Presidency has as many lows as highs. No Democrat is ever going back to this ever again.

Biden created Trump 2.0, just as Hillary created Trump 1.0

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Jennifer Batchelor's avatar

Your ignorance on the topic - along with that add'l 1% of voters that elected Trump over Harris - doesn't track with reality. Blaming the number of incoming on the administration (which is still less than under Reagan) while ignoring the vast numbers of those same migrants that were, in turn, deported is disingenuous at best, but more likely intentionally deflecting. What Trump's results prove is that not only are his policies less effective than under Biden or even Obama, but the entire leadership is inept at execution of those policies. Also hard to ignore is where change to current immigration policy is?! Biden's order bill - far too conservative for my taste, but also Including sweeping & what would have been even more effective change - thrown out by Maga for Trump...no replacement or border bill in site

Just as he ran on the border in 2016, didn't have a bill in his 1st 100 days or at all in 4 years, And left aess Biden was cleaning up (while being ACTIVELY handicapped by Maga such as Abbott & DeSantis)....and where's Donny, again? Beyond Photo ops & propaganda videos for Militant Wanna-Bes's to fantasize to...

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