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tapitsbo » Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:04 am wrote:I understand - but your earlier post suggested "quadruple generation" "Mexican" families were to be deported. As a Canadian I don't understand how this would work, I assume such a family would have been in full or part granted citizenship.
I'm no fan of Donald Trump, or the current fancy borders and so on.
82_28 » Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:58 am wrote:The motherfucker is an idiot. He's a fucking liar if he could guarantee he has no Latino "illegal" labor going on in his hotels and stuff. I'm sure someone is working on it now. An undercover expose of how many "illegals" he employs. Hopefully they blur everyone's faces out and stuff.
Undocumented Trump Hotel Worker Speaks Out Against His Employer, Despite Risk Of Losing His Job
by Scott Keyes Aug 19, 2015 9:46am
“When Mexico sends its people, they are not sending their best,” Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said during his campaign kick-off speech in June. “They are sending people that have lots of problems, and they are bringing those problems to us.”
One of those people is Ricardo Aca, an undocumented immigrant from Puebla who came to the United States with his family a decade ago when has just 14 years old. “We came to America because we wanted a better life,” Aca said in an interview with New Left Media. He came of age in Brooklyn, a place he says he loves. “This is where I went to high school. This is where all of my friends are. It’s home to me.”
Aca currently works as a busser in the Trump Soho building’s restaurant, a position he’s held for the last two years. He also works two other jobs on the side to make ends meet.
“I know I could lose my job just for talking about Trump,” Aca acknowledged. But after Trump continued to base his presidential campaign on anti-immigrant rhetoric, he could no longer maintain his silence. “It doesn’t make me proud to go to work every day under his name.”
“I’m not a criminal,” Aca said in the video. “I work really hard and I definitely don’t take it for granted.”
Watch the full interview:
While Aca noted that some GOPers had criticized Trump’s comments about Mexicans, “to me they all seem to have the same position on immigration.” Indeed, led in part by Trump’s hardline on immigration, a plurality of GOP presidential hopefuls now want to end birthright citizenship. Nearly every contender opposes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the country, including former supporters like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. And all have roundly criticized President Obama’s deportation relief for those immigrants who were brought to the United States when they were children.
Aca isn’t the only Latino to take umbrage at Trump’s prejudiced description of immigrants. A Washington Post article in July interviewed over a dozen Latino construction workers helping to build Trump’s new Washington D.C. hotel. “Do you think that when we’re hanging out there from the eighth floor that we’re raping or selling drugs?” a Salvadoran immigrant, Ramon Alvarez, said. “We’re risking our lives and our health.”
Even as Trump leads the polls for the Republican presidential nomination, his standing among Latinos has cratered. According to a poll this month, three-quarters of Latinos now have a negative view of the New York businessman. Just 13 percent have a favorable view.
On Sunday, Trump released his immigration white paper, including a call for widespread deportation of immigrant families and a massive wall on our southern border paid for, somehow, by Mexico. His plan also recommends national implementation of e-verify, a tool that tries to prevent companies, like Trump’s, from employing undocumented immigrants.
Trump is probably too dumb to realize it, or maybe he isn’t, but he doesn’t need to win anything to become the most dangerous person in America. He can do plenty of damage just by encouraging people to be as uninhibited in their stupidity as he is.
Trump is striking a chord with people who are feeling the squeeze in a less secure world and want to blame someone – the government, immigrants, political correctness, “incompetents,” “dummies,” Megyn Kelly, whoever – for their problems.
Karl Rove and his acolytes mined a lot of the same resentments to get Republicans elected over the years, but the difference is that Trump’s political style encourages people to do more to express their anger than just vote. The key to his success is a titillating message that those musty old rules about being polite and “saying the right thing” are for losers who lack the heart, courage and Trumpitude to just be who they are…
People are tired of rules and tired of having to pay lip service to decorum. They want to stop having to watch what they say and think and just get “crazy,” as Thomas Friedman would put it.
Trump’s campaign is giving people permission to do just that. It’s hard to say this word in conjunction with such a sexually unappealing person, but his message is a powerful aphrodisiac. Fuck everything, fuck everyone. Fuck immigrants and fuck their filthy lice-ridden kids. And fuck you if you don’t like me saying so.
Those of us who think polls and primaries and debates are any match for that are pretty naive. America has been trending stupid for a long time. Now the stupid wants out of its cage, and Trump is urging it on. There are a lot of ways this can go wrong, no matter who wins in 2016.
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