The U.S. Immigration Catch-All Thread [R]

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by THOMA GOL, Apr 23, 2010.

  1. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
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    Y'know, all this bashing of immigrants. Where would we be if we never got to see The Godfather or Goodfellas. St Valentines Day would just be another run of the mill holiday. Oh, and the Sopranos would be a bunch of fat ladies bellowing.

    Forza Italia! :thumbsup:
     
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  2. ceezmad

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    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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    I had no clue where to post this, but here will do.

    Dude has not done shit in a very long time, maybe is is trying to get PR, as they say the only bad publicity is not publicity.

    https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...rible-thing-say-will-pay-price-155900585.html
     
  3. YankBastard

    YankBastard Na Na Na Na NANANANAAA!

    Jun 18, 2005
    Estados Unidos
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    AS Roma
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  4. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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  5. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

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    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
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    It's th' hoooooorrrrrrrrde!

    [​IMG]

    Hide yo' wife, hide yo' kids... them brown folks is a-headed fer th' border!
     
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  6. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
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    If our troops are in Texas, and they arrived in Cali, they DEFINITELY took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

    I'm gonna go ahead and declare I win the internet today.
     
  7. argentine soccer fan

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    Jan 18, 2001
    San Francisco Bay Area
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    CA Boca Juniors
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    Argentina
    https://www.harpersbazaar.com/cultu...ripping-american-citizens-passports-genocide/

    Has anybody heard if this is really happening? Or is it fake news? How legit is this source?

    Because if it’s true...

     
  8. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
  9. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
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    Check the date
     
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  10. roadkit

    roadkit Greetings from the Fringe of Obscurity

    Jul 2, 2003
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  11. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    FWIW too many of the Brooklyn & Staten Island transplants in my 'hood are as anti-immigrant & racist as any southern cracker.
     
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  12. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

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    My bruvver bought a car in New Mexico many years ago and ran into a similar problem with a cop in Iowa or Nebraska. Since he is as white as a ghost and the cop remarked that his English was very good, he must have decided to let him go because he was one of those who "I assume are good people."
     
  13. dapip

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    In other news, brown immigrants are nominated to elitist liberal arts award





    That's fvcking awesome..
     
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  14. ceezmad

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    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fights-over-immigration-keep-shutting-down-the-government/
     

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  15. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

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    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-latino-voters-havent-completely-abandoned-the-gop/
     
  16. YankBastard

    YankBastard Na Na Na Na NANANANAAA!

    Jun 18, 2005
    Estados Unidos
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    AS Roma
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  17. argentine soccer fan

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    Jan 18, 2001
    San Francisco Bay Area
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    CA Boca Juniors
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    Exactly. If immigrants hadn't brought organized crime to America, Hollywood would produce nothing but Hallmark romances and Marvel superhero movies.
     
  18. soccernutter

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    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
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    And slasher movies. Letherface may have come from Texas, but he was not an immigrant.
     
  19. argentine soccer fan

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    Jan 18, 2001
    San Francisco Bay Area
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    CA Boca Juniors
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    Argentina
    Come to think of it, evil slashers who don't die seem to always be portrayed as white males. I detect a vast left wing conspiracy.
     
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  20. argentine soccer fan

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    Jan 18, 2001
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    CA Boca Juniors
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    Indeed. A couple of years ago there was a case in Santa Clara County Superior Court - San Jose, California - that required a Navajo interpreter. When we couldn't find any in the state, I told the Interpreter Coordinator at the court that I had found a woman from New Mexico who was federally certified and willing to do the job. The coordinator then asked me if she was a legal resident of the US.
     
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  21. argentine soccer fan

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    Jan 18, 2001
    San Francisco Bay Area
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    CA Boca Juniors
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    Argentina
    According to the chart both parties were close on their views of immigrants during the Clinton and Bush years, and then during the Obama years the Democrats began appreciating immigrants more while the Republicans soured on us - Although the bigger difference comes from Democrats moving up rather than from Republicans moving down.

    I wonder if this has more to do with demographic changes, or with people who identify as Democrats actually changing their mind about immigrants.
     
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  22. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
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    New Mexico has the worst branding ever. They have great food, great music, amazing culture, the landscapes are astonishing; it's basically heaven in the Southwest.

    Now Google "New Mexican music" or New Mexican food" or whatever and see what you get.
     
  23. ceezmad

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    Nativism has always been around, it goes up when the Percentage of people in the USA that were not born here reaches about 15%+, but yeah the chart would indicate that Democrats are the ones that have changed the most, republicans not so much despite the immigration moves, Trump is just seems to represent the base more that prior republican presidents.

    Republican politicians liked immigration as a source of cheap labor to keep wages down, the base never liked that, but had other concerns to worry about, Pat Buchanan tried to do what Trump did in 2016 back in 2008, or was it was it 2004?

    I remember an article about why Eric Cantor lost his election in Virginia when he was speaker of the house, his opponent went hard on Immigration, the base liked that, so has able to Primary Cantor, it was a sign of what was to come in the GOP.


    Regarding the Democrats, that is more difficult, the party moving left, trying to appeal to the Latino (other immigrant groups), counter reaction to Republican talking points, the decline of power by the Unions (who have been iffy about immigration for the same reason that republican politicians liked immigration). All of that probably had an effect.
     
  24. dapip

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    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Millonarios Bogota
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    Colombia
    Going to leave this here:



     
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  25. argentine soccer fan

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    San Francisco Bay Area
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    CA Boca Juniors
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    Funny how what works for New England doesn't work for New Mexico.
     

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