First, what about Mexico? Holding you to it, #DonTheCon.
Second, @wwwCISorg was forged in a white nationalist lab. I know they're your base, but they've got you eating out of their hand. I thought you didn't answer to anybody.
Third, for anyone interested in real data:
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The border is 1954 miles long. 630 miles already have a wall. There are also natural barriers such as rivers and inhospitable desert. There are also virtual walls with sensors and active patrol.
No border agency has asked for a wall. It's expensive. It won't work.
Environmental, structural, and eminent domain concerns mean the cost estimates of such a wall are likely to spiral out of control.
Those who think illegal immigration costs money should be the first to speak out against the cost of the wall. It's the most expensive option.
As usual, you haven't told the truth about the wall. You've sold it as a solution to illegal immigration - yet 40% of the presently undocumented (and de-documented) population didn't enter from the Southern border. They flew in.
Planes can fly above walls.
So your tweet is convincing no one. Your base doesn't care. Everyone else knows you're ill-informed, lying, or both.
You see, you're getting your info from a group that spends much time trying to convince the country they're not a bunch of xenophobes.
But their founder was.
That's John Tanton. He founded @FAIRImmigration in 1979, and @wwwCISorg started as an offshoot of FAIR in 1985. Tanton wanted to keep the US majority white. He saw immigration as a threat.
No one you do business with would agree with him. He's an anachronistic joke.
Yet you tweet their "findings" as if it's actual trustworthy information.
How about you vet your own policy people the way you want to vet all immigrants and aspiring Americans?
The economy hurts and Americans lose jobs without immigration. You of all people should know that.
@FAIRImmigration, founded by Dr. John Tanton, is a mouthpiece of white nationalist rhetoric. But it's more than that: it injects its foul ideology into actual policy.
One (latest) example: Temporary Protected Status, or TPS. Read what a federal judge found:
On p29 of the decision, the Court gives yet another example of Acting Secy Elaine Duke, who is supposed to make a dispassionate assessment of conditions on the ground in determining TPS eligibility, said "this conclusion [to end TPS] is the result of an America first view..."
Curious, because America was founded on ideals of welcoming the forcibly displaced. I'm not sure what "American first" has to do with terminating TPS.
If the White House is influencing the decision, we have a problem, because the White House has made A LOT of racist statements.
Feeling drained after the #KavanaughHearings? I've been thinking about why. Objectively, there are far worse injustices going on even as Kavanaugh spoke.
Sure, there's the out of sight out of mind factor. Most injustice goes unreported; yesterday's hearing was not that.
But there was something distinctive about the hearing. It was a rare exposure of several different vectors of underreported injustice, concentrated into one episode.
We hear stories of sexual assault all the time. Or oppression. Abuser protection. Entitlement. Privilege. Character assassination. Lip service to the oppressed. Trauma. Legalized discrimination.
Rarely do we get to see it all in one day, before hundreds of millions of people
This administration continues to target aspiring American communities, one by one. DACA revocation, TPS de-designation, changing asylum laws, the Muslim Ban...
Once again, the administration regurgitates rhetoric spewed by nativists, and with H-4 work permit revocation, they get an added "bonus" - getting to undo something Obama put in place. Yes, this is what they base their policies on.
But I also wanted to say something about the new public charge rule that greatly expands ineligibility grounds for green cards, which will also play into this attack on the Indian-American community.
This is an attempt to backdoor the RAISE Act into law.
Well this is curious. Apparently @FAIRImmigration believes I am a paid operative of "state-owned propaganda outlet" @ajplus to meddle in 2018 midterm elections.
Why? For this video I did calling FAIR out as driven by white nationalism:
They accuse me of "spreading malicious disinformation in what is a clear attempt to influence the upcoming midterm election." I'm flattered they think so highly of me.
Entirely different, of course, from FAIR's statements influencing lawmakers here:
More effective than any physical barrier on the southern border. Keeps people out before they can even begin their journey.
You can't fly over it or tunnel underneath it. You can't sneak around it, either. And it's much, much harder to tear down.
It's the combined bureaucracy of several different agencies that keeps people out. Physical barriers are a small slice of the pie of exclusion.
But with due process, there is sometimes a way through. Perfectly legal, not unlike carving out a nice little door for yourself.
Today, a green card for our North African client was approved after a 4 year delay. He had been apart from his US citizen wife since 2013, and even though they followed the law to the T, repeatedly told they just needed "one more thing," the visa remained stuck.