Can I ask you another serious question, why does it appear that you along with many Democrats are willing to easily brush aside those who are concerned with undocumented immigration and Islamic Immigration yet you fully believe in this grand Russian global conspiracy?
That's a fairly easy question for me to answer, but only with respect to myself. I am not a member of the Democratic party. Even were I , I couldn't speak for others.
Your choice of the linking conjunction "yet" suggests a link between the undocumented immigrant issue and Russian hacking. A link that isn't there. These are independent issues, so I will address them independently.
I am concerned about undocumented immigration! I think that welcoming people from other countries that want to come here legally, abide by our laws, and become part of our American social fabric is a very healthy thing for our nation. I hope we will make it very clear to all immigrants that they are free to practice their own religion, or lack thereof, so long as their beliefs do not conflict with our laws, and that only majority religious beliefs are likely to find support in the law, even though we pay lip service to the principle of separation of Church and State.
The question whether adherents to particular sects or sub-religions are compatible with U.S. law, is I think, best left to the Courts and Majority rule. If it's determined that a persons religious beliefs are incompatible with U.S. law, then I would think it a bad idea to welcome that person as an immigrant to the United States. That's not something for the President to decide however. It is for the Courts and the Congress as our 'democratic' representatives.
I would like to see future illegal immigration reduced as close to zero as reasonably possible! I am also aware that under the Obama administration there was a crackdown on illegal immigrants , deportations were greatly stepped up. At the same time, the number of illegal border crossing slowed to a trickle long before the election. Listening to Trump, one would have thought that vast hordes of illegal immigrants are streaming across our southern border. This is simply not the case. Almost all those here illegally came her legally a long time ago and then overstayed their Visas. (It's fact versus alternative facts and disinformation. Mr Trump is an unstoppable font of the latter.)
The Obama administration used a laser rather than a trawler net. What the Obama administration did, and I am very much in favor of their practical approach to the problem, is to grant clemency to those who came here as children with their families, provided there is no record of serious law breaking or gang memberships. In the future, the problem of illegal immigration is best addressed by implementing ways to track those here on Visa and make sure they leave when they are supposed to.
I believe that the only solutions to our past illegal immigration problem that will work well are those that recognize that clocks only turn one direction. *
Many believe their jobs were stolen by illegal immigrants. This is true to a far smaller extent than often believed. Most jobs are lost because of changing technology and offshoring to lower cost labor elsewhere. These jobs will not return even if we deported 100% of every illegal immigrant tomorrow. Trump's campaign rhetoric was the classical rhetoric of a demagogue; a fear stoking campaign. The demagogue lied to us.
Attempts by Russian hackers to interfere in the U.S. and European elections is an established fact, just as the long history of U.S. meddling in other countries elections is established fact. If you insist on referring to such attempts as a Grand Conspiracy that's OK with me. I usually don't think of something that has become rather mundane, common knowledge as being much of a conspiracy, but I can see that some may want to call it that. The FBI has already made a definitive statement on this matter which can be looked up if you are interested. Apparently their current investigation is on-going. Why would anyone , other than an extremely naive person, be surprised to learn that Russians attempted to influence the U.S. election outcome considering the well documented, long history of U.S. interference in elections world-wide?
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*"No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road turn back," has more than one interpretation. The road in this saying is metaphorical! The wrong road in this case is a wrong policy!, viz., the policy of not enforcing U.S. immigration law because business and agriculture preferred low-wage immigrant labor without legal recourse to higher-wage citizen labor with legal recourse. Holding down labor's wage is the time honored goal of good capitalists everywhere; competition for jobs, whether from machines or from eager immigrants, is always welcome so long as it doesn't inordinately reduce labor's purchasing power for the capitalists' goods.
