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Not any more...it WOULD have 50 years ago when we started excluding white immigration in favor of minorities.

If we did...America would be white and Asian...nobody else COULD make the cut. They are NOT us.

Originally Posted by guest

not any more...it would have 50 years ago when we started excluding white immigration in favor of minorities.

If we did...america would be white and asian...nobody else could make the cut. They are not us.

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Originally Posted by Guest

Analysis: Would the U.S. benefit from a merit-based immigration system? | PBS NewsHour

Interestingly, this author (published by the Public Broadcasting System) acknowledges the success of the Canada Merit System upon which the American proposal is modeled, but still concludes that low-skilled immigrants should continue to be admitted, with or without a points system.

The sponsors of the American proposal argue that bringing in low-skilled permanent immigrants (we are not talking about seasonal, migrant farm workers) will take jobs from Americans who are at the bottom of the income scale.

While waiting to see the actual proposed law, I tend to support the concept of the Merit System. By the way, virtually no one reading this posting could pass the screening to become a Canadian citizen.

Carl in Tampa

Originally Posted by Guest

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The poem does not appear on the Statue of Liberty or on the Pedestal. It is not an official part of the Statue.

There is a display inside the Pedestal which honors several people who contributed to the fund raising effort to pay for the Pedestal. The French only gave us the Statue.

One of the fund raisers was Emma Lazarus. She is honored with a display inside the Pedestal. She wrote the poem in question to help raise money for the Pedestal, so her display includes a copy of the poem.

The plaque with the poem clearly states that it is place there in HER honor.

Carl in Tampa

So few here have actually had extensive interaction with the immigration system.

If these restrictions were in place, would your ancestors been allowed to immigrate? I know that my grandparents would not have because they did not speak English. However, before I was born, they learned to speak English and became proud citizens.

Originally Posted by Guest

If these restrictions were in place, would your ancestors been allowed to immigrate? I know that my grandparents would not have because they did not speak English. However, before I was born, they learned to speak English and became proud citizens.

My ancestors may or may not have met the standards. I do not know about their facility with English, nor if they had a job waiting when they arrived. I'm fairly confident that they were prepared to be self-sufficient because there was no welfare system when they arrived.

You see, they arrived in the mid-1700s, before the United States became a nation. (I have an ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War.) They came from the German speaking (East) side of Switzerland. They came through the Port of Philadelphia and moved out along the southern Pennsylvania border. You may have heard of the Pennsylvania Dutch.

Lots of them are still there, as well as down in Virginia, in West Virginia, and in Ohio, where they initially settled. (I had relatives who fought on both sides in the Civil War.) These days they are scattered all over the United States.

But, that was a different era. I support the Merit System for our current situation.

Carl in Tampa

Originally Posted by Guest

If these restrictions were in place, would your ancestors been allowed to immigrate? I know that my grandparents would not have because they did not speak English. However, before I was born, they learned to speak English and became proud citizens.

I'll tell you what I do know.

I couldn't qualify to immigrate to Canada at this point in my life. (Not that I would want to.)

Carl in Tampa

Originally Posted by Guest

(Statue of Liberty picture.)

The poem does not appear on the Statue of Liberty or on the Pedestal. It is not an official part of the Statue.

There is a display inside the Pedestal which honors several people who contributed to the fund raising effort to pay for the Pedestal. The French only gave us the Statue.

One of the fund raisers was Emma Lazarus. She is honored with a display inside the Pedestal. She wrote the poem in question to help raise money for the Pedestal, so her display includes a copy of the poem.

The plaque with the poem clearly states that it is place there in HER honor.

The poem was written in the 1800s and at that time the immigrants were almost exclusively from Europe...white Europeans were the people spoken about in that poem. It certainly wasn't about bringing in blacks.

Originally Posted by Guest

So few here have actually had extensive interaction with the immigration system.

So few here have actually had extensive interaction with the inner city blacks that they so fervently defend.

All I have to say is before oblozo turned Me into the Racist I am today, When conversing with people if the subject ever came up I insisted We didn't need any more poor huddled masses to infiltrate and over run the welfare rolls... saying..

Originally Posted by larbud

All I have to say is before oblozo turned Me into the Racist I am today, When conversing with people if the subject ever came up I insisted We didn't need any more poor huddled masses to infiltrate and over run the welfare rolls... saying..

Barry would prefer that you conversate.

Originally Posted by Guest

All I have to say is before oblozo turned Me into the Racist I am today, When conversing with people if the subject ever came up I insisted We didn't need any more poor huddled masses to infiltrate and over run the welfare rolls... saying..

Hey I see what you did there! You took the first two letters of our previous presidents name and then cleverly added some different letters to indicate your dismissiveness of him. Did you think of that yourself or did Hannity or Limbaugh come up with it and you copied their cleverness? That is kind of like me calling you lardbutt - clever and dismissive.

There would be no MS-13 gang

Originally Posted by Guest

There would be no MS-13 gang

There shouldn't be now either...how the hell do gangs get away with operating indiscriminately like they do? EVERYONE knows who they are...conduct a huge raid and clean them out. House by house rounding up gang members...until eventually, we get them all.

Too Nazi for you?

Sometimes that's what it takes.

The solution isn't letting them run wild.