That would indeed explain how his family came to the States.
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“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Soon to be reinterpreted
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I wonder if this will get as much press and backlash as “basket of deplorables.” Spoiler alert: It won’t.
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The lottery isn’t open to just anyone; it’s open to people from countries with historically below-average immigration to the U.S.
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Even then, you have to be working in a job that requires several years of experience and training.
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Then you have to show that you have a relative within the U.S., who’s already a citizen, is going to be financially responsible for you and prove that they’re able to be financially responsible for you.
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Then you have to go through a background check and interview process that can take 1-2 years.
So Trump and his frothing anti-immigrant supporters can fuck right the fuck off.
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Like just about everything else, he doesn’t know how it actually works or what is going on.
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Question, do you HAVE to be a rapist to be send to Germany (or elsewhere)?
Asking for a friend.
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The worst people immigrate to the USA. He should know - his ancesters are among them.
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This whole deplorable regime needs to be basketted
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Education, education, education. Which, as I may have said in another thread a long time ago, means not much light at the end of the tunnel so long as it remains a (Republican) political football.
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Dump Donnie might have a point about some immigrants being trash – after all, his grandfather was an immigrant.
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Yup. As long as the republicans insist on politicizing education and making it part of their platform to oppose education, higher order reasoning, and independent thought (This is literally stated in the texas state republican party platform document, this isn’t opinion, it’s what they’ve clearly stated they’re all about), the country will remain utterly broken and evil people will remain in power.
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First rule of showbiz: Know your audience.
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Hey, here’s an idea, how about they just have to pass the citizenship test?
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I think he’s basing his understanding of immigration policy on the opening scene of Scarface when the US government realizes that Cuba just sent over a bunch of gangsters and violent criminals.
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I guess he just failed to hoover up all the references.
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Perry Comb-over; or, maybe, Scary Comb-over would be more appropriate.
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Not to mention that doing otherwise would contradict his own statement at the UN that all countries should put themselves first. Why would a country that were willing to send people away send away its best citizens?
His statement is worse than stupid because he would likely love to send people away from the US and it wouldn’t be the people he thought were the best.
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