This is exceptionally cruel, and condemns kids (many of whom are US citizens) to a lifetime of poverty.
‘richest country in the world’; cant afford to help humans at their doorstep
uh huh.
these conservatives are either malicious, ignorant or both. its weird talking to them. so many are so casual about the cruelty they support
It seems clear to me that it’s both and the cruelty is the point. Remember this lady?
“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” Minton told Mazzei. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
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First, what’s the economic cost here? Immigration is not a net negative overall. Why spend trillions of dollars burning money to police one of the worlds largest borders other than to blow all of society’s resources on an impossibly stupid and unproductive task?
The irrational desire to punish children for misdemeanor crimes of parents should be seen as what it is: a mental disorder.
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Children should never be punished. The road to documented status should be easier, regardless of citizenship options, and not lead to deportation.
The terrible secret is that immigrarion is the secret sauce behind “American Exceptionalism”
High recent immigrant populations essentially select for people willing to put in the extra effort to migrate, which is a close proxy for to things like “entrepeneurship” and “seeking out better education/opportunities for their children.”
In any republican solution to a problem…
Cruelty IS THE POINT. if a solution does not contain some suffering for someone… Then it’s not a good solution for a republican. For them no good can come WITHOUT SUFFERING.
It’s a very Catholic belief. I’m being serious!
Children aren’t people to conservatives, just levers to manipulate their parents.
No, no. To conservatives children are also a labor force.
Strong incentive to leave the country for recent immigrants, and if they stay and eventually legalize their status, they will be uneducated. So it’s a win win for conservatives.
This is explicitly about barring kids, who are already US citizens, from being able to attend school because their parents are undocumented.
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Because the alternative is to create a permanent underclass of people whose lack of access to basic education keeps them from ever improving their own lot or assimilating. That’s not a society I want.
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The Republican party has no plans to do that though; they want to end immigration by people with skin darker than theirs.
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It’s not racist to point out other people being prejudiced.
It’s not even hard to find examples of the “no proof” https://time.com/4473972/donald-trump-mexico-meeting-insult/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/14/senator-john-kennedy-mexico-drug-cartels
It’s pretty obvious who they spend time demonizing.
The Republican party is pretty racist, yeah.
As myopic and divorced from reality as it is, I appreciate the brazen simplicity of your worldview. Snuggled up in your security blanket of ignorance, inoculated from the pain of confronting cognitive dissonance, or growth.
There’s a little bit of history though: the backlash to a similar measure in California resulted in the Republican party becoming a permanent minority in the state legislature.
Sometimes I look at the US and think how crazy conservative some of this stuff is. But then, this is just Swedish reality these days.
requiring public schools to collect data on immigration status when students enroll
The current Swedish government, consisting of liberals, conservatives, and the far right, want this to be reality. Well, even worse stuff really. They want it to be illegal for an employee in schools, libraries, and hospitals not to report a child and their family if they suspect they may have some problem with immigration. It is so disgusting.
I’m not too surprised by this; the politics of immigration are different in the US, where almost the entire population is immigrants and the descendants of immigrants, and Europe, which didn’t have any real history of immigration until quite recently.
There are some very real benefits to allowing significant levels of immigration:
You know what? The republicans are right; immigrants should leave. How about we start with white republican immigrants (or descendants thereof) of European ancestry, then we’ll reevaluate.
