SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Feb 29, 2024 9:47:48 GMT -5
Facts don't matter as xenophobia and nativism is driven by racism, fear and emotion, not facts. A 2020 study, published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analyzed 200,000 congressional speeches and 5,000 presidential communications on immigration since 1880, when a wave of Chinese immigrants led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that barred Chinese laborers. When lawmakers spoke about immigration, their speeches were twice as likely as their speeches on other topics to mention words related to crime. Moreover, the study found “stark differences” in how lawmakers discussed European and non-European groups, with “more implicitly dehumanizing metaphors” used to describe Chinese, Mexicans and other non-Europeans. “There is also a striking similarity in the use of explicit frames, with a greater emphasis on ‘crime,’ ‘labor,’ and ‘legality’ for the non-Europeans and less on ‘family,’ ‘contributions,’ ‘victims,’ and ‘culture,’” the study said. Since the late 1970s, the study found a significant shift in the way Republicans talk about immigration; it is now as negative as it was in the 1920s, an era of strict immigration quotas. As for Trump, he was the first president whose immigration language was more negative than that of the average member of his own party. But here’s the rub: There is little evidence that immigrants — or even undocumented immigrants — cause more crime. Still, there is enough ambiguity in the data — or so little hard data — that it’s difficult to point to conclusive findings that would change opinions. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/29/truth-about-illegal-immigration-crime/
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Post by tashoya on Feb 29, 2024 10:52:31 GMT -5
Facts don't matter as xenophobia and nativism is driven by racism, fear and emotion, not facts. A 2020 study, published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analyzed 200,000 congressional speeches and 5,000 presidential communications on immigration since 1880, when a wave of Chinese immigrants led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that barred Chinese laborers. When lawmakers spoke about immigration, their speeches were twice as likely as their speeches on other topics to mention words related to crime. Moreover, the study found “stark differences” in how lawmakers discussed European and non-European groups, with “more implicitly dehumanizing metaphors” used to describe Chinese, Mexicans and other non-Europeans. “There is also a striking similarity in the use of explicit frames, with a greater emphasis on ‘crime,’ ‘labor,’ and ‘legality’ for the non-Europeans and less on ‘family,’ ‘contributions,’ ‘victims,’ and ‘culture,’” the study said. Since the late 1970s, the study found a significant shift in the way Republicans talk about immigration; it is now as negative as it was in the 1920s, an era of strict immigration quotas. As for Trump, he was the first president whose immigration language was more negative than that of the average member of his own party. But here’s the rub: There is little evidence that immigrants — or even undocumented immigrants — cause more crime. Still, there is enough ambiguity in the data — or so little hard data — that it’s difficult to point to conclusive findings that would change opinions. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/29/truth-about-illegal-immigration-crime/Not to mention, their selective "concern" about crime is transparent and ridiculous (see Tommy Tuberville).
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 4, 2024 21:28:30 GMT -5
Texas! Yee Haw!! The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked a Texas law that allowed state law enforcement officers to arrest migrants entering the United States from Mexico. In an order signed by Justice Samuel Alito, the high court blocked Texas from enacting the law until March 13, giving the state until March 11 to respond to the Justice Department's request asking to pause the law from taking place. The Justice Department had filed an emergency request on Monday asking the Supreme Court to intervene, with Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar arguing that the law would alter the "status quo that has existed between the United States and the States in the context of immigration for almost 150 years." ssnews.page.link/Lt6H2kSzFzAGfbWf6
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 8, 2024 20:39:54 GMT -5
Texas! Yee Haw! And a Grifter-appointed judge to boot U.S. judge rejects GOP lawsuit that tried to stop Biden from paroling in migrants The Biden administration won a major legal victory Friday in its effort to reduce illegal immigration at the southern border, when a federal judge in Texas ruled the government may continue a program that accepts 360,000 migrants a year from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton, who has ruled against other Biden administration immigration policies, said Republican opponents of the program, known as parole, for those countries failed to prove that their states were being harmed by it. “The Court finds that Plaintiffs have not proven that Texas has suffered an injury and therefore do not have standing to maintain this suit,” Tipton, a Trump appointee in the southern district of Texas, wrote in a 31-page ruling dismissing the case. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/03/08/biden-migrants-parole-court-ruling/
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Post by tashoya on Mar 8, 2024 22:25:24 GMT -5
Texas! Yee Haw! And a Grifter-appointed judge to boot U.S. judge rejects GOP lawsuit that tried to stop Biden from paroling in migrants The Biden administration won a major legal victory Friday in its effort to reduce illegal immigration at the southern border, when a federal judge in Texas ruled the government may continue a program that accepts 360,000 migrants a year from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton, who has ruled against other Biden administration immigration policies, said Republican opponents of the program, known as parole, for those countries failed to prove that their states were being harmed by it. “The Court finds that Plaintiffs have not proven that Texas has suffered an injury and therefore do not have standing to maintain this suit,” Tipton, a Trump appointee in the southern district of Texas, wrote in a 31-page ruling dismissing the case. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/03/08/biden-migrants-parole-court-ruling/Maybe even some of these idiots are seeing some of the writing on the wall after the SOTU and are now back to being selfish? Probably too optimistic on my part.
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 12, 2024 8:57:07 GMT -5
First you lie. Then you double down on the lie and lie again. Despicable MAGA GOPers are certainly quick studies at the foot of their master, the corrupt Grifter. Karla Jacinto Romero, the woman whose story Sen. Katie Britt appeared to have shared in the Republican response to the State of the Union last week, slammed the Alabama senator for inaccurately using her story to highlight Joe Biden’s immigration policies. www.politico.com/news/2024/03/11/katie-britt-state-of-the-union-00146221
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 23, 2024 10:08:42 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on Mar 24, 2024 3:20:30 GMT -5
This obviously can't be true, since every immigrant is a criminal rapist murderer who is poisoning the blood of our country.
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 27, 2024 6:29:15 GMT -5
U.S. appeals court keeps block on Texas immigration law A U.S. appeals court is keeping a block on a new Texas law that empowers state officials to detain and deport migrants, functions that have historically been under federal control. The decision announced late Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit follows conflicting rulings over the new state law, which the Supreme Court briefly allowed to take effect last week. Texas officials then asked the appeals court to allow the state to enforce the law. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/03/27/texas-immigration-law-federal-appeals-court/
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 11, 2024 9:18:38 GMT -5
Morons. MAGA GOPers at their finest display of moronicism. The farcical saga of an impeachment trial no one wants to convene In impeaching Mayorkas, Republicans have turned the most powerful constitutional duty that Congress has — removing executive branch officials for “high crimes and misdemeanors” — into a farcical journey of blunder and mismanagement. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/11/mayorkas-impeachment-senate-trial/
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 11, 2024 19:22:59 GMT -5
Morons. MAGA GOPers at their finest display of moronicism. The farcical saga of an impeachment trial no one wants to convene In impeaching Mayorkas, Republicans have turned the most powerful constitutional duty that Congress has — removing executive branch officials for “high crimes and misdemeanors” — into a farcical journey of blunder and mismanagement. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/11/mayorkas-impeachment-senate-trial/How is this in any way surprising? Also, did you invent a new word there?
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 11, 2024 19:24:14 GMT -5
Morons. MAGA GOPers at their finest display of moronicism. The farcical saga of an impeachment trial no one wants to convene In impeaching Mayorkas, Republicans have turned the most powerful constitutional duty that Congress has — removing executive branch officials for “high crimes and misdemeanors” — into a farcical journey of blunder and mismanagement. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/11/mayorkas-impeachment-senate-trial/How is this in any way surprising? Also, did you invent a new word there? Made up the word on the fly!
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 23, 2024 9:55:55 GMT -5
You don’t want immigrants? Then tell grandma she can never retire. Don’t want more immigrants in this country? Then tell grandma she can never retire. As I’ve noted before, immigrants are driving the U.S. economic boom. That is: The United States has escaped recession, hiring growth has exceeded expectation, and inflation has cooled faster than predicted — all largely because immigration has boosted the size of the U.S. labor force. Don’t just take my word for it; ask the Federal Reserve chair or Wall Street economists. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/23/immigration-jobs-economy/
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