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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on October 22, 2018, 04:12:31 pm

Title: How Illegal Immigration Finally Turned Off the Public
Post by: rangerrebew on October 22, 2018, 04:12:31 pm: How Illegal Immigration Finally Turned Off the Public

If there were not a Donald Trump, he would likely have had to have been invented.

by Victor Davis Hanson
August 30, 2015 - 6:47 pm

Why did the illegal-immigration issue launch Donald Trumpâ€™s campaign? Why did his recent tense press conference exchange with Univisionâ€™s Jorge Ramos please even some of Trumpâ€™s liberal critics? What is it about illegal immigration that has finally turned off so many Americans?

1. Race

Over the years immigration activists successfully deconstructed the complex issue of illegal immigration into a race and class morality tale of privileged whites picking on poor brown people. The operative buzzwords were â€œracism,â€ â€œnativism,â€ and â€œxenophobia.â€ That theme is now mostly bankrupt given that every great lie eventually falls from its own weight.

http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson...ed-off-public/ (http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson...ed-off-public/)
Title: Re: How Illegal Immigration Finally Turned Off the Public
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 22, 2018, 05:18:12 pm: Broken link. Fixed it:

https://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/illegal-immigration-finally-turned-off-public/
Title: Re: How Illegal Immigration Finally Turned Off the Public
Post by: Jazzhead on October 22, 2018, 05:36:59 pm: The linked article is over three years old.
Title: Re: How Illegal Immigration Finally Turned Off the Public
Post by: truth_seeker on October 22, 2018, 06:25:30 pm: Quote from: Jazzhead on October 22, 2018, 05:36:59 pm
The linked article is over three years old.

True enough however the subject is current. Plus the topic dates to at least the early 1900s.

Cesar Chavez, of American Farmworker Uion notoriety, opposed illegal immigration. It drove wages down, for existing legal workers.