Donald Trump’s call for a wall between the United States and Mexico ignores an inconvenient fact: since 2005, more Mexican nationals have returned to Mexico in search of work than have come to the United States because of the fact that it’s easier to find work there. Maybe this provides a defense for Trump.
Trump Loves Mexicans So Much He’s Willing To Trap Them Here
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«Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
…
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors’.»
On the other hand, somehow I suspect that Mr Frost is not one of Mr Trump’s literary favourites…..
Henri
[M]ore”Mexican nationals have returned to Mexico in search of work than have come to the United States because of the fact that it’s easier to find work there.”
Of course the business community wants a workforce that can be cheated without access to law and deported if they complain, so no real solution to the “problem” of undocumented workers will ever be proposed, this being negative consequences for the employers not their employees.
The case is made here for and against the bitter medicine of austerity sold by the R’s and D’s:
The price of “racial purity” for those who would have it at all costs becomes austerity .
And austerity is also for those who will have the economic “cure” provided by neoliberalism.
R and D Hucksters are in agreement that this austerity snake oil will cure all that ails you.
Who’d be getting trapped in? The border fence would have a regular entrance(s) and exit(s) just as there is such now. If a person wants to walk out of this country without some kind of documentation that would let them (easily) return, then let it happen! It’s the “getting-in” part that would (circumstantially) be made tougher. Ted, this straw-man has really big holes in it. The idea is to have a one-way sieve that would let the invaders exit, but not so easily re-enter. For citizens, green-card holders, and visa-holders? It would be no different than it is now … none of them people are “wetbacking” it in.
DanD
For the most part, Trump’s campaign platform consists of contradictions, so we cannot go by any of his words (just his actions), and those actions show that he is rabidly anti-green and pro-coal, which is about as bad a platform plank as could be imagined.
For rounding up and deporting 11 million his first day in office, no one has any idea how many there really are (it’s all underground, and so invisible) and no way of knowing who is in the 11 million, so that promise cannot be kept (meanwhile, Obama has deported more Hispanics than any other president: when he said he would only deport heinous criminals, he meant all undocumented aliens, since being undocumented is a crime).
Trump proposes to pay for the wall by taxing (100%?) all remittances to Mexico, but since almost all those remittances will go underground, that is also not possible.
Mr Rall gave Trump a victory in the debate, but Trump has lost Florida, North Carolina, and Nevada, and he has dropped from 1.5% below Secretary Clinton to 3% below her in national polls.
And since the debate, the Dilbert blog has stopped its daily column reiterating that that Trump is sure to win.
@jack heart
Somebody tell Trump that the donations the Clintons took for aid to Haiti were wasted. A lot of people in Haiti are waiting for Matthew to hit them while sheltering in substandard housing due to misappropriated funds by Bill and Hillary.
I hope Haiti doesn’t get hit badly, but if it does the Clintons should bear their share of responsibility.
“The investigation focused on $651 million that American taxpayers have given Haiti via the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) since 2010. The probe “reveals a troubling lack of progress and accountability,” according to the lawmaker who ordered it…”
https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/07/clintons-pushed-most-wasteful-of-u-s-funded-haiti-projects/
The U.S. makes it extremely difficult for Mexicans to enter legally. I have been trying to assist the Mexican father of a family consisting of six U.S. citizens (wife and five daughters) to move to Arizona, where they have relatives. My wife and I put them in contact with a lawyer in Chapala (Jalisco) four years ago, and we engaged the office of Senator John McCain for his help. After four years, they are no closer to getting Dad into the U.S. legally because of all the red tape. Is it any wonder that some choose to go there without documentation?
I hear Canada’s building a wall, and they want us to pay for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxHHmr2YvoI
This site has electoral vote predictions based on state polls:
electoral-vote (dot) com
Right now its Clinton 323 Herr Hair 215
For the first time I’ve noticed, the Dems are projected to have a majority in the senate: 51-49