Eschewing Euphemisms Frames Immigration Issue Trump's Way

Townhall.com ^ | January 26, 2018 | Michael Barone

[trebb]

Trump gave the Repubs the leverage they need to destroy Schumer and company - here’s hoping McConnell and company use that leverage...

[grania]

I agree. Trump’s deal is way too good for my tastes. And the dems still want more. It exposes them for the hypocrites they are.

[Pollster1]

here’s hoping McConnell and company use that leverage...

We all know how reassuring that thought is.

[Steely Tom]

In “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” one little boy “reframes the issue.”

[NorthMountain]

He joined the large majority of Americans who favor legislation granting clear legal status to the 700,000 or so "dreamers" --

That statement assumes facts not in evidence.

[HateBill]

Trump’s “deal” was a ploy to get immigration to further blue-on-blue destruction. As the coastal elites continue to push this issue, they further alienate what was left of potential “Trump Democrats” who voted for Hillary with misgivings. As long as the DACA “kids” keep on acting like entitled idiots, i.e., screaming at Pelosi, protesting in front of Schumer’s apartment, they will have less and less support from the majority of Americans and suddenly Trump’s 1.8 million offer will become maybe a hundred thousand, those who are truly serving in the military and high school valedictorians, who will be inclined to look positively at Trump and negatively on Democrats who insist on bringing unlimited terrorists and leeches into the country.

[Socon-Econ]

“...a bow to the classic Judeo-Christian teaching that sins of the fathers should not be visited on the sons.”
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So Christianity is about allowing the fathers to continue to sin by sneaking their kids in?

[Surrounded_too]

All of them out. Dual Citizenship is Double Death. They will chain in by arranged

marriages or sham marriages and pop little watermelons by the handful with no

intent to assimilate. Invasion by womb. We don’t need to be Merkelized. NFWay.

[Anima Mundi]

The message is “lie cheat steal so that your kids may prosper and have good lives.” This makes good honest decent people who obey laws and try to succeed through hard work seem like chumps who leave their children without the rewards accrued through looting and cheating. The end is that children of honest parents are ruled over by children of cheaters who feel superior to them. This seems all wrong.

[grania]

I like including a pathway to citizenship, which is an outlier position to take here. That means these "dreamers" would be scrutinized for ten or twelve years, learn English, live within the law, and be productive. I would also hope they can't have citizenship anymore in their country of birth. Since the argument is that they have no allegiance to that country, it makes no sense for them to have citizenship there.

I'd think it's a shrewd move to clean house and get a whole lot of "dreamers" out of the country. The larger number means that those who don't register have no excuse....they're deported.

[trebb]

I hear you - McConnell has experienced winning but it scares him...

[Uncle Miltie]

Dude doesn’t know his scripture:

“Exodus 20:5 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;”

[Oatka]

Euphemism has been the weapon of the liberals on this.

Then he uses a euphemism himself: "Obama’s legally dubious Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

"Legally Dubious"? Hell, it was flat out illegal.

[John O]

Modified by

2 Kings 14:6

6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
(KJV)

[Hardastarboard]

His use of confrontation and sometimes vile language strikes many Americans, including me, as distasteful.

Mr. Barone, with all due respect (which is essentially none, in this case), KISS MY ASS. I'm tired to death of all of the "intellectual" conservatives, using this virtue signaling disclaimer. EFF you. And honestly, I'm normally a pretty big fan of Barone.

[Elsie]

Euphemism has been the weapon of the liberals on this.

You can't say illegal immigrants; you have to say undocumented immigrants.

You can't say amnesty; you have to say a path to citizenship.

You have to say that for immigration legislation to be considered comprehensive, it must provide a path to citizenship for the bulk of the estimated 11 million immigrants who are here illegally.

You have to say that more restrictive plans are hard-line, presumably implying they are undesirable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

" The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success

unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly -

- it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."

[Elsie]

Invasion by womb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowbird

[Elsie]

Then there are those that appear not to know other parts of the Scriptures...

 

 

Jeremiah 31:29-34King James Version (KJV)

²⁹ In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

³⁰ But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

[Uncle Miltie]

I’m a Torah guy, so I don’t count New Testament as “scripture”. So, there’s a difference.