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Gary Johnson: 'Nativism is not an American value'
The Politico ^ | June 23, 2016 | Bianca Padró Ocasio

Posted on 06/23/2016 7:17:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Nativism is not an American value, Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson declared Thursday, delivering a pointed rebuke to Donald Trump without mentioning his name while calling on an end to immigration quotas symptomatic of a broken system.

“The overwhelming cause of illegal immigration and visa overstays is the fact that our legal immigration process simply doesn’t work, and that we impose absurd caps on various work visas,” Johnson said in a statement on Thursday with his remarks to the annual National Association of Latino Elected Officials conference in Washington. “Let the market, not bureaucrats and special interests, determine how many workers we allow into the country.”

The United States' borders "must be controlled," he said, but such control "begins with knowing who is entering the country and why – not building another ‘Great Wall’ or banning immigrants on the basis of ethnicity or religion."(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: garyjohnson; johnson; libertarian; libertarianparty; libertarians; lping; nativism; thirdparty; trump
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Just in case you were thinking of voting for this guy.
1 posted on 06/23/2016 7:17:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Self-inflicted genocide is also not an American value, Johnny.


2 posted on 06/23/2016 7:19:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If the Orlando terrorist doesnÂ’t represent all Muslims, why does he represent all gun-owners?)
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Another open borders guy.


3 posted on 06/23/2016 7:19:28 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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Not worried about Johnson/Weld. Weld is a globalist. They’ll strip votes from the Bernie crowd who would have otherwise backed Hillary.


4 posted on 06/23/2016 7:20:11 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Moderate Muslims are the fans cheering for blood during a hockey game)
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Friggin pothead.


5 posted on 06/23/2016 7:20:36 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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What the heck is “nativism”?

Some kind of fetish about wearing war bonnets?


6 posted on 06/23/2016 7:20:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Rule of law is an American value. This guy is a joke.


7 posted on 06/23/2016 7:22:45 PM PDT by Williams (If Trump is not the nominee ... The party's over.)
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“The overwhelming cause of illegal immigration and visa overstays is the fact that our legal immigration process simply doesn’t work ....


Gary, “Then change the process. Until then, enforce the law.”

If you’re not willing to enforce the law, that makes you no better than the current bastard we call president.


8 posted on 06/23/2016 7:23:27 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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1925-1965; ZERO immigration.

No, no in fact it IS an American value and what we have now is a whacko ABERRATION.


9 posted on 06/23/2016 7:23:30 PM PDT by gaijin
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What the heck is “nativism”?

Loving your country, it's people and culture.

10 posted on 06/23/2016 7:24:57 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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What crap. If you’re not a “nativist,” you’re a globalist. If you’re a globalist, you are by definition against American sovereignty.

So how is being against American sovereignty an American value?


11 posted on 06/23/2016 7:24:59 PM PDT by Maceman
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The moron Glenn Beck can go vote for that weirdo.


12 posted on 06/23/2016 7:26:06 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban muslims, NOT guns.....Register liberals, NOT guns)
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I consider myself a libertarian, but this guy really bothers me.

IMHO - libertarianism is about government not interfering in society and civil society, to govern itself, at the lowest possible level. Having government-imposed social-engineering and political-immigration is, a very statist and dictatorial thing to do.

We all know what would happen if he were elected - he’d let everyone smoke pot and open the borders, but would leave the nanny-state, Federal Reserve and our welfare society untouched, because that would be too hard.


13 posted on 06/23/2016 7:28:30 PM PDT by PGR88
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Gary Johnson: ‘Nativism is not an American value’

Nativism: the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.

Question: How can there be ANY “American value” if nativism is not allowed?

14 posted on 06/23/2016 7:31:29 PM PDT by donna (Trump does not have protesters-Trump has voters. These thugs are LaRaza protesters.)
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What a MORON!

We used to be a “MULTI-RACIAL MONO-LINGUAL MONO-CULTURE”

we cannot survive as a “MULTI-RACIAL MULTI-LINGUAL MULTI-CULTURE”

We have to have 2 out of 3 as a “NATIONAL GLUE” to hold crap together, otherwise we will descend into Balkanisation tribalism and break up...


15 posted on 06/23/2016 7:32:21 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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Too much pot addles the brain


16 posted on 06/23/2016 7:37:49 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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And Sharia law is?


17 posted on 06/23/2016 7:38:32 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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Sorry Gary...

No matter how much you echo 0bama’s policies and ‘values’ he isn’t going to let you join his Choom Gang...

Even if you bring the dope, you don’t have anywhere near enough epidermal melanin for them to let you join in.


18 posted on 06/23/2016 7:38:53 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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I wasn’t even thinking about giving a crap one way or another about him.


19 posted on 06/23/2016 7:39:18 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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The Roman empire based on mostly Latin lads lasted 500 years. Its multicultural empire lasted about 200.
And I can’t think of one that was similar that lasted THAT long without a strong demographic majority.


20 posted on 06/23/2016 7:41:02 PM PDT by tbw2
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