End Birthright citizenship, long have I agreed with it

[robustheologian]

If Europe is not the model that the USA patterns themselves in other areas, why are we so quick to abandon our immigration laws to adopt theirs?

It's called cherry picking...one of the premier tactics of the "right".

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

If Europe is not the model that the USA patterns themselves in other areas, why are we so quick to abandon our immigration laws to adopt theirs?

That is entirely backward. The point would be that even as stupid as Europeans are in these matters, and they are extremely stupid in these matters, they still have enough sense not to extend blanket citizenship to the world.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

I do realize how biased Google is. I cannot use it to find the information that used to be available and that I can no longer find.

Birthright citizenship is about more than Latinos and more than immigration and refugees. It affects adopted children and families with only one American parent, and so many other groups. Even before it got this messy, and with a grandfather that worked for the USA government, my sister and I (same parents) were at an airport once, and they were letting me and the parent on the plane, but not her. I will never forget that child's screams of terror. The only reason that my sister was allowed on board is because my father knew people in high up places, and had enough power to force the plane to wait until we were cleared.

Democrats are more likely to live in cities and be aware of situations that are not as common in the rural and the red states. The entire country is dependent on some of the things that happen in the blue areas; cancer research and treatment for example.

My grandfather served his country overseas, and my siblings and I have suffered because of that. On his deathbed, my grandfather did what he could for us, after some brand new laws were put in place. The government had to do that after a bunch of men refused to take their families overseas after hearing horror stories from their peers of what was happening to the grandkids.

If reds want to keep having access to the research and work of the blues, they are going to have to think twice about crippling the blues and the infrastructure that supports them and the people they are intertwined with.

People seem to have a great tolerance for watching brown and black kids scream in terror, but if Trump does this, you are are going to have a bunch of white kids screaming in terror that have rich and powerful male relatives, red and blue, that will refuse to go to work until it is fixed. You don't want that. Trust me.

Or don't. I think it is too late anyway.

Dem Progressive Leftists don’t constitute the practical researchers.

This is not a race issue, but a national one. The racist accusations are unfounded.

We are all outraged at what foreign parents are subjecting their children to.

The emotionally charged yet vague personal anecdotes are unhelpful as is.

 

[777]

If Europe is not the model that the USA patterns themselves in other areas, why are we so quick to abandon our immigration laws to adopt theirs?

well, what did Milton Friedman once say - can't have a huge welfare state and open borders at the same time? Pick one.