He dreamed of a world where people were judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. It's the complete opposite. Dems/libs judge people by their skin color, not the content of their character. Thoughts?
Sadly I have to agree with you. In the past 10 years I have seen more anger and violence from the Left than ever in my 66 years of living. What is happening in Minneapolis right now is the latest example. I fear Dr. King would hang his head and cry if he were alive today.
The chap who was arrested based on his accent! Back in April last year we met a guy working at a world famous historic landmark in Texas - and he spoke with a Scottish accent. We chatted for a bit and it turns out he was born in the US but raised in Scotland. He's white, but even back then, mere months into this presidential term he was already being harassed. He patted his bum bag (fanny pack?) and said he carries his passport everywhere. I can't imagine what it must be like for Latinos. FWIW I'm not American, & my country doesn't have land borders, our illegal immigrants come by plane, but then I've heard that's true for the US too. I don't understand the problem the US is trying to fix and I don't understand the methods they are using. I try to, but none of it makes sense.
But according to many on the Left, only Latinos/Hispanics are being harassed. We are a sovereign nation that's supposed to have secure borders, but instead, millions of illegal aliens, gangs, drug cartels, human traffickers, etc., etc. have been allowed to cross the border. During Obama's terms in office, there was a surge of children at the border...thousands of them. What happened to them, I hate to imagine. Most are missing. Btw, I'm Latina and not once have I ever been harassed (by ICE or police). Same with millions and millions of other Latinos here in the US. Seems only those that are here illegally and criminals are the ones being 'harassed'. I'm on a forum where many libs/Dems have told me I'm going to get deported, harassed, etc., and saying they hope I do. It's never gonna happen. lol Also, it might surprise you to know that plenty of Mexican-Americans here are pro-border security, pro-ICE, pro-law enforcement, and support the deportation of illegal aliens which is why many of us voted for Trump. The MSM makes it seem like being a criminal is just part of our culture and that we accept it. It's not, and we don't. P.S. A lot of ICE agents, border patrol agents and police officers are Latino.
That was very well said Peachy. Americans aren't against Immigrants, this country is made of them. We are against illegal ones. Why should anyone get to just walk across the border and into our country when millions have done it the right way, applied and waited to be approved.
That's partly why I stopped watching all the news channels. You never saw a pro-Trump Hispanic interviewed on any of those news shows. They were all pushing the narrative that Hispanics have a hive mind and all hated Trump. I blame them for stereotyping Hispanics as illegal aliens and making the term 'illegal alien' synonymous with 'Mexican'. And they did that by refusing to make a distinction between 'illegal' and 'legal' immigrants. I'm on a forum where I and a black man there are Republicans, and the liberals there treat us like crap. So much for being the party of 'tolerance'.
We met plenty latinos in the US and outside who were pro-Trump but there have been instances reported where pro-trump latinos have been deported even though they were legally in the US. We had issues in Texas because we didn't have a visa in our passports. Luckily, as a joke, the border staff had stamped our passports and that was good enough. The ignorance of a chap at a permanent roadblock was scary. We didn't pass through any others, so it was an n=1 experience. I'm back home now and the feeling amongst my friends and family is that they'll go to other places for the next few years. Domestic tourism is probably a bigger money spinner than international tourism so I doubt foreigners staying away will have much impact. Google tells me that domestic is $839B+ (2024) and international visitors only $190B (2024), so yes, domestic is what matters.
Oh, yes, they (libs) have told me about that, and that they hope I'll be next. They laugh about it. See, I'm not on the Democrat plantation, and they hate minorities who dare not be Democrats. But I think those are isolated cases. I don't think having an open border is the solution.
Does anyone actually want an open border, though? I'm on the outside, obviously, but I've never met anyone, anywhere, who thinks the US should have an open border.
I have come across some far Left-wingers who have been against securing the border. When Trump said he was going to deport illegals and secure the border, the Democrats called him and anyone who supported him a 'racist'. Yet, at the same time, they bragged that Obama deported "the most" illegals. They never called him a racist though. They tried to make it all about race, because they just wanted to exploit that issue to score political points. They failed.
Justpeachy, I firmly believe at this point it isn't even the deportation that is the issue. Democrats have this unnatural hate of Trump. The man could cure cancer tomorrow and they would say he made money off the cure. They loved Obama so Obama did no wrong. They hated Biden (in my opinion) but he wasn't Donald Trump and he was a puppet so the far left was able to use him. They love illegals now for one reason, they hope they will vote Democratic. If tomorrow a law was passed all illegal immigrants could vote, AND a valid poll came out saying illegal immigrants would vote Republican, the Democrats would be out on the street marching and demanding their deportation.
Exactly. They needed illegal aliens for the census numbers too. That's one of the reasons they got so pissed off about the deportations.