That was the quick and easy one but the slightly more complicated one is that Bannon is confusing a few immigrant kids with second generation crises of identity appropriate for peers of similar education with most immigrants. People with classic immigrant stories add to the self-confidence of America rather than subtract from it. Despite the fantasies of an "Emerging Democratic Majority" of 15 years ago Republicans can even now get 40% of the Latino vote easily by focusing on concrete practical issues.
Republicans are getting more of the Latino vote BECAUSE Republicans want the border controlled not in spite of that desire. Unlike the nuanced and complexity-loving Democrats, they understand how the open borders flood the land with fentanyl, with major human trafficking rings, with terrorists, and with many other forms of dysfunction that controlled legal immigration can and has limited. Besides that approach being decent in favoring the legal immigrants over the others.
We now have tens of millions of uninvited "guests" that we cannot begin to process, feed, house, hire and heal.
Yes, we need to close the border for a time. And no, nobody out there has a "right" to enter America. There is a lot to be said for making those folks go home and turn their own countries into what they think America is.
And, at this point, what would be the argument against that position?
People who are entirely deserving of asylum would not get it.
I'm not agreeing with Bannon, but the asylum thing is an incredibly weak argument.
That was the quick and easy one but the slightly more complicated one is that Bannon is confusing a few immigrant kids with second generation crises of identity appropriate for peers of similar education with most immigrants. People with classic immigrant stories add to the self-confidence of America rather than subtract from it. Despite the fantasies of an "Emerging Democratic Majority" of 15 years ago Republicans can even now get 40% of the Latino vote easily by focusing on concrete practical issues.
40 percent? Gee, thanks.
Republicans are getting more of the Latino vote BECAUSE Republicans want the border controlled not in spite of that desire. Unlike the nuanced and complexity-loving Democrats, they understand how the open borders flood the land with fentanyl, with major human trafficking rings, with terrorists, and with many other forms of dysfunction that controlled legal immigration can and has limited. Besides that approach being decent in favoring the legal immigrants over the others.
But that is not an argument for NO immigrants.
We now have tens of millions of uninvited "guests" that we cannot begin to process, feed, house, hire and heal.
Yes, we need to close the border for a time. And no, nobody out there has a "right" to enter America. There is a lot to be said for making those folks go home and turn their own countries into what they think America is.