Preventing deportation of gang members is Sam's idea of 'conservative'.Sam Lowry said:You haven't even been conservative this whole thread. Otherwise you'd see the wisdom of these conservative judges and the danger of what the GOP is becoming.Oldbear83 said:I have known and been conservative my whole life, Sam.Sam Lowry said:Nah. Y'all have just been lost in Trumpside Down World so long, you've forgotten what conservatism is:Assassin said:Wow, just wow. Just as I think you are coming back to earth, you start JR'ing again.Sam Lowry said:There are widely varying degrees of preference. Quebec may favor French speakers, but it doesn't commit genocide. And French is a language, not a race.Redbrickbear said:Sam Lowry said:It becomes a moral issue when it leads to illegal policies and immoral treatment.Redbrickbear said:Sam Lowry said:The article specifically lamented the growth of the Hispanic population. Racial quotas have been supported by the public for most of our history. That doesn't change what they are.Redbrickbear said:Sam Lowry said:Redbrickbear said:Sam Lowry said:
The first reply to my post is almost exactly what I expected, so thanks for getting it out of the way quickly.
I share many of your concerns about the SPLC and have criticized it in the past. Some of what's in their article, which I didn't quote, may be over-hyped or over-interpreted. But there's more than enough substance, and I've seen no one dispute these facts about Miller.
1. It needs to be said constantly....the SPLC is a completely dishonest organization
And if you are worried about racism it apparently is a racist organization as well.
[Some employees at the Southern Poverty Law Center say the legendary civil rights nonprofit group suffers from a "systemic culture of racism and sexism within its workplace."
But one of the employees who spoke to CNN alleged the organization suffers from a "pervasive racist culture" and an environment in which a woman is not seen or heard. She also said qualified African-American employees were regularly passed over for promotions including one African-American colleague she describes as brilliant. She added, "My boss only hires white people."]
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/29/us/splc-leadership-crisis/index.html
2. You have not shown us anything more than Miller opposes mass migration of 3rd world peoples into the USA (something the majority of Americans support)
The rest is classic guilt by association type stuff
"Look! Someone with non-approved views...and this person knew Miller!"
And the Left of course never applies that biased standard to itself
The article has Miller himself (not just people he's associated with) supporting racial quotas in immigration. He doesn't just want to "enforce the law." He wants to enforce laws that will Make America White Again.
I think you mean National quotas...not racial ones
And that was of course American policy for decades....wildly supported by the American voting populace
Quotas on foreign migration based on the population composition of the USA at the time & the pervious places people had already immigrated from.
[The 1924 Immigration Act, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act or National Origins Act, drastically restricted immigration to the United States. It established a quota system
The act set a national quota of 165,000 for immigrants from countries outside the Western Hemisphere. The quota for each country was determined by 2% of the number of people of that nationality who were living in the U.S. in 1890. This effectively favored immigrants from Western and Northern Europe]
England got more immigrant visas than Congo for instance.
Then you are arguing against the immigration policy that most Americans want and desire (not bringing in people radically different from and members of a far different culture than the current American population)
I have seen this for a long time around immigration debates.....people (often on the Left) moralize the immigration debate
Immigration is NOT a moral issue.....its a cultural and economic issue
But its not "immoral" to decide who gets to become a member of your national community
Quebec for instance favors native French speakers when picking new immigrants/refugees
[Quebec does favor French-speaking immigrants. According to immigrationpolicy.org, the province has historically selected immigrants with French as their first language, with the percentage...70% over the past decade. This preference is driven by a desire to preserve and strengthen the French language in Quebec, which is the province's sole official language.]
Israel gives priority to Jewish people.
Singapore absolutely favors high-skilled immigrants (English speakers and Chinese language speakers are the two priorities)
Etc
Americans wanting recruit new citizens from roughly the national groups that already settled here (and 165,000 from the rest of the world) is not immoral at all
Its a preference policy
Trump is closely allied with Christian (i.e. white Christian) nationalists. People like Miller subscribe to racial conspiracy theories and design their policies accordingly. By pandering to racists, fear-mongering about immigrant crime waves, violating the law, and going out of their way to be cruel, the administration has shown a hostility to minorities that's all out of proportion with such technicalities as undocumented status.
https://sicem365.com/forums/7/topics/150764
You ain't it.
Hating Trump is just puerile emotion, nothing better. Pretending you stand for any ideal just makes you look dumb as well as bitter.
Sma also thinks keeping government fat and expensive is 'conservative'.