Define rich. We have the largest economy in the world - but it is being mismanaged. |
It is really scary how ignorant so many people are about US History. No way you took AP US History. Only the right kind of immigrant was allowed in to the US in 1900. It absolutely wasnt a free for all, let every enter. In 1882 the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed which banned Chinese immigration for ten years. This was extended by the Geary Act as well as banning Chinese from becoming citizens. The Supreme Court upheld the Geary Act in Fong Yue Ting v. United States in 1893, and in 1902 Chinese immigration was made permanently illegal. This didn’t change until the 40’s when a small number were allowed in. European immigrants in 1900 were screened at Ellis Island. Many were NOT admitted and turned back. If you were too sick or disabled or deemed somehow a threat you were turned back. |
Well now, that is 29 people who should be alive today because the illegal immigrant should NOT have been here. |
still defending cruelty-good little MAGA |
BS |
You know who scares me the most....white hateful MAGAS |
Surely the number is higher than 29! After all, Trump has told us that there are thousands of murderers and rapists in the US who are illegals. His stats are usually impeccable. I thought that the Third World emptied its prisons and sent all the murderers here. “If you look at what he did to the border, it’s so bad. [Biden] let in 21 million people… totally unvetted, totally unchecked. 11,888 have murdered people. Half of them have murdered more than one person.” (9/30/24) “How about allowing people to come to an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers? Many of them murdered far more than one person, and they're now happily living in the United States. You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it's in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.” (10/7/24) |
You are correct about the Chinese exclusion act but the whole reason we had that racist crap was because the default rule was that anyone could come in. And yes ellis island screened for health— that’s why I said “if you could get to the US healthy you were allowed in” but that didn’t really constrain immigration that much or stop the US from having higher levels of immigration than we currently have. So you are the one who is wrong about US history. |
Other than the Chinese Exclusion Act there were no quotas prior t0 1921. Yes, you could be detained or turned back for medical reasons, financial reasons, political reasons. But there were no quotes until the backlash related to eugenics and suspicion of inferior ethnicities surged. In the midwest as far as the Plains states, there were not just Jewish communities, there were rural (not just urban) Muslim communities made up of people from Syria and other middle eastern regions. |
Texas is the only state that reports crimes by citizenship and immigration status. Since homicide is not a subjective crime, it is a good proxy for crime rates. Homicide rate by illegals is less than that of both legal immigrants and citizens. I imagine that if we could with certainty predict who will murder, we could just keep them out or, if citizens, lock them up in advance. I think that argument about people who would be alive if illegals were not here is ab abstraction pulled out of data with no meaning in the real world. The more a police state clamps down, for instance, the more unnecessary deaths will ultimately occur. |
Guess Trump sent the Marines and the Guard to the wrong state, since Texas is unable to protect ICE officers. |
Texas did a study to see how much illegal immigrants costs the state and they found that the immigrants were a net benefit to the state because they add to the economy without using government programs so of course Texas refused to do the study ever again. |