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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Immigration is good. [/quote]

OP here, and I agree.  Legal, merit-based immigration is good.  [/quote]
Has she ever outright stated that illegal immigration is good?  I know she is for DACA, but so are many Americans.[/quote]

I don't know about Hillary but yes some Dems have outright praised illegal immigrants (looking at you Nancy) as if it's a virtue.

At the beginning of his campaign Bernie even had some frank speak on how illegal immigrants undercut wages for low income Americans... And then the party got to him and he shut up pretty quickly on that line.[/quote]
[b][u]Yes, but by that same token some Rs have outright stated they only want white Europeans to be able to immigrate here, so I don't think it's fair to characterize the entire Dem party or HRC as pro-illegal immigration, unless Rs are willing to agree that their party is only for legal immigration of whites.[/u]
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Please do provide links to this assertion.  I'd really love to know exactly what Republican elected official has stated they only want "white Europeans to be able to immigrate here".  I'll be waiting.[/quote]

Some quotes from Congressman Steve King:

"“I would ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you are talking about, where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?" King responded. When Chris Hayes asked King if he meant no group had done more than white people, he replied, "Than — than western civilization itself that's rooted in western Europe, eastern Europe and the United States of America, and every place where Christianity settled the world. That's all of western civilization.""

Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz isn’t the only one who compares health-care costs to the cost of iPhones. In a September 2016 congressional hearing on the Hyde Amendment, King made comments about abortion causing a black genocide — a common myth cited by anti-abortion activists. Then when questioned by Rewire’s Christine Grimaldi, he later implied that even if he tried to prevent them from this "genocide" — by ensuring Medicaid would not cover abortion — African-Americans would find a way to terminate pregnancies anyway. After saying abortion was a “tragedy for any life, no matter what color,” King also responded, “They chose to have an abortion. I would give you even money that a vast majority of mothers who say they can’t afford an abortion have an iPhone, which costs more.”

Considering his long history of racially offensive quotes it shouldn't surprise anyone that King did little to condemn the actions of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia. King called the battle around the Confederate flag newly emerged and "politically driven," rather than acknowledge the symbol it has played in over a century of racial inequity. "Let’s put that stuff behind us in history,” King told local Iowa television station KCCI 8, according to Think Progress. “The Civil War was history, the Confederacy was history. There’s a symbol there that means slavery to some, but it means a historical pride in the south in others, and we should be able to look at it as history.”

February 2015: Steve King tweeted a political cartoon depicting Barack Obama wearing a turban.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a9129973/steve-king-quotes-abortion-immigration/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/us/politics/steve-king-offensive-quotes.html
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ez8a44/a-short-history-of-congressman-steve-king-saying-racist-shit[/quote]

Let me get this straight.  You first claim that "some Rs have outright stated they only want white Europeans to be able to immigrate here" and "unless Rs are willing to agree that their party is only for legal immigration of whites," explicitly condemning all Republicans and insisting they all believe this.  When called out on this idiotic and spurious claim, you come up with one (1) elected official who has made some controversial remarks.

Do you have any concept of how completely idiotic and crazy you sound?  You've made a sweeping generalization about an entire party based on the remarks of ONE PERSON.  SMGDH.[/quote]
Oh, PP, it's really helpful to read the entire thread. Please read the bolded/underlined up top.  What you stated is exactly what I was saying about how some people think ALL Dems want open borders... that because *some* Dems have stated this, it doesn't mean that ALL Dems want it.. just like how *some* Rs seem to only want white European immigrants, it doesn't mean ALL Rs only want this.

Got it now?

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