Foreigners

We foreigners have been coming to America for decades. We don't go on welfare for the most part. Immigrants tend to be slightly better at whatever job or career they have than the corresponding American applicants. This is because there is a hurdle to get in, other than for refugees.

Rural people and towns in the middle of the country have mostly Latino immigrants. They do the low wage jobs related to crops and the food industry.

These are all the (red) counties that went for Trump in the election. Many people before the election had no particular view of immigrants. Muslims had been singled out for 9-11, other than that, most rural people had little idea of immigrants in California or New York.

Immigrants are not on welfare. If they take your jobs, then most often they were in fact qualified for the job. We train foreign born scientists and engineers here, as Americans just want "nice" jobs or very high paying jobs. But jobs that are not in say the chemical industry.

Taking welfare now disqualifies you from moving on to citizenship. Getting arrested gets you deported. There is absolutely no basis for the Trump claim that foreigners are a danger and are second class citizens. Are they in gangs? Yes, but so are Americans in those low income areas where gangs operate. Often it takes a generation for the poorest least educated refugees to move up in society.

Reagan famously launched a libertarian era by saying that government (other than the military) is mostly bad. The military was needed, to fight communism of course

Trump has expanded on that, as well as made foreigners scapegoats. It started with:


"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best; they're not sending you," Trump said. "They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

November election is coming. If you are an immigrant and can vote, it is your duty to vote the racist GOP out of office.