This could be an assumption on my part, but I feel like there’s a lot of confusion around what is actually happening at detention centers, where they come from, what they’re for, etc. I was unclear, so I assume a lot of people are unclear, but we all have the same basic opinion — it’s wrong to keep people (esp. children) in cages. So, I wanted to make a quick breakdown so we all know what happens to kids who come to the border alone, kids who come with their parents, and the differences between those situations under Obama and now under Trump.
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Migrant children at the border, a breakdown.
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Donald Trump wouldn’t qualify to be an immigrant.
Let’s see. Trump has about five bankruptcies under his belt, can barely form a coherent sentence, and has no marketable skills that I can see other than being white and promising White America that he will whitely allow them to white even more effectively in the white future. Add to that the fact that he could never pass a citizenship test because he has no idea of how the government works or the history of this country, and I’m pretty sure Donald Trump’s Administration would stop Donald Trump at the door if he was trying to come from another country.
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President Velveeta’s only political position is Bully.
So we’re a week into Trump’s reign of terror and the common theme to me isn’t Republican or Conservative so much as it’s Piss Off As Many People As Possible. I think the running theme throughout Trump’s life has made itself the de facto position of his Presidency: Be A Dick.
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White descendant of immigrants is concerned about unvetted Puerto Ricans “immigrating” here.
Donald Trump never had a problem with immigration. His wife was an immigrant who worked here illegally. His modeling company was full of Eastern European waifs who were here illegally. He hires Polish immigrants to build his properties. Donald Trump has a problem with brown people and so do the rest of his supporters, like this asshat calling in to CSPAN to voice his concern about immigration from Puerto Rico…which is part of the United States.
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Vox: Brexit isn’t about economics. It’s about xenophobia.
The campaign behind Brexit is a mirror image of our own Cheeto Jesus out here trying to Make America Great White Again.
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Nevermind economic aid, most of us don’t even realize Puerto Ricans are American.
Now we have an American almost-state where 45% of the population is in poverty, 150 schools have been shut down in the past few years, and sales tax has been raised 4.5% all the way to 11.5% because the mainland treated Puerto Rico like an island paradise where business regulations don’t matter.
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Minimum wage jobs are **HARD**
We’ve assigned worth to jobs and we’ve also assigned jobs to people, so we’ve also assigned worth to people. We’ve told certain people that they belong behind the cash register at Wal-Mart or they belong over the fryer at McDonald’s and we’ve decided that those people don’t deserve a decent standard of living. The minimum wage fight isn’t really about whether or not you deserve more money for making a hamburger. It’s really about whether society’s failures and undesirables deserve as much money as everyone else.
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You think you’re better than the cashier at McDonald’s.
We give lip-service to supporting a minimum wage hike, but we don’t put nearly as much effort into doing something about it. What happens to your own sense of worth in this capitalist society when the guy at Taco Bell is in the same income bracket you are?
