DWill,
What "other nations" is he denigrating?
Is Trump denigrating Mexico for wanting to secure the border? A right that every single autonomous nation on the planet has?
Most people that scream racism when discussing a wall are those most removed from the situation. Illegal aliens and their children cost California tax payers an estimated 25 billion dollars a year. Their newborn children cost an addition 1 million dollars. Californian budgets its infrastructure costs horribly, but continues to tax native born citizens to support social programs that illegal immigrants benefit from. I'm a grandchild of legal immigrants. Why should exemptions be granted to immigrants who are here illegally while I have to obey every single law that's codified? California's middle class is bearing the brunt of taxation across the board. The real costs of supporting illegal immigrants is death by a thousand cuts for people like me.
(you can argue illegal aliens pay taxes too. I'll argue remittances add to the loss of costs stated above)
No one talks about the flow of drugs (like heroin) from the south that are destroying people's lives.
Here's a link to the Justice Department's 2011 report. It includes maps of the flow of drug traffic into the US. Without question, the most dominant routes are all south of us, beginning at porous border locations. Heroin has become a serious problem again. The Left NEVER addersses this issue.
https://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pu ... 44849p.pdf
Are we denigrating Mexico for wanting to curtail the economic and human costs to the US? You're really moralizing far too much if you think a country wanting to secure its borders is equivalent to denigrating them.
Did the US denigrate Muslim dominated countries by suspending immigration for 7 of them?
Here's a list of Muslim dominated countries where immigration was not suspended for 90 days:
Indonesia
Bangladesh
India
Pakistan
Algeria
Morocco
Turkey
Tunisia
Chad
Nigeria
Uzbekistan
Niger
Tanzania
Kenya
Senegal
Kazakhstan
Malaysia
It's a difficult argument to accept that a particular class of people were being discriminated against when approximately 88% of the entire world population of that group were unburdened by the suspension.
I agreed with the 9th Circuit's ruling regarding procedural violations related to the suspension. It was horribly executed.
The latest ruling that lifted Trump's suspension is particularly interesting (religious protection grounds). Ironically that ruling, however indirect, supports future protection of religious groups here in the States (ie Little Sisters of the Poor/Hobby Lobby, etc)
What other nations are you claiming Trump denigrated? China? North/South Korea? Japan? How so?
I'm an Independent that didn't vote for Trump. He's not the statesman we need and is too unfiltered and unorthodox. Clinton wasn't the answer either. She was just a vote for business as usual. CNN colluding with her by sharing the questions in advance prior to the debate is something I didn't forget. That and the email scandal. I don't exactly consider her to be a moral upgrade.
I'm certainly not jumping on the Left's bandwagon. This version of the Left is NOT classical liberalism which I have great respect for.
The Left still doesn't get it: it lost because of its water-downed identity politics, which really is nothing more than the politics of narcissism.
As a side note, I really get ticked off when white people (not you) tell me as a latino man I should loathe and fear Trump, and that his Wall is just a racist monument.
I have never heard one single thing out of Trump's loud mouth that I considered to be overt racism against latinos. And Mexico has never done anything for me, or its citizens for that matter.
It's corrupted to the core by politicians who are owned by drug cartels. Let's hope one day the people of Mexico decide to ban together to clean up their own backyard. That would be wonderful.
Demanding your rights be protected in an entirely different country you don't hold legal citizenship in is blatantly hypocritical and cowardly. Stand in line, like my family did.