I can’t point to one thing you’ve said that doesn’t demonize immigrants. Tick disease? Immigrants. Traffic jams in Massachusetts? Immigrants. Climate change? Immigrants. Crowded emergency rooms? Immigrants. Your friend’s daughter’s grade inflation? Immigrants. The GOP recapturing Congress in 2022? Immigrants. For you, it’s immigrants, all the way down...
I can’t point to one thing you’ve said that doesn’t demonize immigrants. Tick disease? Immigrants. Traffic jams in Massachusetts? Immigrants. Climate change? Immigrants. Crowded emergency rooms? Immigrants. Your friend’s daughter’s grade inflation? Immigrants. The GOP recapturing Congress in 2022? Immigrants. For you, it’s immigrants, all the way down...
If I had the feelings towards immigrants that "demonizing" implies, I would have advocated earlier in this thread that there should be no immigration, rather than advocating 250,000-300,000 annually.
And if Pew was projecting that American fertility, rather than immigration, was going to add 90 million to the US population over the next 45 years, my focus would be on the need for Americans to reduce our fertility. But we are now barely over replacement.
My concern is overpopulation, not immigrants per se, and the US is badly overpopulated. My best friend is an immigrant, she knows my views well, and if I were demonizing immigrants--or if I were demonizing any group of people--she would not be my friend.
I can’t point to one thing you’ve said that doesn’t demonize immigrants. Tick disease? Immigrants. Traffic jams in Massachusetts? Immigrants. Climate change? Immigrants. Crowded emergency rooms? Immigrants. Your friend’s daughter’s grade inflation? Immigrants. The GOP recapturing Congress in 2022? Immigrants. For you, it’s immigrants, all the way down...
If I had the feelings towards immigrants that "demonizing" implies, I would have advocated earlier in this thread that there should be no immigration, rather than advocating 250,000-300,000 annually.
And if Pew was projecting that American fertility, rather than immigration, was going to add 90 million to the US population over the next 45 years, my focus would be on the need for Americans to reduce our fertility. But we are now barely over replacement.
My concern is overpopulation, not immigrants per se, and the US is badly overpopulated. My best friend is an immigrant, she knows my views well, and if I were demonizing immigrants--or if I were demonizing any group of people--she would not be my friend.