If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck...
Author: Dotsero Dude
Date: 02-28-2015 - 12:26
Restoration Specialist Wrote:
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> I never said I believed that he was an illegal
> alien. He fits the profile.
He "fits the profile." That's really prejudicial. Why should anyone "profile" others on a matter having no proven relationship to railroading on a railroad discussion board?
Nevertheless, while I should have been more precise with my wording, it is YOU who introduced the matter of immigration/border enforcement here and in a previous thread.
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> Who said I was a Tea Partier? I'd just like
> immigration laws enforced. Does one have to be an
> arch-conservative Tea Partier to also want
> immigration laws enforced?
It's easy - if you don't want you to come off as an arch-conservative/Tea Partier, don't write like one (i.e. starting off with a "Creeping Liberalism") in the subject line. Saying someone fits the profile is also consistent with Tea Party language. Other rhetoric also suggests you are a Tea Partier and there are others in this thread who agree with my view.
By the way, there is no issue of "Creeping Liberalism." Immigration into the US policy has ebbed and flowed and US policy has changed accordingly. The current hostile attitudes towards those coming from south of the border mirror those in the late 1800s and early 1900s when many Chinese and Eastern & Southern Europeans migrated to the US.
> That's all. My views really aren't THAT radical.
> Maybe old-fashioned, but not radical.
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Reservations about restricting immigration are not solely those of liberals. Bush 2.0 did not take the hard line that you and many current Tea Party politicians favor. Alabama agricultural interests were furious after that state passed the most stringent immigration law in the US because all of the sudden, workers were scarce.
Conversely, more people have been deported under the Obama Administration than under the previous administration.
Unless you can cite evidence showing that persons not legally in the United States are the cause of a disproportionate number of grade crossing accidents, you should take your argument to other Internet forums where you can find plenty of other like-minded commentators.