8/9/18: Can we all shout together: “Chain migration must be stopped!”
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“Suresh
Abayasekara Krause…as American as you can get.”
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The
president insists chain migration is the worst. Chain migration allows one
immigrant to come to this country legally. That immigrant becomes a citizen.
Somehow, many Trump fans think this is terrible, too, at least when the new
citizen’s skin is some color other than white. The new citizen then sponsors
relatives to come. Those relatives qualify for green cards and may, in five
years or so, become citizens themselves. According to Trump, this is awful
because these new Americans sponsor adult children or even parents to
come to the States.
(Spoiler alert: Major
hypocrisy to follow.)
According
to Laura Ingraham, on Fox News, we can’t allow this to continue. Ingraham highlights the danger:
In some parts of the country, it
does seem like the America that we
know and love doesn’t exist anymore.
Massive demographic changes have
been foisted upon the American people and they’re changes that none of us ever
voted for and most of us don’t like.
Let’s
tease out her meaning. Once upon a time there was an America we could “love.”
Now there are changes “most of us don’t like.” These are changes, she also
notes, that “we see.”
What
prompts Ingraham to turn fear into words? She’s upset about a Democratic
candidate for Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who
expounds socialist views. People like Ocasio-Cortez, that “we see,” will ruin
America.
Even legal immigration may mean America won’t be the America
“we love” for much longer.
To give you some idea who Ingraham’s target audience is,
consider who rallies behind her on Twitter. Her argument seems so on point, according to David Duke, that he has to tweet support. “One of the most
important (truthful) monologues [emphasis added throughout] in the history
of MSM,” he says.
And who is Duke? He ran as a Republican for governor of
Louisiana in 1991. He didn’t win. He ran as a Republican for the U.S. Senate in
2016. He still didn’t win. Duke is also a former grand wizard of the K.K.K.
and, to the day he dies, likely to remain a K.K.K. man at heart.
What then can “we see,” assuming we look through the eyes of
people like Ingraham, Duke, and the current President of the United States? We
don’t want immigrants who look like this:
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Ocasio-Cortez (born in Brooklyn): Still too brown for Ingraham and Duke.
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Hakeem Olajuwon: Too Muslim.
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Alix Idrache (graduating from West Point): Too Haitian.
President Trump says Haitian immigrants bring AIDS.
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Lance Cpl. Diego Velazquez Valdiva, takes oath of citizenship, Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Too Mexican for Trump. |
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Still too "Mexican:" Staff Sgt. Martin Alonso Balcazar
takes the oath of allegiance as a new citizen in 2016. |
Or this:
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Tung Nyguyen doesn't look like the America Ingraham used to love.
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Too funny looking in a Muslim turban for Trump and his base.
Capt. Kamal Kasi is actually a Sikh.
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We want immigrants, as even the president has said himself,
who look like this:
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Trump actually said we'd be better off with more immigrants from Norway.
Ever wonder why?
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And these guys are okay, too (as we shall read below):
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The parents of the First Lady.
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More than 65,000 foreign-born in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Again,
it’s a shame the president never bothers to read. We knew a decade ago how much immigrants helped to keep America great. It’s too
bad the Commander-in-Chief can’t keep it straight.
By
February 2008, the U.S. military could report that 65,033 foreign-born men and
women were serving under the Stars and Stripes. That included 20,328
non-citizens but did not include the 111 who had been killed in Iraq and
Afghanistan, fighting for a flag that people like Ingraham, Trump and Duke
don’t believe they’re fit to have drape their coffins.
Those
hundred-odd heroes had been posthumously granted citizenship in return for
their lives.
(By
2013, 284 foreign-born service members had been killed in the global fight against terror.)
Of
course, Ingraham might not like the America she “sees.” President Trump might
not like it any more than he liked the idea of serving his country back when he
was young and had his chance.
Let’s
consider a few immigrants who did:
One officer who decided to use
his talent and skill in service to our national security was Army Chief Warrant
Officer Suresh Krause. In Sri Lanka, where Krause was born, the two official
languages are Tamil and Sinhalese, both of which are considered “critical”
languages for recruitment purposes by the U.S. Army.
Krause joined the U.S. military
to contribute another skill that was a passion from an early age – flying – telling
family members the Christmas before his death that he planned on serving as a
pilot in the Army for 20 years.
Krause’s story is similar to
that of many talented and ambitious immigrants. He came to America at age 14
after being adopted by his aunt and uncle. As a young man, Krause tried to take
advantage of the opportunity his parents gave him. Krause, who teachers
describe as a “math genius,” displayed incredible talent in aeronautics, going
on to graduate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. After graduation, he
became an officer in the U.S. Army, where he distinguished himself once
again…
Krause was ultimately killed
while piloting a Black Hawk helicopter in Kandahar, Afghanistan. His uncle,
Brody Schmidt, described his decision to enlist as an act of gratitude for the
nation that took him in. “This is not his native soil,” Schmidt said at the time,
“But in his heart of hearts he bled U.S.A. blood.” Following his death, former
Representative Mary Bono Mack…stated, “He wanted to defend his adopted home…In
the end, Suresh Abayasekara Krause was as American as you can get.”
Next:
Sgt. Pamela Osborne, who was
born in Jamaica, is one foreign-born member who made her mark on the U.S. Army.
Osborne moved to Miami at age 14 with two goals: to become a U.S. citizen and
to serve her adopted country as a soldier in the military. She enlisted in
2001, shortly before September 11. “She loved what she did,” her husband has
said….As she explained to her husband at the time, “I’m going to serve my
country, to protect my country.”
On October 11, 2004 [in
Iraq]…Osborne headed out to deliver supplies to another enlisted service member
and vehicle mechanic, Pvt. Anthony Monroe of Bismarck, North Dakota.
Both were killed when rocket
fire hit their camp in Baghdad. “Sgt. Osborne was always ready to help
soldiers,” one of her colleagues wrote on a tribute page after her death, “She
was a credit to the United States, and I’m lucky to have known and served with
her.”
Finally, Trump and his kind might open their eyes a little
and “see” all the colors of true Americans:
Army Sgt. 1st Class Tung Nguyen
is one immigrant who died in service in recent years after a long and
celebrated career in the U.S. Army. Nguyen joined the military shortly after
graduating from high school. During his 20 years of service, Nguyen rose
steadily through the ranks. In 1992, he qualified as a Green Beret,
becoming a part of U.S. Army Special Forces, a prestigious unit designed for
special and unconventional operations…
Nguyen’s decision to serve led
naturally from his experiences early in life. As a young boy living in South
Vietnam, he was surrounded by a tradition of military service. He grew up
hearing stories from the front lines of the Vietnam War, a battle in which many
of Nguyen’s family members fought against communist forces. At the age of 11,
Nguyen fled his native Vietnam, finding refuge and a stable home with a foster
family in Tracy, California. Once there, his interest in serving his new
country continued…[Nguyen was killed in combat in Iraq in 2006.] Following his
death Nguyen was awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Iraq Campaign Medal,
and Combat Infantryman Badge posthumously.
In his last conversation with
his mother, while reflecting on his life, service, and accomplishments,
Sergeant Nguyen continued to show a great level of dedication and gratitude to
the United States. He ended the conversation thanking her for “letting him
go to America.”
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Melania Trump, first
link in a chain.
FOR A
LIST of all the times the president has railed against “chain migration,” go to
his Twitter Archive, type “chain migration” under “search” and see
what idiotic sentiments pop up:
Nov 1, 2017: CHAIN MIGRATION must
end now! Some people come in, and they bring their whole family with them, who
can be truly evil. NOT ACCEPTABLE!
Nov 2, 2017: Congress must
end chain migration so that we can have a system that is SECURITY
BASED! We need to make AMERICA SAFE!
Feb 6, 2018: We need a 21st
century MERIT-BASED immigration system. Chain migration and the visa
lottery are outdated programs that hurt our economic and national security.
Now,
just for fun, try to guess who was sworn in as American citizens on this fine summer day!
It was
the First Lady’s parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs. How did they get to
the head of the line to immigrate to the United States? Were they admitted
because of special merit? Do they have special skills in demand in the United
States? Were they ready to serve under the U.S. flag?
Viktor was listed as early as 2007 as having residence at Mar-a-Lago. In Slovenia, Viktor Knavs (now
73) worked as a chauffeur and car salesman. Amalija Knavs (now 71) was a
pattern maker at a textile factory.
How about Melania?
She was admitted to the U.S. under a program that allows people with extraordinary abilities to cut the line. According to the Washington Post, “She has not provided details about how she proved
to the U.S. government that she qualified to receive a green card for her
‘extraordinary ability,’ a category generally reserved for highly accomplished
people such as Nobel Prize winners.”
Apparently, she was awarded her green card because America
had a critical shortage of fashion models.
Melania’s older, “under-the-radar” sister, Ines, also immigrated to the U.S. One Florida philanthropist, who met
her at Mar-a-Lago in 2005, described her “as a lovely person, and extremely
creative.” Apparently, Ines is an artist; but the First Lady doesn’t care to
talk about her. Ines lives quietly “in a Trump-owned apartment in the same
Upper East Side building that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump called home”
before they headed off to D.C. to help drain the swamp.
And if Laura Ingraham was worried about a “socialist”
Democrat like Ocasio-Cortez [who, by the way, was born in Brooklyn], she might
want to consider Melania’s father. Growing up in what was Yugoslavia, he joined
the Communist Party.
White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks once assured reporters that Melania’s dad was never a
“card-carrying” member.
Still, shouldn’t Fox News be warning us about him?
The First Lady’s parents made their first trip to America in
February 2004. Now, fourteen years later, they are as American as you and I.
(Assuming you’re not a Russian hacker trying to disrupt my blog.)
Yet, in his State of the Union address last February the
president warned:
Under the current broken system,
a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives.
Under our plan, we focus on the immediate family by limiting sponsorships to
spouses and minor children. This vital reform is necessary, not just for
our economy, but for our security and our future.
The First Lady has declined to comment about her parents’ new
status; and we don’t know if she, her son Barron, who is close to his
grandparents, or even the president celebrated in any way.
We do know this. The president howled again during a recent
news conference that the danger of “chain migration” was manifest. “You bring
one person in, you end up with 32 people,” he said. “You come in and now you
can bring your family and then you can bring your mother and your father, you
can bring your grandmother,” he grumbled on another occasion.
This was a terrible situation – and now that Melania’s family
was safely arrived – it had to be stopped.
