The paper said President Donald Trump wants immigrants from “good countries,” but not from countries that are “conflicting with each other all over the place.” new york times.
According to reports, President Trump made the comments on April 6th at a large fundraising dinner in Palm Beach, Florida.
At the dinner, Trump said, “I said, “Why can’t we allow people from good countries to come in? Because I’m trying to be nice,” which drew laughter from the audience.”“Good countries,” Trump said. Do you know about Denmark or Switzerland? Does anyone come from Denmark? What about Switzerland? What about Norway?”
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At the dinner, Trump lamented the surge in immigration, particularly from Latin America, and said gang members “make the Hells Angels look very nice.”
“They were transported, they were brought in, they were deposited in our country, and they are with us tonight,” Trump said.
of new york times Although the report was muted, it served as a reminder to readers of Democrats’ angry expressions in 2018 when President Trump called Haiti and some African countries “shithole countries.” The 2018 comments were made during negotiations over immigration policy and were leaked by Democrats to direct media ire at Trump.
Trump’s critics want to see his views on immigration as built around race rather than a plan for middle-class wealth and national strength.For example, Steve Bennen of MSNBC. declared:
Let me state the obvious: There was nothing subtle about Republicans using the word “great” and then referring to a country with a predominantly white population.Trump’s history of Racism This is not new, but it is a record that continues to grow.
However, Democrats’ fierce criticism of Trump has reflected their reluctance to differentiate between the many immigrants who place an economic burden on Americans and the small number of immigrants who help improve Americans’ standard of living. It’s a distraction from one thing, said John Feer, a former top Democrat. An aide to the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Mr. Fille told Breitbart News:
If you look at immigration policy as an economic policy, you would want it to increase the per capita wealth of the U.S. population…Will it raise the poverty level of our country? Will it make the middle class wealthier?
He continued:
America needs to select immigrants based on the type of immigrants it actually needs. In this economy, immigrants are going to be people who are highly skilled and actually bring something to the table…very few people meet that definition. And by definition, that means we need fewer immigrants than are currently coming in, regardless of their nationality or country of origin.
President Trump has repeatedly called for more skilled immigrants. For example, in 2019 he declared In a national address:
Our plan accomplishes two important goals. First, stop illegal immigration and fully secure our borders. And second, we will establish a new legal immigration system that protects American wages, promotes American values, and attracts top talent from around the world.
…our present [legal] Our immigration system is working beyond its intended purpose, putting downward pressure on working-class wages, and that’s what we don’t want.
President Joe Biden’s unpopular policies, along with progressive opposition to the U.S. border, are admitting vast numbers of unskilled and poor immigrants into the United States, imposing enormous costs on ordinary Americans.of new york post report March 31st:
Among adult immigrants who said they came to the U.S. within the past two years, 41% had a bachelor’s degree or higher, down from 55% of new arrivals through 2018. The percentage with a high school education or less increased from 29. % in 2018 to his 44% in 2024.
The politics and culture of arriving immigrants are also important to Americans.
For example, New York voters dramatically changed their views on immigration from September to October, in part due to immigrant protests over Israel’s war with Hamas. Breitbart News reported that more New Yorkers describe immigration as a burden rather than a boon.
In October, those [September] The “burden” figure jumped 12 points among Catholics, up to 62%. Among Protestants, the difference is five points, up to 64 percent. The difference was four points in the Jewish community, up to 52 percent. The percentage of “profit” decreased to 27%, 22%, and 28%.
Among those in the Jewish community, “benefits” decreased by 7 points and “burdens” increased by 4 points. The Siena poll found that two out of three group members saw migration as a “burden” rather than a benefit, and 12% said they saw migration as a “mixed” factor. almost 9 percent of the population of New York state.
Additionally, the country’s top national news editors are new york times It says governments can and should use immigration to advance political agendas.
“We can write laws that say, ‘Oh, we want more of this kind of person, we don’t want this kind of person.'” Editors Jia Lin Yang Said interviewer She continued:
Back in the early days of Trump’s presidency in 2017, he was trying to pass a Muslim travel ban and people were saying, “We can’t do that, that’s not American, that’s not what we do.” That’s what he said. [But] If you look at history, you’ll see that this is what we’ve done before… [and what] Nothing the Trump administration has done is inherently un-American…It’s up to us in a democracy to figure out what we want our immigration system to look like.
Yang’s preferred immigration policies would move the United States away from its European roots, she wrote in her pro-immigration book published in 2020.A powerful and attractive trend”:
There is unfinished business for Americans who want to make ethnic pluralism a fundamental value of the nation. Like those who came before us, the current generation of immigrants and the children of immigrants have a strong sense of the current era, one that embraces rather than ignores how far America has strayed from its European roots. A new vision must be articulated.if [immigrants] Don’t do that, their opponents can simply point to the past 50 years of America [since 1965] It’s a demographic anomaly, and they can’t be wrong.
Extract migration
Since 1990, the federal government has relied on extractive migration to grow the consumer economy after helping investors move high-wage manufacturing jobs to low-wage countries.
Immigration policies rob poor countries of vast human resources.Additional workers, consumers and renters boost stock prices By lowering American wages, subsidizing less productive businesses, raising rents, and inflating real estate prices.
The policy is supported by many progressives who support cross-border “equity” and by government officials who derive income and influence from it.
This economic policy deprived many mainland-born Americans of careers in a variety of business fields, reduced American productivity and political influence, slowed high-tech innovation, reduced trade, and Society has become inconvenient. solidarity of citizensAnd he encouraged government officials and progressives to ignore the policy. increased mortality rate of abandoned american.
I flew to Phoenix, Arizona and went to the infamous “Zone” which has the second highest concentration of homeless encampments I have ever seen. He camps 50 square blocks on almost every square inch of sidewalk. Several homeowners we spoke to were understandably not happy. pic.twitter.com/dysBXJlnkN
— Kevin Dahlgren (@kevinvdahlgren) April 9, 2024
The policy also siphons jobs and wealth from core states by subsidizing coastal investors and government agencies with large numbers of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-supported consumers. ing. Similar policies have affected citizens in Canada and the United Kingdom.
Policies like colonialism harmed small countries and killed hundreds of Americans and thousands of immigrants. Taxpayer-funded jungle trail Passing through the Darién Canyon in Panama.
