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Ted Lieu Retweeted Donald J. Trump
I can support a merit based immigration system based on the same criteria that allowed the grandpa of @realDonaldTrump to immigrate to America. He came here as a minor, did not speak English & started as a barber. Like many immigrants, he worked hard & achieved the American Dream
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BigmanPigman
(51,625 posts)That is why the teenage Drumpf left home in the middle of the night, leaving his mommy a letter. After a few years he tired to get back into Germany but they caught him and tossed him out! "No criminals" is tRump's immigration policy too. I wish Germany did let him back in and he and his future spawn had stayed far away from here.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,625 posts)needed two generations of Drumpf "genius" DNA to come up this an excuse that would do the trick.
George II
(67,782 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,591 posts)Or allowed Melania to be here at all??
Funtatlaguy
(10,885 posts)This has been my same question for two years.
Wheres that a Melania press conference that we were promised then?
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,591 posts)It's going to be held just after the one Trump promised us about all the biggest, baddest crap you'd ever want to know about Crooked Hillary. You know, the one he announced during a speech a couple of days before Donald Jr., et al, met with the Russians in Trump Tower to discuss the dirt they had on Clinton.
drmeow
(5,023 posts)he was going with the tweet.
lamsmy
(155 posts)Most oecd countries use the merit system. Yes, they award points for those most qualified by trades/skills, education, finances, and language ability. This allows the country to help fill shortages in certain sectors of the job market. And to be sure this adds to the brain drain of skilled workers in less developed countries.
But its important to note that these merit based systems are balanced with robust refugee programs. Canada, Sweden, Germany, etc. take in far more of the most desperate, at risk refugees than the US both in real and per capita numbers.
By taking some of the most qualified, these countries can then also take in more of those most in need and devote more resources to them.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,591 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)as you say makes room for humanitarian and asylum refugees...didn't Canada promise to take in 100,000 Syrians? Who, being well screened, and being Syrians, will contribute to the economy, that is a guarantee.
paleotn
(17,946 posts)by running a brothel in Yukon, Canada. Nice.
Old Terp
(464 posts)paleotn
(17,946 posts)I've been hearing that what may soon break is far worse than what is commonly known or suspected about shitgibbon and his cast of grifters. Could the orange baboon be following in grandpa's footsteps in some way? Particularly with his connections to rather unsavory Russian characters. Possibly something related but far more nefarious than "sporting ladies" in the back room?
flotsam
(3,268 posts)...soccer players or something different?
sandensea
(21,656 posts)Likewise, most immigrant women don't enter the country as prostitutes.
Melania Trump: From the whorehouse to the White House.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)sandensea
(21,656 posts)But I can just hear her Slovenian mother:
"Don't worry, sweetheart. Look at that fat bastard! He'll croak in two years, tops - and then you'll be the most famous (and richest!) woman in Slovenia!"
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)sandensea
(21,656 posts)rzemanfl
(29,567 posts)sandensea
(21,656 posts)Probably did, in fact.
Old Terp
(464 posts)sandensea
(21,656 posts)And that one has drug money launderer written all over it.
keithbvadu2
(36,885 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)It was co-sponsored by 4 Democrats and 4 Republicans.
It passed the Senate by a vote of 68-32.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00168
House never acted on it.