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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOur president* wants more immigrants from Poland.
Of course he does. Poland is among the oldest and most reliable sources of anti-Semites in the world, and the only (afaik) institutional denier of any involvement in the Holocaust.
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Our president* wants more immigrants from Poland. (Original Post)
cyclonefence
Sep 2018
OP
Also, they are white; and Poland isn't one of those sh*thole countries
The Velveteen Ocelot
Sep 2018
#1
Already, Chicago is said to have the world's second largest Polish population after Warsaw.
greatauntoftriplets
Sep 2018
#4
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)1. Also, they are white; and Poland isn't one of those sh*thole countries
which are mostly in Africa where most people aren't white. He wanted more Norwegians, too. I don't see that happening.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)2. Poland?
Ask the Brexiteers as to what they think about the influx of Poles. A lot of Polish people coming to the UK, doing work the Brits don't want to do... And people voted to keep them out.
irisblue
(33,023 posts)3. Well he did stiff a bunch of Polish laborers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/nyregion/trump-tower-illegal-immigrant-workers-union-settlement.html
"In 1980, under pressure to begin construction on what would become his signature project, Donald J. Trump employed a crew of 200 undocumented Polish workers who worked in 12-hour shifts, without gloves, hard hats or masks, to demolish the Bonwit Teller building on Fifth Avenue, where the 58-story, golden-hued Trump Tower now stands.
The workers were paid as little as $4 an hour for their dangerous labor, less than half the union wage, if they got paid at all."
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At the time of the settlement, the court papers note, this case has been litigated for 15 years and has already required three rounds of discovery, extensive motion practice, a 16-day trial and two appeals.
Trump Tower was Mr. Trumps second solo project after leaving his fathers real estate company, which developed working- and middle-class housing in Queens and Brooklyn. But before he could build a glassy condominium tower on what he considered to be a Tiffany of locations, Fifth Avenue and 56th Street, Mr. Trump had to demolish a venerable department store, the 12-story Bonwit Teller building."
more at article. He got used to using people as undocumented day labor & apparently likes it.
"In 1980, under pressure to begin construction on what would become his signature project, Donald J. Trump employed a crew of 200 undocumented Polish workers who worked in 12-hour shifts, without gloves, hard hats or masks, to demolish the Bonwit Teller building on Fifth Avenue, where the 58-story, golden-hued Trump Tower now stands.
The workers were paid as little as $4 an hour for their dangerous labor, less than half the union wage, if they got paid at all."
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At the time of the settlement, the court papers note, this case has been litigated for 15 years and has already required three rounds of discovery, extensive motion practice, a 16-day trial and two appeals.
Trump Tower was Mr. Trumps second solo project after leaving his fathers real estate company, which developed working- and middle-class housing in Queens and Brooklyn. But before he could build a glassy condominium tower on what he considered to be a Tiffany of locations, Fifth Avenue and 56th Street, Mr. Trump had to demolish a venerable department store, the 12-story Bonwit Teller building."
more at article. He got used to using people as undocumented day labor & apparently likes it.
TEB
(12,880 posts)5. Great response
greatauntoftriplets
(175,749 posts)4. Already, Chicago is said to have the world's second largest Polish population after Warsaw.