Quote (Mangix @ Mar 21 2016 03:36pm)
Where do your emotions tie into all the lives and families ruined by the people coming here off the grid? They will never see justice in their lifetime because the crimes were commited by essentially ghosts.
What crimes are you talking about? What people's lives are ruined? Explain to me the hypothetical situation where an illegal immigrant ruins another person's life and gets away with it.
Quote (Master_Zappy @ Mar 21 2016 03:29pm)
I think it's more the point that there is legitimate policy (and the decidedly lack of explanation of it) to not like trump for. Taking what was clearly an illegal immigration issue and speaking out against the small percent or subset of them accurately identified as rapists, drug dealers and criminals and then taking this comment and asserting that this is his view of ALL Mexicans is disingenuous at best (and his stump speech wasnt good so I can see how this can be mis-characterization), this same broad brush tactic was applied to Muslims as well.
I loath all the repubs (yes that means trump too) and all the dems, many for the same reasons, and find it frustrating sometimes to have to refute and defend comments on what I see as an inaccurate portrayal of trump and or his statements, it sucks to defend a shitbag, but I care more about accuracy then feelings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8c2Cq-vpg
http://www.untruthaboutdonaldtrump.com/You don't see how his statements make sweeping generalizations of Mexicans and encourage prejudice and hate vs a whole group of people? The problem is, when he makes such sweeping statements that are based off ignorant stereotypes, he causes more damage to our country than he is supposedly fixing by "solving the illegal immigration" issue. And I put that in quotes because I don't think he's going to be able to solve the immigration issue so easily, in any case, even if he did manage to build a wall. A president needs to be able to LEAD, and you don't lead by tearing down half your population (and I'm referring to more than just Mexicans here that he's made disparaging comments about in the past).
This post was edited by Mezandriia on Mar 21 2016 01:55pm