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Nobody with any sense wants more murderers in this country. If that was your point, it seems like it could have been forgone.
Which is why racist discourse seems to be lurking around that post. What you wrote invokes the old, "well, there are the good, clean-cut articulate ones and then there are the bad ones," rhetoric that gets deployed against most any minority (including against whites when they are in the minority) by bigots who want to soft-pedal their prejudices. Anti-immigration rhetoric and racism have gone hand in hand for a long time. Historically, nobody in the U.S. talked about immigrant quotas when it was pasty Western and Northern Europeans coming over (except those "hard scrabble" Irish Catholics, of course). "When the sweet Norwegian couple moved in across the street it was just wonderful. But those Vietnamese? They better stay in their own neighborhood." People started talking about quotas and about slowing the "tide" of immigration when it was all of those "other" kinds of people. We don't want too many of "them," it was said. No doubt, Tex, you weren't considering this context when you posted. I'm sure you'll clarify all of this toot sweet.
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No jackass. The purpose of posting a link to that article would be to show that our complete lack of border control, and failure of law enforcement to report illegal aliens to ICE after being arrested has resulted in the tragic murders of these kids in Newark.
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It is also a well-known form of racism and nativism to use a sinlge bad act by a member of a minority or immigrant class to inflame majority prejudices and hatreds against the minority class.
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Which would be a good reason to call the MMM film that just came out a biggotted film. Right??
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They should be infinitely less likely to commit crimes because we should know who is coming in and not allow any convicts to immigrate.
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