I am not playing this game.
These games empower supremacists.
This new attempt at exclusion (income and health care tests) are clearly targeted not at criminal elements but the masses of typical immigrants coming now only because of the ethnicities of those immigrants. If they were masses of Norwegians, this would not be Trump's issue.
This is like playing games over the Republicans voter suppression tactics such as targeting an area with high Indigenous voting that leans heavily Democrat with a new regulation that says 'you cannot vote if you do not have a proper street address' when Reserves typically do not have that within and instead have one zip code type address.
People can play the spin game and pretend there is another intent simply because they can rationalize one, but we all know better.
right now the vast majority of immigrants are coming from ethnic communities. that is what Trump and Co want to choke off even if it means greatly slowing the growth of America, and thus the economy overall.
Newsflash, there are never going to be masses coming in from 1st world countries. So you don't have to worry a bout that.
The mass-movements will be coming in from countries that are at war, or suffer from high level of crime and government corruption, or outright tyranny. Yes, most of the people will be looking to escape rather than re-create these conditions, but not all. It is the duty of a state to protect both the immigrants, as well as the citizens, from
anyone that might be looking to bring about the same problems, that already made these people's conditions so desperate, to where they saw no choice but to escape. To ask these people to re-live the horrors in their communities, to deal with the same scum whom they escaped from, is lunacy.
Any sensible government will prepare itself to counter the possible negative influences coming in, such as crime gangs, foreign provocateurs, or anti-American extremists/terrorists. The naive buffoons who cannot handle that, who are too mentally soft to acknowledge the darker aspects of humanity, ought to keep their hands out of the process. They will only bring about ruin, to both the immigrant as well as the native citizen.
Nothing destroys the reputation of a Muslim community more, than bringing in some jihadi fucks.
Nothing destroys the reputation of a Mexican community more, than bringing in some drug cartel scum.
One terror attack can undo a century of good-will, between populations.
That's the reality of it, and rational immigrants understand this, which is why they won't be in favour of the open borders, "see nothing, do nothing" bullshit.
The poems are fine, the ideals are fine, but countries are run based on pragmatism rather than the sentimental outbursts of a daydreamer.