Trump official: Statue of Liberty's poem is about Europeans

[CrusaderFrank]

This says it all. Now people can keep lying to themselves about how Trumps immigration policy is not racist, but lying to yourself is only a coping mechanism you are using to absolve yourselves from the fact you voted for and support a racist president and administration.

Trump official: Statue of Liberty's poem is about Europeans
By ZEKE MILLER and ASHLEY THOMAS Associated Press
August 14, 2019

A top Trump administration official says the famous inscription on the Statue of Liberty, welcoming "huddled masses" of immigrants to American shores, was referring to "people coming from Europe" and that the nation is looking to receive migrants "who can stand on their own two feet."

The comments on Tuesday from Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, came a day after the Trump administration announced it would seek to deny green cards to migrants who seek Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance. The move, and Cuccinelli's defense, prompted an outcry from Democrats and immigration advocates who said the policy would favor wealthier immigrants and disadvantage those from poorer countries in Latin America and Africa.

"This administration finally admitted what we've known all along: They think the Statue of Liberty only applies to white people," tweeted former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a Democratic presidential candidate.

Trump official: Statue of Liberty's poem is about Europeans

Before the excuses come, understand that only whites were allowed to be citizens in some cases until the 1950's.

He's correct of course. My mom is a first generation immigrant and my Dad has to demonstrate he could support her and she was not going to sap our resources and Illegally vote democrat

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So sad. I can not understand how people so ignorant get this much power.

Trump is President of all of our 57 States

 

[IM2]

This says it all. Now people can keep lying to themselves about how Trumps immigration policy is not racist, but lying to yourself is only a coping mechanism you are using to absolve yourselves from the fact you voted for and support a racist president and administration.

Trump official: Statue of Liberty's poem is about Europeans
By ZEKE MILLER and ASHLEY THOMAS Associated Press
August 14, 2019

A top Trump administration official says the famous inscription on the Statue of Liberty, welcoming "huddled masses" of immigrants to American shores, was referring to "people coming from Europe" and that the nation is looking to receive migrants "who can stand on their own two feet."

The comments on Tuesday from Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, came a day after the Trump administration announced it would seek to deny green cards to migrants who seek Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance. The move, and Cuccinelli's defense, prompted an outcry from Democrats and immigration advocates who said the policy would favor wealthier immigrants and disadvantage those from poorer countries in Latin America and Africa.

"This administration finally admitted what we've known all along: They think the Statue of Liberty only applies to white people," tweeted former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a Democratic presidential candidate.

Trump official: Statue of Liberty's poem is about Europeans

Before the excuses come, understand that only whites were allowed to be citizens in some cases until the 1950's.

What’s the problem?

The problems on the border are not Trump's immigration policies, he is just trying to enforce the immigration laws we already have that none before him has done and none want to do in the future. They rather change the laws instead of enforcing them. Detention camps, separating of families, deaths on the border and deportations was happening long before Trumps was in office.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 made blacks full U.S. citizens (and this repealed the Dred Scott decision). In 1868, the 14th amendment granted full U.S. citizenship to African-Americans. The 15th amendment, ratified in 1870, extended the right to vote to black males.
The Naturalization Act of 1798 increased the period necessary for immigrants to become naturalized citizens in the United States from 5 to 14 years. In 1855, birthright citizenship was extended to children with citizen fathers and noncitizen mothers.

In 1964 the Voting Rights Act and in 1965, the Civil Rights Act were signed to make sure white people followed the laws they did not in everything you just posted. The problems on the border are Trumps. We were at a 40 year low on such immigration before Trump did this. There was no family separation, no indefinite detention of non criminal undocumented people before Trump.

Don't be dishonest when you post ever again.

 

[IM2]

Cuccinelli made the comment and was relating the poem to the current situation. So these excuses are all massive fails. The laws excluded non whites from immigrating here for more than a century.

And they should be now too, or at least those from non-white countries (aka shitholes)

A few exception could be made (ON MERIT) - those bringing large amounts of capital, to open businesses and create jobs (FOR AMERICANS). and those bringing something of value to America, (great musicians, scientists, etc )

Yes, "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country" that was 60 years ago and apply more so today.

The thing is that many of the people like those who populate this forum descend from people who came here with nothing and without the government would never have made it.

FYI...In those early years, there was no welfare system in the country for people to use as they are coming and using now. Maybe soup lines but not until 1935, a national welfare system was established and was not widely used and known. Those coming through Ellis Island had to be self-sufficient are they were not admitted into the country.

I think that ignoring the fact that when a lot of White immigrants came here, it was during an industrial growth phase. And many of them worked for low wages and in unsafe conditions. They were not self sufficient on those wages.

FYI... I know something about how social work has been done in this country.

The history of welfare in the U.S. started long before the government welfare programs you mentioned were created. In the early United States, the colonies imported the British Poor Laws. These laws made a distinction between those who were unable to work due to their age or physical health and those who were able-bodied but unemployed. The former group was assisted with cash or alternative forms of help from the government. The latter group was given public service employment in workhouses.

Throughout the 1800's welfare history continued when there were attempts to reform how the government dealt with the poor. Some changes tried to help the poor move to work rather than continuing to need assistance. Social casework, consisting of caseworkers visiting the poor and training them in morals and a work ethic was advocated by reformers in the 1880s and 1890s.

Prior to the Great Depression, the United States Congress supported various programs to assist the poor. One of these, a Civil War Pension Program was passed in 1862 and provided aid to Civil War Veterans and their families.

...white immigrants were given free land.

White Americans were also given a head start with the help of the U.S. Army. The 1830 Indian Removal Act, for example, forcibly relocated Cherokee, Creeks and other eastern Indians to west of the Mississippi River to make room for white settlers. The 1862 Homestead Act followed suit, giving away millions of acres of what had been Indian Territory west of the Mississippi. Ultimately, 270 million acres, or 10% of the total land area of the United States, was converted to private hands, overwhelmingly white, under Homestead Act provisions.

The 1790 Naturalization Act permitted only "free white persons" to become naturalized citizens, thus opening the doors to European immigrants but not others. Only citizens could vote, serve on juries, hold office, and in some cases, even hold property. In this century, Alien Land Laws passed in California and other states, reserved farm land for white growers by preventing Asian immigrants, ineligible to become citizens, from owning or leasing land. Immigration restrictions further limited opportunities for nonwhite groups. Racial barriers to naturalized U.S. citizenship weren't removed until the McCarran-Walter Act in 1952, and white racial preferences in immigration remained until 1965.

In the South, the federal government never followed through on General Sherman's Civil War plan to divide up plantations and give each freed slave "40 acres and a mule" as reparations. Only once was monetary compensation made for slavery, in Washington, D.C. There, government officials paid up to $300 per slave upon emancipation - not to the slaves, but to local slaveholders as compensation for loss of property.

When slavery ended, its legacy lived on not only in the impoverished condition of Black people but in the wealth and prosperity that accrued to white slaveowners and their descendents. Economists who try to place a dollar value on how much white Americans have profited from 200 years of unpaid slave labor, including interest, begin their estimates at $1 trillion.

Jim Crow laws, instituted in the late 19th and early 20th century and not overturned in many states until the 1960s, reserved the best jobs, neighborhoods, schools and hospitals for white people.

RACE - The Power of an Illusion | White Advantage

When I make comments it is because I can back them up.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama never locked illegal kids in the ObamaCages before selling them to the traffickers.

 

[lennypartiv]

In 1964 the Voting Rights Act and in 1965, the Civil Rights Act were signed to make sure white people followed the laws they did not in everything you just posted. The problems on the border are Trumps. We were at a 40 year low on such immigration before Trump did this. There was no family separation, no indefinite detention of non criminal undocumented people before Trump.

We need to discourage undesirables from coming to our southern border. If family separations work as a deterrent, good for America.

 

[protectionist]

Jim Crow laws, instituted in the late 19th and early 20th century and not overturned in many states until the 1960s, reserved the best jobs, neighborhoods, schools and hospitals for white people.

RACE - The Power of an Illusion | White Advantage

When I make comments it is because I can back them up.

Great history lesson, but history didn't stop at 1960. There's also 1961, when Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925, establishing Affirmative Action discrimination against whites,

Then, continuing the racial discrimination history lesson, there was LBJ's Affirmative Action Executive Order 11246, and 54 more years of it, ever since, with discrimination against whites extended from government contracts to private industry, universities (public & private), and involving job hiring, job promotions, college admissions, college financial aid, business loans, etc.

 

[sealybobo]

This says it all. Now people can keep lying to themselves about how Trumps immigration policy is not racist, but lying to yourself is only a coping mechanism you are using to absolve yourselves from the fact you voted for and support a racist president and administration.

Trump official: Statue of Liberty's poem is about Europeans
By ZEKE MILLER and ASHLEY THOMAS Associated Press
August 14, 2019

A top Trump administration official says the famous inscription on the Statue of Liberty, welcoming "huddled masses" of immigrants to American shores, was referring to "people coming from Europe" and that the nation is looking to receive migrants "who can stand on their own two feet."

The comments on Tuesday from Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, came a day after the Trump administration announced it would seek to deny green cards to migrants who seek Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance. The move, and Cuccinelli's defense, prompted an outcry from Democrats and immigration advocates who said the policy would favor wealthier immigrants and disadvantage those from poorer countries in Latin America and Africa.

"This administration finally admitted what we've known all along: They think the Statue of Liberty only applies to white people," tweeted former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a Democratic presidential candidate.

Trump official: Statue of Liberty's poem is about Europeans

Before the excuses come, understand that only whites were allowed to be citizens in some cases until the 1950's.

Think about this. Muslims are like at best ten percent of the population. Probably less. Do we want Muslims to be 50% or more of our population? Honestly, no

 

[lennypartiv]

Think about this. Muslims are like at best ten percent of the population. Probably less. Do we want Muslims to be 50% or more of our population? Honestly, no

Libs wouldn't have a problem with it. When Trump enacted the Muslim ban to keep us safe from mass killings, liberals went to court to block the ban.