Such is rightwing fear, bigotry, and hate.
They are happy to see kids killed at the border but froth over a baby welcomed into a loving family. Classy.
Could it be something else, Tommy? In 200 years, people will forget the ones who brought migrants over here. These people already prefer to live in communities that speak a language that is foreign, who remain a lifetime hanging with only people who speak that language. The black people who came over here had no choice, but after being freed, they had no one to cling to except each other, and to this day, we have ghettos in which respected elders, who remember parents who were not allowed to stay in the same hotels, eat in the same restaurants, and even who could be singled out for disaster if even one of them looked sideways at a white woman, and while they were at it, their white adversaries bonded together and would harass black voters to the point they'd not care to vote again for years to come, if not forever.
Some fear the induction of people who don't care for English and who regard whites as gringos would lead to a future war over their civil rights. It's criminal when a native group bonds together and fights back at human fear, mass groupthink, etc. A race war just isn't something people want to write home about, not to mention that nature is profound in its bonding with like kinds. We see groups of birds that share DNA that have beautiful blue bodies and narrow beaks, and they do not form bonds with red birds that squawk at other birds when provoked (visit the same bird feeders) for that free food. And they do not mate between subgroups.
Some people are blonde with blue eyes, which in America, resulted in a kind of male cult desire to be permanently with blonde-haired, blue-eyed women, so other women just dyed their hair blonde, wore sunglasses, and later on purchased eyewear that made their eyes appear any shade of color they chose. When the children didn't turn out to be blonde-haired blue eyed replicas of the cult objective, well, a lot of divorces went down in human society in America, and importing blonde-haired women from Nordic and Russian backgrounds became the vogue for satisfying this cult desire, And--I'm sorry, this is difficult for me to bring up--disappointed some women with darker hair and eyes that did not refract the color of the clear day, since they went unnoticed by the blond guys they were attracted to, and they felt close to the adults who brought them into the world, at least one of whom shared hair color not like autumn wheat and eyes that were not crystal skies. Like a blue bird born red, they'd wind up outside the flock they grew up in.
The fear some have of inducting massive numbers of people who don't look the norm is just like the bird world--a lot of disappointment when a white person falls in love with a person of another color because the heart doesn't always look on the color of skin or the color of eyes, but in how one is treated by another person. Others, it's the blond hair blue eyes bond of attachment that produces young that also are blue-eyed blondes. The world saw a WWII that let a lot of blood because a group of dark-eyed, dark-haired people of Jewish extraction earned or inherited so much wealth by their hard work, inventions, intellect, and enthusiasm, who generally learned to interact with only the members of their own kind based on wealth, which angered others who were not invited into the Aryan community in central Europe, so killing them all, especially by taking away their wealth resulted in a plan to rid them of non-Aryan blooded people who seemed to pool all of the wealth, leaving them anger with the flip flop of monetary wealth to foreigners who'd learned to intermarry only with each other, did not open their bank accounts to give away surpluses based on being blond-headed, blue-eyed Aryans, etc. etc. etc.
Some people can't adapt to takeover by a group that is smart. Look again at the people coming over the border. Black hair. Dark eyes. Intelligence of being bilingual. Strong family ties that make them think of their parents back home in another country, so they mail 3/4 of their paychecks back to "help" which results in going to America by the younger family members who now have an anchor family in a land that accepts everyone, but individuals who want their young to have blue eyes, blond hair, etc., and they don't have to bother with relatives who irritate them by rattling off interpersonal insults in another tongue.
Are we different from the blue birds and the red birds? You can talk till you're blue in the face about loving each other, but it's hard to assimilate different people who do not look the norm, do not speak the norm, and who may be smarter to the norm because their brains grow when they are bilingual--grow to be problem-solvers, engineers, architects, inventors, and people who overcome every difference except one--the way they look, the way they worship, the friends they make when growing up, their political popularity, and all this other part of being human.
We seem doomed to another race war, because of how people feel inside, and when a racial group separates itself either by language, by skin or eye color, by faith fueled by human arrogance/feelings of superiority, and the same feeling by educational, social, financial, personality traits, family inheritances, etc., it worries some people who have histories dating back to Neanderthal times is that too much assimilation of too many unlike kind will result in another civil war in which identification is impossible, and intermarriages are often frowned upon by both sides of the families.
There are worries that people inured into a society that has huge corruption at the top and masses of humanity at the bottom, their societal pyramid is flatter, with fewer at the top of the financial level and more masses at the poor bottom than workers in an antbed, that is bringing in something that will not be overcome without a civil war which will make the Alamo look like a fair fight.
We shouldn't be so small-minded, but human history says that we are. And present technology could make wars of the past look like humanitarian events. Just look at Russia. At one end of the spectrum there, the arts are among the most beautiful experiences known to mankind. But in WWII, their group-to-replace-all Czars, the Bolsheviks, secretly did away with 20,000,000 Russian citizens while the world was zeroing in on Hitler's blitzkrieg to eliminate all species but the Aryan race on the surface, and a kill-them-all attitude toward not only Jews, but people Hitler's hitman group decided were undesirable--people born with handicaps, deformities, mentally ill, etc. And while WWII was going on, dictatorships around the world were happy to have the watchdogs on leashes while militant groups did away with people they hated or didn't want their grandchildren associated with.
So ya, we got a lotta stuff to work out, if Mexico wants to infiltrate here, we are worried that we, too, will have 10 superrich drug lords overseeing gazabillions of peasants they would make out of Americans 300 years down the line. Remember the Aztecs? We really don'[t know what happened to them, but my guess is they had a rich king, and everybody else bowed down to him alone or had all their family sent to the human sacrificial altars high in the mountains, where nobody came back from who went there. Somehow they "disappeared." Did the peasants uprise in massive groups until only one was left to rule? Were the complex architectural structures so hated the natives left decided to let that culture go to the ruins of jungle overtake? Not sure how that happened without so little known as to how it all ended, but archaeologists have unburied buildings still standing but obfuscated for millenia by natural reclamation and human avoidance. Nature? Greed? Hatred of who ruled from there? Flat earth stuff? We speculate.
I just don't know, Tommy. All I know is what I believe about the good book--that we need to not look at people from the outside, that we should welcome the oppressed, and that we should try to get along with each other. I'm not defending what I cannot quite wrap my mind around, but the founders did. They agreed and disagreed about a lot of things, but in the long run, they determined that forming an alliance with other states unlike their own, with all their proclivities, was the one and only way they could get rid of issues like taxation without representation. They even reminded us that we'd get into a lot of trouble if we started taxing people, so they liberated Americans from paying a strong central government like a monarchy, taxes that relieved them from a chance at wealth. We preferred power to individual wealth, which also has its seamy side.
I'm not so sure how forcing everybody to pay a high price through taxation is worth it. It sure puts the not-rich and not-poor middle class at a lower level, when you take their money and chance at improvement financially away from them.You have to do that to have the power to bring millions of people a year to turn America into one huge antbed society that satisfied every little need the founders' parents never had. The prospects of being second-class citizens to people thousands of miles and over a vast sea away who were perceived as rich and fat was so repugnant to them that it even made Benjamin Franklin miserable. So miserable, he supported anti-slavery but conceded his personal wishes to accept the Southern states whose contributions were needed to fight off the Brits when America expropriated their investments the day the Declaration of Independence was signed as a precursor with war against their haughty employers of royal blood who were pinching them for cash to support wars with Continental royals.
So much for that. Pardon my essay on not very much, but the way I see it, we have a battle going on inside our hearts and minds of men who do not want to pay more taxes to support the issue of other governments to make us pay by pushing out their undesirables to prevent their own discomfort of (1) prisoner correction, (2) make somebody else feed their poor, and (3) stupid gringos deserve bad crap.
You can give me the gong now. But my heart breaks to think of how cruel it is for people who have no chance to improve themselves by staying in a country that will not employ them nor allow them to move up, and it seems that closing the door will force the kingpins of that country to share or show their true murderous colors rather than to solve their own problem civilly by eliminating peasantry and supporting their own with education and opportunities. That may mean giving up a proportion of their economy to eliminate Mexican poverty and bitterness about all that it takes away from people who mend their garments.