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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
The bottom line is I don't know how Trump functions on this sort of thing
I do. He thinks the idea of open borders is totally retarded, and feels that he doesn't have to respect anyone who espouses that idea by debating the issue or even explaining himself with more than a single bombastic sentence.
He could have explained in great detail why he wants a merit-based immigration system and why certain classes of people, particularly from certain parts of the world would not qualify. And then he could have dressed it up with alot of politically correct rhetoric.
But why do that? As a show for Dick Durbin's benefit? Fuck Dick Durbin
It wouldn't have changed Dick Durbin's mind anyway.
Personally I believe he dropped the s-word simply as a means of drawing a line in the sand. Calling those countries shitholes suggests that he has a very strong, firm, and unwavering opinion about what value immigrants from those countries can bring to America. And it's not good.
He's basically saying, in one short sentence, that he's not interested in any kind of touchy-feely, all-inclusive, open-border, immigration policy where America receives no benefit from taking in the worlds stragglers. Unless they're being violently oppressed by a tyrannical regime, or unless they are bringing valuable skills and knowledge to our economy, then those people can stay in their shitholes.
To me it looks like nothing more than a business-man used to efficiency and expediency, exercising his power as president to bring about just that. Now he doesn't have to waste time going back and forth cutting up draft after draft of a shitty bill. Now he's made it clear where he stands and how little interest he has in changing his mind.
I kinda like it.
Imagine the shit he's gonna say in his second term.
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