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kpete

(71,898 posts)
Sun May 13, 2018, 08:38 AM May 2018

George Washington on America vs Fox News on America











Four points:

1) Immigrants are more skilled than natives

2) Unskilled immigrants raise natives’ wages (while lowering other immigrants’ pay)

3) Unskilled immigrants increase skilled labor supply

4) Immigrants commit less crime than natives






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George Washington on America vs Fox News on America (Original Post) kpete May 2018 OP
k & r Achilleaze May 2018 #1
Context of that George Washington quote is interesting oberliner May 2018 #2
Kelly's recent remarks are also antithetical to Washington's statement. procon May 2018 #3
So, he hates farmers? Bucky May 2018 #4
 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
2. Context of that George Washington quote is interesting
Sun May 13, 2018, 08:48 AM
May 2018
From George Washington to Joshua Holmes, 2 December 1783

To the Members of the volunteer Associations & other Inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ireland who have lately arrived in the City of New York.

http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/default.xqy?keys=FOEA-print-01-02-02-6127

procon

(15,805 posts)
3. Kelly's recent remarks are also antithetical to Washington's statement.
Sun May 13, 2018, 09:17 AM
May 2018
“The vast majority of the people that move illegally into United States are not bad people. They're not criminals. They're not MS-13, but they're also not people that would easily assimilate into the United States, into our modern society. They're overwhelmingly rural people. In the countries they come from, fourth-, fifth-, sixth-grade educations are kind of the norm. They don't speak English; obviously that's a big thing. They don't integrate well, they don't have skills.”

John Kelly resident Trump's White House Chief of Staff



Previously, Kelly has also said that many DACA eligible kids "were too lazy to get off their asses, but they didn’t sign up.”

We've come along way baby!

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