I’d like to point out an effort to destroy the bill by Senator Cruz of Texas, a Tea Party reactionary who hopes to get a Republican nod for a White House bid because of his so-called “Latino” credentials — which of course amount to nothing but a Spanish surname. Cruz’s record of hate is well documented by the SPLC.

But I am also sorry that really good ideas like the humanitarian proposal from Sen. Hirono of Hawaii to allow immigrants in cases of extreme hardship to request green cards for adult children or siblings was rejected even by other Democrats.

All that amendment did was enable families to reunite to help one another and was limited to 6% of total worldwide family visas. I don’t see what harm that would have done except of course, anger Republicans who don’t care about the suffering of families, immigrant or otherwise.

Wow!

Never knew MacDonald is THAT big a liar.

A true and pure American culture is diverse. We are not Europeans, there was a reason the founding fathers fought against and left England. It’s really pathetic for racist to use Europeans as part of their arguments.

It appears to me that Europeans are far more open and accepting at least in England there appears to be a rather good movement of acceptance. Or maybe I just happened to find the best of the European crop. The worse hate I’ve heard and seen has come from bigoted Americans not the Europeans I’ve known.

Even my European friends have been subjected to the bigotry of hateful Americans.

This is what Israel believes for Israel, that in order to maintain a Jewish state, a Jewish majority is required. To that end, Israel kills and displaces its Christian and Muslim Arabs b/c they are not “pure” – they are not Jewish. Bigotry is bigotry; Israel’s white-Jewish supremacy is as abhorrent as that of these groups here in the USA. All nations should practice tolerance and acceptance, or else it hypocritical and tears at the fabric of society.

There have been cases where detainees have died while in solitary at immigration lockup due to lack of treatment for existing illness. Children, mentally ill, elderly — all are thrown into solitary which has been widely condemned by the world’s leading experts on torture. While it may seem a humane form of discipline, it is not. Survivors of physical torture around the world have said the deliberate infliction of agony is more tolerable for inmates than solitary confinement.

People in immigration detention centers have generally not committed a crime. Their visa violations in most cases are simple misdemeanors, and as it is a civil violation (not criminal) they don’t have access to public defenders nor due process. At the same time, they are locked up like criminals and subjected to the kinds of torture routinely employed for the worst offenders in the worst of American prisons, which are among the worst in the world for violations of human rights.

Those who speak up for those rights are dispatched by “gang association” charges into indefinite solitary, often for years. This unspeakable injustice is done behind closed doors, with no lawyer present, and virtually every case where a judicial appeal has been heard, the mere presence of evidence — which can be as scant as hearsay by the guards, in other words conjured up — is enough to ensure a lifetime of torture behind bars.

There is no reason for this barbaric practice to exist in our prisons, much less immigration detention centers. Sen. Blumenthal’s Amendment 2 of Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (S.744) would restrict the use of solitary confinement in immigration detention facilities. This would prohibit the use of solitary confinement for children, limit its use for those with severe mental illness, and require the Department of Homeland Security to develop effective oversight mechanisms.

This is not bleeding heart nonsense. Ending torture in America means living up to American values. If you believe as I do, please write to your Senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee and ask for their support for the Blumenthal amendment.

One of the AIC’s past chairmen was Sam Francis, and the group received years of funding from the Pioneer Foundation, a radical-right eugenics organization founded in 1937 that has provided funding for numerous pseudoscientific studies on race and intelligence.

Well I guess they have wasted a great deal of money.

Really Taylor? Because as History teaches us it was not the black community that took boats to Africa stole tribes to bring back here for sale and trade. Nor did the African/Black community enslave the white community hang them on trees, torture them, destroy their family structures and then proceed to commit horrible acts against mankind because of the color of their skin but mostly because they needed someone to do the hard labor and dirty work.

And Taylor may like to explain to everyone who broke the treaties with the Indians? Where was the civility in that?

Now given there is a portion of very intelligent White People who did not and would never participate in such gross atrocities, however Taylor I don’t believe you to be amongst that most notable crowd of good people.

So I would really like to present this to “Taylor” and have him support his argument about who the real monsters are and the true definition of civility. I believe that Mr. Taylor would quickly find out that skin color has little to do with the civility or lack of civility that may be present or absent from any man or woman’s heart.

Monsters come in all colors.

MaDonald, Alternative right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_B._MacDonald

Lieberman has also written that MacDonald even dishonestly made up lines from the

work of British Holocaust denier David Irving. Citing Irving’s Uprising which was

published in 1981 for the twenty-fifth anniversary of Hungary’s failed anti-

Communist revolution in 1956, MacDonald asserted in the Culture of Critique, “The

domination of the Hungarian communist Jewish bureaucracy thus appears to have had

overtones of sexual and reproductive domination of gentiles in which Jewish males

were able to have disproportionate sexual access to gentile females.” Lieberman,

who also noted that MacDonald is not a historian, debunked those assertions,

concluding, “(T)he passage offers not a shred of evidence that, as MacDonald

would have it, “Jewish males enjoyed disproportionate sexual access to gentile

females.”[28]

While immigrants may speak only their native tongue, with or without limited ability in English, their children born here will usually speak English and their parent’s language. It is often the second generation that lose the language, for a variety of reasons.

ProEnglish is, at best, the equivalent of a concern troll. Any realistic examination of this group will reveal a racist motivation that is hard to explain away.

This sort of claim is so bogus one doesn’t know whether to laugh or weep. I mean, US blacks currently dominate cultural areas such as music and sports. And if we think about all the other races and cultures, obviously multiculturalism is best. Otherwise you have a very limited monoculture.

(BTW, I notice you repeat the ad hominem in the third paragraph. Not happy about that.)

What do white nationalists eat? Mutton stew 3X per day? That’s a serious question that I never seem to get an answer to. The white-English monoculture is really nothing to be proud of. There’s no rock-n-roll, no sushi, no jazz, no bagels. What is there? Morris dancing? Trainspotting?

DanZ

That aside, the example of Europe shows that most of the nations with the highest per capita income — including Switzerland — have more than one official language. It’s very common throughout the world for people to speak more than one language.

To me this is almost a non-issue. If first generation immigrants do not have a good command of English, second and further generations will. The only real motive behind this issue is to stir up xenophobia and paranoia about the effects of immigration reform.