More Voters Now Want Merit-Based Immigration, Not Family-Based

Why the shift in thinking from family-based immigration to merit-based immigration?

I believe it is the natural outcome of a variety of climates in our society now:

• An ever-steady disintegration of family unity, family values, and/or the value of traditional family structures has undermined the idea that families need to be kept together.
• Citizens are physically feeling the pinch. Their communities are overrun with non-assimilating foreigners, their taxes are rising to support the increased burdens on social services, the quality of public schools has declined, prices for housing have risen.
• Citizens feel overcrowding and are concluding there are enough people in their community. The more that crowd in, the lower the standards, the lower the cleanliness, and the lower the personal safety and security.

Merit-based immigration will address all those issues. People will be coming into the country as contributors to the energy of prosperity, not as economic drags.

 

Here are questions that were asked in the Rasmussen poll:

National Survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters
Conducted April 3-4, 2016
By Rasmussen Reports

1* Suppose a woman enters the United States as an illegal immigrant and gives birth to a child in the United States. Should that child automatically become a citizen of the United States?

2* Should illegal immigrants who have American-born children be exempt from deportation?

3* The majority of immigrant visas awarded in the United States are based on a family relationship. A proposal has been made to award visas instead on the level of skills a potential immigrant brings to this country. Do you favor moving to a merit-based system for legal immigration or prefer to keep the existing family-based system?

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/-3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence


I find it highlights an irony in the Left: they have spent decades attacking or at least eschewing family values, but suddenly raise it as the pinnacle of concerns when it comes to immigration.

 

Democratic leadership has no idea what their constituency wants, nor do they care. Virtue signaling is what it all boils down to. Create a "feel good" moment despite the devastating effects down the road. Literally everything the Dems "improve" upon by making it "more inclusive" "more diverse" "more compasisonate" causes hardship and strife. Dems are doing everthing they can to devalue US citizenship. Why should US citizens pay US income taxes if the revenues aren't used to the exclusive benefit of American citizens?

 

The number one question that should be asked of every Congressman. It's not a sin to be a nativist, it should be the ideal representation of this(or any) country. I hope the Mexican President makes Mexico great again and thus actually works to not enable the flow outside of Mexico.

I hope the same for all of the other countries for the world.

 

About time....

 

How so? This should be good.

 

Doen't that fall under the category of "taxation without representation"? Those non-citizens who are the recipients of those benefits get more say in how programs should be handled than the people funding the programs.

Sam Adams, in 1776, may have predicted where we are today when he said, "When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin, and render us easier victims to tyranny."

 

Yup. They have been blitzing us with crap and everyone is seeing through it, even the "minorities."

Prof claims Hispanic students perpetuate ‘colorblind racism.’

“Maria Isabel Ayala interviewed 50 Latino(a) students at Midwestern University, and was dismayed to find that they attribute their success to hard work and self-reliance while shunning affirmative action!”
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Merit based? That's insanity. It's much better to have a random lottery and play Russian Roulette with immigration. And as an added bonus, we get dozens of their closest relatives from various terrorist hotspots around the world.

 

Libs have mocked family values for decades. It's part of their DNA to ridicule anything associated with "traditional America".

But when it comes to legal and illegal immigration and the effort to shove as many brown people as they can down our throats, libs play the "family values" card oh so well.

 

If they were consistent in a newfound family matters platform, and back that with smart and logical policies that could make that happen, they might actually turn their failures around.
It is incongruous, however, with their premiere focus on abortion and tranny potties.

 

LOL!
I know you have befuddled some on this forum, but I understand irony.

 

I love it. But it makes perfect sense doesn't it?
Why would people who struggle to escape the corruption of Mexico, work to attain citizenship or legal residency, want to continue the same victimhood experienced in the old country by having to support illegals?

 

Until 1924 anyone who managed to reach the shores of the USA could become a citizen all you needed was your name on the passenger list of a ship that docked here.Thats why Donald Drumpfs ancestor who had fled his native country rather than be inducted into military service came here and was allowed in.We had no real criteria for citizenship prior to 1924.

 

Or, run from Central America to escape MS-13 and then have our government let them in by the truckload and settle MS-13 gang members in your kid's school?

 

Oh horse ****.

Immigrants were subject to physical and mental exams to ensure they were fit for admittance to the United States.

Upon arrival at Ellis Island, immigrants were ushered into a room called the Great Hall and paraded before a series of medical officers for physical inspection. Those whom the doctors deemed physically or mentally deficient were marked with chalk and taken away for additional screening. Questionable candidates were forced to submit to more detailed questioning and medical exams, and any signs of contagious disease, poor physique, feeblemindedness or insanity could see an immigrant denied admittance on the grounds that they were likely to become a ward of the state. In later years, doctors at Ellis Island even devised puzzles and memory tests to ensure that certain immigrants were intelligent enough to find work. New arrivals could also face rejection if they were anarchists, had a criminal record or showed signs of low moral character.



Likely wouldn't have been allowed in.

 

Where did you get that from?

 

Americans are SICK OF THE BULLSHIT...which they will prove, AGAIN, in November...

 

Read the history of Ellis Island,ships unloaded in Manhattan because Ellis Island could not accommodate large ships.ONLY STEERAGE PASSENGERS (lower class) were sent to Ellis Island for mental or physical examination.More affluent passengers were allowed to enter the USA with no examination.Steerage passengers who were able to offer a $1 or $2 bribe to the security were also allowed to enter directly.From 1892 through 1954 over 12 MILLION immigrants passed through Ellis Island,less than 2% were rejected from U.S. entry and eligibility to become citizens.

 

And? It is not now 1892 -1954, is it? We now have over 300 million people here.

 

There were several immigration laws prior to 1924 that limited immigration and citizenship. You guys on the left are really ill informed.

 

You made a good point. If someone is seeking amnesty from criminals, they aren't getting much protection in sanctuary cities, are they?

 

Not a bit. And you can bet they're scared to death.

 

The families being separated at the border are not immigrants. They are refugees.

 

Cut the crap.
They are invaders.