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Originally Posted by ScreamShatter
I live in one of the diverse areas of the country that has a rather large Hispanic population. Trust me, they do care about immigration and they view the unfair immigration process, targeting by ICE, and deportations as ripping apart their families and communities. It also fuels fear in those communities about going to the police for crime bc they fear deportation which just makes things worse on these communities.
As for #5, PR pays taxes because they are "American citizens" and yet it doesn't get representation in congress and has laws enforced on it that only allow businesses to buy American products. And additionally, they were treated like second class citizens this year with how the government, FEMA, and Trump handled the response (and public relations) to their crisis. So in short, they are being taxed as citizens and not getting all the benefits of statehood which is why it voted to become the 51st state.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/...erto-rico-pushes-for-statehood-explained
As for the "civil rights" part of your comment, let's let the government come into your community -- tax you, deport your friends and family members, deny you access to quality education, lock you up at a disproportional rate, hold stiff penalties for issue that affect your community in order to get felonies on your record so that you can't vote, allow for racial profiling by police, pass laws that restrict your ability to get IDs that allow you fly to get on planes, etc etc etc -- when your community gets impacted by that, you can talk about how "civil rights" have become meaningless. But who are you to judge other people, their issues, their struggles, etc like its not a real thing. |
Washington DC is in the same situation. And I think the media has painted the "government hasn't done enough" narrative more so than what is actually happening on the ground. For example, anecdotally, my cousin and brother-inlaw, both from a town of around 70k in Arkansas spent the last three months in PR doing line work down there. We are doing a lot, it might just not be enough, as always.
Must I look up the definition of civil rights?
1. If your friend is being deported, its because they are here illegally. The same thing would happen if I was in the UK or Sudan illegally.
2. Who is getting denied access to education? Who is being denied and who is doing the denying?
3. If you are locked up without reason, let me know, that has to be the most unjust thing that could happen to a human. Otherwise, if you do the crime you do the time, yes even for crimes that are dumb, like marijuana possession(which I went to jail for 3 days back when I was 18 for this).
4. I don't even understand your next point, could you explain?
5.Who allows for racial profiling?
6. What Hispanics in this country are being denied legal IDs?!
Oh, the "your not ______ so you can't speak on this." I can speak on this. I dont have to be hispanic or here illegally to know the definition of civil rights and to know that the Left has expanded the term so much as to have no meaning anymore. It basically means " we arent getting treated exactly how we want, so you people are bad." Illegal immigrants face hardships in this country, because they are...illegal. If hispanic Americans are getting treated differently than citizens at large, we do in fact have an issue.
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