I wouldn’t know about that... I think most are very well meaning good people who want to do the right thing. But then they hear the activists and/or media and their intentionally emotional (manipulative) stories who will spin anything (lie) to achieve their narrow minded goal, not knowing any better they fall for it instead of taking it as a data point and then digging deeper to see the big picture in context.
Because liberals lack the ability to critically think, you’ll see them resort to name calling, one word blanket responses, blaming racism, criticize solutions without providing their own ideas/solutions. Or, the worst is they’ll propose solutions that make things worse.
Prime example, in this forum, they want to help the poor kids and complain about how they don’t have enough resources. They complain about large class sizes and not enough books. Yet, they are against stopping illegal immigration.
Let’s stop here: The liberal activist spin is that conservatives are against immigrants - that is FALSE. Nobody is against immigrants. There is a big difference between legal and illegal immigration. The keyword is ILLEGAL and conservatives are simply against activities that fall outside the legal system or manipulates it.
Why? The US wants to be a responsible country and as such, we want to make sure the resources are in place to support incoming immigrants - Medicare, food stamps, housing, etc... it would be irresponsible to let someone come into the country without assuring they will have a place to live, be able to provide for themselves, won’t starve, kids have access to school, won’t end up on the street, will have a job available, basic needs, etc... it costs taxpayers significantly to support this and that is why we have a budget and limit the number of immigrants. Exceptions to this process include H1B visas where companies take responsibility for making sure these folks are taken care of.
When people come here illegally, they are outside the budget - they still need resources, jobs, their kids attend schools, etc...
Back to my point - liberals, where do you think the illegal immigrants go when they come here? They’re not moving into upper middle class neighborhoods, not mine, nor yours. They’re moving into the poor ones. So guess what?!? You basically just screwed the poor kids you claim to care so much about. That poor kid who is here legally now has to share class ratio, books, Medicare budget, lunch programs, WIC, etc... with the kids there illegally thereby straining existing resources even more. It’s basically stealing from the poor. And guess what, those kids here illegally are going to compete for college entrance with the same poor kids who are here legally and trying to get out of their situation.
I’ll even venture to say this, the illegal kids are probably going to outperform them - why? Because they have a different mindset, they and their parents are here for opportunity and for a better life. These kids are much different from the kids who grew up from generations of poverty, drug use, etc... who have the mindset that being poor is their destiny.
So no, I don’t have any problem with illegal immigrants themselves as people, I don’t blame them at all, but they are stealing from the REAL poor kids, making it even harder for them to get out and for us to solve the problem of poverty in this country. They are also stealing in the sense that the government looks at the employment rate and assesses how many workers the economy needs and how many we need to keep employed - this is another factor in determining how many people we let in. These illegal immigrants are largely uneducated, so the first gen will effectively be stealing jobs from the same poor neighborhoods our own citizens that we are responsible for.
Just like giving bonus points for the SAT to offset poverty, allowing/encouraging illegal immigration is a bad solution that only creates new problems.
