{"id":33247,"date":"2018-11-03T13:23:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T13:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33247"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:23:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T13:23:40","slug":"remember-immigrants-built-this-great-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33247","title":{"rendered":"Remember: Immigrants built this great nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Donald Trump Republican lies keep piling up.<\/p>\n

Here is one of them: Immigrants are pouring into our country intent on harming innocent, defenseless Americans; they will steal our children and sell them into sex slavery; they will rape our women; they will peddle deadly drugs. We have to stop them now by sending thousands of heavily armed “patriotic” American fighting men and women to our southern borders.<\/p>\n

What’s more, the lie continues, Republican opponents — Democrats, if you please — favor “open borders,” they believe we have “too much border security” and want to grant illegal immigrants “the right to vote.”<\/p>\n

The lying is prevalent in border states, such as Texas, where a U.S. Senate campaign — Democrat Beto O’Rourke vs. Republican Ted Cruz — is heading into the home stretch.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is fomenting those lies with his reckless, feckless rhetoric on the stump. He whips his crowds into a frenzy with the blathering about how Democrats favor lawlessness and Republicans favor “safety and security.”<\/p>\n

Look, this nation owes its greatness to immigrants. My sisters and I are the grandchildren of immigrants. Two of our grandparents came here from Turkey, which the president might define as a “sh**hole” country, given that it is a predominantly Muslim nation; the other two came from southern Greece. Yes, they got here legally<\/em>, but they shared the same dream as others who are sneaking in illegally<\/em>: They wanted to build a better life than the one they had back in the “old country.”<\/p>\n

The same thing can be said of those who are fleeing oppression in Latin America. Yet the president seeks to lump them into a single category of “violent criminals.”<\/p>\n

As for Democrats wanting to grant illegal immigrants the immediate “right to vote,” I am waiting to hear or read a single comment from any politician in this election cycle say such a thing. Beto O’Rourke hasn’t said it, nor has any other so-called squishy liberal\/progressive politician.<\/p>\n

What I hear them say is that they want to grant temporary reprieves from deportation for those who are here illegally; they want to ensure, through thorough background checks, that they want in for the right reasons, and they want to enable them to gain permanent resident status or — yes! — citizenship.<\/p>\n

Once they become citizens, then they can vote! Not before! That’s what I am hearing.<\/p>\n

I know the lying will continue, so my plea isn’t for the liars to cease. It is for the rest of us to stop swilling the poison.<\/p>\n\n

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