Thursday, April 6th, 2017
Stephan: As I have previously reported fewer foreign students are coming to American universities; fewer tourists are arriving on our shores. And, now, we see that fewer people are even crossing our southern border, as this report describes. The truth is: America is becoming a less attractive country. Those who voted for Trump I think thought that if there would be fewer immigrants they would be able to get employment that would otherwise have gone to foreigners. Underneath that I think the more fundamental issue is that America will remain a White country.
What we are finding out is that there are a whole spectrum of jobs, such as agriculture jobs that White Americans don't want and won't do, so our agriculture system is at risk. Fewer doctors and nurses are coming so, particularly in rural areas, our already meager healthcare system is more impoverished. Fewer tech students are graduating and there are now fewer entrepreneurs and patents being granted and thus fewer jobs will be created in the future. And so it goes on and on.
American southern border wall
Credit: Justin Sullivan
Just five people were eating dinner on a recent weeknight at a Texas church that is a stopping point for newly arrived immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border. On a typical night last year, hundreds of immigrants might come through the church.
Immigrants who are still coming say many people in their home countries are staying home amid fears about President Donald Trump‘s immigration rhetoric, putting off coming to the U.S. until they see how his policies play out.
“There are mothers who heard that Trump might change the law to remove parents and keep the children here,” said Jose Gonzalez, a 29-year-old father of two from El Salvador. “That stopped a lot of people.”
The first months of the new administration have seen a huge drop in the number of people being caught by agents on the U.S.-Mexico border, raising the possibility that a “Trump effect” is keeping migrants away.
Fewer than 12,500 people were caught at the southern border in March, the lowest monthly figure in at […]
While I would like to see everyone cared for, I don’t think humans are born with the right to visit a hospital. If they were born with that right then hunter gatherers human rights were violated for thousands of years by the lack of access to MD’s and modern hospitals?
On second thought, I think Barack & Hillary should get a mansion together. In Syria.
oops…above post is wrong spot. Sorry!