(11-12-2018 06:56 PM)TigerMandingo Wrote: Ron Unz had an interesting article up today where he basically argued that the Wall is a red herring because most of the immigration is legal.
Quote:A strong case can be made that American immigration levels have been far too high for many years and should be sharply reduced, and such a change would also greatly slow the ongoing demographic transformation that has so agitated large portions of the white American majority. But in this regard, Trump’s overwhelming focus on illegal immigration makes absolutely no sense at all. If we exclude a relatively small portion of the most highly-skilled legal immigrants, the remainder are probably not all that different in their characteristics from their undocumented counterparts, and indeed individuals may often shift back and forth between these two categories over time, as illegals gain green cards or legals remain here after their temporary visas expire. The ubiquitous rhetorical focus on illegal immigrants seems mostly due to a mixture of “political correctness” and political demagoguery, supplemented by sheer ignorance.
According to most estimates, the size of America’s undocumented population has been almost entirely stagnant since the Housing Meltdown wrecked employment in the construction industry, while net legal immigration has still regularly been running at a million or more a year. Therefore, it seems likely that nearly all net immigration over the last decade or so has been of the legal variety.
(11-12-2018 11:39 PM)heavy Wrote: ...
Made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up I was like watching the Patriot until the damn last item #3
(11-13-2018 02:14 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote: America is it's people, which is the whole reason the nation is going under in the first place. Those people are being replaced. If America withdraws to a renaissance zone then it's still more America than the current borders occupied by feckless Brazilian demographics.
If you want to fight then move North near the Canadian border, do what you can, and have a plan for exfil into Canada and beyond if the globalists succeed beyond our nightmares. The dirt-worlders don't fare well in cold climates, especially not in times of hardship where you haul wood or you freeze to death. The new America may end up consuming Canada while relinquishing the Southern states, deporting grateful invaders to the new Southern border and once again becoming a majority white nation under a Christian God.
Sounds crazy but much, much stranger things have happened.
(11-12-2018 06:56 PM)TigerMandingo Wrote: Ron Unz had an interesting article up today where he basically argued that the Wall is a red herring because most of the immigration is legal.
Quote:A strong case can be made that American immigration levels have been far too high for many years and should be sharply reduced, and such a change would also greatly slow the ongoing demographic transformation that has so agitated large portions of the white American majority. But in this regard, Trump’s overwhelming focus on illegal immigration makes absolutely no sense at all. If we exclude a relatively small portion of the most highly-skilled legal immigrants, the remainder are probably not all that different in their characteristics from their undocumented counterparts, and indeed individuals may often shift back and forth between these two categories over time, as illegals gain green cards or legals remain here after their temporary visas expire. The ubiquitous rhetorical focus on illegal immigrants seems mostly due to a mixture of “political correctness” and political demagoguery, supplemented by sheer ignorance.
According to most estimates, the size of America’s undocumented population has been almost entirely stagnant since the Housing Meltdown wrecked employment in the construction industry, while net legal immigration has still regularly been running at a million or more a year. Therefore, it seems likely that nearly all net immigration over the last decade or so has been of the legal variety.
Quote:With proper government policies, immigrants are a blessing. We saw this with earlier waves of immigration, as America absorbed and assimilated tens of millions of foreign immigrants of every language, religion, and ethnicity. By 1900, some 20 percent of America’s total population was foreign-born, and an additional 10 percent arrived in the following decade.
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Even today, despite government policies that foster dependency, the immigration of the last three decades has still been a strong net positive for the American economy.
Quote:Though immigrants are frequently blamed for the severity of California’s current economic problems, there is no connection whatsoever between the two.
Quote:But immigrants are crucial not just to industries reliant on cheap, low-skilled labor. Silicon Valley, home to my own software company, is absolutely dependent upon immigrant professionals to maintain its technological edge.
Quote:individuals may often shift back and forth between these two categories over time, as illegals gain green cards or legals remain here after their temporary visas expire.In other words, illegals find ways to get green cards. Some of them get married and get status through their new spouse, others got U-visas, others had anchor babies and eventually after years get sponsored by their anchors.
Quote:Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet has approved draft legislation to open the door to more overseas blue-collar workers in sectors grappling with labour shortages, a controversial policy shift in immigration-shy Japan.
Japan's immigration debate is heating up even as US President Donald Trump puts the topic front and centre for next week's congressional mid-term elections.
Immigration has long been taboo as many Japanese prize ethnic homogeneity, but the reality of an ageing, shrinking population is challenging such views.
Despite misgivings in Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), parliament is likely to adopt the revisions in the face of intense pressure from businesses battling the tightest labour market in decades, although opposition parties could delay.
The revised law would create two new visa categories for foreigners in sectors with labour shortages.
While not spelt out, they are expected to be more than a dozen, from farming and construction to hotels and nursing care.
Justice Minister Takashi Yamashita on Thursday ruled out a numerical cap, but media said 500,000 blue-collar workers could be allowed in over time, up 40 per cent from the 1.28 million foreign workers now forming about 2 per cent of the workforce.
Workers in the first visa category must have a certain level of skills and Japanese language ability. They would not be allowed to bring family members for a stay of up to five years.
But those with higher skills, in the second category, could bring family and eventually get residency.
Japan has grown more accepting of foreign labour but the focus has been on professionals and the highly skilled.
For blue-collar workers, employers mostly rely on a "technical trainees" system and foreign students working part-time, loopholes critics say are abused.
"Today it is quite difficult for foreigners to get ... jobs as security guards," said Shigeki Yawata, security manager at security firm Executive Protection Inc, which has employed non-Japanese for more than a dozen years. "The Olympic Games are coming up and the government is working on inbound tourism, so we would like to have more foreigners, too."
LDP lawmakers signed off on the bill after heated party debate. Many expressed concerns about crime and a negative effect on wages. Opposition politicians accuse the government of undue haste without protecting foreign workers' rights.
"The LDP decision was ... pushed by businesses with a serious shortage of workers," said Toshihiro Menju, managing director of the Japan Center for International Exchange, a think tank.
A recent survey by the Yomiuri newspaper showed 51 per cent of Japanese voters favoured letting in more unskilled foreign workers.
"I think it's a good thing as long as there is a support system for the foreigners," said retiree Yoshio Sai.
"I wish they could make more work opportunities for us old people too."

(11-13-2018 07:35 AM)RawGod Wrote: ...
Talk of mass population movements within North America, redrawing of borders etc...I think these will happen but on a much longer time scale. I'm talking perhaps two centuries or so. All we've got to look at in our lifetime is a decline and bumpy plateau. Let's say that white internal migration towards a core white zone becomes a thing over the next decade. It will still take half a century to play out, and most of that time it won't even be on the radar - the same way it's been more than 50 years since the plug was pulled on white supermajority America, and some people still are unaware of it.
None of us here will ever live in a comfy, new white ethnostate. At most we will see the chaos that precedes its formation begin in earnest.
Quote:For America to remain socially solvent they would have to stop ALL immigration. ALL OF IT! And the fact that this is not even being discussed makes a breakup of the US inevitable when tax burdens and standards of living drop below the point that whites feel their children have a future.
(11-13-2018 11:03 AM)TigerMandingo Wrote: Immigration aside, America is just getting too damn expensive. Housing costs, food prices, gas, and pretty much anything else are out of control. Health care is insane and nothing is being done about it. As I've said before, on issues that actually matter to the average person Trump has been impotent.

Quote:Amazon.com Inc. plans to make Nashville the home of a new East Coast operations hub, the company announced today.
Located in downtown Nashville, the hub will employ 5,000 workers within seven years, earning an average of $150,000 a year. At that headcount, Amazon will become downtown's largest private employer — two-and-a-half times the size of Bridgestone and HCA Healthcare Inc. (NYSE: HCA), which currently hold that designation.
In its Nov. 13 announcement, Amazon said it will invest $230 million and occupy 1 million square feet of office space.
(11-13-2018 11:53 AM)The Black Knight Wrote: Fuckin Bezos... I literally said out loud, ""You son of a bitch!", when I read following:
Quote:Amazon.com Inc. plans to make Nashville the home of a new East Coast operations hub, the company announced today.
Located in downtown Nashville, the hub will employ 5,000 workers within seven years, earning an average of $150,000 a year. At that headcount, Amazon will become downtown's largest private employer — two-and-a-half times the size of Bridgestone and HCA Healthcare Inc. (NYSE: HCA), which currently hold that designation.
In its Nov. 13 announcement, Amazon said it will invest $230 million and occupy 1 million square feet of office space.
Source: https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/ne...ville.html
While Nashville is already pretty blue voting wise, this sort of move is going to signal to all types of tech/libtard/coastal folk to move there. Nashville was already on its way in becoming the next Austin and this just accelerated the timeline big time.
Why is this in the Trump thread?
Tennessee as a whole is pro-Trump TODAY but maybe not forever.
Like how Texas and many former GOP strongholds are tilting purple/blue due to the tech/coastal/libtard invaders who want to escape the actions of their bad values (but not change their values), this move by Bezos is going to put Tennessee potentially in play for senate and house seats in 2022 and maybe even at the Presidential level in 2024 or 2028. It will probably be a slow burn on the voting trends like Texas but this event is still not a good thing nonetheless.
That said, I really wish these dipshits would stay in their own backyard and stop taking advantage of nice low tax affordable places that conservatives built and turning them into expensive liberal dumps. Too bad US states can't restrict movement of people between states based on party affiliation and duration (i.e. you're a lifelong democrat from California? Sorry, you can't move here).