Ted Lieu: "I can support a merit based immigration system based on the same criteria that allowed.."

[Miles Archer]

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Ted Lieu Retweeted Donald J. Trump
I can support a merit based immigration system based on the same criteria that allowed the grandpa of @realDonaldTrump to immigrate to America. He came here as a minor, did not speak English & started as a barber. Like many immigrants, he worked hard & achieved the American Dream

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[BigmanPigman]

1. He also was wanted by the German govt for draft dodging.

That is why the teenage Drumpf left home in the middle of the night, leaving his mommy a letter. After a few years he tired to get back into Germany but they caught him and tossed him out! "No criminals" is tRump's immigration policy too. I wish Germany did let him back in and he and his future spawn had stayed far away from here.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Perhaps Germany wouldn't let grandpa use bone spurs as an excuse to be effectively 4-F'd.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Yes, probably little Donny

needed two generations of Drumpf "genius" DNA to come up this an excuse that would do the trick.

[George II]

17. Right, his grandfather was deported by Bavaria for dodging the draft. Runs in the family.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. How about the one that allowed Melania's parents to immigrate?

Or allowed Melania to be here at all??

[Funtatlaguy]

3. You win the internet today!!!!!

This has been my same question for two years.
Where’s that a Melania press conference that we were promised then?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

29. "Where's that a Melania press conference that we were promised?"

It's going to be held just after the one Trump promised us about all the biggest, baddest crap you'd ever want to know about Crooked Hillary. You know, the one he announced during a speech a couple of days before Donald Jr., et al, met with the Russians in Trump Tower to discuss the dirt they had on Clinton.

[drmeow]

28. That was where I thought

he was going with the tweet.

[lamsmy]

4. Merit based systems can be humane as well

Most oecd countries use the merit system. Yes, they award points for those most qualified by trades/skills, education, finances, and language ability. This allows the country to help fill shortages in certain sectors of the job market. And to be sure this adds to the brain drain of skilled workers in less developed countries.

But its important to note that these merit based systems are balanced with robust refugee programs. Canada, Sweden, Germany, etc. take in far more of the most desperate, at risk refugees than the US both in real and per capita numbers.

By taking some of the most qualified, these countries can then also take in more of those most in need and devote more resources to them.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

5. "Merit based" is fine, as long as I alone get to determine what qualifies as meritorious.

[Fred Sanders]

12. Well said. Merit based systems, like Canada has had for decades, I have no problem with. And

as you say makes room for humanitarian and asylum refugees...didn't Canada promise to take in 100,000 Syrians? Who, being well screened, and being Syrians, will contribute to the economy, that is a guarantee.

[paleotn]

6. Achevied the American dream....

by running a brothel in Yukon, Canada. Nice.

[Old Terp]

22. Actually, the reports are that any of his establishments with a back room had "sporting ladies"

[paleotn]

24. That brings to mind an interesting question...

I've been hearing that what may soon break is far worse than what is commonly known or suspected about shitgibbon and his cast of grifters. Could the orange baboon be following in grandpa's footsteps in some way? Particularly with his connections to rather unsavory Russian characters. Possibly something related but far more nefarious than "sporting ladies" in the back room?

[flotsam]

27. Do you mean...

...soccer players or something different?

[sandensea]

9. "he worked hard & achieved the American Dream" - except that most immigrants don't become pimps

Likewise, most immigrant women don't enter the country as prostitutes.

Melania Trump: From the whorehouse to the White House.

[Pepsidog]

10. Absolutely. Although the enemy of my enemy is my friend and Melania skeeves Donnie

[sandensea]

11. She would've no doubt divorced his orange ass years ago.

But I can just hear her Slovenian mother:

"Don't worry, sweetheart. Look at that fat bastard! He'll croak in two years, tops - and then you'll be the most famous (and richest!) woman in Slovenia!"

[Pepsidog]

21. Haha so true

[colorado_ufo]

14. Trump plays piano like Melania does gardening.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210937592

[sandensea]

15. Our presidential escort sure loves imitating Michelle Obama.

[rzemanfl]

19. +1. That looks like a whorehouse to me. Can Drumpf play piano? n/t

[sandensea]

20. No. But he sure knows how to pick one that looks like it came from a whorehouse.

Probably did, in fact.

[Old Terp]

23. Now that is a tacky room.

[sandensea]

25. They say 'your house is you'.

And that one has drug money launderer written all over it.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Was grampa also the one who ran a whorehouse up in Canada?

[whistler162]

18. yup

[oberliner]

16. Chuck Schumer introduced a merit-based immigration bill in the Senate in 2013

It was co-sponsored by 4 Democrats and 4 Republicans.

It passed the Senate by a vote of 68-32.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00168

House never acted on it.

[Doodley]

26. It's about racism and xenophobia, not border security.