posted August 03, 2017 05:48 AM            

Miller tried to deflect and Acosta keep seeking an answer.

Next question, why did big Don`s attorney lie about sonnys statement??

posted August 03, 2017 12:00 PM            

How clever of him to pick on one small piece of the question to deflect from the point being made. Ad hominem used as evasion?

posted August 03, 2017 12:08 PM            

Acosta and the Crash Dummy intellects at CNN don't know the difference between legal and illegal immigration.

These idiots also don't understand that English is the official or one of the official languages of more than 30% of countries world wide.

posted August 03, 2017 12:23 PM            

But it has never been a requirement for getting in to the country with an eye to becoming a citizen..

And has nothing to do with socialism. Do you have a worm in your brain or what? You bring up socialism without the least connecton

posted August 03, 2017 01:02 PM            

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Someone needs to get a dictionary and learn what racism means.

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posted August 03, 2017 02:48 PM            

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You wouldn't know a racist if she ran for president and you voted for her.

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posted August 03, 2017 02:56 PM            

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You wouldn't know a racist if she ran for president and you voted for her.

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posted August 03, 2017 04:17 PM            

CNN’s Jim Acosta Read The Statue Of Liberty Poem, Had A Meltdown When Someone Suggested Immigrants Be Able To Read It, Too
David Harsanyi
August 2, 2017

Jim Acosta took a rhetorical beating today.

Over the past couple of months he’s been one of the loudest voices grousing about the Trump administration’s policy of conducting off-camera press briefings. Listening to him, a person might have been under the impression that the First Amendment features a clause granting senior White House correspondents from CNN the right to grandstand on national TV every day.

Acosta happens to be one of the strongest arguments for keeping daily briefings off camera. Most often these exchanges are excruciatingly uninformative, pitting dishonest administration officials against crusading journalists who offer ideological statements in the form of pretend questions.

But the crusader had a chance to ask a serious question today. He didn’t.

President Donald Trump backed legislation by senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue this afternoon that would reform the immigration system in a number of consequential ways, including limiting green cards for extended family members and factoring in education levels, job skills, and proficiency in English. Stephen Miller, the president’s senior advisor for policy, was at the podium answering questions.

You can agree with the aim of this policy or not — I tend to lean pro-immigration, in general — but the bill is a reaction to genuine concerns of millions of Americans who gave Republicans the majority and presidency. It is policy that deserves serious questions from the press. And whether you like him or not, Miller was offering serious answers, which is supposedly how we keep the lights on in a democracy.

“What you’re proposing,” Acosta begins his sermon, “or what the president is proposing, doesn’t seem, does not sound like it’s in keeping with American tradition when it comes to immigration.”

He then looks at his notes and says.

“The Statue of Liberty says …”

The Statue of Liberty says.

“It says ‘Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,’ it doesn’t say anything about speaking English or being a computer programmer,” Acosta goes on, “Aren’t you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you’re telling them they have to speak English.”

Yes. Acosta is going to quote “The New Colossus,” a poem that was attached to the statue in 1903, which is neither a policy guide nor a reflection of the Constitution nor anything but a beautiful rhetorical nod to the millions of immigrants, like my parents, who came here under the strictures Americans set on immigration. Because we have them. We always have.

First of all, is it really un-American to expect immigrants to speak English? As Miller pointed out, some proficiency in English is already a requirement for those who want to be naturalized. Yet, Acosta asks: “Are we just going to bring in people from Great Britain and Australia?” I happen to live in an immigrant-heavy neighborhood, and most of the people around me speak English pretty well. Not one is from England or Australia.

Is it un-American, as Acosta alleges, to regulate the number of immigrants we allow in the country? Does “The New Colossus” say: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but keep them at around one million new green cards every year or it’s un-American?”

Is it un-American to give preference to immigrants who have already shown the propensity to assimilate? Is it un-American to prioritize immigrants who have skills in jobs we need filled? Is any reform of immigration — other than to legalize millions by executive fiat — un-American? I may disagree with a certain immigration policy, but changing the parameters of immigration policy is not an unpatriotic act.

When Miller properly explained how “The New Colossus” found its way onto the base of the Statue of Liberty, the CNN reporter interrupted the accurate statement to claim it is “National Park revisionism.” He fumbles about, conflating green-card policy with illegal immigration — probably because many on the Left have worked diligently to erase this distinction — attempting to filibuster the conversation.

It’s always annoying when partisans claim their side has “destroyed” the other. Typically, it’s not so. In this case, however, I’m not sure how any open-minded person could possibly believe that Acosta had come out on top. You can watch for yourself.

posted August 03, 2017 10:49 PM            

I rate them both full of it.

posted August 04, 2017 07:22 AM            

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Racist speech? Silly liberals. Putting America first isn't racist. Nice try. Fail. "American" isn't a race. It's nationalist, not racist.

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Nationalism has, in other countries, showed its numerous flows. Why U.S. nationalism would be any different ? You are that smarter as a people ?
http://youtu.be/w44lApffH30

For knowflakes like Juni who cannot watch the video, it is an interview of Naomi Klein About her book :

"No is not enough : resisting trump's shock politics and wining the world we need"

I haven't read or bought it, but I am sure knowflakes here in LL who discuss Trump with objectivity have already got the essential points in why Trump is capable of the worse.

Nevertheless, you should watch the video or buy the book, or both.

And be ready to fight for the US historical image when/if nationalism in the US become powerful in the event of a shock or disastrous event, cause the funny thing about nationalism is no matter what helps nationalists to take power, they are all quite similar, with the same outcome

posted August 04, 2017 12:51 PM            

http://www.google.com/amp/jewishjournal.com/opinion/ rob_eshman/214361/stephen-miller-meet-immigrant-great-grandfather/amp/

The floodgates are open,” wrote one anti-immigrant newspaper editor as the Eastern European Jews docked in New York. “The horde of $9.60 steerage slime is being siphoned upon us from Continental mud tanks.”

Then, as now, angry voices fought to keep these immigrants out. They organized the Immigration Restriction League, focused on shutting the ports to swarthy Italians and Jews

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So Miller will scream the name of Kate Steinle’s murderer but never mention, say, Antonio Diaz Chacon — an illegal immigrant who, in 2011, chased down and tackled a child molester who had just abducted a 6-year-old girl

posted August 05, 2017 02:00 PM            

What is the US the world is looking at, do you think ?

Hollywood ? Bruno mars and katie perry ? Hummm, sorry, but no, that is the US we are being sold, and swallow, willing or not.

See, my life, it might reminds you of your america, but remember I am your typical french.

I live in a small town in brittany, rural france, I am about to change job and collect milk in farm with a truck. Next year, I will finally own my horses as I ´ve wanted for a long time. They'll be in my backyard since I live in the country and have a bit of land.

I cut my wood that is my only source of heat during the winter, I am soon going to get the motorbike driving licence... I refurbish an old farm I bought last year, my garden is full of pumpkins already, besides beans, tomatoes, salads and other veggies I don't know their english name... i am soon going to have gooses duck, chickens turkeys,... you name it...

Basically, you may be wrong if you think that foreigner are looking to hollywood as the true US. In fact most french would say it is not real life.

Instead of being led by fear, nationalist should look outside themselves and they might see the numerous things they have in commons with other countries. A wonderful feeling, of being different and quite similar at the same time.