How about just crossing the border?
Personally, the GOP is whatever Dear Leader ( the geezer from Queens) wants it to be.
I don't think the founding fathers would object to screening and accepting legal immigration, if they were alive today and looking at our current situation
Don't know, but I would guess it's many different factors.
I'm sure they would have loved his "dictator for one day" b.s.
The Constitution authorizes Congress to establish naturalization requirements. The First Congress in 1790 set up procedures for immigration and for immigrants to become citizens. Anyone could enter and become a citizen -- but only if they were white. So maybe our founders are not infallible guides in this area.https://immigrationhistory.org/timeline/
Nice try
I don’t blame our founders for their racial tendencies, it was the norm of the day, very accepted, unfortunately, and took many many years to reverse
It won't surprise you that it took until 1870, after the Civil War, for black immigrants to have the opportunity to gain citizenship. It took until 1943 for Chinese immigrants and 1952 for Japanese immigrants.
I don't think you understand what the word DICTATOR means. It's not just keeping out illegal immigrants or rounding up and deporting the ones already here. It's a lot more than that. Ask someone who has lived under a dictator.
Just so you know . .. executive orders cannot change the law. They cannot override statutes passed by Congress, decisions of the courts, or even rules made by administrative agencies. All they can do is tell departments and other administrative agencies how to go about carrying out the law. That's important, but not at all the same thing. Here's a reasonably good summary:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order
That is what Trump meant, exactly what I said
You don't know that. The problem with Trump is that it's often hard to know what he means because he expresses himself so loosely. -- maybe intentionally, maybe not. If, say, Ronald Reagan had planned to issue twenty executive orders his first day, he wouldn't have said what Trump said.
Ok, give me an example of what Trump could do, other than executive orders, that would be
I don't know what to expect. But I will say this: I said above that Ronald Reagan would never have said "dictator on the first day." One reason is that he understood the American system of government much better than Donald Trump seems to. The second and more important reason is that it would have been political poison before now to have said anything that could be taken as a desire to be a dictator. But there is so much frustration in our nation right now that, unfortunately, talk about being a dictator appeals to at least some people. Otherwise Trump wouldn't have said it.
I would not compare Reagan and Trump
Then why does he speak of it as dictatorship, even for a day? Why does he think it's politically helpful "just to be inflammatory?"
It’s just talk
Politicians --including Trump -- weigh every word. All I ask is that you consider why he thinks it's helpful to him to say he'd be a dictator on day one.
I took it as him saying he will get the boarder closed on day 1, idk. Trump will do what he did the first time. Increase US gas/oil production, reduce the fed interest rate, lower taxes, fund the military, etc. One of the bigger challenges that he promised would be to end the two major wars going on. Most all politicians what those wars to continue to make some dough.
I hope you're right that it was just foolishness. But maybe he thought that the statement would benefit him politically. That would be scary -- not so much because he would actually be a dictator, but because it would indicate that there are a significant number of voters who want one.
There's no way Americans could be appealed to by a dictatorship. Not real Americans.
Same thing happened to me… my wife told me that I expect too much from people.
I am. The American Indians shoulda never allowed all us illegals to immigrate from Europe. We came and spread like locusts and now look at us.
I've read that back in the day several Indian leaders led chants of "Build The Wall" and claimed that Europe would pay for it.
