Miami Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar rips Trump. 
The Miami Herald reports ‘Un-American’: Salazar rips immigration pause for Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans
Miami Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar on Sunday called the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown “un-American” in a biting statement to the Miami Herald.
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security issued one of its most sweeping restrictions on immigration to date, ordering a pause of all immigration applications from nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and 16 other so-called “high risk” countries.
In the statement, Salazar — one of only a few Cuban Americans in Congress — said the new policy amounted to “collective punishment” of “the innocent for the sins of the guilty.” “Freezing asylum, green card, and citizenship processes is not the answer. It punishes hardworking, law-abiding immigrants who followed every step of the legal process,” said Salazar, who has advocated for compassionate immigration policies as Trump pursues his mass-deportation agenda. “That is unfair, un-American, and it goes against everything this country stands for. Background checks already exist to stop terrorists and they should.” Salazar’s strongly worded statement — which also mentioned how thousands of immigrants in South Florida who applied legally and “waited their turn” would be affected — was more critical of the Trump administration than a joint statement released Wednesday by Miami’s two other Republican members of congress, U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Gimenez.
South Floridians from Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela expecting to become U.S. citizens this week learned instead that their naturalization ceremonies had been canceled after the announcement, according to multiple immigration attorneys. With the recent announcement, all now find themselves once more in legal limbo.
Miami, a Power Center for Trump, Delivers a Rebuke of the President
The Wall Street Journal reports Miami, a Power Center for Trump, Delivers a Rebuke of the President
The resounding victory by Democrat Eileen Higgins in the Miami mayor’s race Tuesday marked a rebuke of President Trump in the heart of a community that has become a nerve center of his movement.
Voters delivered the Miami mayor’s office to a Democrat for the first time in nearly 30 years and energized a party that has struggled in South Florida in recent elections. And they rebuffed the Republican candidate, Emilio Gonzalez, whom Trump endorsed, a move that helped thrust the election into the national spotlight and position it as a referendum on the president. Higgins collected 59% of the vote and Gonzalez 41%.
The election result sent two clear messages, analysts and residents say: Voters rejected the administration’s immigration policies that have hit hard in a city where a majority of people are foreign-born, and they expressed anxiety over the affordability of everything from housing to groceries.
Maribel Donato, 60 years old, and a registered Republican, said she voted for Trump last year, but now is “not so happy” with him because the cost of living hasn’t gone down and his immigration crackdown has ensnared people without criminal records.
“I don’t feel it’s right when people have been living here for so many years and working hard,” Donato said one recent afternoon at Versailles, a well-known Cuban restaurant in Miami. People she knows are scared of getting pulled over or haven’t taken jobs out of fear, said Donato, who added she now carried her passport just in case.
In 2024, Trump performed well with Hispanic voters, many of whom said during the campaign that they backed more restrictive immigration policies. That support seemed to wane in the run-up to the mayoral election amid enforcement raids that shut down worksites and disrupted neighborhoods.
“This election has been a total rejection against the Trump administration,” said Cecilia Tavera-Webman, 69, a Democrat who voted for Higgins.
Tavera-Webman criticized what she called the inhumanity of the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrants, detaining and deporting them en masse. “This is not right, what we’re living through,” Tavera-Webman said. “We don’t want it in Miami.”
Carlos Curbelo, a Republican former congressman from Miami, said the aggressive immigration policies became an important factor driving the intensity of the opposition.
“Under normal circumstances, this would have been at least a close race for Republicans,” Curbelo said. “However, the administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies are extremely unpopular in a city with a strong pro-immigrant culture and identity.”
Some Trump allies questioned why the president made an endorsement, which only served to firmly attach him to the race and help fuel a national media narrative. Others said while the broader implications of the race could be overstated, it should serve as a wake-up call to the White House that its hard-line immigration policies are detrimental.
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November 5, 2025: How Bad an Evening Did Republicans Have in Yesterday’s Elections?
Let’s discuss some election benchmarks, posted in advance.
Democrats Went 18 for 18
But in the prediction department …
Tariffs are not working. The labor market is not good. And inflation is a huge problem.
All of that shows up in the polls, and the elections.
Since people are damn hard in reading these days, please note Mapping the Uneven Burden of Rising ACA Marketplace Premium Payments due to Enhanced Tax Credit Expiration
Enhanced premium tax credits expire at the end of this year. Enrollees currently receiving premium tax credits at any level of income will see their federal assistance decrease or disappear if enhanced premium tax credits expire, with an average increase of 114% to what enrollees pay in premiums net of tax credits.
Hint: That is average net out of pocket premiums, not deductibles as some readers repeatedly insisted.
KFF has an interactive map for those who remain reading impaired.
For Illinois, for someone at 401 percent of poverty level, the increase is 209%. Texas is 216 percent, and Florida 226 percent. Those are for 60-year-olds.
The older you are, the bigger the wallop. The overall average is 114 percent.
Also note this explicit headline: ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire
For the reading impaired, please focus on ACA (not Medicare), Premium Payments (not deductibles), average (do I have to explain that), and more than double (estimates 114 percent).
Meanwhile, Two Failed Senate Health Care Bills, Eyes on the House
The Senate rejected proposals from Democrats and Republicans. What now?
Trumpcare for All?!
Please note Republicans Own Health Care Now, What Will They Do With It?
Put on your magic hat and and tell me the price tag for House Speaker Mike Johnson’s magic proposal to “reduce premiums for all Americans, not just 7% of them.”
If you believe that, Obamacare will soon be Trumpcare.
I await the magic math and price details.
This ship (USA) is not just sinking… It’s listing … Our populace is dooming
our pending demise……….. It’s to late , we are toast I am afraid.
Critical Thinking is rare, No one is concerned, YET … But I have a feeling
we will very very soon……………….
If you want to live in a 3rd world country you can move to one or import people from 3rd world countries. See what happens if you just do it to your town. Most do gooders think it’s fine as long as it’s not where THEY live.
The Democrats encouraged illegal immigration to build another voter base for political control. The Great Society of 1964 gave them congress for 40yrs. They employed the same playbook except they would have taken it to the CCP level this time political control forever
America First is NOT Un-American.
American First is just short sighted. We are part of this Earth and too many factors – disease, pollution, climate change…do not recognize land boundaries.
Nothing is more Un-American than an endless policy that turns America into the world and not America.
Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, America for Everyone is not an immigration policy, its invasion and destruction.
And ungrateful immigrants like this only exemplify what its really about.
Being ‘republican’ means nothing. Its comical anyone would think to mention it as salient at all.
This is from 15 years ago, this idiotic idea that we should just let in whoever wants to come to the US. The numbers don’t lie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
What we should do is lock down immigration for all but the highly educated, self-supportive people, no more than the immediate family, with quotas. Give the US time to absorb the 10 million that came in, and still deport anyone coming in illegally OR under the twisted unconstitutional programs Biden set up. Leave everyone else alone.
Let me say, as an American whose family first came here in the 1600s, people are people, and we need to stop talking about people as if we are some type of private club that creates rules and customs to keep “certain types” of people out. America is and has always been a melting pot of people from every corner of the planet who desire to come here, live, and work because we strive to be a place where the color of skin, religion, and heritage do not define a person, but instead have a shared desire to live in an open and welcoming society that enables a person to choose his or her own path to happiness and succeed or fail on based upon work ethic and determination.
We all should condemn the “bad apples” who come here with evil intent to take advantage of our freedoms, but we should not paint all immigrants who will do almost anything to get a chance at a better life with a broad brush tainted by a few “bad apples.”
those pilgrims were very recent migrants to the americas. a trip to an aztec or mayan city and pyramids will give so many some good perspective.
I have traveled extensively outside the U.S., and until recently, those whom I met had a generally positive view of the United States and envied how we live.
agree. what’s not to like. it’s extremely wealthy. life on 3rd base. my most profound experience was doing business and going to Russia in the 90s after their evil empire collapsed. what lessons i learned. had an oligarch as a client for the decade. my escorts and business cohorts were my russian pals who had escaped the iron curtain in 70s made it to columbia u by the 80s. travelling the world is for sure the best education a man can have. spent time in Cuba too. plus all the rich countries on planet………..people are people. the panama jungle and canal was something that stuck with me.
At the end of his life, my uncle wanted to take one last trip – to see the Panama Canal. He never did, but I thought it a fascinating choice.
Ask the natives how allowing the pilgrims to live went for them.
you mean the undocumented pilgrims? all those anchor babies they spawned, too.
Exactly. Now you’re getting it. They pretty much wiped out the original inhabitants, and their families.
No different than any other group.
<< to get a chance at a better life>>
Do you know what made life here a better option? Not magical soil. It was the mindset of certain settlers. Had American been colonized by different people, it would have been a different country all together, most likely one not to care about or to avoid. The South of the continent is poor (different mindset).
The North defeating the South was a big one too.
we need to control our border. evil intent has nothing to do with it and is a strawman and everyone knows it.
it’s an economic issue. we cannot let in migrants from everywhere just because they want to come here and their country sucks. there’s billions like that in the world and it’s easier to get here than it 1600. they are poorer, less educated than US born citizens or proper immigrants granted residence because they bring something of tangible value, and this creates huge issues economically and sociologically.
talking about the 1600s or the 18902 or whatever is irrelevant. we need to deal with today, right now.
It’s also cultural. I have no desire to live in a neighborhood that allows loudspeakers to blast a call to prayer five times a day to the believers. A few so-called American cities actually allow that activity.
You need to come to America LEGALLY, otherwise you should be considered a “BAD APPLE”.
Entering the US without documentation is not a crime. Being afforded due process and still being convicted on 34 felony counts by a unanimous jury made up of Democrats, Independents and Republicans makes one a criminal. If you voted for Trump, you are not entitled to an opinion on the criminality of undocumented immigrants.
I disagree with your sentiment, but agree with your goal. America is an idea and an evolving ideal. We must hold on to that sentiment. If we have a demand that we cannot meet, such as immigration, and that supply/demand imbalance is causing people to find a workaround to get here to live and work, we need to work on meeting that demand. That would be reinventing our legal immigration process and work visa system.
ah but they are a private club. Every square inch of land on earth is now controlled by a criminal organization and that organization sets the rules, whatever they may be. “We” may have a desire to live in an open and welcoming society, those who want to immigrate here may not share those values. As for “better life” I like to say the person who jumps out from behind a bush to bop you on the head and take your money also wants a better life.
Too cynical! I am sure the majority of colonists in the British American colonies who did not support the Revolution were equally cynical. America was not founded on cynicism; it was founded on ideals and hope.
A pity we can’t place those 3rd world immigrants on the street where you live. The vast majority of people that favor mass immigration choose not to live in neighborhoods where people speak little or no English. Talk is cheap.
Ms Salazar better listen to her constituents a lttle better if she polans on staying in congress. Over 50% of hispanics denounce illegal immigration. And for good reason: if newcomers cannot be vetted, they should not be allowed into the country. Would you let a total stranger into your house? This isn’t rocket science, folks…
Over 50% of hispanics denounce illegal immigration, because they are assimilating just fine. They want and wish for Safety & Security. They don’t mind working for a living, and they are generally very family orientated from all that I am friendly with and know personally well.
I want to clear something up on this as well. I Do Not consider the Hispanics I know as Hispanics, but rather for Who They Truly Are and that’s Americans! The Hispanic Culture is much like American Culture in many ways. We don’t have many disagreements in Religion, Work, Security, Education, etc.
our borders north and south and seas, have been wide open for the vast majority of past 500 years. so have most borders on planet. most. not all. the iron curtain was real.
Mexicans assimilate easier because they’re of a semi-European background and Christians. The basics of their culture are the same.
Assimilation itself is a very stressful process that lasts many years, and people will avoid it if they find a large group of their own. That’s why the US had quotas for decades.
The first generation rarely assimilates. The children always do.
The first job is to never forget your roots, and their ability to pass on the important culture and sacred lessons of their Heritage.
Once lost, in a new cultural setting, they may lose sight of most, if not all of it.
Here’s what I think you’re missing Joe. The issue isn’t what legal immigrants think about illegal immigrants, it’s how illegal immigrants are being treated by the government. While seeing possibly illegal immigrants chased down, roughly knocked down and handcuffed, and unceremoniously tossed into a prison without due process or a care about their family and children might be pleasing to your average Trump voter, your average legal Latino can see himself in those people. And they know that if those illegals were Brits or Danes, native-born Americans would be saying “hey, these are people too, no need to treat them as if they were less than human.”
This nuance, which I understand is difficult for many to parse, is one of the important reasons Republicans will be crushed in the mid-terms. Sadly, the Democrats don’t have to do anything positive for the country, they just get to stand by and watch Republicans self-destruct.
when you talk about how illegals are treated by the government, I think of loads of free money and not having to obey the laws.
You’re focused on the wrong statistic. Almost all Hispanics denounce the illegal actions of ICE and have empathy for those harmed. I would let an undocumented immigrant into my home far before I would let a MAGA Jan 6th criminal into my home.
78% of hispanics oppose Trump’s policies.
That’s very odd, because roughly 48% of Hispanics Voted For Trump!!!
Nothing odd about people realizing they made a huge mistake.
Not seeing any “Latinos for Trump” signs anymore.
– “It’s simple, really. We liked the way things were four years ago,” (Pre-Harris / Biden) said Samuel Negron, a member of the large Puerto Rican community in the city of Allentown.
> Religion, Safety, Security, and Truth are the Main Reasons Latinos Love Trump, and voted largely for Him.
– Mr Negron, and other Trump supporters in the now majority-Latino city, listed other reasons that their community was drifting towards Trump, including social issues and a perception that their family values now align more with the Republican Party. (Including Religious Reasons).
> Democrats have tortured Religion and look to be praising ($$$) everything but God!
– The most common factor, however, was the economy – specifically, inflation.
“Out here, you pay $5 for a dozen eggs. It used to be $1, or even 99 cents,” Mr Negron added. “A lot of us have woken up, in my opinion, from Democratic lies that things have been better. We realised things were better then.” (Republicans More Honest).
> They are equally as sick as Republicans, watching the Democrats shut down, and then cry for $$ for Illegals over Hispanics and Americans. Hispanics are NOT stupid, as much as Democrats play them for. They are very strong Family oriented People, who want Truth and Real Prosperity, and not lies and false promises…
Reality check
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/11/24/majorities-of-latinos-disapprove-of-trump-and-his-policies-on-immigration-economy/
65% of Latinos disapprove of Trump on immigration, 48% strongly.
Trump’s polcies GIVES TO THE RICH by SQUAASHING THE POOR. Health care., Inflation. TAX POLICIES, Turning US armieies.pilots into PIRATES pedling Trump watches, Trump gold card, while Family members are getting FILTY RICHER and RICHER, the working poor are getting poorer and poorer. If your Filty Rich He’s a great president and he’ll keep creating policies to make you even richer beyond your imagination Musk and his $$$Triliion Dollar NOW WHO and HOW MANY WILL BE THE NEXT Trillion AIR
The Democrats take from the middle class to give to the poor, lazy and irresponsible.
“Maribel Donato, 60 years old, and a registered Republican, said she voted for Trump last year, but now is “not so happy” with him because the cost of living hasn’t gone down and his immigration crackdown has ensnared people without criminal records.”
Household income going up +3.5% while annual inflation is below 3%.
So give it time, plus Trump’s policies like battling avian flu for egg industry and allowing for more oil drilling on public lands are helping and will show up more as beneficial in a year or two.
Nice to see that the Biden strategy of denying reality with aggregate and inaccurate numbers is still in favour.
Drilling on public lands so the Trump family can obtain another bribe, destroying our beautiful country in the process. I didn’t think there were many of you diehard Trumpers left. And, you probably believe the two survivors of the bombed boat could dogpaddle their way to the U.S.
You tell em tiger! Once the people understand their suffering is imaginary, it’s MAGA to the moon!
Here in Portugal, it can now take YEARS to get a EU Passport and remain here full time. YEARS!
I wrote this letter to Rep Salazar just now, 0533 Portugal Time:
“I am reaching out, as a Non-Cuban Person, who KNOWS CUBANO’s from my Childhood – – growing up in Illinois. Short story: I came to know Cuban immigrants because my Father helped a brand new Immigrant, with a whole family (son, Daughter, Wife) and I went to school with his daughter (who refused to even LOOK at me, much less allow me into her world – – ha).
My Dad installed a free A/C unit in Felix’s New Cuban Restaurant. In exchange for my father’s Gift, Felix gave us free Dinners for life Friday’s after he closed (we would arrive at 9:30 and his daughter would sing and play guitar for us.
(I fell totally in love with her).
What I remember most, other than his Daughter, Wife and Son, is HOW HARD THEY WORKED to make a living.
HOW THEY CONTRIBUTED to American Society. It enriched me personally. I have always loved Cubans in particular since that time, 1966.
I fully support legal immigration and Pres Trump needs to understand that the Cubans and other Latin peoples come here for a new and/or Better life and that they work hard. YOU MATTER TO US! Thanks for speaking up!”
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For those of you who are white and do not know Latin people at all, work to get to know other cultures. We live part time here in Portugal, and spend other winters in Mexico and South America. WITHOUT EXCEPTION, we have been treated with respect, kindness and friendliness.
awesome take on hard working immigrants. i’ve lived around immigrants from haiti and africa, russians, muslims, greeks and italians, chinese.mexicans……….in 4 cities in all regions of usa over the past 65 years. it’s been so wonderful. not sure what all these yidiots are afraid of. seems like a horrible way to grow through life. brooklyn and queens is a walk around the globe on a 3 mile stroll per day for many years. it’s amazing that australia and canada has TWICE THE PERCENTAGE OF NON NATIVE BORNS THAN USA HAS. not sure the hate in amerika, but i have my suspicions. it’s mostly just fear. trump stokes the fear of wimps.
Thank Democrat CARTER for changing South Florida culture from Floridians to Cubans
Miami Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar rips Trump.
Hispanics make up the majority of Miami-Dade County, with approximately 69% of the population being Hispanic or Latino.
I have it on good word that North Port FL is now the destination place for Russians in the USA
North Port, Florida, is home to a significant Russian and broader Eastern European community, including Ukrainians and Belarusians, many of whom have settled around Warm Mineral Springs. This community actively connects through a large Facebook group with 12,000 members and supports local Russian and Ukrainian restaurants and churches.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2140118879568872
– The political leanings of people in and around Warm Mineral Springs are relatively more Republican voters. Warm Mineral Springs leans more republican.
so scary. i need a hug.
“…and they expressed anxiety over the affordability of everything from housing to groceries.”
There was a rush of people leaving blue states. My Cuban ex neighbor went to Florida, due to what Democrats are doing to California. Martin Armstrong left New Jersey for Tampa. A Youtuber, Ramin Realtalk has been doing videos about various harms the CA government has been inflicting lately. He mentioned recently that 1.2 million Californians have left.
Democrats flooded the U.S. with illegal aliens for their political benefit and detriment to American citizens. What has been the result of the mass migrant situation in Europe? It has not been without negative consequences.
In Europe there is no positive consequence. On the balance it’s very negative. Few positive examples against too many negative ones. The majority of imported migrants are jobless, have no skills, and are incapable of normal social life in the countries they’re in. So the governments pay them to just be there and have tons of government-subsidized kids who now want to speak their mother tongues and never integrate. Unless those politicians have some sort of secret advanced plan that I’m not aware of, their stupidity is so enormous that normally they wouldn’t classify as humans.
We’re witnessing history: the death of historic European nations, and the admission that half the Americans want the US to be a non-nation, merely an economic zone.
pro tip. the immigration and warring in europe is as old as dirt. get a history book or watch some documentaries or visit a museum. the history of human primates, is migration and moving about on our planet.
migration and moving about only occurs where there are no political borders. Otherwise it’s “immigration”, “emigration” and rules apply at each border. If you want to embrace the tradition of migrating and moving about then get rid of the borders and the concurrent political jurisdiction.
Do we care about facts here or are we all allowed to spout so called “news”? The fear of brown skin immigration on this blog is surprising. Undocumented immigrants do not vote. Come on. Does anyone really think that an undocumented immigrant is going to risk being deported by voting??! Democrats are empathetic to the plight of many of these immigrants, not because they vote, but because they are in danger and seeking a better life.
If one voted for the convicted felon to return to the White House, they cannot be concerned about criminality.
OMG that’s baloney. Does anyone really think that [previously] an illegal immigrant worried about deportation? If anything, the illegals can break laws with impunity. The guy who robs a bank is just seeking a better life too. “Brown skin immigration”..break out the race card.
You are right! Democrats have been pounding the table for comprehensive immigration reform for two decades or longer because they want to fix the illegal immigration issue by fixing the legal immigration system. Immigration is the United States’ secret sauce both culturally and economically. Both parties should celebrate that people want to immigrate here to work for a better life for themselves and their children.
Call me crazy but maybe you shouldn’t be forming your opinions based on YouTube videos.
PS.
When I came to the US in ’97, not only did I not receive benefits of any kind, but on the contrary I had to pay +50% for my tuition in Indiana (out of State tuition), while living in Indiana, on a student visa. It didn’t bother me, as a matter of fact I thought it was only fair to those who lived in the area all their lives.
Fast forward 20 years, and my editor’s daughter (from Greece), was asked by Yale Medical to accept a full scholarship (she didn’t apply herself!!!), and while studying at Yale, her parents were given full expenses by Yale (airplane tickets and hotel) to visit her. Yale sent him a letter afterwards that they could also pay for their reasonable out-of-pocket expenses while they were here visiting her.
She was not the only case, according to her there were many students from other countries, and not all of them were “A” students. Herself was an “A-” in Greece, and a talented amateur athlete. She didn’t do any athletic stuff at Yale, and after graduation she returned to Greece.
To be an American and receive such honors (especially if you’re a white male) you must be on the Nobel price list by the age of 10.
I have an idea: let’s all declare ourselves foreigners. It’s not without precedence: The minute I declared myself after my after marriage “not a husband, but a lover”, women were all over me. Nobody likes the loyal ones, nobody likes husbands.
I too came to America, from a socialist European country in 1985. I was not eligible for any benefits at all, I was told by the immigration officer in NJ, not even unemployment if my employer fired me, until I had contributed enough to qualify. To be honest I was shocked and worried that my employer had told be that NJ was an “employment at will” state and I could be fired for any reason or even no reason at all. After a while I reasoned that while there were no benefits, jobs were plentiful and that was a benefit in itself. I believe that immigrants should not be eligible for any benefits from state or federal authorities. I look back at Europe and see the devastation that immigration has cause, especially in wealthy socialist countries like Sweden, Germany, and the UK Denmark where hoards of young single men get luxurious benefits, stay in hotel, are given 2000 euros a month etc etc. They then hang around in gang terrorising the local people and raping their female children. Shocking.
We are in a Southern EU country, Portugal, and there are many Indian People here, working really hard, and some of them own local Restaurant and they are REALLY fine people. They treat us like Family.
portugal is my favorite country in EU. Cadiz in espana, too. i love all the african citizens there and the wonderful food and castles and beaches………i’m a dual citizen, EU and USA. italia is my heritage link to the passport.
I didn’t even search for benefits when I came here.
<< NJ was an “employment at will” state and I could be fired for any reason or even no reason at all>>
I was always free-lance, so that was always the normal world for me.
And I am known as a workaholic. What goes on in Europe nowadays is highly demoralizing for the population, when ordinary local workers get half the total cash and benefits than the locust they imported.
In my opinion, Europe is in a death spiral.
My son is a white American kid. He was valedictorian at his high school. He got a full-ride scholarship to the University of Central Florida where he majored in Bio-Medical Sciences. He ended up being number one in his graduating class. From there, he got a 50% scholarship to Med School at Florida International University in Miami. He graduated near the top of his class and is finishing up his residency in a Harvard program in Boston. No need to declare yourself a foreigner. Just raise your kids right.
That Kaiser map refers to the premium paid out-of-pocket, the result of losing the tax credits (aka subsidies) that were previously applied to the actual premium price that the insurer collects. That map applies only to ACA plans, so I don’t know why you keep bringing up Medicare. The actual unsubsidized premium price has not increased over 100%, as you were claiming in previous articles. In fact, the average unsubsidized premium increase is 26%, according to KFF.
You tell em tiger! After you explain the doubled price is not really doubled, I’m sure MAGA will suddenly be popular again!
Actual prices capture true inflation rates. Subsidized prices result in runaway price inflation. We should not be subsidizing anything, and I do mean anything. Prices will adjust to what the consumer will pay, no matter the good or service. Subsidies just enrich corrupt operators. Period.
I can feel Trump’s approval rating rising each time you explain this!
Here in California we had Governor Pete Wilson and Prop 187 in 1994, a bill that denied education and any government resources to the undocumented. It was not as racist, vitriolic, and inhumane as what the Trump administration is doing currently.
The long term consequences was the significant weakening of the Republican Party in California.
I can guarantee you that within 10 years every state in the union with a 20% or greater Hispanic and combined brown skinned immigrant population will have substantially weakened and minority Republican parties. This includes Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Nevada. Additionally, there are 11 more states with over 10% or greater affected populations whom will be highly motivated to vote against Republicans. These that are not already Democratic majority states will almost all be in play or Republican minority states in 10 years. I predict no less than 10 and as many as 12 states including all of the most populous red states.
Full disclosure: I am a registered independent ex Democrat turned off by their policies in California.
I am a democrat I am liberal I am republican the superbowl people continue to regurgitate slogans, how bout the religious beliefs on this administration that spect a 2 keys in the mail and their Jesus to divide the tacos to everyone ,what a mess we got here Ollie……
Yup. The republican party’s base is dwindling due to boomers passing on. Policies that do not help their base. Etc.
hence the extreme jerry meandering( operation red map)/ relying more on the far rt/ they have lots of money to sway the voters. I really hope republicans remember all the politicians who did not stand up to trump and vote them out.
<<<every state in the union with a 20% or greater Hispanic and combined brown skinned immigrant population>>>
What makes you think they’ll vote Democrat? The whitest States (Vermont and surrounding) vote Democrat, It looks that the browns and blacks in the South vote Republicans.
You know, about 12 years ago on Facebook I told someone, casually in the context of a light-hearted conversation, that Muslims are very conservative socially. And he “laughed on my face”. He’s an American college graduate (aka Disneyland), who probably thought that Muslims are like Hare Krishnas. I grew up in a country that had Islamic-type laws up (leftovers from the Ottomans) until the 1980s, my mother couldn’t travel without my father’s consent (in an EEC country), and Jimmy from Pleasantville thought that the hijab in Islamic countries is an optional fashion statement. If I meet him again, I’ll buy him a one-week vacation to Dearborn, MI.
a kid in dearborn can move anywhere in usa very easily and get away if they are not happy. whether muslim or christian or jew or non believer. i lived in the most muslim hood in nyc for about 6 years. wonderful place. the butcher shops open at midnight. men on the street keeping the place safe all night long. wonderful food and music and sites to behold. never had a problem. just wonderful.
After prior big immigration waves, the country restricted immigration, allowing recent immigrants to assimilate.
One of the first things I noticed in the US when I came, was that the Greeks in Texas and California were “completely Americanized, as if watching an old American TV show”, Greeks in the Chicago area “quite Americanized”, Greeks in New York “not at all”. Astoria NY had the overall culture of Greece (albeit a bit backwards than the motherland). And in NW Indiana I found a group of about 400 Greeks who came all together in the 60s and 70s and hardly spoke English.
If you want people to assimilate, you never import them in such numbers that they will create their own communities. By the year 2000, I was already calling the US “a mosaic, not a melting pot”. And when an American was talking to me about Workers’ Unions, I told him “more than half don’t even speak the same language, and surely they have different ideas about hierarchies“.
It’s too late for the recent ones to assimilate now, and the most recent proof is the Minnesota Somalis, who maintained even their African clan feuds (!!!!!) inside the United States. If you haven’t seen Omar’s speech to her clan, in Somali language, to “we must get rid of them” (she meant the other clan), you’re missing.
Someday you will also discover what’s the behind the slow turn of the Silicon Valley’s culture from useful products to scams, curtesy of H1-B mass migration from countries where scamming is a way of life.
hog wash. i grew up near astoria. within a few generations those young folks mate and reproduce with non greeks. walking around queens and brooklyn for miles and miles every day is a wonderful experience. who gives a hooey what culture and language people have. it’s a delicious experience with an open mind and the basic fact that this is really just rich world problems to give a hooey. the people that obsess, on this must have no real problems in life.
<< it’s a delicious experience with an open mind>>
If you treat it like a tourist (“oh honey, look at the colorful festival”).
But if those were not Greeks but Afghanis, and not assimilating because they are too many, you wouldn’t be enjoying the honor killings.
Assimilation is a very stressful experience. People prefer to stay in their groups and cultures, if they have the option.
well i don’t know about the 60s and 70s, but having lived in Astoria in the late 90s and early 2000s, the greeks are assimilated, pretty wealthy overall.
nowadays Astoria maintains a big greek presence, with lots of restaurants but the neighborhood is more diverse with lots of Arabs, brazilians and even Japanese. many of the greeks have made their money and departed for more suburban areas od NY (Whitestone or bayside) or to the burbs proper. Many have homes back in greece too .
greeks assimilating ins not the same as Somiali. different culture, religion etc..
it’s difficult to not have pockets of the same immigrants, and there’s no real way to prevent it because we have freedom of travel in the US.
Muslims and to a lesser extent Indians do not integrate. The create their own communities and crowd out the native population. This free immigration situation is suicide for European culture.
That’s way too generalized. One of my best friends, back when I ran a high tech company in the Silicon valley, was an Indian guy from Mumbai (who grew up shoe-less there). He came to America, assimilated and made MANY non-Indian friends, including my Wife and I who enjoyed home-cooked Indian Food at his house during holidays. REALLY nice people.
bingo. you win.
It kind of depends on the kind of Muslims. Bosnian Muslims are highly westernized. Arabs on the other hand, are supremacists, organize in groups and never assimilate.
And for Somalis, Islam is unrelated to what they do. It’s the Somali culture and attitude that causes the problems. Tim Walz et at have no idea about other cultures, because they went to college. College is a place where HIV is “just another organism”.
Sounds like another “Americans last” RepubliCON.
It’s not the first time the immigration department imposes prohibitions, blocks or limits. They used to have “quotas” per country forever.
And what is “American” or “un-American”? Who can seriously define that?
The lawyers call it the “United States of America argument“: a bombastic statement that is trying to win the argument by being loud, not by being correct.
Make it as it used to be for centuries: ZERO welfare and benefits to immigrants, and annual quotas per nation. This way you are much more likely to bring in people who are coming to work.
New Zealand has a skills based immigration system and welcoming tourist policy.
When I was leaving Florida I took a good look at moving there, but as a US citizen could not buy waterfront property. That was a shocker!
The skills based immigration policy is quite effective for solving shortages of specific types of workers and the preference is always for younger healthy people. For older successful migrants there is a “buy your way in” program that considers net worth and if I recall correctly a million dollar bond that is returned once you have brought X number of dollars into the country.
NZ is quite a beautiful country if you are looking for a great trip!
wonderful place on planet. i love auckland and also melbourne and the surf town outside of perth. so many great spots on planet as there are in norte amerika. CDMX is my favorite ciudad in our continent here in trumplandia.
agree about “american”. it’s meaningless and silly term. what America is is constantly evolving. people tend to pick a time that they agree with and call that the real America. it’s stupid.