Sunday, August 18, 2024

MAGA's Immigrant Enforcer

Colombian-born Bernie Moreno came to the U.S. at the age of 5. Now the Ohio GOP Senate nominee wants legal immigrants like himself to learn English and block them from government benefits for their first 10 years in the U.S.

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... "We're not going to give you the citizenship test in any other language, but English," Moreno told Axios in an exclusive interview last week.

- - - Immigration was central to Moreno's pitch to voters at nearly every campaign stop the GOP candidate made as Axios shadowed him for two days of a week-long bus tour.

- - - "They learn the language, like I did. They assimilate, like I did. They understand the culture, like I did," he told supporters at a local coffee shop in Wilmington, about 50 miles northwest of Cincinnati.

- - - "And when they're ready, they raise their hand and swear allegiance to United States of America, like I did when I was 18 years old." ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 06:59 PM

@#1 ... They assimilate, like I did. ...

That is, they become a Republican?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 07:00 PM

Mr. Wage Theft himself.

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#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-08-18 07:04 PM

... block them from government benefits for their first 10 years in the U.S. ...

Stated differently, make them work the farms for the first ten years they are in the US.


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 07:11 PM

He's the Clarance Thomas of Immigrants.

#5 | Posted by YAV at 2024-08-18 09:57 PM

Some immigrants are already fluent in English. Actually, in their native language AND English. Do they have to do their 10 years of penance at starvation wages, too, including the wife and children?

#6 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-08-19 05:59 AM

I live in an immigrant-heavy area. Some folksspeak English, some a bit, some not at all. My Spanish is heavy on nouns, weak with verbs. We work it out. Keep the goddamn Republicans and their xenophobic immigrant bashing where it belongs: up Trump's --------.

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-08-19 06:29 AM

DOC

I also live in an area where English isn't their first language, and I get along fine with my spattering of Spanish and French. What I don't know I use pantomime, and we all end up laughing. Mostly me at myself. The important thing is the respect we show each other and treat each other as equal members of the human race.

#8 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-08-19 11:53 AM

"penance at starvation wages"

Melodramatic much? Most legal migrants are hardworking and resourceful.

#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-08-19 01:43 PM

Most legal migrants are hardworking and resourceful.

#9 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

Duh.

Because they have to hardworking to keep their minimum wage job (if they get fired good luck getting another) and they obviously have to be very resourceful to survive on starvation wages.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-08-19 02:01 PM

Most legal migrants are hardworking and resourceful.

#9 | Posted by sentinel

That's why Republicans hate them.

#11 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-08-19 03:40 PM

Republicans fear immigrants. They think they're going to turn into future Democrats.

#12 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-08-19 04:35 PM

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