^You need to stop acting as if black peoples' blackness is inherently the thing that should matter most to them and should drive all their voting decisions. This is like when people acted like any gay person who voted for the GOP was a traitor. People aren't just their skin colour, they may have other reasons that, for them, are more important than Trump being racist, or racist things he said 20 years ago. We might disagree with them but don't rob them of their ability to decide what they care about based on their race.
Not to mention I'd bet that the vast majority of the voting populace never heard about those quotes.
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
The best way to reduce "illegal" immigrants is to legitimize them. That's probably not the answer the Trump base wants to hear though.
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This doesn't seem like a very good idea generally though. Doesn't that create the incentive to try to get across the border illegally, if the response to doing so is, "Congratulations! You made it through the gauntlet. Welcome to America, citizen!"
This was precisely the problem in the early part of the Syrian Refugee crisis with Greece - if you stayed in your country and applied through the normal process, it'd take forever and there was a good chance you'd never get through it. But if you made it onto the shore, you were granted sanctuary. People were basically trying to get across water using any method they could, and a large proportion of them were dying. That just seems like a cruel policy.