Especially when she's giving speeches on inequality while wearing $12,495 Armani jackets.
And that's where you're completely wrong. Nobody, and I mean nobody, on the far left considers Clinton a progressive.
The Democratic party hero worship in this thread is akin to the sort of enthusiasm I see from Disney fanatics.
But I'm preaching to the wrong crowd here. Clinton with her $12,000 jackets is really the savior when it comes to income inequality. Let's let the same Capitalistic mess that's caused all this try and fix everything for us.
California sees surge in Chinese illegally crossing border from Mexico
The number of Chinese immigrants illegally crossing the Mexican border into California has skyrocketed in recent years, the result of a lucrative smuggling industry, mass migration from China and a diversifying pool of migrants settling in the United States.
Between October and May, the first eight months of the fiscal year, Border Patrol agents in the San Diego sector apprehended an estimated 663 Chinese nationals, compared with 48 in the entire previous fiscal year and eight in the year before that, according to data provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Before then, “we just weren’t getting [Chinese nationals],” said Wendi Lee, a spokeswoman for the Border Patrol.
Lee said criminal organizations involved in smuggling maximize their profits by transporting Chinese immigrants, often charging premiums to get them across the border.
“We’re talking anywhere from $50,000 to $70,000 per person,” Lee said. “The farther you travel ... the more arrangements these criminal organizations have to make, the more expensive it will get.”
China has become one of the world’s leading sources of immigrants, according to a February report by the Migration Policy Institute.
“High-skilled and high-value emigration from China is rising fast, while low-skilled and unskilled emigration is stagnant — a divergence that has been widening since the late 2000s. The emigration rate of China’s highly educated population is now five times as high as the country’s overall rate," the report said. "China’s wealthy elites and growing middle class are increasingly pursuing educational and work opportunities overseas for themselves and their families, facilitated by their rising incomes."
Many of the foreign students now enrolled in U.S. universities hail from China, a result of their country’s emerging economy and growing middle class.
The Chinese account for the fifth-largest population of immigrants in the U.S. illegally, according to an October report by the Migration Policy Institute. An estimated 285,000 resided in the country in 2013.
Non-Mexican immigrants apprehended by the Border Patrol generally are turned over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations, which is responsible for determining whether they will be detained or released while their cases are reviewed by an immigration court, according to ICE.
“ICE makes custody determinations on a case-by-case basis, taking into account all aspects of the person’s circumstances, including whether the individual represents a threat to public safety or is a possible flight risk,” the agency said.
Some request political asylum. Others ask to return to their home countries.
Xiao Wang, a lecturer of Chinese studies at UC San Diego, said economic opportunity is a common factor in Chinese immigration. Small-business owners travel to sell products — perfumes, electronics and cosmetics — in the United States.
“It’s people who are trying to make money,” Wang said. “I think this is happening more and more."
But Muzaffar Chishti, director of the Migration Policy Institute's office at New York University's School of Law, said it’s important to understand the bigger picture.
“It’s tempting to say that this is a dramatic rise. In the scheme of things, it’s not a dramatic rise,” he said. “[China] is the world’s largest country.” In that sense, he said, the recent increase in border crossings represents "a drop in the bucket."
Some people who cross the border illegally become victims of human trafficking, Lee said.
Last month, authorities discovered 12 such immigrants in the attic of a home in San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood. They were being held without food, with very little water and with no access to a restroom, Lee said. Five of them were Chinese.
Two suspected smugglers were taken into custody, along with all of the immigrants.
tatiana.sanchez@sduniontribune.com
Sanchez writes for the San Diego-Union Tribune.
Well you sold me.The fact that Hillary is pandering to the open border crowd should be enough for any reasonable person to consider not voting for her. Any person that does not put the security of the country first is not fit to be president.
The people that are smuggled are often exploited and treated worse than slaves.
The fact that Hillary is pandering to the open border crowd should be enough for any reasonable person to consider not voting for her. Any person that does not put the security of the country first is not fit to be president.
and, really, the members of "the far left" are the best judges of these sort of things.
Indeed they are. Because actual progressives believe in actual progressive politics. Clinton deciding that she's a progressive suddenly near the end of 2015 doesn't make her one. Her disappointing track record says otherwise.
Sanders may have tried to co-opt a party he never belonged to, but Clinton has tried to co-opt a part of the political sphere she has never belonged to...at least Bernie can fit in the all encompassing banner of "Democrat" under our two-party system. Clinton's attempts to be a liberal are exceedingly hollow.
Start with Trump. He has shown that religion doesn't really take center stage anymore. He beat guys like Cruz, who's as fucking wacko as they come on this subject, and others like Ass Juice and Rubio. So the hope is that future candidates can go more towards the middle, not pander to a dying voter base. Not saying we'll have atheists taking center stage (I wish ), but more focus on policy, and less on a constant reinforcement of belief.
Yes, you've mentioned this quite regularly. What I'm interested in is the difference between the campaign he 'promised' and the one he dished up.
* I should point out that I didn't bother changing my registration and voting for Bernie as I waited until the New York primary results to make that decision as I felt that was the tipping point. Once Bernie lost that one (even a small victory there would have been insignificant), there was no point in changing the registration. Had I been voting in an earlier state, I would have changed my registration and been one of the millions of new Democrats that are now in the party because of Bernie.
For what it's worth, changing your registration is actually insignificant in California because we have a jungle primary. In other words, the only thing you get to vote on within your own party is who will be the Presidential nominee. Everything else is an open system where the top two candidates move on to the general election. We have two Democrats now running for Senate in the fall and no Republican on the ballot. Should be interesting.
I have been thinking about him because of Sanders, he had bad timing and Bernie had good timing. I wonder if they had switched running times if Kucinich would have beat Hillary. Bernie had more baggage (age, socialist) to over come than a Kucinich or Dean. Hillary is a truly weak and flawed candidate, thank god she has the woman card to play and a wild card like Trump to go against.Kucinich, for example, would have been more than good enough. But he wasn't viable in the primaries.
Again, just not true. A ton of Bernie supporters were those that wanted nothing to do with the Democratic party in general, hate corporatism, and would usually vote in the general for someone like Jill Stein, if at all.
Bernie's not the problem, it's Clinton's continual insistence on making bad decisions for decades. I'm not sure why you think anybody on the far left needs to suck it up and vote for Clinton. Socialism and Capitalism are nowhere near the same thing, my friend.
Especially when she's giving speeches on inequality while wearing $12,495 Armani jackets.
Being a fellow Californian in a heavy GOP dominant area (Newport Beach) all my elected officials are GOP. I wonder if Loretta Sanchez can beat Kamala Harris for Boxer's Senate seat. I think GOP would slightly prefer her over Harris.
Did you see that Sady Doyle has moved on to writing fan fiction about Clinton?
and, really, the members of "the far left" are the best judges of these sort of things.
Clinton's illegal immigration policies are atrocious, but for me it's the whole sending back kids from Central America trying to come here so they don't get murdered that gets to me. She doesn't mind propping up dictators or sending children back to their likely deaths, but hey, Manifest Destiny.
Oh my lord, can you stop already? You act like you've it all figured out.
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First what do you consider the differences between being left and far left?
Second since there are several types of socialism as far as I understand it...
I can see the benefits of the Nordic Style of Democratic Socialism. I don'tt like other types as far as I've encountered them (newspapers, a rare verbal discussion).
I'm proud to say I'm aliberal, progressive Democrat even if, at times they've made me wince pretty badly. In the tradition of FDR & Eleanor, Paul Wellstone, Edward Kennedy...
I also vote on the Working Families party line in Local & State elections, a more progressive party since it was formed here in NYS.
I was middle, middle class into my early 40's when difficulties sent me down unto being poor, not destitute, but poor.
I don't have problems with rich people who genuinely earn their money through their various kind of efforts that don't trample on other people in general, and especially on the lower rungs if the economic & social ladders. Especially also in the lower end of the multimillion $ ladder
Where I have problems are with uncaring, unenpathetic, cruel rich people (particularly higher end multimillionaires, billies & trillies) who don't pay their fair share and a bit more because no one makes it totally on their own. They make use of local, state, and federal structures and infrastructures, to pay their part in that .
And cruelty bothers me a lot. To let people go hungry, have bad or no medical care, live in horrible housing, to eat poorly grown food in the USA is indefensible!
And I'd like to see some basic decent housing, health care & food (and water) for everyone around the world.