{"id":344734,"date":"2018-01-20T21:34:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T20:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-immigration-debate-race-matters\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T21:34:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T20:34:31","slug":"in-immigration-debate-race-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-immigration-debate-race-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"In Immigration Debate, Race Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Pat Buchanan, American Renaissance, 16 January 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Trump \u201csaid things which were hate-filled, vile and racist. \u2026 I cannot believe \u2026 any president has ever spoken the words that I \u2026 heard our president speak yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So wailed Sen. Dick Durbin after departing the White House.<\/p>\n<p>And what caused the minority leader to almost faint dead away?<\/p>\n<p>Trump called Haiti a \u201cs\u2014hole country,\u201d said Durbin, and then asked why we don\u2019t have more immigrants from neat places \u201clike Norway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With that, there erupted one of the great media firestorms of the Trump era. On Martin Luther King Day, it was still blazing.<\/p>\n<p>Trump concedes he may have disparaged Haiti, which, at last check, was not listed among \u201cBest Places to Live\u201d in the Western Hemisphere. Yet Trump insists he did not demean the Haitian people.<\/p>\n<p>Still, by contrasting Norway as a desirable source of immigrants, as opposed to Haiti, El Salvador and Africa, Trump tabled a question that is roiling the West, the answer to which will decide its fate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is saying with words, as he has with policies, that in taking in a million people a year, race, religion and national origin matter, if we are to preserve our national unity and national character.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, on deciding who comes, and who does not, Americans have the sovereign right to discriminate in favor of some continents, countries and cultures, and against others.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, in stating his own preferences, Trump is in a tradition as old as the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/trump-in-immigration-debate-race-matters\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Buchanan, American Renaissance, 16 January 2018 President Trump \u201csaid things which were hate-filled, vile and racist. \u2026 I cannot believe \u2026 any president has ever spoken the words that I \u2026 heard our president speak yesterday.\u201d So wailed Sen. Dick Durbin after departing the White House. And what caused the minority leader to almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}