Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Monday, December 29, 2025
Trump And Miller Are Lying About Immigrants To Spread Hate
This is part of a post by Robert Reich on the hate being spread by Donald Trump and Stephan Miller:
Trump’s chief bigot, Stephen Miller, said on Fox News this month that immigrants to the United States bring problems that extend through generations.
“With a lot of these immigrant groups, not only is the first generation unsuccessful,” Miller claimed. “You see persistent issues in every subsequent generation. So you see consistent high rates of welfare use, consistent high rates of criminal activity, consistent failures to assimilate.”
In fact, the data show just the opposite. The children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of most immigrants are models of upward mobility in America.
In a new paper, Princeton’s Leah Boustan, Stanford’s Ran Abramitzky, Elisa Jácome of Princeton, and Santiago Pérez of UC Davis used millions of father-son pairs spanning more than a century of U.S. history to show that immigrants today are no slower to move into the middle class than immigrants were a century ago.
In fact, no matter when their parents came to the U.S. or what country they came from, children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than their U.S.-born peers. . . .
Trump is also threatening to strip U.S. citizenship from naturalized migrants “who undermine domestic tranquillity.” He plans to deport foreigners deemed to be “non-compatible with Western Civilization” and aims to detain even more migrants in jail or in warehouses — in the U.S. or in other countries — without due process.
In addition to the unconstitutionality of such actions, they stir up the worst nativist and racist impulses in America — blaming and scapegoating entire groups of people.
As they make their case to crack down on illegal and legal immigration, Miller and Trump have targeted Minnesota’s Somali community — seizing on an investigationinto fraud that took place in pockets of the Somali diaspora in the state to denounce the entire community, which Trump has called “garbage.”
Let’s be clear. Apart from Native Americans, we are all immigrants — all descended from “foreigners.” Some of our ancestors came here eagerly; some came because they were no longer safe in their homelands; some came enslaved.
Almost all of us are mongrels — of mixed nationalities, mixed ethnicities, mixed races, mixed creeds. While we maintain our own traditions, we also embrace the ideals of this nation. . . .
Miller and Trump want to fuel bigotry. Like dictators before him, Trump’s road to tyranny is paved with stones hurled at “them.” His entire project depends on hate.
America is better than Trump and his chief bigot.
We won’t buy their hate. To the contrary, we’ll call out bigots. We won’t tolerate intolerance. We’ll protect hardworking members of our community. We’ll alert them when ICE is lurking.
We will not succumb to the ravings of a venomous president who wants us to hate each other — or his bigoted sidekick.
CNN Gives Us Trump's 25 Biggest Lies Of 2025
CNN details Donald Trump's biggest lies in 2025:
Lie: Trump secured $17 trillion or $18 trillion in investment in 2025
Lie: ‘Every price is down’
Lie: Trump was reducing prescription drug prices by ‘2,000%, 3,000%’
Lie: Foreign countries pay the US government’s tariffs
Lie: Portland was ‘burning down’
Lie: Washington, DC had no murders for six months
Lie: ‘I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water’
Lie: The Democratic governor of Maryland called Trump ‘the greatest president of my lifetime’
Lie: Ukraine ‘started’ Russia’s war on Ukraine
Lie: Trump was speaking ‘in jest’ when he promised to immediately end the Ukraine war
Lie: The US government had planned to spend $50 million on ‘condoms for Hamas’
Lie: Every drug boat in the Caribbean ‘kills 25,000 Americans’
Lie: Trump ‘didn’t say’ he had no problem releasing full footage of a September boat strike
Lie: Numerous foreign leaders emptied prisons and mental institutions to send their most undesirable people into the US
Lie: Trump ended seven or eight wars
Lie: ‘The people of Canada like’ the idea of becoming the 51st US state
Lie: Capitol rioters ‘didn’t assault’
Lie: Critical media coverage of Trump is ‘illegal’
Lie: Trump didn’t pressure the Justice Department to go after his opponents
Lie: Obama, Biden and Comey made up the Epstein files
Lie: The 2020 election was ‘rigged and stolen’
Lie: The US is ‘the only country in the world’ with mail-in voting
Lie: Babies get 80-plus vaccines at once
Lie: Trump’s big domestic policy bill didn’t change Medicaid
Lie: The domestic policy bill was ‘the single most popular bill ever signed’
Sunday, December 28, 2025
How Voters See The Political Parties On The Issues
The chart above reflects the results of the Third Way / GBAO Poll -- done between November 19th and 26th of a nationwide sample of 2,000 registered voters. No MOE was given.
Saturday, December 27, 2025
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