monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

Drax is not getting it, Layman. You have to be clearer. He's not understanding that to immigrate to somewhere, you have emigrate from somewhere. People will migrate also.

An Indian immigrant is murdered. It’s part of a spike in hate crimes

The killing of 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla in a bar in Olathe, Kan., on Feb. 20 has shaken the Indian American community. And since then, still more Indian Americans have been shot.

On March 2, store owner Harnish Patel was killed in Lancaster, S.C., although ethnicity may not have been a motive. And on March 3, Deep Rai, a Sikh man, was shot and injured in front of his house in a Seattle suburb, reportedly after the attacker shouted “go back to your country.” That was unnervingly similar to what happened in Kansas, where alleged killer Adam Purinton walked up to two Indian engineers in a bar and asked whether they were in the U.S. legally. Before shooting, witnesses said, he yelled, “Get out of my country.” Later, talking with a bartender in another town, he bragged about shooting “two Iranians.”

Both the Kansas and Washington attacks are being investigated as hate crimes — which, in plain speak, means that the victims were targeted because of perceived ethnic and religious identity based on their physical appearance.

Indian Americans in particular — and South Asians in general — are a highly diverse community. Indians are Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, Buddhists and other religions; they come from very different regions and backgrounds and speak different languages. Their targeting reveals that American racism can lump together people who appear physically similar in particular ways as “suspicious,” “threatening” and “outsider” — interpreting their appearance to mean they are Muslim and Middle Eastern.

Segments of Indian Americans struggle with how to react to the targeting — whether to act in solidarity with the other targeted communities or find ways of distinguishing from them.

McGentrix wrote:

Drax is not getting it, Layman. You have to be clearer. He's not understanding that to immigrate to somewhere, you have emigrate from somewhere. People will migrate also.

You think, my work at and for the German Emigration Center and Museum wasn't selling tickets but perhaps my colleagues didn't know it either.

"That's what America is about, a land of dreams and opportunity."

"There were other immigrants who came in the bottom of slave ships, who worked even longer, even harder, for less, but they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great grandsons, great granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land,"

"And do you know of all the nations in the world, this one, the United States of America, is the only one big enough and great enough to allow all those people to realize their dream. And this is our opportunity to enhance that dream,"

Cool, didn't know that. Then you know what it is like to deal with the regulatory morass in America. Was your business manufacturing or service?

I guess my point is that I see Rush Limbaugh quoted by liberals almost 20:1 on A2K. That's all.

the fact that "liberals" quote Limbaugh i that they seem to be the only one's who can catch the unintended irony.

people like Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are primarily entertainers,

Emigrant vs Immigrant

Difference between emigrant and immigrant is considered confusing by many people mainly because the two terms are similar in appearance. However, they have very different meaning. In fact, they are antonyms. The confusion people have with the difference between emigrant and immigrant has simply to do with the perspective of a person from his geographical location. If you are an Indian citizen and moving out of the country to settle in the US, you are an emigrant for all your friends and relatives back in India. In fact, to all those who reside within Indian boundaries, you will be labeled as an emigrant. But, for those in the US, you are an immigrant. That is because you have come from another country to settle in their country. So, for US people, you are an immigrant.

On its face, Chaffetz’s argument is plainly foolish. A new iPhone costs several hundred dollars, while decent health care insurance costs several thousand dollars a year. For a congressman who enjoys a generous, taxpayer-financed salary and benefits package to suggest low-income Americans should give up their smart phones in order to buy health security is misguided.

But I think there’s also an assumption among many on the right that struggling Americans have themselves to blame, and the poor are simply making bad decisions with their available resources. Chaffetz’s on-air comments to CNN are practically a caricature of the sentiment: maybe struggling families would be able to buy their own coverage, without government aid, the argument goes, if only they didn’t bother with a smart phone.

It’s a perspective predicated on the idea that low-income families would be in better shape if they reprioritized. It’s also why GOP lawmakers routinely vote to cut food stamps and unemployment benefits.

I understand that voting decisions are often irrational, but I’ll look forward to the public reactions to news that the Republican health care plan directs resources from the bottom up, gives the wealthy a big tax break, undermines working families’ health security, and its defenders are asking the poor to take care of themselves by forgoing iPhone purchases.

"Trumpcare doesn't replace the Affordable Care Act, it forces millions of Americans to pay more for less care. This plan would cut and cap Medicaid, defund Planned Parenthood, and force Americans, particularly older Americans, to pay more out of pocket for their medical care all so insurance companies can pad their bottom line.

It cuts taxes on the rich to make middle class families pay more. To make matters worse, this sham of a replacement would rip treatment away from hundreds of thousands of Americans dealing with opioid addiction, breaking the President's word that he would expand treatment, not cut it.

My comment: What! They expected Trump to tell the truth?

This bill is a giveaway to the wealthy and insurance companies at the expense of American families, and Senate Democrats will work hard to see that it is defeated."

Washington Post employee posed as ICE agent, police say

A Washington Post employee was arrested last month and charged with impersonating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent following an FBI raid, court documents show.

Itai Ozderman, 35, is accused of impersonating an ICE officer throughout Falls Church, Va., on more than one occasion, according to Montgomery County District Court documents. Police say that he sported a bulletproof vest bearing the ICE logo...

When the FBI entered his home in Maryland bearing a search warrant, they discovered 10 weapons, including two M4-style assault rifles and a shotgun. They also found body armor and tactical vests.

Ozderman faces up to five years in prison and/or $4,500 in fines.