| > principles like limited government, federalism, property rights, free markets, and individual liberty. A laundry-list of principles the current federal Republican regime has been destroying or violating the last two years, and surely each one far more important than (non-)immigration. It started by abusing the responsibility of "immigration" to violate the First Amendment, punishing people purely for op-eds and opinions the President didn't like. [0] Then he unilaterally declared an "invasion" by a Venezuelan street gang, using that as an excuse to round up dozens of people (without charges, let alone evidence) based on a crazy "any tattoo I can't recognize" rubric (for a gang that doesn't even use tattoos) and violating court orders to deliberately ship them into a third-world dictator's brutal gulag. [1] That was, what, just the first month? We've had dozens of other things that ought to have been scandals worse than Watergate since then. > Hamilton would have hated Mamdani. Hamilton would have embraced Mamdani as a brother, if the alternative was Trump having any position of public trust. Discussing immigration, it seems a little strange to target the mayor of a particular single city, instead of the enormous cartload of impeachable offenses being committed by the highest office of the land that actually does immigration stuff. [0] https://www.aclu.org/cases/khalil-v-trump [1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pro-soccer-player-sent-... |
No. Hamilton was very worried about immigrants bringing foreign social and political views to the U.S. Jefferson, meanwhile, though the immigrants would support the Democratic Party, and favored those radical ideas. It's the same debate we have today: https://www.iwp.edu/articles/2016/12/21/hamiltons-actual-vie.... Hamilton was the MAGA of his day.