(10-12-2017, 07:05 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(10-12-2017, 03:01 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote: I can’t know because you won’t explain how it will be used that way. A merit system will presumably sax X number of people will be allowed from X country. Insert the education, work experience, talent, etc standard then I don’t know how anyone can change that to be racist or why you think republicans will use it that why. 

Maybe you can explain because you haven’t yet

A merit system will presumably sax X number of people will be allowed from X country
A merit system will presumably sax X number of people will be allowed from X country
A merit system will presumably sax X number of people will be allowed from X country

You said it yourself. If the merit system is based on country rather than, you know, merit, or artificial rules are affixed that place one group at an advantage over the other, then a merit system can indeed be made to exclude people of certain nationalities and, wait for it, races.

Unless you want to convince me that the Englishman with a high school education who wants to "see the world" is of greater merit than the Mexican carpenter who's uneducated but extremely skilled in a trade that the US is rapidly running out of skilled tradesmen for.