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And someone explain why POTUS is not held accountable for not upholding his oath office and protecting the states from invasion. All the laws necessary are there and he has chosen to disregard them. (POTUS, his staff and departments under his direct authority…he is CEO and has ultimate responsibility)

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It seems the US, much like the UK, has an elite that values the common person only as voting booth meat. We are seen as little else, and most politics is a game of ideological ping-pong between psychopaths.

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I assure you that a lot more people would die in the economic collapse that would result if you got your wish re illegals.

With 15 million of them here, or whatever the number currently is, there's going to be some murderers in the lot.

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I wonder if you'd feel the same way if one of your family members was murdered by an illegal entrant.

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How I feel, or how you feel, doesn't change the truth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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You're correct about feelings not changing the truth, but fortunately, the truth is far different from your perception of it.

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The truth is that illegals come because there's an incentive to do so. The most effective way to cut down on illegal immigration is reduce the incentive.

Part of that is reforming our stupid border enforcement policies, yes; but it won't make much difference without also reducing the economic incentive. We need more allowances for legal immigrant labor in parallel with greater penalties for and better enforcement against employing illegals.

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The height of hypocrisy.

As opposed to being Murdered,Raped, Robbed by a Full Fledged American Citizen.

Your going to seal the border?

Fentanyl, Weed, good luck with that, human trafficking, sex traffickers, yea right, his fault as well.

Nothing like this ever happened under any previous administration. Believe that too If you will.

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Matched by a lack of rational thought. Of course crimes of all sorts are committed by American citizens. consequently, you think that fact justifies inviting foreign criminals into the country. Because crime already exists we should invite more criminals to join the ones who were born here?

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Are you saying that because of an economic collapse that could or couldn't happen re illegals, that we need to accept that there will be some murderers in the mix? Because that's how I read your comment.

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What I'm saying is what I said. Are you having trouble with your reading comprehension?

We've allowed ourselves to become dependent on illegal immigrant labor, by which I mean knowingly giving jobs to illegals instead of citizens because illegals cost less to employ.

Immigration reform has to include removing more of the incentives to continue to do that.

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Mar 20Liked by Dave Emanuel

Reading comprehension is just fine. Since I'm not dependent on illegals doing shit for me. I plant and pick my own produce, raise and harvest my own protein and milk my own cows and goats. I guess people being killed by illegals really doesn't matter as long as certain people still get their toilets cleaned.

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You have no idea how thoroughly-integrated illegals are into our economy.

I do, because I see it as part of my job.

For example, most of the labor in our systems of mass-production of food - be it meat, dairy, grain, fruit, vegetable or multi-ingredient processed products - is done by illegals.

You only hear about the ways that the liberals use illegals, because the right-wing media only reports on that aspect.

Liberals are completely irresponsible about immigration, but so are most conservative employers and the politicians they support. They understand how the system works and help perpetuate it, while talking out the other side of their mouths.

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That's where you're wrong. I see it everyday, and it's just not jobs that they're taking. The biggest lie is that they'll do jobs the Americans won't it's bullshit.

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Yes, that's bullshit. Americans will do the work but Americans expect fair treatment and safe working conditions, and when you hire an American you have to deduct taxes and kick in your share as an employer.

You're not actually disagreeing with me.

Try reading what I'm actually saying, rather than whatever argument is going on in your head with whatever fictional bogeyman you've concocted. You're making yourself look like an idiot.

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