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Re: The Wall and immigration

By: tkc in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Mon, 18 Jan 16 9:31 AM | 66 view(s)
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Hi Clo, of course the "wall" is BS but as a metaphor for boarder security it is real. It is an effective vote getting ploy. The point is the GoP doesn't want boarder security and the Dems need to take that phoney baloney issue away from them. I agree the "I 9" is not a significant detriment to crooks that hire illegals w/o sufficient enforcement, which would be cost prohibitive. There is a similarity to the gun control issue. Dems have become too nice (Obama is the "poster child"), politics ain't bean bag and the GoP uses nukes like swift boating, whitewater and Willie Horton. I remember when Dems were tough and fought. Today they believe being intellectually correct on issues is enough. It's not; too many American voters are not smart,are uninformed or easily misinformed. A perfect example is the misconception that the GoP is better at managing the country's finances, that the U.S. economy performs better under their leadership. Of course the opposite is true but the dems allow that misconception to stand largely unrefruted. Do you remember how the Senate minority fillibustered anything and everything during Obama's 1st term when the Dems controlled the House? Then when they controlled the House they did nothing but vote to repeal Obamacare. I know I'm a bit hyperbolic. Decades ago that is the way the Dems worked. Not now, now they play fair. The Dems need a Rayburn or Johnson to lead, conspire and fight.


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Re: The Wall and immigration
By: clo
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Mon, 18 Jan 16 3:11 AM
Msg. 17935 of 54959

'the wall' is BS, you can never build a wall high enough or long enough to keep people out who have nothing to lose, when there are employers willing to pay them.

What CAN be done, enact a law that has teeth.
If an employer hires an illegal immigrant, the employer is first given a hefty fine & the second offense in a short period of time would give him a year in jail.
Or something like that.


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