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Meanwhile, Down on the Border
March 7, 2019 at 6:23 pm
We actually do have a bit of a problem with mass migration out of Central America. The families that are migrating out of the Northern Triangle are truly desperate. I personally don't think that they are coming north simply as economic immigrants, hoping for a piece of the American dream. They are people who are migrating because life has become truly difficult in their homeland. So I'm not really in favor of building a wall to keep them out, since that isn't going to solve the actual problem. We need to help them solve their problems in their homelands. That's the only thing that is going to stop mass migration. Mexico surely can't afford to absorb millions of migrants. So if we can't solve the northern triangle problem, things are going to get crazy.
Here's an article about what has been happening on the border recently.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/...der-225642
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RE: Meanwhile, Down on the Border
March 7, 2019 at 7:17 pm
"We" don't have any problem at all. Welcome to america and thx for contributing to the gdp.
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RE: Meanwhile, Down on the Border
March 10, 2019 at 11:22 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2019 at 11:25 pm by fredd bear.)
I guess US domestic politics are as complex as they are because the US is so much bigger than OZ.
However, I really can't remember Oz ever having an administration as corrupt as Trump's seems to be .The Queensland state administration the late Sir Joh Bjelke Peterson was pretty bad. (We call Queensland 'the deep north' ; tropical, fundamentalist bible belt, hardcore right politics, and more con men to the acre than anywhere else in the country)
A read an American commentator who said the Trump administration is the most corrupt in the last 100 years
Presidential? I have no idea. Comments would be welcome, especially if backed with evidence..
Overall? I would have thought Huey P "Kingfisher" Long, Popularist governor of Louisiana , in the 1930's, would take the biscuit. Much bigger scale than New York's mayor James J waker (1925-32)
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RE: Meanwhile, Down on the Border
March 10, 2019 at 11:43 pm
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Our president is engaged in an influence peddling scam with people who operate south florida rub and tugs, man.....
No criminal is too petty for attention from this admin. Next thing we'll hear is that he's having private chats with people who refill ink cartridges and sell them as factory originals.
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RE: Meanwhile, Down on the Border
March 11, 2019 at 12:28 am
(March 10, 2019 at 11:43 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Our president is engaged in an influence peddling scam with people who operate south florida rub and tugs, man.....
No criminal is too petty for attention from this admin. Next thing we'll hear is that he's having private chats with people who refill ink cartridges and sell them as factory originals.
As long as he has the SS, we'll not have the pleasure of knowing that he could sip on a bootleg bottle of "Mexican" water that wasn't actually "sealed" and resulted in a bad case of "Montezuma's Revenge". :lol:
This administration would make great fodder for some sick-ass comedy show. Oh, wait.
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RE: Meanwhile, Down on the Border
March 11, 2019 at 12:30 am
Fuckin Commander VD, lol.
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RE: Meanwhile, Down on the Border
March 11, 2019 at 12:44 pm
The Atlantic has done an excellent write up of immigration issues. This isn't an opinion piece. It's just excellent long form journalism.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...ch/583252/
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