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    Trump to Begin Large-Scale Deportations Tuesday

    The incoming Trump administration is planning a large-scale immigration raid in Chicago next week, according to four people familiar with the planning, the first move in President-elect Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation campaign.


    The raid is expected to begin on Tuesday morning, a day after Trump is inaugurated, and will last all week, the people said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will send between 100 and 200 officers to carry out the operation.


    Trump ran for president on a bold promise: to carry out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history.


    The Trump team intends to target immigrants in the country illegally with criminal backgrounds—many of whose offenses, like driving violations, made them too minor for the Biden administration to pursue. But, the people cautioned, if anyone else in the country illegally is present during an arrest, they will be taken, too.


    The transition team had been contemplating cities to target in a day-one operation as a way of making an example of so-called sanctuary cities, which adopt policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities. They settled on Chicago both because of the large number of immigrants who could be possible targets and because of the Trump team’s high-profile feud with the city’s Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson.


    Though it isn’t clear how many people the operation will actually target, Trump’s team is planning to work with several right-leaning media outlets to amplify its efforts.


    Tom Homan, the administration’s incoming border czar, appeared to preview the operation during a visit to Chicago last month.


    “We’re going to start right here in Chicago, Illinois,” Homan said at a holiday party on Chicago’s North Side. “And if the Chicago mayor doesn’t want to help, he can step aside. But if he impedes us, if he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien, I will prosecute him.”


    In response to Homan’s comments at the time, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, said “I’m going to make sure to follow the law. I’m concerned that the Trump administration and his lackeys aren’t going to follow the law.”


    The Trump transition team and ICE didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment Friday, nor did representatives for Pritzker or Johnson.


    Large immigrant centers, such as New York, Los Angeles, Denver and Miami, are also in the incoming administration’s sights, and more targeted raids could come. To help carry them out, the Trump team is weighing a broad mix of changes to give sheriffs more power, with rewards for jurisdictions that cooperate, and financial penalties against those that hold out, people involved in the planning said previously. Homan, for example, has publicly threatened to throw the mayor of Denver—who has loudly protested Trump’s immigration plans—in jail.


    The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement that local officials in 2020 banned cooperation with federal immigration authorities, who are prohibited from using county property, databases and personnel without a federal warrant. “We are here to protect the communities we serve, not to enforce immigration laws,” the department said.


    Trump’s advisers have said they intend to penalize sanctuary cities by cutting off what could amount to billions of dollars in federal grants to them.


    With Trump’s inauguration looming, rumors spread on social media in recent days of coming ICE raids. One organization, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, said it has conducted more than 140 workshops since the election informing immigrants of their rights, legal resources and how to respond if approached by ICE agents.


    “If the intent is to instill a sense of terror and persecution, that’s what the Trump administration is doing very well,” CHIRLA spokesman Jorge-Mario Cabrera said.


    With the American population aging, the U.S. economy has become increasingly dependent on immigrant labor, particularly in the food, construction and service industries


    Since the end of 2020, some 10 million people have migrated to the U.S., after subtracting those who left, including those who came both legally and illegally. The arrivals have eased labor shortages and helped propel faster economic growth.


    Economists and business leaders say deportations on the scale Trump has suggested would amount to a shock to the economy, hitting crucial industries with labor shortages.


    Many voters felt President Biden’s border policies strained towns and schools across the country. In the November election, immigration was a top concern for voters, with only the economy a bigger worry, polls showed.


    Chicago became a political flashpoint during Biden’s presidency, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott started sending busloads of migrants seeking asylum at the southern border to Chicago and other northern cities. Since August 2022, more than 51,000 migrants have arrived, according to Chicago city figures.


    Fasika Alem, program director of the United African Organization in Chicago, said her group and others have mobilized to ensure that people they work with know their rights and have plans for someone to watch their children if they become separated.


    “We are preparing our community to be ready,” she said. “That’s how we’re framing it.”


    The Chicago Police Department referred any questions about pending immigration enforcement actions to the federal government.


    CPD, in a statement, cited Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance, under which the department “does not document immigration status”—or share information with federal immigration authorities. “We will not intervene or interfere with any other government agencies performing their duties,” it added.

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    Good that they tipped them off.

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    Is Trump able to defund or block increses for inflation etc to exert pressure on so called "Sanctuary cities"

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    Is Trump able to defund or block increses for inflation etc to exert pressure on so called "Sanctuary cities"
    Since most, if not all of them are in states with a net surplus to the federal government, that might not be wise.

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    Tom Homan whines about 'troubling' leaks that could prevent mass deportations on 'day one'

    Incoming border czar Tom Homan said he was reconsidering plans to begin mass deportations in Chicago on day one of Donald Trump's second presidency.

    In a Sunday interview on Fox News, Homan revealed that he was troubled by leaked details of the proposed deportations in Chicago.


    "I find it troubling to this day that any sanctuary city, any elected official, does not want public safety threats removed from their communities," Homan said. "Let us into the jail. Cause if you let us in the jail, we can arrest a bad guy in the jail, right?"

    "Washington Post says you, as of yesterday, talking about reconsidering a raid in Chicago this coming week," host Bill Hemmer asked.


    "There was a leak in Chicago," Homan admitted. "So we're looking at that leak and find out how does it affect officer safety concerns. Chicago's not off the table, but we're reconsidering when and how we do it."


    "So would it benefit you, based on your objective there, not to talk publicly so much about your plans?" Hemmer pressed.

    "Specific plans," Homan clarified. "What was leaked in Chicago was more specific what was happening, and that raises officer safety concerns."


    "So we're looking at it. What was leaked? What's actually in there? And how is it going to affect us moving forward?"

    Tom Homan whines about 'troubling' leaks that could prevent mass deportations on 'day one' - Raw Story

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    Migration is important. Undocumented migration is dangerous.

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    Americans voted for this. The Trump agenda was more attractive than what Harris was offering.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 39TG View Post
    Americans voted for this.
    Just remember how stupid the average Trump voter is, then remember half of them are even more stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 39TG View Post
    Americans voted for this. The Trump agenda was more attractive than what Harris was offering.
    Because they're vindictive racist wankers, and very stupid.

    If the intent is to instill a sense of terror and persecution, that’s what the Trump administration is doing very well

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    TRUMP"S address to the nation and TD

    I will deport all naughty boys and right quick

    Where there is bickering let me bring bigly stick

    Where there is sodomy let me bring soap

    Bless Melania, Moderators and Michigan who let me rule

    There may be a 25% tariff on silly spelling lax syntax and gross grammar aka the synTAX

    Mexicans beings WILBY refried along with whom I have tissues/Tacos

    Gawd bless impunity, immorality and hubris!!
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    Threat of Immigration Raid Turns Chicago Hub Into Ghost Town

    The second busiest retail corridor in Chicago is typically a bustling area dotted with taquerias and Mexican grocery stores in the southwestern part of the city. By Monday afternoon it had turned into a ghost town.


    Word had gotten out over the weekend that the city could be the target of potential immigration raids after President Donald Trump took office, spreading anxiety among residents and business owners alike. Trump’s inauguration speech and boasts of cracking down on migrants only heightened the fear, while the frigid weather also kept people indoors.

    Foot traffic at the 2-mile stretch of 26th Street in the Little Village neighborhood plunged — by some measures, the decline had hit the 50%-mark, according to Jennifer Aguilar, who heads the local chamber of commerce and spoke to a number of the 400 or so businesses in the area. On Tuesday morning, a number of shops were simply closed.


    “It’s going to be disastrous,” Aguilar said in an interview on Monday. “If raids happen and people are too afraid to go out, it’s going to be an impact that’s going to last for years.”


    Trump moved quickly on Monday to fulfill campaign pledges after his inauguration speech, announcing measures to end birthright citizenship and mobilize troops to step up border enforcement. He shut down the CBP One app, used by migrants to cross the border and ask for asylum, dashing the hopes of many waiting in Mexico for appointments with US authorities.

    It all came three days after the Wall Street Journal reported Trump’s team was planning large Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Chicago starting on Tuesday — even though Border Czar Tom Homan later tried to downplay it, saying he was reviewing the plans.




    On Tuesday, he said that raids were happening throughout the US. In an interview with CNN, he added that the administration will be going after criminals first, but if they are found with other undocumented immigrants, those will also be detained.


    The third-largest US city has long been a punching bag for Trump. But Chicago has been particularly on his radar after taking in tens of thousands of migrants during Joe Biden’s presidency, many bused from Texas by Governor Greg Abbott to sanctuary cities run by Democrats.


    “We have heard that they are targeting as many as 2,000 people initially in the city of Chicago alone,” Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said at a press conference on Tuesday. “I don’t know whether they will effectuate that or how, and I want to be clear about what my position is and what the law is here: if there are violent criminals who have been convicted of violent crimes, who are undocumented, they are supposed to be deported.”


    Midwest’s Mexico


    Little Village, known as the “Mexico of the Midwest,” is located southwest of Chicago’s main business district. The area brings more tax revenue to City Hall than any other retail stretch other than the Magnificent Mile, the downtown shopping street that features luxury stores including Saks Fifth Avenue, Rolex and Burberry.


    “I was walking the business corridor three days ago on Friday, and I spoke with a street vendor who said their sales were down about 60%,” said Mike Rodriguez, an alderman for the 22nd ward, which includes Little Village. “Business was just down, people were staying home, people were worried about: one the cold, but two, they were fearful of engaging with ICE.”

    Chicago and other cities such as New York have struggled to pay for the cost of housing and feeding migrants. A one-time mass deportation operation of some 13 million people would cost at least $315 billion, the American Immigration Council estimated, warning the figure was “highly conservative.” If spread over time, that number could be much bigger. And that doesn’t include the economic impact of workers not showing up and businesses having to shut down as a result.

    “Places like Little Village, Pilsen, Chinatown, their contribution to the city is enormous,” said Rebecca Shi, chief executive officer at the American Business Immigration Coalition. “When businesses have less foot traffic, they’re going to generate less revenue. That’s less taxation for our schools, for our health system, for our public safety, police departments, everything that keeps every Chicagoan safe.”


    Worker Absenteeism


    The owner of three Mexican restaurants employing more than 70 people in the southern part of the city said two of his workers are already not showing up. The Mexican entrepreneur, who is now an American citizen, said he gave all his workers the option to stay away. He asked not to be named so as not to face retribution.


    “I’ve been here for 25 years and I’ve seen many things, but nothing like this,” he said in an interview in one of his establishments on Monday. “This is about how we are going to survive this, and I’m not just talking about my employees, I’m talking about the whole customer base.”

    Elected officials and community groups have been gathering over the past two months to educate immigrants about their rights. On Saturday, Illinois Representative Jesús ‘Chuy’ García, a Democrat, joined the Resurrection Project and Chicago Workers Collaborative to provide guidance in case of ICE raids.


    “I’m an immigrant myself, so the reality doesn’t escape me,” he said in an interview in Washington DC on Thursday. “My father was deported several times when he was here before he became a legal resident, and petitioned for us. So it’s personal.”


    Eréndira Rendón, vice president of Immigrant Justice at the Resurrection Project, reminded residents that they have the constitutional right to remain quiet, request a lawyer or decline to open the door. José Frausto, executive director of Chicago Workers Collaborative, told residents to have a family plan in place as it’s unclear what would happen to relatives and properties of people who get deported.


    Illinois Representative Delia Ramirez, a Democrat whose district covers parts of northwest Chicago, was on Monday part of a group of 150 volunteers handing out flyers explaining what rights people have in case of an ICE raid. About one in five businesses with employees in the US is owned by immigrants.


    “They are our workforce, they are our economy. We want to make sure that they know they have rights, and that they can also be protecting the rights of their workers,” she said.


    Even business owners who support Trump are bracing for the impact. Sam Sanchez, a restaurant owner in Chicago, said he generally supports the incoming president’s immigration policies. While the administration said it will focus on criminals, Sanchez expects collateral damage including arrests of longtime residents whose only offense is being in the country illegally.


    “It’s going to happen,” Sanchez said. “They are going to knock on doors and come to businesses.”

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    Hundreds of "illegal immigrant criminals" arrested, hundreds more flown out of U.S. by military, White House says

    Hundreds of "illegal immigrant criminals" in the United States were arrested Thursday and hundreds of others were flown out of the country on military aircraft as President Trump's promised mass deportation operation got underway, the White House said.


    In a post on X Thursday night, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "The Trump Administration arrested 538 illegal immigrant criminals including a suspected terrorist, four members of the Tren de Aragua gang, and several illegals convicted of sex crimes against minors." Tren de Aragua is a violent gang that started in Venezuela and has now started to spread into the U.S. It became something of a flashpoint during the presidential campaign.


    Those 538 arrests included 373 people with criminal records and 165 people without criminal records aside from immigration violations, according to documentation provided by a senior administration official. Another 1,041 people were removed or repatriated, according to those records.


    Arrests included a 23-year-old Ecuadorian citizen convicted of rape. He was arrested in Buffalo. Another arrest in Buffalo was that of a man from the Dominican Republic who was previously convicted of continuous sexual conduct against a child. In San Francisco, ICE arrested a man convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child aged 14 or younger, and sentenced to 12 years in prison.


    Meanwhile, a defense official said there had been two flights overnight. Both went to Guatemala, according to two sources. A Guatemalan migration official said three flights have arrived: A flight from El Paso, with 80 people, arrived early Friday morning. Another flight from Tucson, which also carried 80 people, arrived at around 7 a.m., and a third flight from El Paso with around 105 people arrived Friday afternoon.

    Leavitt stated, "The Trump Administration also deported hundreds of illegal immigrant criminals via military aircraft. The largest massive deportation operation in history is well underway."


    President Trump was asked about the flights upon landing in Asheville, North Carolina, where he was surveying the destruction caused by Hurricane Helene late last year. He told reporters, "Deportation is going very well. We're getting the bad, hard criminals out." He added, "These are people that have been as bad as you get, as bad as anybody you've seen. We're taking them out first." The Trump administration has not released further criminal information about those who were on the deportation flights.


    Three officials say the plan to use military aircraft for the deportation flights was approved under the Trump administration, not the Biden administration. The flights are part of the actions the acting secretary of defense announced on Wednesday following Mr. Trump's executive action ordering the U.S. military to step up its presence on the border.


    Mr. Trump promised a crackdown on illegal immigration during the campaign and began his second term this week with a flurry of executive actions aimed at overhauling the U.S. immigration system.


    There are an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Many have been in the country for many years.


    On Thursday, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democrat, said in a statement that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents "raided a local establishment ... detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens, without producing a warrant."


    Baraka said one of those detained during the raid was a U.S. military veteran.

    Hundreds of "illegal immigrant criminals" arrested, hundreds more flown out of U.S. by military, White House says - CBS News

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    Mayor Rages as U.S. Military Vet Nabbed in Trump’s Much-Hyped ICE Raids

    A mayor claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested a U.S. citizen who served in the military during a raid just days into President Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation operation.


    The ICE officers also didn’t have a warrant during the raid in Newark, New Jersey in “plain violation” of the Fourth Amendment, Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka said in a statement.

    About 10 or 12 ICE agents raided a seafood wholesaler and restaurant on Thursday and arrested three people, including the Puerto Rican warehouse manager, Ocean Food Depot owner Luis Janota told PIX11 news. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.


    “I asked [the agents] what documentation they were looking for, and they said it was a license or a passport. I thought, who walks around with a passport?” Janota told PIX11, noting that the agents didn’t ask him for his white workers’ documentation.


    “One of the guys was a military veteran, and the way he looked to me was because he was Hispanic. He is Puerto Rican and the manager of our warehouse,” he said. “It looked to me like they were specifically going after certain kinds of people—not every kind, because they did not ask me for documentation or my American workers, Portuguese workers, or white workers.”


    Mayor Baraka slammed the operation as “egregious” in his own statement.


    “One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned,” he said. “Newark will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized.”


    Contacted by Axios, an ICE spokesperson declined to go into detail about the raid but defended the agency’s actions.

    “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement may encounter U.S. citizens while conducting field work and may request identification to establish an individual’s identity, as was the case during a targeted enforcement operation at a worksite today in Newark, New Jersey,” the spokesperson said.

    In a statement on the social media platform X, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said he was “deeply concerned” about the reports. He and Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver, whose district includes Newark, both said they had reached out the Department of Homeland Security for answers.

    Like all law enforcement, the courts have held that ICE officers are bound by the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures.


    ICE officers cannot enter private property—including employee-only areas in businesses—without a valid search warrant signed by a judge, and they must have probable cause to arrest, according to the ACLU.


    ICE’s own website says everyone is entitled to due process, and that it focuses on removing criminals and public safety threats.


    It wasn’t immediately clear if the ICE officers stayed in the public part of Ocean Food Depot or also searched the employee-only areas.


    Throughout his re-election campaign, Trump vowed repeatedly to deport up to 10 million undocumented immigrants. On his first day in office, he declared a national emergency in a bid to mobilize the military to assist with deportations.


    On Thursday night the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security signed a memo giving ICE officials the power to deport about 1.4 million people who were allowed to enter the country temporarily and thought they were in the U.S. legally, the New York Times reported.


    The move shows Trump isn’t just targeting people who snuck across the border, but who came to the U.S. via official, authorized pathways, according to the Times. Critics have said the ICE memo is legally questionable and a “betrayal” of the people who followed the rules.


    On Thursday, ICE wrote on the social media site X that it had made 538 arrests and lodged 373 detainers, meaning it identified 373 people already in police custody who might not be citizens. Local law enforcement is then asked to notify ICE before releasing the detainee from custody.


    At that rate it will take ICE about 51 years to arrest the 10 million undocumented immigrants Trump has promised to deport, not counting all the U.S. citizens that accidentally get swept up in the raids.

    Mayor Rages as Trump’s Much-Hyped ICE Raids Nab U.S. Military Vet

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    ^ It was bound to happen just like the ‘80s immigration raids.


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    US Citizens Are Being Told To Carry Birth Certificates Amid ICE Raids

    United States citizens, including Native Americans, are being warned to carry ID with them after reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers questioning and detaining people this week.


    One such warning came from the Navajo Nation President, Buu Nygren, in Arizona, following reports that some residents had been approached by officials.


    Newsweek reached out to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE for comment via email Friday morning.

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    Matthew Fletcher, a professor at the University of Michigan who focuses on federal Indian law, told Newsweek that many tribal citizens in rural areas do not have any form of I.D. proving their citizenship. For those who do, ICE agents are not always familiar with their documents, he said.

    MORE US Citizens Are Being Told To Carry Birth Certificates Amid ICE Raids - Newsweek

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    Mexico refuses US military flight deporting migrants, sources say

    Mexico has refused a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to allow a United States military aircraft deporting migrants to land in the country, a US official and a Mexican official told Reuters.


    US military aircraft carried out two similar flights, each with about 80 migrants, to Guatemala on Friday, January 24. The government was not able to move ahead with a plan to have a C-17 transport aircraft land in Mexico, however, after the country denied permission.


    A US official and a Mexican official confirmed the decision, which was first reported by NBC News. The Mexican official did not provide a reason for the denial.


    The US State Department, Pentagon and Mexico’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    US-Mexico relations have come into sharp focus since Trump started his second term on Monday with the declaration of a national emergency along the two nations’ shared border. He has ordered 1,500 additional US troops there so far, and officials have said thousands more could deploy soon.


    The president has declared Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations, renamed the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and threatened an across-the-board 25% duty on Mexican goods beginning in February.


    Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has sought to avoid escalating the situation and even expressed openness toward accommodating Mexican nationals who are returned.


    But the leftist leader has said she does not agree with mass deportations and that Mexican immigrants are vital to the US economy.


    The use of US military aircraft to carry out deportation flights is part of the Pentagon’s response to Trump’s national emergency declaration on Monday.


    In the past, US military aircraft have been used to relocate individuals from one country to another, like during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.


    This was the first time in recent memory that U.S. military aircraft were used to fly migrants out of the US, one US official said.


    The Pentagon has said that the US military would provide flights to deport more than 5,000 immigrants held by US authorities in El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California.


    Guatemala also on Friday received a third flight of about 80 deported migrants on a chartered commercial aircraft, Guatemalan authorities told Reuters.

    Mexico refuses US military flight deporting migrants, sources say

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    So in 2022, the undocumented contributed $89 billion to social security, medicaid and medicare, from which of course they never benefit.

    Which probably means this is all a ruse to try and cut those programs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    So in 2022, the undocumented contributed $89 billion to social security, medicaid and medicare, from which of course they never benefit.

    Which probably means this is all a ruse to try and cut those programs.

    Undocumented? you mean illegal aliens, yeah?

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    chuck Schumer on Illegal Immigration, denouncing terms like "Undocumented" Talk about double standards.


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    It’s laughable the many anti immigrant people actually have illegals working for them, in their business or home. The excuse is, their workers are good people and can be trusted.

    Which is true, but what they fail to see is that 99% of the immigrants are good hardworking people. It is very few who are criminals. These people keep the economy buzzing along and need a less complicated way to get permission to work.

    That said, it’s hard to see why when illegals get prosecuted for crimes, or even when they get arrested, aren’t just packed up and sent back to where they came from. Caught drunk driving….adios!

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    It’s laughable the many anti immigrant people actually have illegals working for them, in their business or home. The excuse is, their workers are good people and can be trusted.

    Which is true, but what they fail to see is that 99% of the immigrants are good hardworking people. It is very few who are criminals. These people keep the economy buzzing along and need a less complicated way to get permission to work.

    That said, it’s hard to see why when illegals get prosecuted for crimes, or even when they get arrested, aren’t just packed up and sent back to where they came from. Caught drunk driving….adios!
    Yep, I agree.

    Love immigrants. Enjoy different cultures for all they bring.

    However, why open the borders like open slather? Do it properly with all the checks . Make it cheap and easy. Just check on people. It's not that hard.

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    ^ Government unwilling to make it that easy. Better for them to play politics with these people every four years.

    The bill which would have passed if not for Trump.

    Unraveling Misinformation About Bipartisan Immigration Bill - FactCheck.org
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    Fear and Loathing maybe part of the play, arresting citizens let alone Vets is a bad move tho probably won't deter thosee MAGA hat folks.

    Deport Marj and Trump be the best outocme.

    US Citizens Are Being Told To Carry Birth Certificates Amid ICE Raids, say it ain't so!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Little Chuchok View Post
    Undocumented? you mean illegal aliens, yeah?
    Since you know what I mean, perhaps you should focus on the actual point rather than your favourite words for being a racist twat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Since you know what I mean, perhaps you should focus on the actual point rather than your favourite words for being a racist twat.

    Oh Harold, if you said that to my face you would get a slap. Trouble is, cowards and bully's like you, would never do that.

    If it's good enough for Chuck, then it's ok for me.

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