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Ya. That's it.

Do you live in some uninformed vacuum? Are you even aware of existing law and the non enforcement? Here's one clue, because I'm not going to do your homework for you. The void between what you know and what is real is too great for a volunteer poster to spend time on Not just the immigration thing, but on so many levels. Post 9-11, the US INS Service reported that there two million individuals that had overextended their student visas and were unaccounted for. Two million........And that's just student visas. We are absolutely not enforcing immigration law. and to suggest that we are is lunacy.

Major whiff again. I am not part of anything related to January 6th, nor Trump. The best way to shut down illegal immigration is to enforce existing laws instead of turning the issue into a political game, and to support efforts to solve the gross failures of the governments that eject their people onto our taxpayers. I'm not "you guys." Your knowledge is lacking. Your judgement is bad. Your posts are ridiculous.

So instead, we fail to enforce our borders and lure them to Texas, California and Florida, instead of insisting they solve their own government problems for their long term success. Oh ya. Those folks are "fleeing for their lives," or seeking "political asylum, " though they haven't gone through the process of applying for it. By the way, do you understand the use of the words "humane," and "humanely," vs. the words "human" and "humanly."

Of course you did. The claim in analogous to saying that someone received a car, without mentioning what they paid for it, or that U2 pilot Gary Powers was simply returned to the US. These omissions are not unnoticed, and disingenuous.

Did you intentionally neglect to mention the rest of the story? The "release" was a trade. The hostages were released because the US released Maduro regime family members convicted of drug charges, including the "narco nephews" of Mrs. Maduro who were convicted of attempting to smuggle cocaine into the US from Haiti. It helps if the entire story is told.

Thanks amigo. I'll be OK, but goodness, how can someone be so ill informed of this? Anyway, life jacket accepted.

How is someone to "prove" this? Are you at all aware of the asylum process? If they were seeking political asylum do you think there might be evidence of this? There isn't. "Fleeing for their lives?" No evidence of that either. It is an industry that has been in place for decades, has prevented domestic reform in the countries that are so ill-governed, and has recently accelerated as the US Gov exhibits gross negligence by not protecting our people from it. It needs attention. It needs our gov moving in the best interests of our country, and it isn't happening for reasons that are grossly apparent. You are apparently unaware of any of this. You don't know the illegal systems and processes in place. That is grossly apparent.

Are you intent on making yourself look uninformed and foolish? It seems so. You first stated they were "fleeing for their lives." That is idiotic. Now you seem to have absolutely no idea of how "seeking political asylum," a phrase you just recently introduce, seems to work. If they were "seeking political asylum," they would follow that process. It is lunacy to think that is an issue with illegals. Your last sentence, where you suggest regarding my view on legal immigration, is equally idiotic. I am not interested in educating you, but having watched this thing for years, you have demonstrated absolutely no idea or even interest in the massive industry this is, and it has nothing to do with political asylum or fleeing for their lives. I don't know where you get information that informs your views, but those views are sorely lacking and grossly uninformed.

Left out Quito, Ecuador. Montevideo, Uruguay. Asuncion, Paraguay.

Ten years of dealing with US Immigration folks working out agreements. Ten years of experience between the US and: Caracas, Venezuela. Cali and Bogota Colombia. La Paz and Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Lima, Peru. Santiago, Chile. Rio de janeiro, Sao Paulo, Recife and Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Guatemala City, Guatemala. Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, Honduras. San Salvador, El Salvador. I've forgotten a few, but my view is well formed.

You are exposing the fact that you are grossly unaware of this situation, and have no exposure to it. There is a very small percentage of people who are "fleeing for their lives." That is nonsense. This is an economic situation, politicized, exploited and needs to be cured at the source.

I completely agree. I should have said he has nothing to do with the "decrease in price." My oversight. That is totally the result of recession/slowdown fears. Biden set an environment that is completely contrary to supply.

Want trash? Check out NATO European member's air force status, ex UK.

I haven't been there in a few years, but spent many Sundays there during my career. The two I remember are Shoeless Joes/ El Alamo in the Recoleta area, address 1175 Uruguay. Another option in that area was Casabar. If you're staying at a decent hotel, the concierge could probably provide more current info. I sure can provide restaurant recommendations though.

In my considered view, we are watching the end of Putin. Thanks to the American taxpayer, and American intelligence capability, which seems to be clearly leading to Ukrainian success. No thanks to NATO.

You are truly a study in nonsense. It doesn't matter what your view of what is worth seeking asylum from. Being oppressed by governments that were elected does not tip the "asylum" scale. The reality is that the US cannot afford to take in every single individual who does not have the courage to effect governmental change in their own countries. Such a policy is suicide, and it is playing out. You don't get that. I get that you don't get that, but that is absolute reality.

I'm not sure why you are asking me this, and I have no view, but if you have any ounce of integrity you might ask the same of CT. Senator Richard Blumenthal. A liar exposed. Either way, we have way more important issues to deal with than lying politicians, which is redundant.

Alzheimer's would be an advancement.

You've got nothing, and you never have. Your are analogous to a vending machine. Someone puts something in, and you puke out the same nonsense. Totally political. Void of any knowledge, context, experience, insight or judgement, or even periods at the end of sentences. Just a senseless, vacuous, thoughtless machine. A random error generator that generates every time. Illegal aliens are "asylum seekers." Sure.

Really? Weak? I flew South America for ten years, from about 2002 until 2012. I went through Miami Customs and Immigration once a week and sometimes five or six times a week. I had countless opportunities to talk to Immigration folks during that time, as various US Immigration computer delays delays would occur. I guarantee you that you have no idea of how much of an industry this is, or how much money is made by it by brokers in South/Central America. Standard situation. A woman gets a visa. Comes up pregnant before here trip. Immigration agents would state that there is no way that woman or that child is ever going to abide by the visa. You don't know the situation, and you don't know what a "weak" argument is. You are a political hack. Uninformed and ignorant.

"Asylum seekers?" They are illegal aliens, and there are millions just this year. It doesn't matter a bit if we "spend more money" helping nations with tyrannical governments if that money goes through that government. I don't think you have any idea of the scope of this, but I do know that not enforcing our immigration laws promotes and empowers these same tyrannical governments. See the idiocy of Carter's Mariel boatlift for an example.

That is precisely the problem of not enforcing our borders or immigration law at the national level. As long as they can come here with ease, there is no reason to force domestic change in their own country.

One of the undeniable consequences of this idiotic invasion is the total depletion of Russian weapons, and their inability to produce replacements from internal industry. This past week, the tried, unsuccessfully, to surreptitiously supply their Ukrainian forces with additional S-300 sam missile systems. An older system, they moved a number of them from their air defense of St. Petersburg to the border under cover of darkness, some which had been parked in the elements for years. They did not relocate their S-400 systems. Detection of the movement was easy, but it points to the desperate level of their need to supply the Ukraine invasion force to the point where they are weakening internal defenses by cannibalizing domestic systems. So....What are the consequences for Iran, India, Venezuela and other regimes who depend on Russian weapon exports, when they can't even supply their own? If I was a customer of theirs, I'd be very concerned.

Oil price action is entirely the response to recession fear. Europe and the UK seem destined for a bad economic winter. The US not so much, but still more likely than not. Oil prices have nothing to do with Biden, or supply issues at all.