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It's far easier to go from nothing to something than vice versa.  And that's the problem with giving people free stuff.  They continue to expect it.

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Get  out the snowplows and plow them into the ocean. Should have gotten the plows from the Sierra  Nevada Mts. and plowed them off the Golden Gate yesterday.

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3 hours ago, Tommy Callahan said:

Numbers add up.  No way is this some slush fund for shady donors/contractors.  Bet it ends up looking like a prison. 

 

 

 

California.  What a shitshow.

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57 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:

Large numbers of democrats, blacks, and Latinos/Latinx/Latines (or whatever white lefties call them now) apparently don’t like brown people. Poor Roundy!

On a serious note - I can't find the underlying poll questions/data.

If you dig into what Axios did give us, yes, the majority favor "mass deportations." But what does that mean? Does it mean rounding up people and sending them home without due process? Maybe not: 58% favor "increased pathways" for legal immigration. Would that include the spouse of a U.S. citizen who's here illegally? 65% say we should create new mechanisms for legal immigration so people don't have to enter illegally (not sure in what way this is different than the "legal pathways" question). 46% want to make sure people with legitimate asylum claims are protected, but how do we separate legitimate from illegitimate without due process (court hearings, etc)?

My takeaway: Americans largely agree that the current situation is chaotic and unsustainable. I agree too. But they are also fundamentally decent people who see a role for immigrants - an increased legal role - and protections for people claiming asylum. So that's how we got here. "Mass deportations while assessing each case on its merits" is really a contradiction in terms.

 

EDIT: I think I'd interpret it this way - "American people believe that those who are subject to deportation under the law should be expeditiously deported." Which is an indictment of Biden's policies, which by their own terms allow a lot of people who are here illegally and have no means of legalizing their status to stay here anyway.

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