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    One More Take On The Immigration Mess

    How much have Trump’s moves toward reducing illegal immigration done to accomplish that goal? He ran on it as a key stone of his campaign, and certainly has not abandoned or significantly altered his goals, but, to what effect? A good argument, and one I am willing to make, is that his efforts have had the curious effect of enhancing the numbers of people coming in who are incentivized to make their move now lest Trump becomes successful later. To add to that incentivization, he has announced the withdrawal of foreign aid to many of the Central American countries whose poverty is providing the impetus driving the moves in the first place. You have to ask the question: Will less aid dollars increase the motivating factor - poverty - that drives the immigration, thus increasing the problem?

    I buy that “walls work,” but even if the move for more and better ones should be successful and they are built, plus the laws are made more exclusionary - which all is highly(?) unlikely -, that would be years from now and the great pulse of immigration is now and in the interim. Meanwhile, the Mexican cartels are jumping with joy.

    I am very pessimist on solutions here as long as the opposition holds enough power and desire to thwart rational moves to decrease the flow. The more poor, dependent people here the better is inarguably their mantra. It is their ostensible raison d'etre.
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    On the news tonight there saying the eco wackos won't let him build a wall close to the river and they can swim across and come on in;
    Old redneck hillbilly borned and raised on a redwood stump.

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    They are not illegal immigrants, they are seeking asylum. They know how to play the game. Don't sneak over, request asylum, get a court date and never show up. Then they are illegal.

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    That is correct and in fact over 17,000 people having released in the last month into our country since they couldn't be vetted or processed because of the relentless migration from Central America
    OPINION....a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

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    A better term might be “The Uninviteds” in the same way as someone off the street who would crash your party and help himself to your buffet.
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