Migrant Caravan Tears Down Border Fence, Storms Mexico

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Are leftists honest about, well, anything? Serious question. Ask me whatever you like, and I won't lie to you about it. Republicans are quite forthright about their intentions. Ask us why we want a wall, why we want immigration laws enforced. We'll tell you. Nothing to hide. No shame. Why must liberals lie about their intentions? Why can't you just be honest, admit, yep, we'd love to grant illegals amnesty, millions of new democrat voters to swing places like AZ and NV and even Texas blue. It is our wet dream. Literally. Hence the term wetback. You see, cause a river separates Texas from Mexico, etc., etc.... Nevermind, doesn't matter, you know what I mean.

Oh, and then there are all the examples of non-citizens participating in various national elections, which are plentiful. See cheating thread.
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Water Dog wrote:Are leftists honest about, well, anything? Serious question. Ask me whatever you like, and I won't lie to you about it. Republicans are quite forthright about their intentions. Ask us why we want a wall, why we want immigration laws enforced. We'll tell you. Nothing to hide. No shame. Why must liberals lie about their intentions? Why can't you just be honest, admit, yep, we'd love to grant illegals amnesty, millions of new democrat voters to swing places like Arizona and NV and even Texas blue. It is our wet dream. Literally. Hence the term wetback. You see, cause a river separates Texas from Mexico, etc., etc.... Nevermind, doesn't matter, you know what I mean.


Its because they want to kill people. Just ask this Trump supporter.

http://deadstate.org/trump-supporter-gi ... IbN052wne4

Oh, and then there are all the examples of non-citizens participating in various national elections, which are plentiful. See cheating thread.


No there aren't.
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Kevin Graham wrote:Its because they want to kill people. Just ask this Trump supporter.

Hah, wait, wut? I want to kill people? Who do I want to kill?
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Water Dog wrote:Are leftists honest about, well, anything? Serious question. Ask me w just be honest, admit, yep, we'd love to grant illegals amnesty, millions of new democrat voters to swing places like AZ and NV and even Texas blue.

You talkin’ about that Reagan guy, again? : D
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Water Dog wrote:
Kevin Graham wrote:Its because they want to kill people. Just ask this Trump supporter.

Hah, wait, wut? I want to kill people? Who do I want to kill?

I hear that you can’t wait for that A10 to launch, anyway.
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Kevin Graham wrote:
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
It's no quite so black and white, canpakes:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigr ... ns-n893221

Also:

https://www.newsweek.com/immigrants-are ... ica-664467

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The first link is about school elections in the city of San Francisco because a third of the students there are from non-native families.

The second link discusses only local elections in select towns:

"The mayor and City Council are not deciding national policy. We make decisions about trash pickup, snow removal and equipment for the parks," College Park Councilwoman Christine Nagle told The New York Times in August. "We have shared concerns with our neighbors regardless of whether they are U.S. citizens."

So maybe it is that black and white. Undocumented immigrants do not vote in Presidential elections.


And no one made that argument? Canpakes said:

canpakes wrote:Hey, Dog. Gotta remind you of how that whole voting thing works. ‘Illegal immigrants’ cannot vote.

Now you know. : )


I was letting her know that, in fact, they can vote in many places on a variety of issues. Also, if a national referendum were up for vote to decide to let non-registered immigrants vote in any elections that would affect them, how would you vote?

My guess is that Democrats would, in a majority, vote to grant them the ability to vote.

eta: I would argue that local elections, even right down to a school board, are much more impactful and meaningful to us on a day to day basis than national elections. So the fact that illegal immigrants can vote for a school board or in a locality shouldn't be downplayed as to its importance.

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In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.

Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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canpakes wrote:I hear that you can’t wait for that A10 to launch, anyway.

You're equating lawful enforcement of the law with a sort of demented bloodlust?
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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:I was letting her know that, in fact, they can vote in many places on a variety of issues. Also, if a national referendum were up for vote to decide to let non-registered immigrants vote in any elections that would affect them, how would you vote?

My guess is that Democrats would, in a majority, vote to grant them the ability to vote.

- Doc

My apologies for not being more specific, but I interpret Dog’s cartoon to be referring to Federal and State elections, which are off-limits to non-citizens. But perhaps Dog is fretting about the literal handful of towns across the US that allow such voting on local issues.

I’m sure that in those places, all of the non-citizens align with however they interpret the issue to be favoring Democrats.
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Water Dog wrote:
canpakes wrote:I hear that you can’t wait for that A10 to launch, anyway.

You're equating lawful enforcement of the law with a sort of demented bloodlust?

Geez, does that forgetfulness ever get you worried that dementia is setting in?

You seem to be making that connection on page 2 of this thread.

Water Dog wrote:A shame the way the left has to make everything into a confrontation. The A-10 is already fueled and ready to go. Actually what I'd do is put Mexico on notice. Every 100 miles they advance, a border crossing is closed. Until the whole border is shut down, indefinitely.


Of course, maybe your reference to a particular aircraft designed to be devastatingly efficient in the destruction of ground targets is actually just failing to mention that it’s being retrofitted with a cargo hold to carry blankets and citizenship applications, which it will then gently drop on to the caravan as it lazily circles above in a path the shape of a giant smiley face.
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canpakes wrote:Of course, maybe your reference to a particular aircraft designed to be devastatingly efficient in the destruction of ground targets is actually just failing to mention that it’s being retrofitted with a cargo hold to carry blankets and citizenship applications, which it will then gently drop on to the caravan as it lazily circles above in a path the shape of a giant smiley face.

Why do IRS employed accountants carry glocks? What is it that you think the A-10 exists for, exactly? Can you name for me a single law, however small, that isn't backed up by lethal force? So when one of the Bundy clan was killed, was that liberal bloodlust at work?
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