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> It's called immigration

You mean to say you want to call it that. But that immigration was non-consensual, and as we see now, mostly peaceful only because it was not resisted.

> it's how US was created

And how did that work out for the previous inhabitants?

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It's mostly citizens and residents protesting in solidarity. People who came here the "right" way. Undocumented folks try to minimize interactions with law enforcement.

That immigration is desired by all these red state agribusiness entities that receive no punishment. Curious that we're deploying thousands of soldiers to a blue state to deport... 100 people so far? When they could much more easily go after the people paying these migrants under the table. They wouldn't come here if they couldn't make money doing so. Trump is clearly a television personality and lives for the drama. Makes sense why Obama and Biden managed to deport more people during their terms.

They deported many, and incentivized even more to come, by actions like deportation protection for 5 million [1], or special programs to allow 500k more to come [2]. And while the federal government cut funds to states that set their own drinking age [3], it did nothing when those same states flaunted immigration laws (so-called "sanctuary" states & cities). So long as they permit more immigrants to come. If they tried to enforce immigration laws, i.e. the border, their efforts were swiftly crushed [4].

I don't know how effective Trump is at border control, but to imply previous administrations (Republicans included) were hostile to immigration, legal or illegal, is laughable.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/20/365519963...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parole_for_Cubans%2C_Haitians%...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alcohol_laws_of_the_Un...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/legal/texas-seeks-court-block-biden-...

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