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boem@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

America’s Commute to Work Is Getting Longer and Longer

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America’s Commute to Work Is Getting Longer and Longer

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boem@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago
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  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    and want to know their background

    How much background checking do you think they do on someone from France vs. someone from Libya? Do you think it’s an equal amount? (It is not.) Do you want it to be an equal amount?

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      Yeah, I do, and obviously it’s not the same now. These people are coming in by the millions and they’re not doing background checks at all. They’re doing background checks on the ones that are waiting to get here legally.

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        “These people” being the non-white ones.

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          If there are white people crossing the Southern border illegally it includes them to since you want to make everything about race although I don’t see any white people crossing the Southern border

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            “I don’t see white people crossing, but it’s not about race.” Gotcha.

            You know how a lot of the white people enter illegally? They arrive on a plane and never leave. Like the majority of illegal immigrants.

            https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/683662691/where-does-illegal-immigration-mostly-occur-heres-what-the-data-tell-us

            So why is the Mexican border what concerns you?

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              They’re a troll. I found that tagging them as such helps prevent me from accidently engaging with them.

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                11 months ago

                Thanks. I don’t believe they give you that ability in the standard web interface, but since you told me that, I’ll look through their post history and see what’s going on.

                Also, please flag them and anyone else you think might be violating the rules and we’ll try to check it out ASAP.

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              Because millions of people are coming over it, including rapist, thieves, and terrorists destroying whole communities on their way through

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                Just so you know now, you’re getting really close to violating rule 4. Paraphrasing Trump is not helping you.

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                  I’m not paraphrasing anyone, I live near the border and I’m just calling it like I see it

                  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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                    No, you’re ignoring numbers in favor of your anecdotal experience.

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              Btw, you’re wrong. There are way more people coming across the Southern border than people over staying visas. It’s not even close and at least we know who the people are that have over stayed their visa

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                I literally showed you the numbers.

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                  Yeah, 700,000 in one year and out of those 600,000 remain. Like I said, not even close. We’ve had up to 250,000 in a month crossing the border illegally

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                    How about you show actual numbers from a legitimate source of both visa overstays and illegal border crossings rather than just tell me what you think the number is?

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                Source? Besides feelings and fox “news”, or you just a troll?

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                  Here’s one source for you, the border patrols own website https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters

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                    bad bot

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