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Office of Field Operations + U.S. Border Patrol
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To be clear, I’ve never singled out the Somalians per se. I actually wrote about that situation 10 years ago, prior to the MASSIVE influx of new immigrants that has skyrocketed our student population to over 2,000 non-English speakers who speak a combined 42 languages. It is also worth mentioning that our first wave of Somalian residents did not flee Somalia for Maine. They fled Atlanta, Georgia for Lewiston, Maine.
The fundamental difference between immigration now and immigration 100 years ago is how public resources are now used to entice people who otherwise would not move here. It is this toxic mixture of open borders and comprehensive welfare that has resulted in every one of our formerly well-functioning public institutions becoming overwhelmed. Public funds prop the whole thing up, which is part of the reason why assimilation doesn’t happen enough.
Lewiston being an “early adopter” meant that the organizations to facilitate this trafficking of people were already laid down, including local nonprofits, state nonprofits, national nonprofits, internationally operating nonprofits, and actual government agencies. International connections get made and Maine becomes known as an ideal place to settle due to the generous public benefits. This allowed people to flow in very rapidly once Biden opened the border and rained federal cash on human trafficking operations to further transform the demographics of the town in just a few short years.
Here’s where I stood on the issue 10 years ago. For reference, my kid’s graduating class in 2018 was around 30 percent Somalian, with the majority speaking English. Violent crime was still extremely low at that time, with shootings being extremely rare. Our school was starting to slip, but hadn’t turned into the complete disaster it is now.
That doesn’t define what an enforcement action is
There is, but it’s America’s fault for permitting itself to deteriorate into a welfare state.
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I would argue that the Irish who came because they were escaping a genocide, the famine, were only looking to survive, not flourish. And they were living here in conditions worse than black Americans at that time because they were seen as no better than blacks. How things turned out after a couple of generations was unintended consequences. Manifest Destiny did not include them.
Regardless, the question is whether or not their children born here were citizens at birth. If it was acceptable back then, the concept of unconditional jus solis, then why isn’t it ok now? In retrospect sure, we can say it turned out well in most cases but the question is why it was accepted back then.
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It’s the fault of those who benefitted most from what this country has to offer, benefitted to the point they were privileged enough to not know the blood their ancestors shed building this country. I’m talking about people who grew up in safe, comfortable communities and went on to college and then became influential voices with regard to political policy, values and culture. They were/are, typically white and typically female. They rebel against the very things that gave them everything: their parents, communities, culture, values, religion and morality. It’s as if they assume the world they live in today, was always this way. So why not just give away pieces of it.
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If the mothers were illegal aliens, IMO, so were their children. If they came to America legally, every child born here was legally born.
I don’t think you can be illegally born. Well, maybe some leftist pro abortionist might think it’s possible.
Of course you cannot be illegally born. We had never seen a need to make a law, but a case can be made for that law today.
Every naturalized person was “birthed” into citizenship through being legally here. As it should also be the case that every “birthed” child into citizenship be from a mother legally here.
If that’s how we should do things today, that’s the argument. Bringing up the past and implying that 150 years ago we had a problem with birthright citizenship in order to make that case is not necessary nor relevant nor true. Asking what they would have thought vs what they did think is a weak way to argue. Who cares what they would have thought; it’s a question of what we think. What we need.
I found the Trumpiest thing to ever trump.
Try reading the story to the links you post. Not just the headlines.
And for an especially sophisticated and nuanced step -try confirming with unbiased sources.
In real news, parts of the audio from the Hur-Biden interview has been released. JFC, Hur was the only honest guy in that room lol.
Post Hur “revelation” that Biden was impaired, they shot him full of a drug cocktail, woke him up from his stupor, and had Bernie/Joe yell at the media with his denials.
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Calm down, I just thought it was funny.
How do you know I’m not calm?
You can’t read articles, so I guess you compensate by reading minds.
I’ve heard some. Its truly unbelievable that he was installed as our president.
Really? They tried to install Kamala.
Yeah. Fortunately they went with him first.