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Originally posted by AURaptor:
@ EC - Palin quote is false.


Fabricated Sarah Palin quotes often originate with satire sites, but it does not appear these particular memes resulted from fake news stories. Nevertheless, not only did Palin not make the "Eskimos and other foreigners" comment, she did not even appear on Hannity on 19 November 2014.

http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/palineskimo.asp

But you already knew that, didn't you?

" Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SHINY, I'm going to let your post settle for a bit before I respond.

One of the things I keep suggesting is that if we want REAL immigration reform (and not just amnesty after amnesty) we need to make REAL changes.

The first being, amend the 14th amendment. We are the only nation that I know of that considers babies born within borders to be citizens. All other nations (that I know of) assume that the baby's citizenship is the citizenship of the parents.

The 14th amendment creates the situation of "anchor babies"... people who struggle over the border (or come as "birth tourists" if you're Chinese) have children, and then use "the breakup of the family" as an excuse to stay.

Make English the official language of the USA, as a Constitutional amendment.

Stop mucking about in Central and South America. WE (the USA) have militarily supported so many wealth landowners, bankers, industrialists and generalissimos... oligarchs, in essence... for so many decades that WE (the USA) have created a living hell from which our southern neighbors are just beginning to climb. We should let them find their own justice. Withdraw all military funding.

Withdraw from NAFTA and CAFTA, which impoverished so many rural farmers and drove them northward to our border. Stop pushing the TPP, which will do the same. (Those trade agreements really hurt us, too. That "giant sucking sound" that Ross Perot warned would happen to our jobs? Well, he was right. The only group that benefited was the transnationals.)

Seriously rethink our visa process. There are people (wealthy Chinese expats primarily) living in multi-million dollar homes in Arcadia CA (a dozen miles outside of LA) whose family members are on welfare.

For these major and permanent reforms, I would be willing to consider another amnesty.

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