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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: bighairymike ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Welcome to Chinese Operatives
Date: 01/16/24 3:50 PM
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Because if you try to walk across the border without good ID and a good cover story, you're never getting out of detention; = albaby

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Well not to start a new rabbit trail but there are videos of border agents with bags full if ids that were picked up around the river, having been used for transit to the border and then shed so the migrant could start his stay in the USA with a brand new identity.

So I disagree that no id means permanent detention. Not when the hapless BC agent has 100 more in line that day. Better to give the benefit of the doubt and let the hearing in five years figure it out. Keeps the line moving. Bad optics if big backlog doncha know.
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