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The week's question
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: Our worst enemy
Date: 01/30/24 11:06 AM
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"One doesn't accomplish that by presenting yourself to a federal officer."

For starters you are assuming that everyone coming in is presenting themselves to a Federal officer. - boater


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Border control catches as many as they can given that most of their manpower is back at the POE passing out cell phones and doing paperwork. However, they can't catch them all and the ones they can't are called gottaways. The BC, who is in the best position to know, says the number of gottaways is 800 to 1,000 a day.

There is some reason these gottaways try to avoid detection. As a group, they are way more threatening than any group of true asylum seekers.
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