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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: marco100   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Birthright citizenship
Date: 12/13/25 12:43 PM
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So there is some room for common ground.

No one is saying that out of all the hundreds of thousands (actually millions, at this point) of these encounters there might not be some slip ups here and there. Especially when people REFUSE to cooperate with law enforcement because the Left has brainwashed them to "resist."

No, naturalized Somalis shouldn't refuse to cooperate with ICE.

Neither should privileged white wealthy liberal Leftists.

If you're a privileged white politican who interferes with ICE at one of their detention facilities, you just might get tossed on your ass.

Isn't that exactly what happened (I think in NJ but not sure) ?

Doesn't seem very discriminatory to me.

If you're a white governor of Illinois and blatantly say you are going to interfere with enforcement of federal immigration law by ICE, you're going to get threatened by Trump. Was it discrimination of Trump to do that against Pritzker (a white very very wealthy male)? Nope.

And we still don't know all the facts about this encounter.

So far every single time we have actually gotten full details, with very very few exceptions, it turns out that ICE was fully justified or at least the "resistance" created a dangerous or ambiguous situation that could have been entirely avoided if the Left stopped agitating people to interfere and block law enforcement from doing their jobs.

But ok let's say there are 1,000 bad arrests or detentions by ICE for every one million encounters (it's likely far less). I'll take that error rate every time--especially when many of the errors are directly caused by Leftist propaganda encouraging the public to actively interfere with and not cooperate with law enforcement in the execution of their obligations.

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