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    I am not in favour of illegal immigration but I don’t think it’s realistic to imagine that all undocumented workers currently in the US will be sent back. Ain’t gonna happen. One way for Trump to show he is serious would be to prosecute the employers of illegals. Sending a few major offenders to jail would rapidly reduce job opportunities.
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    Are you serious? Why am I ‘picking on’ Trump? Because he is the president. Not only that, he has made illegal immigration the central issue of his presidency. The media isn’t making this shyster look bad here - he’s doing it all by himself and his defence of his own illegal behaviour was typically childish: Trump is a con man, an opportunist. He has knowingly employed illegal workers at least as far back as the construction of Trump Tower. The immigration issue has just been a great career move for him. He doesn’t care about it one way or the other, as his own personal conduct over a lifetime clearly demonstrates. And the last thing Trump would want would be for all illegals to go home tomorrow. That would cause such a massive disruption of the American economy his re-relection chances would disappear down the plug hole.
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    Yes, China is a big part of the problem. I don’t know anyone who would argue otherwise.
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    I imagine addicts (or their bereaved relatives) who first used opioids prescribed by physicians might disagree with you there on the ‘big deal’ aspect. Anyway, as I pointed out above, Trump has mentioned fentanyl as a particular problem between the US and China.
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    This was not an internal Canadian matter. We were naive to get involved.
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    Here’s one employer the authorities should investigate: :
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    Canada has benefited in no way from this Meng business. Even the charges had nothing to so with Canada.
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    Yes. Apparently FDR even used the term 'concentration camp' himself for a similar project in Hawaii. I'm just saying that such practices pre-date the Nazis.
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    As has been asked today, when ICE is rounding up migrants who work in meat factories, are the owners being arrested? You'd think their culpability would be considerably greater. Such action against employers would have an immediate effect on illegal immigration but has been conspicuous by its rarity.
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    In their modern form, concentration camps go back to the 19'th century and were used, for example, in Cuba, the US and South Africa. You'd expect Americans to know their own history at least and prepare for an earful if you ask any Afrikaner about them. The most infamous concentrations camps, like Auschwitz, were an unusual subtype that developed out of the Nazi concentration camp system in 1941. They are more accurately termed extermination camps or death camps and differ significantly from the others.
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    Canadians in China might disagree there.
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    This is the thing the skeptics don’t understand. Most people who believe in man-made Climate Change don’t want to be proven right - it is going to seriously complicate our lives - but unfortunately that is where the evidence points ever more strongly.
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    How much more? 1% in this report: https://www.pewresearch.org/topics/hispaniclatino-vote/page/2/ And that was before he actually governed. I predict a swing among non-Cuban Hispanics against Trump and his party in the 2020 election now that they’ve really had a taste of what he is like.
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    What’s the alternative to the UN?
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    Republicans are going to have a much tougher job winning over Hispanics during and after Trump.
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    Good to see Trump mentioning fentanyl as a major problem with China.
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    A vital quality for any politician is the ability to take criticism, often unfair, and avoid lashing out. Like most of us, MacLeod seems to lack the temperament required for this stressful line of work.
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    Not everyone is cut out to live in ‘communist’ Canada.
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    Canada is in the position of any small country outside the EU these days. It’s at the mercy of the great powers. Scheer would be in the same spot. The one thing we could have done is let Meng escape. Now we’re stuck in the middle of this mess getting no thanks from the Yanks either.
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    You mean hasn’t seen a new war.
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    The fact that McConnell won’t even allow votes on gun control and election security shows how abnormal US politics has become. He knows most people want reform so he just protects his own senators from having to discuss the measures and casting a vote.
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    Tariffs and sanctions are all part of Trump’s playbook. No country is safe and thus every country needs to prepare for a sudden downturn in relations.
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    Between denying the very existence of man-made climate change and claiming nothing at all can be done about it lies a whole range of strategies to combat its effects. If that’s virtue signalling, count me in.
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    Now that the evidence for climate change is overwhelming, some other reasons for inaction have to be found.
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    No, I am quite happy to have the same expectations of Canada as I do the US but the US is much bigger and has more influence on other countries. In places like Canada, Belgium or Ireland, the argument from some fossil fuel enthusiasts is that we are too small to matter so let’s do nothing. The US can’t say that and it could bring Canada and Mexico along a more stringent path, and then the rest of the world. Fertility rates have fallen dramatically in some developing countries, e.g. Bangladesh. It can be done.
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