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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I voted for Clinton, Biden, and Harris. I have not and would never vote for the modern Republican party.

I do think they are semi-correct on immigration. The majority of immigrants are here illegally and need to be deported. I would be in favor of pausing immigration and ending birthright citizenship.

I do not support backtracking and denaturalizing citizens who went through the process correctly. ICE is also way too violent. There was no need for them to drive that Hmong man around Minneapolis while he was shirtless in the cold, only to find out that he was a legal citizen. [/quote]

What do you mean “the majority of immigrants are here illegally”? Where do you get that statistic? There are a number of different statuses that migrants can have and most are not illegal. 
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Not PP, but it's probably safe to say the majority of immigrants over the last several years are here illegally.  For instance, 10 million+ crossed the border under Biden.  Not sure how many legal immigrants entered, but i'm guessing the illegal ones vastly outnumbered legal by like 100:1.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/21/key-findings-about-us-immigrants/

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Whoa whoa whoa, your numbers are way off.  The "10 million" number is for encounters, but that does not mean entered.  That can mean people turned back at the border.  That can mean multiple encounters with the same guy.  Plus, people come and go, and they didn't stop deportations and removals under Biden.  But MAGA and anti-immigrant folks ignore all of that reality and come to the completely wrong conclusion that number of illegals in the country went +10 million under Biden, and that's wrong.

As for 100:1 illegal to legal is WAY out of whack with reality and I have absolutely no idea where you got that idea.  If someone out there said it, they need to be shut down.   Pew Research (the people from your own paper) say there are roughly 35-37 million LEGAL immigrants, to 10-11 million illegal.  So not only is it not 100:1, illegal to legal it's 1:3 illegal to legal.

But that's where we are - in a place where anyone foreign born is (by some) automatically believed to be here illegally, "100:1" even though that's wrong, and for that matter we see it too with anyone US born who is a spanish speaker, or latino, or otherwise person of color.

It's pretty awful to hear that ICE even profiled off duty POLICE OFFICERS accusing them of being here illegally.[/quote]+1000[/quote]

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