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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]F*ck this idiot. Impeach the president, please. https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1078638249562775552[/quote]

Well, that money can now be sent to Mexico, as they will most likely need it.

The US gave Honduras $181m last year - not in liquid assets (to prevent theft) but in the form of training and resources.  Clearly, this help hasn't done any good, as the poorest of the poor are trying to leave.  So we either readjust our priorities and use the support for the poorest in those countries, or we cut the aid and use it for our own poor.

I prefer the latter.

https://www.gazettextra.com/news/nation_world/another-bigger-migrant-caravan-is-set-to-leave-from-honduras/article_12ec7e25-5e2f-5151-b35d-f05f4293d825.html
Another, bigger migrant caravan is set to leave from Honduras next month

[quote]Garrido said this new, larger caravan will probably be joined by more people in El Salvador and in Guatemala, but she said they don’t plan on coming straight to the Tijuana-San Diego border, where resources are already stretched nearly to a breaking point.

“They will stay in the south of Mexico in Chiapas and Oaxaca. Their aim is to request work there,” she said.[/quote][/quote]

Short sighted trumpian logic with no concept of American soft power or Pax Americana. International relations is all zero sum transactional relations with you people. Oh well, it was nice when America lauded its intellectuals instead of hoisting its simpletons to the upper echelons of governance in furtherance of a kakistocracy.[/quote]

Pax Americana is synonymous with Big Brother.  If you can't see how our ego got in the way as we continued to "assist" the world, then you're too far gone.  the more you give the more dependent people become.  If that's your idea of a peaceful measure, then good for you.

I don't believe in enabling.

And certainly you can't blame all of this on Trump.  I didn't vote for him, but he's here and he's a symptom of people's frustrations rising to the top.  So instead of caring for our poor taxpayers, we continue to control through international "aid."

I fail to see how anyone BUT the rich benefits.
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That’s literally how America rose to prominence. We give aid to other countries then dictate the terms of the money. We lose our soft and hard power by not doing that. We lose our, as you would call it, “American exceptionalism”. Then again, you’re probably a Russian paid spammer looking to ensure America’s role in the world recedes.[/quote]

America rose to prominence because of free markets and abundance of natural resources.

We were ahead of everyone in tech in 80’s when the 1990 immigration visas did not exist.

[b]Immigration of guest workers has had a negative impact on our growth[/b] while giving more profits to the elite.   Robber barons are alive and well in zuckerberg[/quote]

Haha. And you say you are only against ILLEGAL immigration.

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DP here.

Its not uncommon for people in the tech industry to have trained their replacements.  If that is not an indicator that immigration needs reform I don't know what is.

You depress wages at the low and and the high end, surely that builds wealth for American workers.[/quote]

So you are against LEGAL immigrants too? Just want to be clear.

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