The Real timschochet

Your numbers are correct but represent only recent years. What I wrote is true over the last several decades. And according to law enforcement fentanyl is mostly brought into this country by legal citizens through legal points of entry.

Yes. It’s an ignorant, bigoted argument based on fear.

I don’t buy into this “they don’t share our values” argument. The biggest indicator that this is not so is how much they want to come here, They risk their lives to be here.

Well that’s what most experts believe. And it’s not really changing the conversation. It’s pointing out, if you regard undocumented immigrants as a problem (I don’t but most people do) then you’re not really addressing it by setting up razor wire in Texas.

Excellent analysis.

I’d be OK with this.

Are you aware that the majority of undocumented immigrants don’t come across our southern border at all? They come here legally and simply overstay their visas. (incidentally this is also how the vast majority of fentanyl gets here too.)

I haven’t seen any recent polling on this but my feeling, based largely on anecdotal conversations, is that the conservative view on this issue (basically- we need to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to stop illegal immigration from our southern border) is the majority opinion now. Liberals are in the minority on this one. And it’s regarded as an important enough issue that it could tilt the Presidential election in Trump’s favor. Ultimately I don’t think it will, but it could. It’s definitely the biggest single threat to Biden winning again, even more so than inflation.

1. Reparations is a non issue, won’t ever happen. 2. Health insurance for undocumented immigrants will absolutely have a positive effect.

This is wrong. And I don’t think it’s wise to try to discern what people really think when they’re telling you what they think. In any event, as I’ve pointed out many many times, it’s a terrible assumption that migrants to this country, whether documented or undocumented, are going to be Democratic Party aligned voters. It’s been proven wrong again and again.

The recession never happened. That’s a really good thing.

No. It’s because of the message it sends to the world, which is not the message that liberals want to send.

You forgot the Maginot Line. Also there is a difference between walls designed to keep people in and walls designed to stop military invasions. This one would be neither.

It lists the facts. If you think it’s incorrect you’re welcome to provide evidence.

Sure, because they don’t respect the law.

I like this one.

The people that are the most concerned about this issue are already not voting for Democrats.

We can revisit this topic after he’s been re-elected.

No thanks.

By “huge chance” I think you mean zero, right?

If you were living Hungary or Bulgaria prior to 1989 I doubt you’d be laughing about this.

More on this: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/george-soros-and-the-fall-of-communism-in-europe#:~:text=George Soros%2C the chair and,Berlin Wall in November 1989. George Soros is up there with Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II and Lech Walesa as one of the key figures in the liberation of Eastern Europe from Communist slavery. It’s amazing to me that he has been transformed in recent years by the right into some sort of villain.

I predict she will quit prior to South Carolina, and endorse Donald Trump.

Helped save Europe from Communism.

Actually that would be Pete Wilson