Border and Immigration: Enforcing Laws and Protecting Asylum Seekers

Border and Immigration DOES enforce the laws. We DO attempt to stop them from coming illegally. The rate of apprehension for allegedly crossing the border illegally is at a 40-year low. In 2000, approximately 1.6 million individuals were apprehended. In 2017, about 310,000 were apprehended. Of those, about 60% were individuals who overstayed their visas […]

Why People Turn to Crime: The Flaws in the Justice System and Impact of Social Conditions

Why do people turn to crime? Thanks for bringing up the very most expensive, and least effective of punishments. Sure, you stopped that one person, if they were guilty, maybe they deserved it. Probably not. Our courts make thousands of mistakes a year, that we know of. Every acquittal, every overturned decision, every appeal that […]

Challenging Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Understanding of Communism and the Law

Marjorie Taylor Greene has said we are a “communist country” due to the indictment of Donald Trump. One story about this is here. The first question I have for MTG is, “What is communism?” After all, we have to agree on our definitions to have any meaningful conversation. If words are not defined the same […]

Comparing Two States: A Data Analysis of Rhode Island and Montana

Nick Powers is a creator on TikTok. He is a data nerd. He has gathered data from many sources, put all of it into a spreadsheet book, and has the ability to contrast and compare data. If you follow through to his page on TikTok, he has his sources and the collected data available for […]

Understanding Diversity and Marginalization: A Call for Empathy and Open-Mindedness

What this means is… Yes, that means you can be a member of more than one group, some marginalized and some not. I can tell you this; In my experience no white christen heterosexual male in this nation is marginalized. With the beautiful diversity that comes with being a member of the human species, comes […]

If there were proof, they should be prosecuted

I have a hard time believing there to be actual evidence. I find it much more likely that Trump took funds from Putin, and now he is beholden to the other dictators of the world. You seem to like that idea. Are you a paid plant with ties to wealthy dictators or an idiot? I […]

Immigrants Language

I have never found an immigrant that didn’t want to help themselves fit in better. No one arrives on the doorstep of America without knowing we generally speak English here. If they don’t know English, they set about learning. Not a single one has ever suggested the residents of this nation learn their language and […]

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