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Almost daily? Name four of this kind of thing that actually happened in the last four months. Your almost daily comment is most certainly incorrect and totally nonfactual.

Do some more research if you want to know.

Mexican man charged with rape had been deported 10 times

Illegal immigrant who had been deported eight times kills multiple people in hit-and-run

WICHITA, Kan. — A Mexican man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus that traveled through Kansas had been deported 10 times and voluntarily removed from the U.S. another nine times since 2003, records obtained by The Associated Press show.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it has placed a detainer — a request to turn Martinez-Maldonado over to ICE custody before he is released — with Geary County. ICE declined to discuss his specific case beyond its October statement regarding the 10 deportations.

It’s not unusual to see immigrants with multiple entries without legal permission, said David Trevino, a Topeka immigration attorney who has provided legal advice to Martinez-Maldonado’s family. He declined to comment on Martinez-Maldonado’s criminal history and pending charge.

Moran told the AP in an email that the immigration system is “broken.”

“There must be serious legislative efforts to address U.S. immigration policy, and we must have the ability to identify, prosecute and deport illegal aliens who display violent tendencies before they have an opportunity to perpetrate these crimes in the United States,” he said.

Miguel Angel Villasenor-Saucedo, a 40-year-old Mexican national residing in Louisville, Kentucky, was found to be involved in a hit-and-run accident that killed two women. Allegedly, Villasenor-Saucedo was driving the truck that killed the women, and then fled the scene of the accident. He was later charged with leaving the scene of a fatal hit-and-run accident and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

After the warrant was issued, authorities were alerted that Villasenor-Saucedo was a Mexican national living in the United States. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement began investigating him and discovered that he had been deported a whopping eight times already, and he was again residing in the United States illegally. It is unclear how he repeatedly made his way across the border.

I'm really not sure how one can display courage in this forum, but I would imagine that it entails responding to all comers and not dodging questions.

To the hypothetical Martian it might seem that America-Firsters, who ordinarily have no use for the UN are somewhat disingenuous — happy to rely on the "toothless old scold" when it comes to the NPT, and quite willing to give it the finger when the international consensus fails to support the US position.

Nuclear war might be the least of that continent's worries. America-Firsters are quick to defund International Planned Parenthood programs and denounce climate concerns as "bad for business". It's difficult to see how another few billion people in sub-Sahara Africa are going to sustain themselves — or, more importantly for the America-Firsters, buy the garbage we're intent on selling them.

A hypothetical Martian might understand that but an actual North Korean, which sees "certain more powerful nations" as a threat to the regime, might not.

Ultimately, then, the only approach that might work is one that has not yet been tried: a joint effort by the US and China. As an eventual outcome, both sides’ interests would be met by a unified, denuclearized, neutral Korea. While this end state is not hard to define, the process of getting there would be tortuous and require a degree of mutual trust between Washington and Beijing that does not now exist. Small, confidence-building steps would be needed over a long period.

He is correct that there are no easy answers and, again, this is hardly a reflection of brilliant insight. Unless the US has weapons and intelligence that go far, far beyond what anyone believes it does, any attempt to overwhelm NK by force will result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands if not millions of Koreans, the partial if not total destruction of Seoul, thousands of US military casualties, and quite possibly a deadly attack on Japan. It's nightmare scenario that is only acceptable as retaliation against a NK nuclear strike on a US city, and even then, I've little doubt that an American president would be urged by some advisers to find an alternative means of responding.

Assuming that it can be certain of success, the US should destroy the next ballistic missile the North Koreans test.

Fox and blogs with very little details and a lot of cross quoting each other as a source.

Your almost daily comment is most certainly incorrect and totally nonfactual.

Aaaaaaaaand what are you??????

Going by your record of untrue claims against other posters...

I just recently encountered this Emmett character for the first time (that I remember, anyway).

But it was obvious from his first post that he routinely consumes mass quantities of cheese.

In his last interview with Melvyn Bragg, Dennis Potter said that nobody was more responsible than Murdoch for the degradation of political discourse in the UK. That, of course, was long before the News of the World scandal.

As we see over here with the influence of Fox, particularly, the guy befouls anything he touches.

My first encounter with him was a post where from out of the blue he falsely accused me of name-calling and asked that I be banned from the site.