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There's a republican bill which would allow family detention, but the democrats probably won't let it pass. They don't want a solution. They want a problem which they think they can use to get votes.

Harvard Poll: 81 Percent of All Voters Support Reducing Immigration Levels

...a staggering percentage of voters on all ends of the political spectrum are overwhelmingly in favor of an immigration deal that would end Chain Migration, eliminate the Visa Lottery, and grant amnesty to DACA recipients. The poll also reveals that 60 percent of voters oppose giving preference to parents who illegally brought their children to the U.S. The poll found that 81% of voters want to reduce legal immigration from its current level of more than 1 million per year.

‘America is better than this’: A doctor raises concerns after visiting shelter for migrant children

I wonder if how the Germans accepted der Fuehrer, a little bit at a time.??

The Ford Motor Company knowingly allowed slave labour at its German subsidiary during the Second World War and backed its European divisions making equipment for the Nazi military, according to a new book.


Although it has long been known that Henry Ford, the company's founder, held anti-Semitic views, the extent of his involvement in Hitler's rise to power is in dispute.


Max Wallace, a journalist and Holocaust researcher, says in The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of the Third Reich that both men fell for Nazi propaganda.


Referring to newly declassified government documents, Mr Wallace alleges that Nazi links at the Detroit company went well beyond Henry Ford.


The documents indicate that his son Edsel, the then company president, could have been prosecuted for trading with the enemy had he not died in 1943

The evidence included 11 letters between Edsel and the head of Ford's French division in 1942 which suggest that the parent company knew and approved of the manufacturing efforts being undertaken on behalf of the German military.

The Justice Department concluded that there was "a basis for a case" Edsel Ford.

Before America entered the war Ford supplied Germany with military equipment, while declining to make engines for the RAF, calling into question Ford's claims to have been "strictly neutral", says Mr Wallace.

Ford argues that it had no control over the use of slave labour at its German plant, as it lost control of the company after 1941. But documents cited in the book say the first forced labourers arrived at the factory before America entered the war.

Intelligence documents also suggest that Henry Ford's secretary, Ernest Liebold, was a Nazi spy who helped develop his boss's paranoia about Jews.

Henry Ford is mentioned in Mein Kampf, and was hailed by Hitler, who kept a portrait of the industrialist above his desk, as "my inspiration".

Mr Wallace said he was surprised how easily the reputations of Henry Ford and Lindbergh had been rebuilt. "They started out as heroes, they became pariahs, now they are heroes again," he said.

The company is loath to discuss the details of the book, but Tom Hoyt, a spokesman, said: "We think it sheds little or no new light on Henry Ford's activities. He was a brilliant innovator but a fallible human being."

In 1938 Ford was awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest Nazi honour that could be given to a non-German.

Simon Reich, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh who was employed by Ford to investigate the activities of the company's German arm under the Nazis, said of Mr Wallace: "He is reminding a new generation of who Henry Ford was and what he did.

"But some of the most provocative claims in the book lack serious substantiation."

Reaching for Four-Percent Growth: Trump’s Economy

Winner of today's award in the "Well, clearly not" category

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‘America is better than this’: A doctor raises concerns after visiting shelter for migrant children

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