Sanctuary cities start to cave

As you ask the question, no. As to the intent of your question, yes.

Illegal immigration affects everyone. Being in America illegally is a crime and each individual illegal immigrant knows that they may be shipped out any day now.

Tell me though, what kind of migrant workers do you have in Boston? You guys have a lot of farms down there by the water front? Lots of cabbages needing to be picked?

Tell me though, what kind of migrant workers do you have in Boston? You guys have a lot of farms down there by the water front? Lots of cabbages needing to be picked?

I agree I am spelling deficient.

Back to Washington, eh [for politically motivated disaster relief turndowns]? That would be a long walk. Back to Obama is plenty far enough.

Between 1991 and 2011, presidents approved more than 85 percent of governors' disaster requests. During that period, the states most likely to be denied disaster declarations were Connecticut (39 percent), Arizona (37 percent), Texas (35 percent) and Rhode Island (33 percent), according to a Stateline analysis of documents obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act.

Disappointed governors may see politics at work when their requests fall flat, but the numbers tell a different story. According to Stateline's analysis, Democratic presidents denied requests from Republican governors 53 times and Democratic governors 44 times. Republican presidents turned down requests from fellow Republicans 49 times and from Democrats 43 times. Republicans held the majority of governorships between 1995 and 2007, and again after the 2010 elections.

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Back to Washington, eh [for politically motivated disaster relief turndowns]? That would be a long walk. Back to Obama is plenty far enough.

Build many straw men, Blicky? The part you inserted in brackets was NOT in the question Max, asked, and was therefore not part of the question I responded to.

I didn't then, nor do I now, claim to know which denials, if any, were, in whole or part, denied for politically motivated reasons. The point was merely that they can be, and have been, denied in the sole discretion of the President. A state governor is not "automatically entitled" to relief just because he asks for it.

The federal government often withholds funding from states that do not do what the feds want.

Can you name one time time the federal government has withheld disaster relief funds from any state under any administration (you can go back as far as George Washington)?

Disaster Declaration Denials Exasperate Governors

Earlier this summer, a wildfire near Yarnell, Ariz., killed 19 firefighters and destroyed 109 homes at an estimated cost of $6.8 million. When Gov. Jan Brewer asked President Barack Obama to declare a federal disaster, he turned her down.

...experts in the field say the disaster standards are unclear—and often ignored. The result is that disaster decisions can seem arbitrary or politically motivated.

In Texas, Perry asked for a disaster declaration after more than 15 inches of rain fell on the south Texas city of Roma in 2008....After Hurricanes Humberto in 2007 and Hermine in 2010, Perry also unsuccessfully petitioned for disaster declarations...Perry has plenty of company.

Back to Washington, eh? That would be a long walk. Back to Obama is plenty far enough.

I hope she is happy with the next four years. I am not very happy.

My main issue is that otherwise normal people like you actually believe this.

STOP conflating illegal immigration with immigration.

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I hope she is happy with the next four years. I am not very happy.

Actually the Republicans are going to hold the White House for at least 20 years.

And even after 20 years, the Democrats will only regain the White House by purging their Leftists and nominating a "Trump-lite" (sort of like how Clinton won in the Reagan era by being a "Reagan-lite").

Liberalism is essentially over in this country. The 2013 gun control debacle killed it for good.

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My main issue is that otherwise normal people like you actually believe this.

STOP conflating illegal immigration with immigration.

First of all, I don't think I like being called "otherwise normal".

Second of all.... that last post wasn't written for you who I assume will be happy with Trump's Supreme court pick and the resulting possible loss of reproductive rights (correct me if I am wrong)... but if it will help, you can replace every instance of the word "immigrant" in my post with "illegal immigrant". It doesn't change my point at all.

Third of all... your view on immigration is rather simplistic if you think that you can draw a bright line between "legal" and "illegal" and ignore the history of immigration, family migration and ethnic discrimination in the US.

I am pretty sure my European great-grandparents were illegal immigrants in the early 1900s. We know they were in Canada one time, they were in upstate New York a little later. Lots of people did this. It is unlikely that at the time they would have made it through Ellis island due to ethnic profiling. Thankfully my grandmother was born an American citizen (and here I am).

Does this matter at all?

There is a HUGE, BRIGHT, FLUORESCENT line between legal and illegal immigration.

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There is a HUGE, BRIGHT, FLUORESCENT line between legal and illegal immigration.

On which side of this line does Melania Trump fit? The fact is that being White, and having access to money and legal resources has a lot to do with which side of the line you are on.

This may be your definition of "working fine". It isn't mine.

Don't know, don't care. Which does she fit for you? Does it only matter that she is Trump's wife to you?

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Don't know, don't care. Which does she fit for you? Does it only matter that she is Trump's wife to you?

The point is that the line isn't as "fluorescent" as you are pretending it to be. The fact that some immigrants who break our laws are celebrated while others are deported means to me that the system is screwed up.

Show me some illegal immigrants being celebrated.

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Show me some illegal immigrants being celebrated.

You aren't paying attention McGentrix. Here is an immigrant who broke our laws and is now being celebrated.



And here is an immigrant who broke our laws and is now being deported (can you see the difference?).