Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Arizona sheriff reacts to the illegal immigration crackdown" video.

  1. The Bank Robbers are small potatoes compared to the Robber Banks.
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  2. Now that Jeff Sessions is AG how many alien voters has he had arrested? How many aliens illegally receiving entitlements has he had arrested? I bet it is a big Zero. You call them handouts I seem to remember paying into the system for Social Security and Medicare. Why are you calling them handouts? You want to just throw the elderly and disabled on the street corners begging for food and sleeping on subway grates don't you!
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  3. Let's do some math. 5,6,7 families with at least 3 children means at least 25, 30, 35 people per apartment.
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  4. The United States actually has two Mexican borders. One is the border you see on the map with its points of entry. The other border is inland. That border takes advantage of Inland desert and extremely rough terrain in some areas and uses checkpoints to stop all road travelers to determine immigration status along with drug sniffing dogs.
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  5. How about you head up to North Korea and see what they say about your idea.
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  6. Obviously an attack on the Irish.
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  7. "They are no exception to the Laws of this Country the United States." The Jim Crow laws "De Jure segregation " forbidding or preventing Black Americans from accessing whites only areas, equal educational opportunity and equal employment opportunity were enforced and the law until Black People fought against them. In fact the Supreme court in Plessy v. Ferguson state's desire to provide separate but equal facilities was legal. Over fifty years later with the beginning of the end of racial segregation the supreme court would rule that separate but equal was inherently unequal in Brown vs Board of Education. In fact as far back as the very beginning of the Republic the Alien and Sedition laws were written to make disagreement with government policy a crime. Over the years plenty of political opponents have been accused of attempting to destroy the country. "Americans can't break into their Country." Well maybe so but the US government has no problem with interfering with the political process in other countries under the guise of saving democracy, regime change and the war on terror. This has been especially true in America's backyard Latin America. They have spent over fifty years imposing a cruel blockade on Cuba because Cuba's people got rid of the dictator Batista and decide they wanted to take a Socialist road. They have supported the most criminal dictatorships from Pinochet in Chile, the Generals coup in Brazil, the dictatorship in El Salvador, Somoza family dictatorship in Nicaragua and the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Guatemala.
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  8. You know what everyone knows that workers cross the boarder to harvest lettuce, melons and other vegetables in Arizona, Texas and California. Then moving North through California, Oregon and Washington State. None of these anti immigrant posters would even consider working in a harvest. In Connecticut and Massachusetts immigrants come to harvest tobacco in the Connecticut river valley. The thing is most of the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts are basically city states. The number and size of farms are small. There are no unincorporated areas and what Texas calls a city we call a town. So like the rest of the US cities they are mainly controlled by the Democratic Party.
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  9. Good idea maybe he can refuse to sign another military appropriations bill and the soldiers will leave foreign bases and catch the red eye home to Fort Dix so they can muster out.
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  10. How many times have the US Marines invaded Central American nations? How many times has the US government sent weapons to South American dictators and Nicaraguan contras. They been treated like a 51st State should you just grant them automatic citizenship?
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  11. They pay sales taxes and they pay property taxes through their landlord, so the only taxes they might escape is federal and state income taxes because their employer relies on their keeping quiet while paying them in cash. If they are not paying social security tax then they don't receive social security benefits. Now if they received amnesty the lower than minimum wage earners are more likely to demand they be paid minimum wage and the government would collect social security taxes. To receive food stamps you must prove you are legally in the country to begin with. Other than health care through an emergency room they are not eligible for medicaid or medicare. In states that only issue drivers licences to green card holders or US citizens they are more likely not to insure or register automobiles pushing up insurance costs.
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  12. The reasons for union job loss in the construction industry are the changes in technologies involved in construction and the inability to organize new workers. The trades had control over the apprenticeship programs thereby guaranteeing union wages for members. The bosses have gotten picketing restrictions imposed by judges that prevent sympathy walkouts. So long as you follow boss law than job loss will follow. Amnesty will help to organize immigrants with or without green cards but as long as you don't organize anyone to begin with job loss will follow. So called 'good' union bosses will be enticed to go nonunion if they can get people who can do the job.
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  13. The United States is an Empire. Any one who has driven into New York State has seen the "Welcome to the Empire State" signs. It has treated Latin America especially the Central American countries as 51st states. Whenever they get out of hand they've sent in the US Marines and they have trained their armies in putting down political opponents along with arming death squads. Now when people from the outlying areas of the Empire come here their poorly treated in the land of Human Rights.
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  14. Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Fidel Castro and a lot of other people think otherwise.
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  15. The billionaires and trillionaires are in competition with each other in their own countries and even more so between the capitalist ruling classes of different nations. They begin to blame each other and the working class for the contradictions of capitalism. The most important contradictions in Capitalism are the inability of the working class to buy back what it produces, the limited size of the world and so the limited market, and the decline in the rate of industrial profit. The declining rate of industrial profit leads to investment schemes as a new way to create capital without using the surplus value created from industrial profit to create new labor saving machinery.
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  16. No incentive to get ahead. What's the ratio of bosses "getting ahead" to workers with an "incentive to get ahead." If there really is "an incentive to get ahead" why do bosses keep the wages of their employees secret? We've already seen how well Bill Clinton's TANF program has done after he and Congress abolished AFDC. They only people with "incentives to get ahead' are managers, CEO's and those who believe the promises from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. As long as we live under capitalism the biggest slice of pie will go to the ruling class. Sure stop welfare and give the bosses freedom from taxes. How many times have we heard that as a solution to the working classes problems.
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  17. My socialist theme goes back to the 1970's. Unlike the other two parties we don't close down after an election. Nor do we support Democratic Party politicians even if like Sanders they claim to be socialists. The Socialist Workers Party has run general election candidates since 1948. However what is most important to the working class now is not how the votes were cast but how the class struggle proceeds.
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  18. A Naval Romance?
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  19. Seems like an admission that Trump and the Republicans will be out voted in four years or maybe the Republicans will get all the new voters from the dreamers and still be out voted? So far the only thing Trump has done is to increase deportations just as Obama did after Bush and get appropriations to mostly rebuild the current wall and fence areas.
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  20. The reason I wrote about Black Americans was to show that just because government writes laws that don't mean they are just laws. It has nothing to do with where Black Americans originated from. Also you could replace Black with Mexican American and they also faced the same problems with regard to being treated like second class citizens in the 20th century. The treaty of Hidalgo Guadalupe made Mexican's living within the new boundaries between Mexico and the United States citizens. Parts or all of eleven US states were part of the Spanish Empire and then part of Mexico after Mexico archived independence from Spain.
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  21. Shyron Gray The United States is not a theocracy there is no requirement to believe in any god, gods or no god at all. You have the right to have a church and worship as you please. Problems begin when some people want to take away other people's right to worship differently or not at all. This usually originates from people who believe that they are the true believers and want to use governmental power to subjugate others to their beliefs.
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  22. They are not interested in protecting anybody's rights except their own right to profit. The economic slowdown after 2008 has created a massive problem for them. They need to appear to be doing something about it. So they have come up with the Mexico, China and immigration problem excuse. The weren't enforcing immigration law before 2008 because it benefited them. Now they've decided that creating a pariah class will boost profits by lowering wages of all workers. They have no intention of stopping immigration legal or illegal even if that were possible without creating one giant police state. They want immigrants to know you will accept exploitation or go back.
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  23. Amnesty now! Reagan signed it into law so should Trump! Stop using immigration status as a double jeopardy punishment!
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  24. Hows things going in Miami? Still waiting for the next US invasion of Cuba?
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  25. How about the assination of Dr Tiller. You know the guy O'Reilly kept calling Tiller the Killer. How about the guy that murdered 9 people in that Black church.
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  26. The guy who killed Dr Tiller was a Christian Fundamentalist terrorist. And if you go to the Southern Poverty Law center you can find incidents ranging from the mild leafleting done by racists to murder where race or nationality was a factor.
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  27. I might just take you up on that. The Southern Poverty law Center may not have all the terrorism cases and it has apparently left out people shouting Allah Akbar. Terrorism being defined as people using violence to intimidate a political, a national, religious or racial group from exercising their rights than I think you can find plenty of the home grown types. You also have police using excessive force and attacks on abortion clinics by Christian fundamentalist extremist terrorists. In a lot of instances these plots were foiled by police. Now wither some of those people were entrapped or actually were the initiators I have no way to know. You also have the fact that the United States government supports and has allied itself with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The kingdom has a religious police and Sharia law. This kingdom prohibits all religious practices except Islam. You can't even build a Catholic church there. Yet we are suppose to believe that these people are somehow an asset against Islamist terror groups.
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  28. No to building concentration camps. You've probably never seen the Rio Grande other wise you'd realize that building a complete wall is a big engineering challenge. You can't just build a wall in the middle of the Rio Grande river and you can't just build it on the banks of the river either. There are canyons that make crossing impossible in some areas and there are those areas were the river is nothing more than a wide stream ankle deep. Think about building 3 travel lanes of an interstate highway sideways for 2000 miles. Even Border patrol doesn't want that because they want to see into the Mexican side.
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