Conor, here's a modern day Grapes of Wrath story for you.
Promoting human trafficking, sex trafficking and drug trafficking is not empathy. Fresh eggs, fresh lettuce and fresh towels...
Link: https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/03/18/guatemalan-workers-sue-iowa-egg-company-alleging-human-trafficking/
Replies to: Conor, here's a modern day Grapes of Wrath story for you.
Your literary command is masterful.
I have no idea what point you are trying to make.
Neither does he. Gilligan.
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Tom Joad would have loved tariffs.
Or something. He’s on a roll.
I suspect you never read The Grapes of Wrath.
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And you would be wrong.
Have read and over recent years, listened to Hemingway and Steinbeck stories and novels. Almost all of them.
The current rules make trafficking MUCH more likely
It’s like prostitution. Making it illegal just helps the pimps and the traffickers.
If the workers know they can’t go to the cops, the criminals benefit.
I know, I know. It’s a hard concept.
I get the philosophy of your argument, but it's just not true.
Illegal border crossings are way down, which means that human trafficking, sex trafficking and drug trafficking are way down.
It is true.
Do you suppose those MS-13 members could be in El.Salvador now?
Your article is from 2017, here's one from last month.
Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-crossings-plunge-to-levels-not-seen-in-decades-amid-trump-crackdown/
Read the article...what happened in 2017 under Trump is being repeated now in his second term...
...the "Philosophy" is the same...so what Chris posted is true...and you're wrong.
As for the border situation...read your own link...there aren't enough resources to process migrants and ICE personnel need to be reassigned...therefore not apprehending MS-13 gangbangers. Had your hero DJT not killed the bipartisan Senate Border Security Bill, in order to keep Biden from getting credit, we'd have 1,500 more CBP Officers...hundreds more ICE Officers...scores of Judges to process immigrants in < 6 months, instead of 6 years...100+ Fentanyl Scanners for high speed processing of trucks and cars, etc., etc.
Trump is a Total Disaster...and you're still supporting him...says a lot about you.
Tyrone, we (Biden) flew Tren De Aragua into the country.
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Once more...Trump's approach is solidifying the gangs...and he killed the best Bill in decades for
dealing with them...and all the Border Security/Immigration issues on the GOP Wish List, according to Sen. Lankford. We should be employing them right now...instead we have no funding from Congress for any of it...ICE Officers are being taken away from their jobs to fill in elsewhere....nor have I heard Word One about getting a Funding Bill passed.
Trump is a Disaster.
We flew a gang into the country, Tyrone. Trump flew them out and you cried about it.
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Whatever substance you're using now, just stop...
...Flying gang members into the U.S.?...who came up with that?...Fits right in with your "Grapes of Wrath" post. ;-)
Here you go:
Here you go...
Had Trump not killed the bipartisan Senate Border Security and Immigration Bill at the beginning of 2024 for purely political reasons, we'd have had the resources needed to properly vet the 530,000 immigrants from those countries...and likely find the fraud cases...along with the 0.0002 fraction of gang members. Note that we still don't have the needed resources to process all the immigrants that are already in the country...but of course to DJT laws don't matter...he'll just issue an Executive Order and deport whoever he wants and make the gang members already here stronger in their communities (they're the ones the gangs prey on)
Link: https://nationalsecurityaction.org/messaging-guidance-trump-killed-a-bipartisan-border-security-deal
So you're wrong, but now it's the guy who wasn't President's fault? Nice dodge.
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It has always been Trump's fault when it comes to Immigration...even at the start of his first term
he wouldn't allow bipartisan legislation, that actually addresses ALL issues of Border Security and Immigration Policy/Processing with immediate and long term funding for needed resources. It takes $$$ and policy agreements to fix those problems and only Congress can provide them...but all we get is chaos from DJT.
Parody account.
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Don't you wish...sadly, it's all true.
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Remember when we talked about "The Parasitic Mind"?
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Let's try to stay on topic...a good way is for you to read my link...
...in it, you'll find these comments...
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Since Donald Trump took control of the party, Republicans in Washington have refused to come to the table and work out a bipartisan solution to secure the border and fix our broken immigration system. In 2017, Donald Trump killed a bipartisan border security package he himself negotiated with Congressional Democrats. And now he’s repeating history.
Unfortunately, Donald Trump and his allies in Congress are more interested in creating chaos at the border to score political points than they are passing legislation to resolve this long-standing crisis. Why? Because Donald Trump doesn't want a solution, he wants a talking point.
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The record shows this observation to be true...and GOP Senator Lankford would agree. Donald Trump is The Problem. You've made a poor choice.
I'll read your link after you acknowledge that we flew Tren De Aragua into the country...
And also acknowledge that this single act may have led to what you consider your biggest problem: Trump.
I acknowledge that a few TdA gang members were able to join with 530,000 other Asylum seekers
who were in desperate need of escape from their countries. Now, will you acknowledge that had Trump not killed the bipartisan Senate Border Security and Immigration Bill, we'd have had the resources to screen those gang members and keep them from entering, or at least rounded up...processed...and then deported them?
Note that a NY Post article identified ~10 TdA gang members...that's 0.00002 of the 530,000 asylum seekers. See my post on "Perfect is the Enemy of Good".
Imagine this, there were zero Tren De Aragua gangsters in the country during Trump's first term
And, pending legal challenges,.there will be no TDA or MS 13 gangsters at the end of his 2nd.
Would you join me in celebrating the elimination of these murderous demons from our country? No matter who gets the credit?
Why is that?...Why did hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans suddenly seek asylum in America?
...note that TdA primarily preys on its own countrymen.
Here's another question...why did Trump kill a bipartisan Border Security and Immigration Bill in early 2024 that addressed virtually all GOP issues...after he himself had called on Congress to deliver in 2019?
Trump is the problem when it comes to our broken Immigration program.
Link: https://korbel.du.edu/regional-studies/news-events/all-articles/how-sanctions-contributed-venezuelas-economic-collapse