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tulipsandroses

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Thu Jun 21, 2018, 01:52 PM Jun 2018

Russia is not sending us their finest. How come he never stops Russians from coming here?

I am so sick of him painting these immigrants as criminals and linking them to drugs and crime.

We know he never criticizes Putin for any of the atrocities - But Russia is a country that has its own drug problem but he has no problem with Russians coming here.

I work with addicts so I am being sarcastic when I say Russia doesn't send us their finest.

Just a few articles highlighting Russia's drug problem
][link:https://hightimes.com/news/putins-losing-war-russias-massive-worsening-drug-problem/|
Putin’s Losing War: Russia’s Massive, Worsening Drug Problem

Russia has the highest number of heroin users per capita of anywhere in the world, according to a Brookings Institution review. Since 2001, more than 500,000 Russians have died from heroin overdoses, according to official Russian sources, and Russia now has a needle-sharing AIDS crisis. (That, too, will be familiar: A small town in Indiana along the Kentucky border suffered a similar explosion in HIV infections, after the local health clinic—a Planned Parenthood, as it happened—closed down.)

Cocaine Bust Is the Latest Sign of Putin's Weakness
A foiled cocaine shipment from Argentina helps build Russia's reputation as a mob state.

][link:https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-28/putin-s-problem-are-freelancing-profiteers-building-a-mob-state|
The mind-boggling news story of cocaine-filled suitcases at the Russian embassy school in Buenos Aires demonstrates that the tolerance President Vladimir Putin's regime has shown for all kinds of moonlighting and freelancing by its servants has gone too far. The regime needs to find a way to curb it; otherwise it will end up being treated as a criminal organization.

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Russia is not sending us their finest. How come he never stops Russians from coming here? (Original Post) tulipsandroses Jun 2018 OP
Well it seems they can buy whoever they want here.... Thomas Hurt Jun 2018 #1
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