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elleng

(130,126 posts)
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 03:28 PM Feb 2017

The Truth Behind Sanctuary Cities

'Over a hundred years ago, the racist anti-immigrant cartoonist, Thomas Nast, did his best to whip up anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S. The time was the 1880’s. His cartoons portrayed the Irish as monkeys, Catholic Bishops as crocodiles climbing onto America’s shores to eat up white Anglo-Saxon Protestant families, and hordes of lawless immigrants swarming off of boats to take up degenerate lives of crime in America’s cities.

Fast forward to the present.

The Know-Nothing Party has finally taken the White House with Donald Trump’s presidency. What is his top target where cities are concerned? Not infrastructure, bridges, jobs, schools, or restoring dwindling numbers of sworn officers on the streets, rather bringing “sanctuary cities under control” by cutting off any and all federal funding possible.'>>>

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The Truth Behind Sanctuary Cities (Original Post) elleng Feb 2017 OP
One cannot speak reason to the insane. guillaumeb Feb 2017 #1

guillaumeb

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1. One cannot speak reason to the insane.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 04:28 PM
Feb 2017

And as the Bush White House said, the GOP creates its own history.

In any war there must be an enemy or enemies. And the population must be frightened of that enemy. Trump knows this.

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