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Pacifist Patriot

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24. Flaw in your question.

Reply to ripcord (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 10, 2019, 07:38 AM

Aug 2019

This is not about hiring immigrants. That is usually perfectly legal.

It's about hiring undocumented workers which is illegal. Hiring an undocumented citizen is illegal, though highly unlikely as most citizens can produce the accepted documentation.

This is pointing out the hypocrisy of treating the workers as criminals while ignoring the crimes the business by default committed if there are undocumented workers to round up.

Make sense?

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