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Celerity

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17. Were Republicans on board at any time with "economic migration"?

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #5)

Wed Oct 13, 2021, 12:02 PM

Oct 2021

Hell yes, they turn the other eye when the fields need to be picked, their lawns manicured, or the tech firm (that they own shares in via some convoluted trust scheme) who just bribed, no, scratch,.. 'lobbied' them with a half of a million in dosh needs to bring in a shedload of Indian IT workers (on a quarter of the salary the yanks before them were making) on special visas.

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