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BumRushDaShow

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12. Unfortunately

Reply to msongs (Reply #7)

Fri Oct 26, 2018, 06:47 AM

Oct 2018

(per a news report I heard here in Philly last night) it instills fear even in natively-born U.S. citizen Hispanics, who don't want the hassle of being targeted and questioned or even threatened with deportation to who knows where.... even with them being multi-generational legal U.S. citizens and often having had U.S.-born families here longer than the ones going after them, whose own families only recently got off boats from Europe (like the current occupant of the WH).

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