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Very good summary of immigration to USA going all the way back to the Alien and Sedition acts. I am teaching immigration history this semester to my international ESL students. Many are confused why Americans don't welcome them here. Irish Catholics are part of the topic today. Religion predjudice. Then there is racism towards non European. Many Trumpists check both boxes and several more. Glad you called out the Afrikaner Elon. He learned it is pre immigrant country. Big shows make it look like Donnie is ridding us of the invasion. Glad to hear the results don't match the previous numbers and I hope it stays that way. I will look at the table on a big screen. Thanks for your details. I will use some of them in my classes.

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Biden border policy helped lose an easily winnable election for Harris. You had 11k encounters a day at one point and by his last year in office he had to change tack. The inflow of documented and undocumented migrants was around 10m in his 4 years - up to 65/70% were the latter. Working class voters showed what they thought of this. What choice did they have. Biden’s Presidency has as many lows as highs. No Democrat is ever going back to this ever again.

Biden created Trump 2.0, just as Hillary created Trump 1.0

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