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Balko's "Rise of the Warrior Cop" is a really good read
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Love to see the progress on reducing illegal immigration & the predicament
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TomKazanski
04/14/2017 11:33AM
My grandpa was an illegal alien...
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ConnHoo
04/14/2017 9:50PM
My ancestors all came when there was no such thing as illegal immigration.
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Lazarus
04/15/2017 07:51AM
Almost every single immigrant from Latin America is coming here because of
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CharlestonSC
04/14/2017 3:38PM
What America is to most of them is an economy, a paycheck. For most
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81_Hokie
04/15/2017 11:28AM
Enforce the law. If you want to debate changing the law and the quotas,
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TpkeHoo
04/15/2017 3:42PM
People working in their economic self interest is the embodiment of
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CharlestonSC
04/15/2017 3:34PM
Whose a hypocrite? I think laws regarding safety, pollution, minimum wage
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81_Hokie
04/15/2017 5:16PM
So is a very good friend of mine. **
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HoosWillWin
04/14/2017 11:28PM
If that is the case, why not come here legally? **
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Hokie5150
04/14/2017 4:24PM
Probably because we make that an arduous process. **
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Hoo05Dave
04/16/2017 12:37AM
Quotas. Need to escape the criminal gangs in Central America yesterday, ...
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HowieT3
04/14/2017 5:02PM
Why not other countries?
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ConnHoo
04/15/2017 11:09PM
Plenty of other countries accept more refugees than the US.
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hoodeyo
04/16/2017 3:18PM
Immigrants should show potential to enrich the U.S. Refugees should show
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Hoogle.com
04/14/2017 5:13PM
Immigrants no longer improve a Nation's economy
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ConnHoo
04/17/2017 6:43PM
I think that there's almost zero doubt that
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CharlestonSC
04/14/2017 6:06PM
I think it depends on where you sit,
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hoodeyo
04/14/2017 10:34PM
Here's the thing... employment is not a set figure. Job numbers can grow
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Hoo05Dave
04/16/2017 12:43AM
That's what the Neoclassical 101 textbook says, and it's true in theory.
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hoodeyo
04/16/2017 3:14PM
If your job can be taken by a guy who showed up yesterday speaking no
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CharlestonSC
04/16/2017 4:25PM
It goes back to the initial point, "it depends on where you sit"
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hoodeyo
04/16/2017 4:42PM
No - I'm pointing out what you're really saying. What you're really saying
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CharlestonSC
04/16/2017 5:19PM
What I'm really saying is that it's a political issue.
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hoodeyo
04/16/2017 5:49PM
I don't disagree that it's a political issue ... I'd also argue that the
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CharlestonSC
04/16/2017 8:26PM
There's definitely truth in the idea that people were falling
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hoodeyo
04/17/2017 01:12AM
Then, don't make them citizens. Life-time green card holders **
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Hoogle.com
04/14/2017 8:56PM
Odd, never met an illegal who wanted to stay here.
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hoothat
04/14/2017 4:20PM
Different experience here. Mostly, family members/ **
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Hoogle.com
04/14/2017 8:54PM
Of you? or families moving here? **
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hoothat
04/14/2017 11:33PM
Seems like a mixed bag to me...some of the younger men you see on the
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Tuckahokie
04/14/2017 4:57PM
It has to be nervewracking to exist as an illegal
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KCHoo
04/14/2017 5:04PM
Honestly, it should. The person who comes to your front door
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Hokie5150
04/14/2017 6:53PM
Oh Im sure.
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hoothat
04/14/2017 5:02PM
LOL -- we're supposed to believe that you have conversations with illegal
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WahooRQ
04/14/2017 4:28PM
I worked with a few, is that a problem?
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hoothat
04/14/2017 4:46PM
Agree, met a few, and I am not an immigration attorney
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VaTechie
04/14/2017 4:53PM
RQ doesn't believe you. **
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Hokieesith
04/14/2017 5:04PM
RQ really just needs to take a step out of his bubble more often **
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hoothat
04/14/2017 5:07PM
It will be a challenge now... it's almost Birkenstock season**
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Tuckahokie
04/14/2017 6:46PM
LOL, your stereotypes are as out of date as you are, tuck.
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WahooRQ
04/15/2017 09:35AM
That is just disgusting **
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Mr Wahoo
04/15/2017 09:14AM
That may be so, but I'm still skeptical multiple illegal immigrants have
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WahooRQ
04/14/2017 5:47PM
I owned a restaurant. kitchen = hours of boredom and 2-3 hours a night of
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southdenverhoo
04/14/2017 8:18PM
It builds comradery.
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hoothat
04/14/2017 11:08PM
Thats fine. be skeptical. its true. what reason do I have to lie?
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hoothat
04/14/2017 5:57PM
Would hope your integrity is not defined by banter on this silly board.
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WahooRQ
04/15/2017 09:31AM
I dont know why it was brought up
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hoothat
04/15/2017 10:36AM
Anecdotes are a one-way street on the soapbox. **
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ryno hoo
04/14/2017 7:28PM
So are Balz' opinions **
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Mr Wahoo
04/15/2017 09:16AM
There is nothing wrong with enforcing the law. **
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Hokieesith
04/14/2017 4:11PM
I like Sessions position on impreachment; namely that a sitting president
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HokieDelNorte
04/14/2017 2:58PM
Yes - let us also stop investigating problem police departments
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walkthecorner
04/14/2017 11:59AM
Sucks for you all that the War on Cops and criminals as heroes are over**
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ryno hoo
04/14/2017 12:47PM
Yes that is it. So in your mind the police do no wrong.
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walkthecorner
04/14/2017 1:22PM
Yes, because that's the only alternative to overblown hysteria. **
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Hoodafan
04/14/2017 2:22PM
Just read a recent Chuck Berry interview
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Old Dorms Rule!
04/14/2017 3:12PM
But nobody is denying that, and I wouldn't for a second pretend I could
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Hoodafan
04/14/2017 3:23PM
Did I convey an all or nothing statement? Our AG
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walkthecorner
04/14/2017 3:44PM
I may owe you an apology because until this post I didn't realize Sessions
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Hoodafan
04/14/2017 4:27PM
Cool. I guess I am an old lefty at heart. Politicians
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walkthecorner
04/14/2017 4:32PM
The 60's called and want their social justice back? :-) **
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Hoodafan
04/14/2017 4:38PM
Nice retort! **
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walkthecorner
04/14/2017 4:41PM
As with so many things, if smart people could figure this stuff out
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Old Dorms Rule!
04/14/2017 3:43PM
To a large degree I'm sure they could, but unfortunately vested interests
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Hoodafan
04/14/2017 4:15PM
Let's be clear. The cops have become more militarized since the so-called
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Seattle .Hoo
04/14/2017 3:02PM
Balko's "Rise of the Warrior Cop" is a really good read **
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HoosGuy
04/14/2017 4:17PM
I found interesting in an earlier chapter the opinion by some that the
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Seattle .Hoo
04/14/2017 4:21PM
It actually started in 1997
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757
04/14/2017 3:55PM
It started way before that
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Old Dorms Rule!
04/14/2017 4:20PM
No, it started earlier than that and is a natural outgrowth of the war on
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Seattle .Hoo
04/14/2017 4:15PM
Interesting. I'd think funding got put on steriods with the Department of
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Shenhoo
04/14/2017 3:58PM
That's accurate
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757
04/14/2017 4:23PM
Val Kilmer was a beast in that shootout. **
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WahooRQ
04/14/2017 3:58PM
And I don't disagree with you. But I take issue with the suggestion that if
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Hoodafan
04/14/2017 3:13PM
Your second paragraph makes sense when you think about who those
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WahooRQ
04/14/2017 3:10PM
Have they? I don't know. TV sure can make it look that way.
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Hokieesith
04/14/2017 3:10PM
Forget TV and try reading something. Start with "The Rise of the Warrior
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Seattle .Hoo
04/14/2017 4:09PM
Why would I do that. I should be able to experience this horror.
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Hokieesith
04/15/2017 9:03PM
Deleted**
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walkthecorner
04/14/2017 2:55PM
Sure there are issues but to think we need some systemic war thrust upon
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TomKazanski
04/14/2017 1:48PM
Than what entity should investigate troubled police depts? **
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walkthecorner
04/14/2017 1:50PM
Of course he is. he's a nasty, power hungry bigot **
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111Balz
04/14/2017 12:19PM
Fear tactics and sob story reporting....hmmm...
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Hoocinogenic
04/14/2017 11:58AM
In remembrance on the recently departed J.Geils (link)
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Tuckahokie
04/14/2017 2:46PM
Poor Kate. Misogyny lives in San Francisco. **
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Hokieesith
04/14/2017 1:23PM
Love San Francisco in quotes. It's not a real place, ya know.
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WahooRQ
04/14/2017 1:09PM
Yes, only the right does this.... **
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hoothat
04/14/2017 12:42PM
Never miss a chance to capitalize on a tragedy. **
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Seattle .Hoo
04/14/2017 12:07PM
If I had a daughter, she would look like Kate. Capitalizing on tragedy is
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Hoodafan
04/14/2017 12:25PM
If they'd mastered it, those school shootings
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fphoo
04/14/2017 2:50PM
Maybe we could emulate CA and make schools gun free zones. That way these
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Hoodafan
04/14/2017 3:05PM
My comment was related to yours saying that
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fphoo
04/14/2017 9:17PM
No way man. Schools, coffee shops, bars, and churches are ALL places where
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Seattle .Hoo
04/14/2017 4:17PM
It's similar. Though the situations are entirely different I'm sure you'd
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Seattle .Hoo
04/14/2017 2:45PM
It would seem you've mastered the false equivalence. Bravo. **
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Hoocinogenic
04/14/2017 1:00PM
LOL! So the left capitalizing on tragedy too is now false? Rev. Jesse
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Hoodafan
04/14/2017 2:20PM
Surprised you didn't go with Sharpton. **
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hooshouse
04/14/2017 2:55PM
Tomato, tomahto. But I have more respect for Sharpton. **
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Hoodafan
04/14/2017 2:57PM
Either way. Predictable **
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hooshouse
04/14/2017 3:01PM
Of course a simpleton would think so. **
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Hoodafan
04/14/2017 3:25PM
My one problem is the talk
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VaTechie
04/14/2017 11:38AM
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