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"Put up a sign that says at the end of 60 days, if you are not here with our permission, can't prove your legal status, you become property of the state. And then we start to extort or exploit or indenture your labor."
-- Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson, on illegal immigrants
"It sounds an awful lot like slavery."
-- caller
"Well, what's wrong with slavery?...You show up without an invitation, you get to be an asset... You think I'm just pulling your leg. I am not."
-- Mickelson
Trump wants to end birthright citizenship, which is a Constitutional point. Which perhaps means amending the Constitution, which hasn't been done in a long time. And this guy wants to reinvent slavery? I wonder if it would be strictly for brown people, or if Brits and Canadians who've overstayed their visas would also be included. Somehow I doubt it.
-- Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson, on illegal immigrants
"It sounds an awful lot like slavery."
-- caller
"Well, what's wrong with slavery?...You show up without an invitation, you get to be an asset... You think I'm just pulling your leg. I am not."
-- Mickelson
Trump wants to end birthright citizenship, which is a Constitutional point. Which perhaps means amending the Constitution, which hasn't been done in a long time. And this guy wants to reinvent slavery? I wonder if it would be strictly for brown people, or if Brits and Canadians who've overstayed their visas would also be included. Somehow I doubt it.
