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Legal immigrants are less likely to commit crimes.  But those who broke the law to be here have already shown a willingness to break the law.  And at least some of them belong to Mexican or international gangs--a definite marker for likely further crimes.  You need to separate legal and illegal immigration, especially since only one of the categories is at issue.

Here's an instapundit item with two links: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/trumps- … ing-an-ex/  .  The first link is to a reasoned argument; the second is to a study with numbers.

Conservatives predicted the benefits of Reagan's tax cuts and other policy changes.  Liberals predicted disaster.  The only disaster was on the side of the poverty pimps.  We had a recovery that lasted into the Clinton years, with scarce labor forcing wages so high that minimum wage ceased, for a time, to be an issue.

Conseratives predicted the negative consequences of the social changes beginning in the '60s.  Those predictions have largely been airbrushed from history, even as they came true.  Even the liberal icon Daniel Patrick Moynihan concluded that liberal policies had been a disaster for working class black families--but once he broke with liberal orthodoxy, he lost the respect of the liberal establishment.

Why are the cities with the worst crime the ones that have been longest in the hands of liberals?  Why does Democrat-ruled California have the worst gap of all the states between rich and poor?  And why is that gap widening?

So, let's check predictions around mid-October, shall we?  A few weeks before the elections?

As to illegal immigrants being good guys and not bad, they are represented as sex offenders out of proportion to their numbers.  And rhey include MS-13 members.

Roll back the specter of punitive regulation and watch what happens.  My prediction: breaking 3.3% in both 018 and 019.

And the GOP isn't anti-immigration.  They are anti-ILLEGAL immigration, and want immigrants prepared to be productive Americans, rather than people who will come here 'for a better life' but try to recreate the ilth-full societies they've left.

Please tell me you don't want it in pink!

Seriously, there is a market in pink firearms and accessories.  I'm guessing the only reason there's no market for lace is that it would get caught when the weapon is drawn. 

Contribution of what sort, for what purpose?

The press uses 'Koch brothers' the way 1984's government used 'Emmanuel Goldstein'.  They never mention George Soros, whose fortune produces interest equal to all the Koch wealth, and who pours the money into anything that will help undermine the modern nation-state.  And while the Koch's run productive industries, Soros has built his fortune on currency trading, taking advantage of instabilities in the fortunes of nations

I'll agree with you on getting rid of the business tax.  But try and convince Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi to go along with it.

Apple just paid 38 Billion dollars in taxes in anticipation of bringing 350 Billion back from overseas, where it was parked to protect it from a double-taxation regime inflicted by no other industrial country.  That's over a Third of a Trillion dollars that will go to work in the US economy.  It will raise living standards.  It will result in taxes paid.  And, unlike government stimulus, it will keep cycling over and over--or until some future Democrat administration decides again to kill the goose in order to get at the golden eggs faster ... or to strangle the goose with regulations, just on principle that government should be free and capitalism should be in chains--instead of in harness.

Well, yes, there are tens or hundreds of federal and state kakistocrats issuing regulations by tha acre, neither understanding nor caring to understand the people who must bear the yoke of the regulation.  This includes the Washington DOT geniuses who never get cold, wet snow and who do not understand that we need deFROSTING (max HEAT) and not just defogging (dry air) on our windshields.

I'd like those dimwits moved to International Falls, Minnesota so they can learn.  Though I suspect they really belong in Frostbite Falls.

Fishing in the Catacombs:

Thought one: Using Tazar's PoV doesn't have to mean seeing through his eyes and hearing all his thoughts.  It can mean looking over his shoulder.  Your first version comes close to that already.

Thought two: If Alda explains here (absently?) to Tazar why the only flesh they eat is fish, it will show Tazar that she knows more than she allows herself to know.

Y'know, I totally forgot.

Janet's Aussie accent is VERY real.  (Ask her about mercaptans.)

Most improbable romance.  No dream-worlds.  Max 3300 word.

For more frequent, lighter contests: caption contests.  Prize of 50 review points.

I'll know by Tuesday.