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“It is difficult to work full time and remain poor in America.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jason Riley in Let them In, The Case for Open Borders<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Langham Hotel in Pasadena is a luxury hotel in a suburban setting. We had a very nice family weekend there in January. All of the lower level staff appear to be immigrants. These kind of luxury places probably couldn’t exist without “documentaly impaired” workers. How about an ICE rain on Mar al Lago?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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