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      He also advocates for comprehensive immigration reform, probably because it wasn’t cool closing the door you and your ancestors used to get in.

      It would also be like, legit the best if the US stopped fucking around with other nations, at the least the ones in latin America where most undocumented immigrants come from… likely because of the lack of stable governments over the last century has made those places difficult to live in.

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          All countries need dissidents to stay there and change things for the better. Allowing all dissidents to leave inept countries for America is just hurting the inept countries in the long run.

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            List of US sponsored coup d’etat

            ​Hawaii: 1893 ​Panama: 1903 ​Nicaragua: 1909–1912 ​Mexico: 1913 ​Haiti: 1915 ​Dominican Republic: 1916 ​Cuba: 1934 ​Syria: 1949 ​Iran: 1953 ​Guatemala: 1954 ​South Vietnam: 1960–1963 ​Congo (Leopoldville): 1960–1965 ​Dominican Republic: 1961 ​Iraq: 1963 ​Brazil: 1964 ​Indonesia: 1965 ​Ghana: 1966 ​Cambodia: 1970 ​Bolivia: 1971 ​Chile: 1973 ​Argentina: 1976 ​Grenada: 1983 ​Panama: 1989 ​Haiti: 1991 & 2004 ​Afghanistan: 2001 ​Venezuela: 2002 (Attempted) ​Iraq: 2003 ​Honduras: 2009 ​Libya: 2011 ​Ukraine: 2014 (Disputed/Supported) ​Bolivia: 2019 ​Venezuela: 2026 (Operation Absolute Resolve) ​Hawaii: 1893 ​Panama: 1903 ​Nicaragua: 1909–1912 ​Mexico: 1913 ​Haiti: 1915 ​Dominican Republic: 1916 ​Cuba: 1934 ​Syria: 1949 ​Iran: 1953 ​Guatemala: 1954 ​South Vietnam: 1960–1963 ​Congo (Leopoldville): 1960–1965 ​Dominican Republic: 1961 ​Iraq: 1963 ​Brazil: 1964 ​Indonesia: 1965 ​Ghana: 1966 ​Cambodia: 1970 ​Bolivia: 1971 ​Chile: 1973 ​Argentina: 1976 ​Grenada: 1983 ​Panama: 1989 ​Haiti: 1991 & 2004 ​Afghanistan: 2001 ​Venezuela: 2002 (Attempted) ​Iraq: 2003 ​Honduras: 2009 ​Libya: 2011 ​Ukraine: 2014 (Disputed/Supported) ​Bolivia: 2019 ​Venezuela: 2026 (Operation Absolute Resolve)

            Why don’t you change your country’s behavior first?