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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jul 3
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    US helped create the conditions from which Central Americans are fleeing in the first place and bears moral responsibility for the ensuing migrant influx, including an obligation to treat people humanely. But there's a big leap from that to abolishing all border enforcement

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      1. Earth is my home ✍️  🌎 📷‏ @Ray_Phenicie Jul 3
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        Michael: it's Twitter and you're asking for nuanced thought that moves in and out of grey areas. Good luck with that.

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      1. James Taylor‏ @jamesctaylor123 Jul 3
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        You make good points. What do we do in the cases of non-Mexican and non-Central American illegal crossers? They went from wherever to Central America to then cross at our weak southern border. This is where the open borders chants come. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/10/whats-happening-at-the-u-s-mexico-border-in-6-charts/ …pic.twitter.com/kkXVZErOj5

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      1. Joel Elliott‏ @joelpelliott Jul 3
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        Perhaps that's why the vast majority of people lie somewhere in between your first benchmark and your second one.

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      1. TreesAreLovely Ⓥ  🌹 🌱‏ @StephieGilley Jul 3
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        The US helped create the conditions from which Central Americans are fleeing in the first place and bears moral responsibility for the ensuing migrant influx, including an obligation to treat people humanely @RandPaul @JohnKasich @SenSanders @SpeakerPelosi @chuckschumer #Congress

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      2. dcb1810‏ @dcb1810pdx Jul 3
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        No ones suggesting abolishing border enforcement. They are saying make illegal crossing a lower level issue like a parking ticket instead of a crime. Also, add more judges to deal with the cases. Allow migrants to stay with family while waiting...

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      2. American Populist‏ @Polish_Hussars Jul 3
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        Native Americans didn’t live in one giant nation. They had borders and intertribal ware fare too.

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      2.  ⏳Lally Weymouth's Southampton Home ⏳ #Unity4J‏ @OrganicCucumber Jul 3
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        Well, considering the US has been intervening in Latin America since the Monroe Doctrine, it's difficult to even offer an educated guess-either way, a non-falsifiable hypothesis. US has intervened, and the results have been catostrophic it stands to reason that it might be better

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      2. Pierce Johnson Ⓥ‏ @pierceajohnson Jul 3
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        You can do border enforcement and also not lock people up for months on end for a misdemeanor crime

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      2. Crawl‏ @crawland1000 Jul 4
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        I don't know what to think about this "America created these conditions" argument. Take Iraq. America destabilized the country by killing Saddam. But Saddam was a despot, and you could argue people should seek asylum from him. So America would be on the hook either way.

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      3. Crawl‏ @crawland1000 Jul 15
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        Crawl Retweeted Dan Driskill

        There's also this. Granted that a case could be made that the US should be noninterventionist.https://mobile.twitter.com/driskilldanny/status/1150477873599270912 …

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        Like recklessly trying to feed the Somalis when they were starving, then recklessly trying to curb the warlords when they wanted to keep all the food? Recklessly spending more than half a century trying to broker a peace deal in the Middle East? Please, tell us more ...
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      1. Basil "Tegridy Farms" Fawlty‏ @InncentBystndr Jul 3
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        Fair

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      1. liberallarry‏ @liberallarry2 Jul 3
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        Vast majority on the left do not propose "open borders".

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      1. Seth McKenzie‏ @sunshineseth77 Jul 3
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        Im surprised Twitter hasn't suspended you yet for these crazy right wing reasonable thoughts.

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      1. mishmashmisty‏ @mishmashmisty Jul 3
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        No. Central Americans obsession with socialism created this problem.

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      1. Dinklebat‏ @Dinkeldash Jul 3
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        We should always treat everyone humanely, regardless of whatever responsibility we may bear for their condition, but we have a higher moral responsibility to our own citizens to ensure that our policies best serve them before anyone else.

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      2. FieldRoamer‏ @FieldRoamer Jul 4
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        Can you please specify what you're referring to? And dates when these bad acts by the U.S. occurred? Thanks.

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      3. OneMediaAdvocate‏ @1MediaAdvocate Jul 4
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        there is an incredible amount of history between the US and South and Central America from the Banana republic to picking Guido in Venezuela you'll just have to do the research and it's in no way small best of luck

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