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Re:Fancy Dorms Aren’t the Main Reason Tuition Is Skyrocketing by yummyfajitas on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:28PM (#12508047)
From what I can tell, the vast majority of harms that Mexicans inflict is done at the ballot box rather than the workplace.

Note that I never advocated allowing Mexicans to vote; on the contrary, I'd like to disenfranchise bad American voters rather than enfranchising bad Mexican ones.

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Re:Fancy Dorms Aren’t the Main Reason Tuition Is Skyrocketing by blfr on Thursday September 15, 2016 @02:21PM (#12508494)
Among many ideas for improving democracy, disenfranchisement is probably the one most often tried and history clearly shows that it's unmaintainable. Sooner or later it always gives in and nearly everyone gets to vote. In modern US it will be sooner.

There's simply no realistic path where people move into a large, modern European* country and remain second class residents with limited influence over the government. This state won't last a single generation.

* USA included by heritage if not by geography

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Re:Fancy Dorms Aren’t the Main Reason Tuition Is Skyrocketing by SamReidHughes on Thursday September 15, 2016 @04:05PM (#12509371)
> This state won't last a single generation.

Well yeah, of course their kids would get to vote.

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