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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by tomschlick on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:09PM (#21415414)
> There are plenty of good rebuttals you’ve conveniently missed.

I got 5 replies in a span of 5 minutes. I can't respond that fast with the detail and nuance of my positions.

> Also, 300k/year was the maximum in 2000.

And now we are up to 500k last year, and another 950k this year. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration

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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by heyoni on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:35PM (#21415559)
Yep, we’re having a record year but it’s been much lower for the last 20 years (going by memory).
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Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract by tomschlick on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:39PM (#21415578)
And both sides have been claiming it has been a problem for all of those years. Every president since Regan has talked about the problems at the border and Congress has done barely anything to both enforce the laws, and make the system smoother for immigrants.
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