2019-08-08

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Steve Ruis says:

2019-08-08 16:46:36 GMT+0000 at 16:46

They left out that if they need health services, they will have to pay outrageously for that service as there is no national healthcare service. (Many Canadians have mentioned that this is a barrier to visiting the US, even though Canada has short-term health insurance plans available for travelers to purchase.

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Bob Seidensticker says:

2019-08-08 16:47:08 GMT+0000 at 16:47

Snopes acknowledges that this is correct.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/08/08/amnesty-international-warning/

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E. Harding says:

2019-08-08 17:43:30 GMT+0000 at 17:43

Simple solution to this: take guns away from Blacks.

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john dauria says:

2019-08-09 11:15:42 GMT+0000 at 11:15

e harding…you seem to have got Worse with time . [ my knowledge btw has improved.]

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Neil Godfrey says:

2019-08-10 02:03:44 GMT+0000 at 02:03

We also hear monotonously frequent reports of police shooting people who pose no threat to them, including people who report crimes and ask for police assistance. Surely a failed state.

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Thoreau says:

2019-08-13 05:36:30 GMT+0000 at 05:36

This is an obvious anti-Trump propaganda. I really don’t understand those people who want the borders with Mexico Not respected. I would respect that if they were frank commies. But I know they are not. Go Trump, go!

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1. db says:
  
  2019-08-13 17:12:59 GMT+0000 at 17:12
  
  I really don’t understand
  
  • Clearly
  
  Who is paying a lower than fee market value price for the labor of economic immigrants/migrants, exploited by their undocumented status?
  
  Is it “commies”, or is it people that “want the borders with Mexico Not respected” to improve profits? Oh my, thinking makes my brain hurt, feels better not to. Go Trump, go!
  
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Steven Watson says:

2019-08-17 18:57:12 GMT+0000 at 18:57

Good news doesn’t sell; many Westerners seem to hate their own culture; and the better things get, the more folk think it is worse and want the sky to fall in. Nowt so queer as folk.

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