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pampango

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Mon May-03-10 10:57 AM
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14. "Trying to use logic or "fact" in the cocoon of the immigration debate is like firing a bullet at

Uranus. It will never hit the target, because the people on said target are living in their own insular world. Immigration is one of those guttural subjects. It festers on rumour and fear and shouting."

Everyone just knows that their position on illegal immigration is right. Logic tells them so. No amount of studies or facts is going to persuade them otherwise.

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