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Fresh Chat: Violence Against Police Unacceptable!

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Violence Against Police is Unacceptable! Let's have a chat folks: To start all lives matter black, brown, white they all matter. I know some of the police in this nation have done wrong, mistakes have been made, but this is no need for violence against police officers.  Most police officers do very good work and do the best job they can to keep us safe. Sure if an officer does wrong they should be held accountable, but that is for the legal system to work out, not some vigilante. The job of a cop is not easy and is very dangerous and add to it these nuts trying to shoot cops makes the job that much harder.  For those thinking killing cops will push forward the Black Lives Matter movement or help change things in a positive way you are what I like to call WRONG. Every time a person of color kills a cop it sets the movement back and turns the public against the movement as well, even if the killer is not part of BLM it sheds a negative light on the organizatio

Birthright Citizenship: Jake’s Take

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Birthright Citizenship: Jake’s Take By: JM Keck There has been much talk of Birthright citizenship as of late. From The Donald to Canadian born Ted Cruz many are saying we should end this policy. The idea according to Trump and friends would dissuade Mexicans from crossing the U.S. border just to have a baby, thus that baby becomes a citizen of the United States. But proponents of this idea seem to miss a few major issues with their plan, the how and the cost. First, let’s look at the cost of this plan shall we. According to reports it costs tax payers $12,500 per each person deported as of 2011. Now that may not sound like much until you realize there are over 11 million undocumented or illegal aliens in America at the moment. That would be over $137 billion just counting the undocumented or illegal aliens the others we will discuss in a bit. May I ask where the hell this money would come from? Are you going to cut education spending? Maybe cut food stamps and hea