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As a long-time Arizonan, I can tell you two things: illegal immigration is a problem; and it is blown out of proportion by every right wing racist here from Nogales to Page. Everything here is blamed on illegal immigration. The truth of the matter is, whenever these people say "illegal alien," they really mean "those damn brown people."
Whenever I get the chance, I tell them, "You'd have really hated living here 150 years ago - everybody was a Mexican."
Not that the killing of Rob Krentz isn't a tragedy - of course it is, and every indication shows he was killed by someone here illegally.
But 95% of illegal immigrants are peaceful people who only want to make a decent living. That doesn't justify them being here - they should wait their turn like legal immigrants, but to hear some people talk, you'd think they were responsible for all the crime in the U.S. They're not.
It's the drug trade that's fueling the violence, and there's a simple solution to that. Stop doing illegal drugs, and the bad guys who bring them here and fight over the right to sell them in your neighborhood will eventually go away if they're not making any money.
In the meantime, join and support an organization that's working to get them legalized.
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If you want to avoid 95% of internet spelling errors:
"If your ridiculous pants are too loose, you're definitely going to lose them. Tell your two loser friends over there that they're going to lose theirs, too."
It won't hurt your fashion sense, either.
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