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Sep 2017
49m 7s

The Politicians Just Don’t Care about Us...

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What you are seeing this week with the clamor by both parties to pander to illegal aliens is the most profound violation of the most foundational tenet of the social compact.  The job of government officials is to protect the American people from open borders and the ill effects of illegals, not to focus on illegals first and only.  In this episode of the ... Show More
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