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	<title>Comments on: Report: Senate Republicans sign off on amnesty</title>
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		<title>By: ScottyDog</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-406873</link>
		<dc:creator>ScottyDog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 19:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>According to Robert Rector, an Illegal Immigrant family of 4 from Mexico will cost the taxpayers &lt;strong&gt;one million dollars&lt;/strong&gt; of social services over their lifetime.

Due the math for the 20-50 million already here and tell me how this benefits the USA.

Our Political Leaders are traitors to this country and have created Tyranny for the first time in history since the Boston Tea Party.

Maybe we all should refuse to file our tax returns and see how the Politicos like it. They could not possibly prosecute the lawful citizens if we all got together and said screw you.


For those of you thinking of voting for Rudy Guiliani, Turns out Giuliani is profiting from Illegal Immigration with the NAFTA superhighway and is a CFR member in drag ready willing and able to sell our America for a North American Union.
 
Now we know why he was flip flopping on Illegal Immigration in the debates and press interviews.

Giuliani Linked to &quot;NAFTA Superhighway&quot; 
 
http://www.augustreview.com/news_commentary/north_american_union/giuliani_linked_to_%22nafta_superhighway%22_2007051459/
 
NAFTA Superhighway has Giuliani as key player
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/grassi/070504

&quot; At the center of negotiations for multiple legs of the Superhighway Corridor throughout Texas, is none other than Rudolph Giuliani&#039;s law firm which landed the Comprehensive Development Agreement for a widening of Interstate-35, now referred to as the TTC-35, in addition to the Master Development Plans for State Highways 121 and 130 among other legs of the TTC. &lt;strong&gt;All negotiations for Cintra were and are presently handled by the law firm, Bracewell &amp; Giuliani, LLP, of which Republican Presidential candidate, Rudolph Giuliani, has been a senior executive partner since March 2005.&lt;/strong&gt; His law firm is the exclusive legal counsel for Cintra. Bracewell &amp; Giuliani is comprised of 400 attorneys, based in Houston, TX with offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., London and Kazakhstan.
 
&quot;Most interesting to the whole story is not only has Mr. Giuliani&#039;s involvement in the NAFTA Superhighway not ever having been publicly addressed, &lt;strong&gt;but how a foreign company is awarded the building of a mass highway system, versus maintaining it, for the first time in U.S. history, and negotiated by the law firm of the top Republican candidate running for President of the United States.&lt;/strong&gt; And truly disturbing is how such will not only have national and homeland security and sovereignty implications but how it is deliberately being kept away from the Halls of Congress.&quot;

&quot;Giuliani fancies himself as an expert on homeland security issues and a law enforcer. &lt;strong&gt;And he has amassed quite the portfolio since 2002, earning $20 million in that year alone, by selling himself as such.&lt;/strong&gt; He owns Giuliani Partners, Giuliani Safety &amp; Security and Giuliani Capital Advisors. In March 2007 he sold Giuliani Capital Advisors, a former Ernst &amp; Young finance company he purchased in 2002, to Macquerie Infrastructure Consortium. Not coincidentally, it is a partner of Cintra&#039;s in its shared operations of toll roads in both Indiana and Chicago, IL.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to Robert Rector, an Illegal Immigrant family of 4 from Mexico will cost the taxpayers <strong>one million dollars</strong> of social services over their lifetime.</p>
<p>Due the math for the 20-50 million already here and tell me how this benefits the USA.</p>
<p>Our Political Leaders are traitors to this country and have created Tyranny for the first time in history since the Boston Tea Party.</p>
<p>Maybe we all should refuse to file our tax returns and see how the Politicos like it. They could not possibly prosecute the lawful citizens if we all got together and said screw you.</p>
<p>For those of you thinking of voting for Rudy Guiliani, Turns out Giuliani is profiting from Illegal Immigration with the NAFTA superhighway and is a CFR member in drag ready willing and able to sell our America for a North American Union.</p>
<p>Now we know why he was flip flopping on Illegal Immigration in the debates and press interviews.</p>
<p>Giuliani Linked to &#8220;NAFTA Superhighway&#8221; </p>
<p><a href="http://www.augustreview.com/news_commentary/north_american_union/giuliani_linked_to_%22nafta_superhighway%22_2007051459/" rel="nofollow">http://www.augustreview.com/news_commentary/north_american_union/giuliani_linked_to_%22nafta_superhighway%22_2007051459/</a></p>
<p>NAFTA Superhighway has Giuliani as key player<br />
<a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/grassi/070504" rel="nofollow">http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/grassi/070504</a></p>
<p>&#8221; At the center of negotiations for multiple legs of the Superhighway Corridor throughout Texas, is none other than Rudolph Giuliani&#8217;s law firm which landed the Comprehensive Development Agreement for a widening of Interstate-35, now referred to as the TTC-35, in addition to the Master Development Plans for State Highways 121 and 130 among other legs of the TTC. <strong>All negotiations for Cintra were and are presently handled by the law firm, Bracewell &amp; Giuliani, LLP, of which Republican Presidential candidate, Rudolph Giuliani, has been a senior executive partner since March 2005.</strong> His law firm is the exclusive legal counsel for Cintra. Bracewell &amp; Giuliani is comprised of 400 attorneys, based in Houston, TX with offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., London and Kazakhstan.</p>
<p>&#8220;Most interesting to the whole story is not only has Mr. Giuliani&#8217;s involvement in the NAFTA Superhighway not ever having been publicly addressed, <strong>but how a foreign company is awarded the building of a mass highway system, versus maintaining it, for the first time in U.S. history, and negotiated by the law firm of the top Republican candidate running for President of the United States.</strong> And truly disturbing is how such will not only have national and homeland security and sovereignty implications but how it is deliberately being kept away from the Halls of Congress.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Giuliani fancies himself as an expert on homeland security issues and a law enforcer. <strong>And he has amassed quite the portfolio since 2002, earning $20 million in that year alone, by selling himself as such.</strong> He owns Giuliani Partners, Giuliani Safety &amp; Security and Giuliani Capital Advisors. In March 2007 he sold Giuliani Capital Advisors, a former Ernst &amp; Young finance company he purchased in 2002, to Macquerie Infrastructure Consortium. Not coincidentally, it is a partner of Cintra&#8217;s in its shared operations of toll roads in both Indiana and Chicago, IL.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: tommy1</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-406709</link>
		<dc:creator>tommy1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 17:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>pedestrian,

&lt;blockquote&gt;Looking through your links, Tommy1, the point of them is that Hispanics have considerably fewer problems that blacks.&lt;/blockquote&gt; 

That is cold comfort.  Blacks represent 15% of the nations population but commit 50% of all murders.  Hispanics have three times the incarceration rate for murder that non-Hispanic whites do.

&lt;blockquote&gt;No one is denying that the Hispanic illegal immigrants are poor, and consequently we would expect a higher crime rate just based on human nature.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

The problem isn&#039;t so much with Hispanic illegals, it is with their children, their grandchildren and their great-grandchildren.

&lt;blockquote&gt;I am more impressed with Hispanics after reading your links than I was before.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Frightening.

&lt;blockquote&gt;Unless I am misreading the chart, it looks like they are doing quite well. I am also extremely suspicious of racial categorization of Hispanics after more than 1 generatation. The ones that will do well do so because they blend in to the majority culture, and probably no longer consider themselves part of a isolated subgroup. So people who report themselves as Nth generation Hispanics have a disproportionate number a self-selected people who choose to isolate themselves culturally. A clearly distinct racial category like black is different (although it is un-pc to say that).&lt;/blockquote&gt;

You are definitely misreading the charts.  Go back and read them more carefully.  Less than 10% of fourth generation Mexicans have a post-high-school education.  40% of fourth generation Mexican Americans drop out from high school.  This study does not apply to all Hispanics, only Mexican Americans.  The far right of the column represents the stats for whites, blacks, Asians, and non-Mexican Hispanics (Cubans and others).  If whites alone were compared to fourth generation Hispanics, the differences would be even more clear.

&lt;blockquote&gt;Conservatives are going to have to be very careful what kind of conservatism they want to stick with as the core of the Republican party if they want to hold onto it.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Yeah, the conservatism they will have to abandon will be conservatism itself.  Hispanics haven&#039;t made California any less liberal, that is for sure.

&lt;blockquote&gt;As more people realize that there retirement money is tied up in SP 500 companies that earn as much money overseas as they do here will increasingly be less interested in protectionism as well. We were right to boot Buchanan in 2000.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Free trade with China is resulting in record deficits, but that is another issue for another day.  Hispanics don&#039;t generate enough tax money to save anything.  They are heavy users of welfare and other government handouts to boot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>pedestrian,</p>
<blockquote><p>Looking through your links, Tommy1, the point of them is that Hispanics have considerably fewer problems that blacks.</p></blockquote>
<p>That is cold comfort.  Blacks represent 15% of the nations population but commit 50% of all murders.  Hispanics have three times the incarceration rate for murder that non-Hispanic whites do.</p>
<blockquote><p>No one is denying that the Hispanic illegal immigrants are poor, and consequently we would expect a higher crime rate just based on human nature.</p></blockquote>
<p>The problem isn&#8217;t so much with Hispanic illegals, it is with their children, their grandchildren and their great-grandchildren.</p>
<blockquote><p>I am more impressed with Hispanics after reading your links than I was before.</p></blockquote>
<p>Frightening.</p>
<blockquote><p>Unless I am misreading the chart, it looks like they are doing quite well. I am also extremely suspicious of racial categorization of Hispanics after more than 1 generatation. The ones that will do well do so because they blend in to the majority culture, and probably no longer consider themselves part of a isolated subgroup. So people who report themselves as Nth generation Hispanics have a disproportionate number a self-selected people who choose to isolate themselves culturally. A clearly distinct racial category like black is different (although it is un-pc to say that).</p></blockquote>
<p>You are definitely misreading the charts.  Go back and read them more carefully.  Less than 10% of fourth generation Mexicans have a post-high-school education.  40% of fourth generation Mexican Americans drop out from high school.  This study does not apply to all Hispanics, only Mexican Americans.  The far right of the column represents the stats for whites, blacks, Asians, and non-Mexican Hispanics (Cubans and others).  If whites alone were compared to fourth generation Hispanics, the differences would be even more clear.</p>
<blockquote><p>Conservatives are going to have to be very careful what kind of conservatism they want to stick with as the core of the Republican party if they want to hold onto it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yeah, the conservatism they will have to abandon will be conservatism itself.  Hispanics haven&#8217;t made California any less liberal, that is for sure.</p>
<blockquote><p>As more people realize that there retirement money is tied up in SP 500 companies that earn as much money overseas as they do here will increasingly be less interested in protectionism as well. We were right to boot Buchanan in 2000.</p></blockquote>
<p>Free trade with China is resulting in record deficits, but that is another issue for another day.  Hispanics don&#8217;t generate enough tax money to save anything.  They are heavy users of welfare and other government handouts to boot.</p>
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		<title>By: Hot Air &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Breaking: Bush, Senate reach agreement on immigration</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-406598</link>
		<dc:creator>Hot Air &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Breaking: Bush, Senate reach agreement on immigration</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 17:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Fox News and MSNBC are reporting that the hour of reckoning is at hand. Stand by for details, although I think we already know most of them.       digg_url = &#039;http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/17/breaking-bush-senate-reach-agreement-on-immigration/&#039;;digg_topic = &#039;political_opinion&#039;; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Fox News and MSNBC are reporting that the hour of reckoning is at hand. Stand by for details, although I think we already know most of them.       digg_url = &#8216;http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/17/breaking-bush-senate-reach-agreement-on-immigration/&#8217;;digg_topic = &#8216;political_opinion&#8217;; [...]</p>
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		<title>By: CCRWM</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-406574</link>
		<dc:creator>CCRWM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 17:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is incredible. Today my mayor is going to go on a protest march against my police department. He&#039;s Mexican. This country is being run over. I live in CA and pay taxes here and we are getting choked. I feel that living in this state I have no say in anything I believe in. Which state can I move to? Which is the state that is the least populated cause it&#039;s so cold?

Can we come up with a good strategy, an effective strategy to protest? This is a smart group of people, help the less savvy of us figure out a plan so we can work it together.

I always have wondered why America isn&#039;t mentioned in the Bible. I guess I know why now. We won&#039;t be here much longer as &quot;America&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is incredible. Today my mayor is going to go on a protest march against my police department. He&#8217;s Mexican. This country is being run over. I live in CA and pay taxes here and we are getting choked. I feel that living in this state I have no say in anything I believe in. Which state can I move to? Which is the state that is the least populated cause it&#8217;s so cold?</p>
<p>Can we come up with a good strategy, an effective strategy to protest? This is a smart group of people, help the less savvy of us figure out a plan so we can work it together.</p>
<p>I always have wondered why America isn&#8217;t mentioned in the Bible. I guess I know why now. We won&#8217;t be here much longer as &#8220;America&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: SPIFF1669</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-406487</link>
		<dc:creator>SPIFF1669</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 16:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t fret none, we&#039;ll still get the last laugh.  Look at the nation we&#039;re leaving behind for the Islamist. 

Would the last American please turn out the lights.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t fret none, we&#8217;ll still get the last laugh.  Look at the nation we&#8217;re leaving behind for the Islamist. </p>
<p>Would the last American please turn out the lights.</p>
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		<title>By: donna</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-406460</link>
		<dc:creator>donna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 16:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just called Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl and Lindsay Graham&#039;s offices on this amnesty bill.  Everyone start calling.  I got through right away and that only tells me that people are not burning up the phone lines to display their outrage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just called Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl and Lindsay Graham&#8217;s offices on this amnesty bill.  Everyone start calling.  I got through right away and that only tells me that people are not burning up the phone lines to display their outrage.</p>
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		<title>By: pedestrian</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-406441</link>
		<dc:creator>pedestrian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 15:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;How about pro-crime (1, 2, and 3), pro-dropout, pro-illegitimacy, and pro-welfare (1 and 2)?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Looking through your links, Tommy1, the point of them is that Hispanics have considerably fewer problems that blacks. Much more than whites, but then again those articles for the most part did not adjust for poverty. No one is denying that the Hispanic illegal immigrants are poor, and consequently we would expect a higher crime rate just based on human nature. The fact that those people who are now living in a foreign land speaking a second-class (here) language, and still have a lower crime rate than blacks, who have been benefiting from affirmative action for decades, speaks volumes for them. I am more impressed with Hispanics after reading your links than I was before.

&lt;blockquote&gt;Hispanics are not reaching white norms of education and economic achievement even four generations into American life and there is no evidence that things will get better in later generations.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Unless I am misreading the chart, it looks like they are doing quite well. I am also extremely suspicious of racial categorization of Hispanics after more than 1 generatation. The ones that will do well do so because they blend in to the majority culture, and probably no longer consider themselves part of a isolated subgroup. So people who report themselves as Nth generation Hispanics have a disproportionate number a self-selected people who choose to isolate themselves culturally. A clearly distinct racial category like black is different (although it is un-pc to say that). 

&lt;blockquote&gt; You are certainly right about the Republicans being very different from today’s batch. Soon, they won’t be very conservative at all. The Mexipublicans will have to shift increasingly leftward to appeal to Hispanic voters.&lt;/blockquote&gt; 

Conservatives are going to have to be very careful what kind of conservatism they want to stick with as the core of the Republican party if they want to hold onto it. An anti-immigrant policy is a clear loser. As more people realize that there retirement money is tied up in SP 500 companies that earn as much money overseas as they do here will increasingly be less interested in protectionism as well. We were right to boot Buchanan in 2000.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>How about pro-crime (1, 2, and 3), pro-dropout, pro-illegitimacy, and pro-welfare (1 and 2)?</p></blockquote>
<p>Looking through your links, Tommy1, the point of them is that Hispanics have considerably fewer problems that blacks. Much more than whites, but then again those articles for the most part did not adjust for poverty. No one is denying that the Hispanic illegal immigrants are poor, and consequently we would expect a higher crime rate just based on human nature. The fact that those people who are now living in a foreign land speaking a second-class (here) language, and still have a lower crime rate than blacks, who have been benefiting from affirmative action for decades, speaks volumes for them. I am more impressed with Hispanics after reading your links than I was before.</p>
<blockquote><p>Hispanics are not reaching white norms of education and economic achievement even four generations into American life and there is no evidence that things will get better in later generations.</p></blockquote>
<p>Unless I am misreading the chart, it looks like they are doing quite well. I am also extremely suspicious of racial categorization of Hispanics after more than 1 generatation. The ones that will do well do so because they blend in to the majority culture, and probably no longer consider themselves part of a isolated subgroup. So people who report themselves as Nth generation Hispanics have a disproportionate number a self-selected people who choose to isolate themselves culturally. A clearly distinct racial category like black is different (although it is un-pc to say that). </p>
<blockquote><p> You are certainly right about the Republicans being very different from today’s batch. Soon, they won’t be very conservative at all. The Mexipublicans will have to shift increasingly leftward to appeal to Hispanic voters.</p></blockquote>
<p>Conservatives are going to have to be very careful what kind of conservatism they want to stick with as the core of the Republican party if they want to hold onto it. An anti-immigrant policy is a clear loser. As more people realize that there retirement money is tied up in SP 500 companies that earn as much money overseas as they do here will increasingly be less interested in protectionism as well. We were right to boot Buchanan in 2000.</p>
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		<title>By: Mellen</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-406423</link>
		<dc:creator>Mellen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 15:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Whites aren&#039;t making babies because they are more responsible and only have children that they can afford. Instead their tax money is being used to support these Illegals hordes of children...nice eh???</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whites aren&#8217;t making babies because they are more responsible and only have children that they can afford. Instead their tax money is being used to support these Illegals hordes of children&#8230;nice eh???</p>
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		<title>By: ID Theft Amnesty (The Illegal Immigration Deal) &#171; Utah Rattler</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-406275</link>
		<dc:creator>ID Theft Amnesty (The Illegal Immigration Deal) &#171; Utah Rattler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 14:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Report: Senate Republicans sign off on amnesty [...]</description>
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		<title>By: nukemhill</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-406271</link>
		<dc:creator>nukemhill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 14:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Your point, nukemhill, to extent that you actually have one, is a s&lt;b&gt;t&lt;/b&gt;upidly simplistic misrepresentation. So you are not worth bothering with until you have something substantive to say.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

FTFY.  Moron.

Hmm.  Nice counter.  I&#039;m duly impressed.  Way to make friends.

Got anymore where that came from?  I&#039;m sure you do....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Your point, nukemhill, to extent that you actually have one, is a s<b>t</b>upidly simplistic misrepresentation. So you are not worth bothering with until you have something substantive to say.</p></blockquote>
<p>FTFY.  Moron.</p>
<p>Hmm.  Nice counter.  I&#8217;m duly impressed.  Way to make friends.</p>
<p>Got anymore where that came from?  I&#8217;m sure you do&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Lipstick on a Pig (Illegal Immigration Amnesty) &#171; Utah Rattler</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-406247</link>
		<dc:creator>Lipstick on a Pig (Illegal Immigration Amnesty) &#171; Utah Rattler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 13:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Report: Senate Republicans sign off on amnesty [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Physics Geek</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-406215</link>
		<dc:creator>Physics Geek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 13:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I left a comment at MKH&#039;s place right after the election. I said that Bush was probably overjoyed to get rid of those darned obstructionist Republicans and replace them with Democrats who thought like he did. And I&#039;ll bet that our president is doing handsprings today at the thought of signing this turd of a bill.

Maybe now that amnesty will- again- become the law of the land, Bush can get on with his big government spending program like, say, Prescription Drugs for Barnyard Animals. After all, animals get sick too, and the government simply has to step in when &lt;i&gt;someone&lt;/i&gt; is hurting.

Permanent minority status. Maybe the GOP should roll that statement around for a little while. How does another 40 years sound?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I left a comment at MKH&#8217;s place right after the election. I said that Bush was probably overjoyed to get rid of those darned obstructionist Republicans and replace them with Democrats who thought like he did. And I&#8217;ll bet that our president is doing handsprings today at the thought of signing this turd of a bill.</p>
<p>Maybe now that amnesty will- again- become the law of the land, Bush can get on with his big government spending program like, say, Prescription Drugs for Barnyard Animals. After all, animals get sick too, and the government simply has to step in when <i>someone</i> is hurting.</p>
<p>Permanent minority status. Maybe the GOP should roll that statement around for a little while. How does another 40 years sound?</p>
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		<title>By: Buzzy</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-406199</link>
		<dc:creator>Buzzy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 13:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Quick someone tell me why I should vote for Rudy again, I keep forgetting.</description>
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		<title>By: lynnv</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-406140</link>
		<dc:creator>lynnv</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 12:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>El Presidente Bush makes me wish I had sat out the 2004 election.  I truly can&#039;t stand him.  But the alternative would have been horrible.  However, the Republican Party gets no more money from me until I see some conservatism there.  My contributions, at least, are still in my control....for now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>El Presidente Bush makes me wish I had sat out the 2004 election.  I truly can&#8217;t stand him.  But the alternative would have been horrible.  However, the Republican Party gets no more money from me until I see some conservatism there.  My contributions, at least, are still in my control&#8230;.for now.</p>
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		<title>By: tommy1</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-405840</link>
		<dc:creator>tommy1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 06:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;The Republican party 10 years from now will be a very different thing than it is now if is going to survive, which I think it will. Holding back the tide is not a successful policy, and the professional politicians understand that. In any case, I’m fine with the idea of the Party of Lincoln being both pro-life and pro-immigrant.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

How about pro-crime (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vdare.com/thom/070426_policy.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vdare.com/sailer/060312_sampson.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/061215_nd.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.parapundit.com/archives/002109.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pro-dropout&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_hispanic_family_values.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pro-illegitimacy&lt;/a&gt;, and pro-welfare (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newcoalition.org/Article.cfm?artId=152&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/bg1936.cfm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;)?

All the babies in the world won&#039;t matter if the net effect of having more Hispanics is to place a heavier burden on the government services that increased birthrates are supposed to save.  How are a bunch of people who are extremely  poorly educated generation after generation going to contribute much to the tax base even as they utilize government programs disproportionately generation after generation?  Unlike the descendants of European immigrants who largely moved into the middle class within two or three generations, Hispanics are not reaching white norms of education and economic achievement even four generations into American life and there is no evidence that things will get better in later generations.  How about all those millions of elderly Hispanics who will be entitled under immigration law to come over to America and start drawing from social security and other government programs they&#039;ve never paid a dime into?

If the traitors on Capitol Hill have their way, the United States will soon be history as we knew it. Better learn Spanish.  You are certainly right about the Republicans being very different from today&#039;s batch.  Soon, they won&#039;t be very conservative at all.  The Mexipublicans will have to shift increasingly leftward to appeal to Hispanic voters.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The Republican party 10 years from now will be a very different thing than it is now if is going to survive, which I think it will. Holding back the tide is not a successful policy, and the professional politicians understand that. In any case, I’m fine with the idea of the Party of Lincoln being both pro-life and pro-immigrant.</p></blockquote>
<p>How about pro-crime (<a href="http://www.vdare.com/thom/070426_policy.htm" rel="nofollow">1</a>, <a href="http://www.vdare.com/sailer/060312_sampson.htm" rel="nofollow">2</a>, and <a href="http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/061215_nd.htm" rel="nofollow">3</a>), <a href="http://www.parapundit.com/archives/002109.html" rel="nofollow">pro-dropout</a>, <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_hispanic_family_values.html" rel="nofollow">pro-illegitimacy</a>, and pro-welfare (<a href="http://www.newcoalition.org/Article.cfm?artId=152" rel="nofollow">1</a> and <a href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/bg1936.cfm" rel="nofollow">2</a>)?</p>
<p>All the babies in the world won&#8217;t matter if the net effect of having more Hispanics is to place a heavier burden on the government services that increased birthrates are supposed to save.  How are a bunch of people who are extremely  poorly educated generation after generation going to contribute much to the tax base even as they utilize government programs disproportionately generation after generation?  Unlike the descendants of European immigrants who largely moved into the middle class within two or three generations, Hispanics are not reaching white norms of education and economic achievement even four generations into American life and there is no evidence that things will get better in later generations.  How about all those millions of elderly Hispanics who will be entitled under immigration law to come over to America and start drawing from social security and other government programs they&#8217;ve never paid a dime into?</p>
<p>If the traitors on Capitol Hill have their way, the United States will soon be history as we knew it. Better learn Spanish.  You are certainly right about the Republicans being very different from today&#8217;s batch.  Soon, they won&#8217;t be very conservative at all.  The Mexipublicans will have to shift increasingly leftward to appeal to Hispanic voters.</p>
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		<title>By: Janos Hunyadi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Janos Hunyadi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 05:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your point, nukemhill, to extent that you actually have one, is a supidly simplistic misrepresentation.  So you are not worth bothering with until you have something substantive to say</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your point, nukemhill, to extent that you actually have one, is a supidly simplistic misrepresentation.  So you are not worth bothering with until you have something substantive to say</p>
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		<title>By: gmoonster</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-405759</link>
		<dc:creator>gmoonster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 05:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I sent this to my Senators.  Not the best prose ever written to be sure, but hopefully the point comes across.  All of you should be contacting your representatives as well!

&lt;em&gt;Dean Honorable Senator ...,

I understand an important bill regarding American security and (illegal) immigration is before the Senate.

I strongly urge you to vote to secure our borders!  This, I believe, should be a national priority.  With the continuing and serious issue of international terrorism, it is very very dangerous not to exert additional effort to more completely secure our borders soon.

We cannot long endure as a nation if we do not have a national border that defines us physically as a nation. 

We are a nation of laws, and we cannot allow millions and millions of foreign nationals to circumvent and ignore those laws.  If we as a country ignore the enforcement of our law, the law is reduced into meaningless scribble on paper.

Thank you,
......&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I sent this to my Senators.  Not the best prose ever written to be sure, but hopefully the point comes across.  All of you should be contacting your representatives as well!</p>
<p><em>Dean Honorable Senator &#8230;,</p>
<p>I understand an important bill regarding American security and (illegal) immigration is before the Senate.</p>
<p>I strongly urge you to vote to secure our borders!  This, I believe, should be a national priority.  With the continuing and serious issue of international terrorism, it is very very dangerous not to exert additional effort to more completely secure our borders soon.</p>
<p>We cannot long endure as a nation if we do not have a national border that defines us physically as a nation. </p>
<p>We are a nation of laws, and we cannot allow millions and millions of foreign nationals to circumvent and ignore those laws.  If we as a country ignore the enforcement of our law, the law is reduced into meaningless scribble on paper.</p>
<p>Thank you,<br />
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		<title>By: pedestrian</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-405753</link>
		<dc:creator>pedestrian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 05:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All you doom and gloomers, get a load of  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/us/17census.html

&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;That development may portend a nation split between an older, whiter electorate and a younger overall population that is more Hispanic, black and Asian and that presses sometimes competing agendas and priorities.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Basically whites aren&#039;t making babies, and native born minorities aren&#039;t making enough so &quot;More than 20 percent of children in the United States either are foreign-born or have a parent who was born abroad.&quot; 

The Republican party 10 years from now will be a very different thing than it is now if is going to survive, which I think it will. Holding back the tide is not a successful policy, and the professional politicians understand that. In any case, I&#039;m fine with the idea of the Party of Lincoln being both pro-life and pro-immigrant.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All you doom and gloomers, get a load of  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/us/17census.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/us/17census.html</a></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;That development may portend a nation split between an older, whiter electorate and a younger overall population that is more Hispanic, black and Asian and that presses sometimes competing agendas and priorities.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Basically whites aren&#8217;t making babies, and native born minorities aren&#8217;t making enough so &#8220;More than 20 percent of children in the United States either are foreign-born or have a parent who was born abroad.&#8221; </p>
<p>The Republican party 10 years from now will be a very different thing than it is now if is going to survive, which I think it will. Holding back the tide is not a successful policy, and the professional politicians understand that. In any case, I&#8217;m fine with the idea of the Party of Lincoln being both pro-life and pro-immigrant.</p>
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		<title>By: techno_barbarian</title>
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		<dc:creator>techno_barbarian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 05:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve given it a lot of thought lately. I&#039;m sick of the whole mess. Republicans are too weak and useless, Democrats are dangerously traitorous and naive (but in a totally nuanced way, of course); and libertarians just aren&#039;t a viable alternative. 

There&#039;s no box left for me to check. I don&#039;t like ANY of the alternatives.

I feel like a coppertop in the Matrix. Bred as a cash engine to support floods of uneducated voters who will ensure that as much cash as possible gets extracted from me over the course of my life.

Cash I earned through hard work, perserverance, and determination. To be handed to someone with a much smaller and less useful skillset, to support him, his wife, and an ever-growing brood of new mouths to feed, clothe, and keep healthy.

So much for MY American Dream of earned sustainable financial independence through a lifetime&#039;s dilligence. Used to be you had to work for it. Now you just have to cross a border. This is just a friggin&#039; outrage.

The republicans are less than useless. I&#039;m officially an Independent. Not that that advances my position one friggin&#039; iota. 

If someone were to hold a protest march about this issue, I&#039;d make time to show up. I&#039;m all for legal immigration, but what&#039;s happening now is short-sighted maddness, for nothing more than political gain. 

On a side note, in my neck of the woods in a town named Farmers Branch, Texas, if you haven&#039;t already heard. A proposal to make it illegal to rent houses or apartments to illegal aliens passed by a two to one margin. The will of the People is clear.

The Will of the People is being usurped.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve given it a lot of thought lately. I&#8217;m sick of the whole mess. Republicans are too weak and useless, Democrats are dangerously traitorous and naive (but in a totally nuanced way, of course); and libertarians just aren&#8217;t a viable alternative. </p>
<p>There&#8217;s no box left for me to check. I don&#8217;t like ANY of the alternatives.</p>
<p>I feel like a coppertop in the Matrix. Bred as a cash engine to support floods of uneducated voters who will ensure that as much cash as possible gets extracted from me over the course of my life.</p>
<p>Cash I earned through hard work, perserverance, and determination. To be handed to someone with a much smaller and less useful skillset, to support him, his wife, and an ever-growing brood of new mouths to feed, clothe, and keep healthy.</p>
<p>So much for MY American Dream of earned sustainable financial independence through a lifetime&#8217;s dilligence. Used to be you had to work for it. Now you just have to cross a border. This is just a friggin&#8217; outrage.</p>
<p>The republicans are less than useless. I&#8217;m officially an Independent. Not that that advances my position one friggin&#8217; iota. </p>
<p>If someone were to hold a protest march about this issue, I&#8217;d make time to show up. I&#8217;m all for legal immigration, but what&#8217;s happening now is short-sighted maddness, for nothing more than political gain. </p>
<p>On a side note, in my neck of the woods in a town named Farmers Branch, Texas, if you haven&#8217;t already heard. A proposal to make it illegal to rent houses or apartments to illegal aliens passed by a two to one margin. The will of the People is clear.</p>
<p>The Will of the People is being usurped.</p>
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		<title>By: Mellen</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-405687</link>
		<dc:creator>Mellen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 04:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It goes way beyond voting democratic...get ready to assimilate into our new  third world country. One of lawlessness . That&#039;s what will happen as the numbers grow and grow of illiterate,impoverished ,spanish speaking indigents,If you think drugs are rampant now, just wait.....anyone know a good country to flee to????</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It goes way beyond voting democratic&#8230;get ready to assimilate into our new  third world country. One of lawlessness . That&#8217;s what will happen as the numbers grow and grow of illiterate,impoverished ,spanish speaking indigents,If you think drugs are rampant now, just wait&#8230;..anyone know a good country to flee to????</p>
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		<title>By: tommy1</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-405619</link>
		<dc:creator>tommy1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 04:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I didn&#039;t abandon the Republican Party.  The Republican Party abandoned me....

...in favor of non-citizen lawbreakers waving Mexican flags.

I guess the &lt;strike&gt;Republican&lt;/strike&gt; Mexipublican Party is completely suicidal.  Their strategy seems to be: let a lot of people who will vote overwhelmingly Democratic into the country &lt;em&gt;and &lt;/em&gt;alienate solidly conservative voters at the same time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t abandon the Republican Party.  The Republican Party abandoned me&#8230;.</p>
<p>&#8230;in favor of non-citizen lawbreakers waving Mexican flags.</p>
<p>I guess the <strike>Republican</strike> Mexipublican Party is completely suicidal.  Their strategy seems to be: let a lot of people who will vote overwhelmingly Democratic into the country <em>and </em>alienate solidly conservative voters at the same time.</p>
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		<title>By: Mellen</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-405616</link>
		<dc:creator>Mellen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 04:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The idea that the country will be filled with Geraldo Rivera clones makes me want to GAG!!</description>
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		<title>By: Mellen</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/16/report-senate-republicans-sign-off-on-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-405611</link>
		<dc:creator>Mellen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 04:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you ask me a vote for amnesty is a vote to declare &lt;strong&gt;WAR&lt;/strong&gt; on the citizens of this country.If it is a civil war they want, it will be a civil war they will get!

Still think the North American Union is a figment of peoples imagination???? NOT!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you ask me a vote for amnesty is a vote to declare <strong>WAR</strong> on the citizens of this country.If it is a civil war they want, it will be a civil war they will get!</p>
<p>Still think the North American Union is a figment of peoples imagination???? NOT!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Speakup</title>
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		<dc:creator>Speakup</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 04:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Latino Groups Play Key Role on Hill
Virtual Veto Power in Immigration Debate

By Krissah Williams and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, May 16, 2007; A04

When Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) declared last week that unnamed &quot;stakeholders&quot; would decide whether Congress overhauls immigration law this year, Latino organizations in Washington understood exactly what he meant.

After laboring in obscurity for decades, groups such as the National Council of La Raza, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and the National Immigration Forum are virtually being granted veto power over perhaps the biggest domestic issue coming before Congress this year. Organizations that represent what is now the nation&#039;s largest minority group are beginning to achieve power commensurate with their numbers.

&quot;There&#039;s a real sense that the Latino community is key to the solution in this debate, so now they are reaching out to us more than ever,&quot; said Eric Gutierrez, lead lobbyist for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, or MALDEF. &quot;Neither party wants to make a misstep politically.&quot;

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051502022.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Latino Groups Play Key Role on Hill<br />
Virtual Veto Power in Immigration Debate</p>
<p>By Krissah Williams and Jonathan Weisman<br />
Washington Post Staff Writers<br />
Wednesday, May 16, 2007; A04</p>
<p>When Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) declared last week that unnamed &#8220;stakeholders&#8221; would decide whether Congress overhauls immigration law this year, Latino organizations in Washington understood exactly what he meant.</p>
<p>After laboring in obscurity for decades, groups such as the National Council of La Raza, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and the National Immigration Forum are virtually being granted veto power over perhaps the biggest domestic issue coming before Congress this year. Organizations that represent what is now the nation&#8217;s largest minority group are beginning to achieve power commensurate with their numbers.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a real sense that the Latino community is key to the solution in this debate, so now they are reaching out to us more than ever,&#8221; said Eric Gutierrez, lead lobbyist for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, or MALDEF. &#8220;Neither party wants to make a misstep politically.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051502022.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051502022.html</a></p>
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		<dc:creator>Headline Summaries: Border Security at Traction Control</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 03:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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