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Immigration is necessary for prosperity. If we want it to be orderly, our representatives have to vote for more ways for people to stay and enter legally and for more funding of Immigration courts. Those who will not admit that the people preventing any sort of compromise legislation are racist are enabling the worst elements of society. Why is it we only talk about unintended consequences when discussing government programs to help people? Is it because refusing to negotiate about immigration reform is intended to cause violent outcomes? When I was a child, a Hispanic man entered a bar in my home town of Marion IN during the fall tomato harvest. He was asked to leave because of the way he looked. At first he refused, but eventually he left. He was shot in the back on his way out the door. The next day my dad's coworkers were talking about the incident at the RCA picture tube plant. One of them asked if the shooter would be found guilty. Another answered, "Not in Indiana; not in my lifetime"

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