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slothrop
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 Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 7:38 am Post subject: chris christie wants tracking devices on all foreigners |
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chris christie, N.J. gov. and republican presidential hopeful, wants to put tracking devices on foreigners.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/us/politics/christie-proposes-immigrant-tracker-similar-to-fedex.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
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Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said on Saturday that if he were elected president he would combat illegal immigration by creating a system to track foreign visitors the way FedEx tracks packages.
Mr. Christie, who is far back in the pack of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, said at a campaign event in New Hampshire that he would ask the chief executive of FedEx, Frederick W. Smith, to devise the tracking system.
Immigration has become a top issue in the Republican campaign, with the front-runner, Donald J. Trump, having vowed to deport the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country and to build a wall along the United States’ southern border.
“At any moment, FedEx can tell you where that package is. It’s on the truck. It’s at the station. It’s on the airplane,” Mr. Christie told the crowd in Laconia, N.H. “Yet we let people come to this country with visas, and the minute they come in, we lose track of them.”
He added: “We need to have a system that tracks you from the moment you come in.”
He said 40 percent of illegal immigrants are allowed into the United States legally with a visa and then stay longer than their visa allows.
“However long your visa is, then we go get you,” Mr. Christie said. “We tap you on the shoulder and say, ‘Excuse me. Thanks for coming. Time to go.’ ”
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if this happens, tracking devices on citizens won't be far behind.
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| I'm trying to imagine the reaction on Dave's if a Korean politician proposed this for foreigners over here. |
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northway
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:31 am Post subject: |
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| Clearly Chris has never worked in a business that required actually shipping things via FedEx. |
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Steelrails
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| On the other hand wrote: |
| I'm trying to imagine the reaction on Dave's if a Korean politician proposed this for foreigners over here. |
People would flip out and insist that such a thing would never get the time of day back home.
The leading candidate of one of the major political parties of the nation that has a larger population than all other ESL countries combinedX2.5 has called for a wall, a freaking WALL, longer than the Great Wall of China along the US border.
Makes HIV tests and the now-defunct AES look like childs play. |
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Fallacy
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| With 17 candidates vying for the nomination, it is a race to the bottom. Seeking to attract the most attention is the objective, and outrageous statements will do just that. Talk is cheap. It will be a different matter altogether if any such craziness gets legislated later on. Nevertheless, all of this makes the USA appear to the world like a nation filled with morons. Ridiculous. Stay tuned, though, because the entertainment is just beginning. |
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Plain Meaning
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
The leading candidate of one of the major political parties of the nation that has a larger population than all other ESL countries combinedX2.5 has called for a wall, a freaking WALL, longer than the Great Wall of China along the US border.
Makes HIV tests and the now-defunct AES look like childs play. |
The HIV tests have been policy and law in the ROK for almost ten years. If Christie becomes President, and those chances seem long at best, then he still has to convince Congress to pass his proposal. And then thereafter the Supreme Court would inevitably review it for constitutionality.
The comparison is purely self-interested on your part. |
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maximmm
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| Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 1:04 am Post subject: |
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| Does he think fedex packages have gps trackers on them? US elections is getting dumber with each minute. |
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yodanole
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| Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:44 am Post subject: |
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| If Christie were to be elected, could the US afford to feed him? |
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Plain Meaning
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Christie is out.
Good riddance.
Thank you, Kasich. |
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