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AZJonnie

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2. And someone should check the relationship Trump's cabal has with the sellers
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 04:01 AM
Monday

At minimum I bet there's a whole lotta "big contributors" who got their properties bought out for massive profits

Another thing I think could be ALSO true is that it's slowly dawning on the regime that the sheer number of people living here truly illegally is a lot freaking lower than your average RW think-tank has been promoting for 30+ years, and the % of them convicted of crimes (and still on our soil) is a lot smaller as well.

They could in part be giving up on this whole farce because instead of their being like, I dunno, 13M living here illegally, the real number is more like 3M or some such, and they've done the math and realized they don't make sense to build?

I mean, those big numbers have always been a guess. And look how freaking often they're having to arrest people at courts and hearings, people just trying to do things the right way, to get anywhere near their quotas? You might do that because the pickings are actually slim WRT people truly squatting here illegally and not working on the paperwork, so you have to start picking up people on bullshit grounds like an MJ bust in 1992.

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