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How about this for a compromise- build a section of "wall" but have it also double as a reception center, dormitory, courtroom and administrative offices for asylum seekers? It can be a long, narrow building located along the must popular illegal border crossing area. Above the eentrance it should say, "WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Donald J. Trump, President -- Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House". We could build one of these reception centers every hundred miles or so along the border and connect them with a light rail transport train so wherever an immigrant reaches the border, they can hop on the train and be taken to a reception center. The reception centers would be legal ports of entry. All along the railroad, there would be security cameras and guard shacks. There would also be employment recruitment/ placement offices in the reception centers where employers would come to hire immigrants who would be given work visas. The employers would have to vouch for the whereabouts of the new employees and would take taxes out of their pay. Mexico would help pay for this new system of border security because it would also double as an illegal drug interdiction program and would benefit Mexican citizens who were coming to the U.S. to work temporarily.

I've always thought it was interesting that Billy Graham and other old school evangelicals were against the Catholic church's teaching on abortion back in the 1960s essentially meaning they were pro-choice before they were anti-abortion. This article chronicles the shift in thinking. The article doesn't really emphasize the point, but I attribute to earlier position to the anti-Catholic stance of what we called WASPs back then. Remember how controversial the idea of a Catholic president was when JFK was running?

The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal In 1979, McDonald's introduced the Happy Meal. Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception. Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that this is what it says. (Many don't actually believe this, b...