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10,000,000 open jobs. Unemployment at historic lows. Social Security

continues to need to replace a retiring workforce to remain vital.

The country benefited greatly from mass entries of the Irish during the potato famine and Italian immigrants.

Both immigration waves were hit by hatred, bigotry, and ignorance & intolerance; yet both groups were vital to America’s prosperity and rise to a super power.

It is in your best interest, in our country’s heritage, and the morally correct thing to do; for us to continue to grow thru immigration.

I will not cite Biblical passages supporting immigrants seeking protection and the poor.

[Post edited by Lazarus at 02/20/2024 4:00PM]

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Posted: 02/20/2024 at 3:38PM

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