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Keeping out poor character

I’m all in favor of a merit-based immigration system. It’s important we keep people of poor character out; especially those who have documented patterns of lying thousands of times (i.e. 20 or 30 times each day), those with extensive patterns of failed businesses (i.e. six bankruptcies with many lawsuits for fraud) or losing millions (i.e. a billion dollars), those who see no difference between demonstrators against bigotry/hate from those openly pronouncing violence/aggression against non-Caucasians, who espouse principles against representative democracy, who buddy-up to murderous despots, those sufficiently unstable that they have many sexual partners and spawn many children, those who attack representative governance, who have documented histories of cheating and publicly threaten extortion.

We need to keep these people out and optimize the entry of those who are willing to work hard (i.e. walk a thousand miles), follow the rules (i.e. stand for days waiting for proper admission of a system overwhelmed), respect other taxpayers (i.e. no who fly for golf on tax revenue without paying taxes), who can effectively judge the character of others (i.e. not hire factually the most compromised administration in modern times). It’s so hard to get rid of people of poor character.

Ed Terhaar

Spokane

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