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The Deadly New Underwater Border Fence

It Could Happen Here

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The Importance of House Mothers in a Natural Disaster

The state didn't really think through when they called all these people up and forced them to come sit on the border. They paid the National Guard that well, that's what they're being paid. Initially, their taxes were not being withheld or anything. So that was employment. And then for a while, they were trying to unionize because they were not getting the benefits of a regular deployment. The ones who were working in law enforcement already as police officers, firefighters, paramedics and such also do not accrue their hours toward their pensions so they're taking another hit for that.

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