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Border crisis is no different than in the past

The GOP is giving Biden a bad time over those trying to cross our border and have a very short recall. When George W. Bush was after votes in 2004 on Bill O’Reilly’s show, he was asked if re-elected would he do anything about the millions crossing our border. His reply was “they are poor people who make a dollar an hour in Mexico, up here it’s $5 an hour and have a better life. No I don’t plan on doing anything.” The Phoenix paper said over a million crossed Arizona a year.

D.C., please help us. No one knows how many millions the GOP invited in.

Damon Davis

Everett

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