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by Sunblynd 5.0 on November 10th, 2006
Should anyone caught trying to illegally cross the border be taken as a slave?
by Want To Sleep With A Miner on July 30th, 2011
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When was the last time you smuggled someone into the country
by FartyMcFart on May 24th, 2011
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If a legal immigrant enjoys benefits,why are there still so many illegal immigrants?What entices them to be illegal?
by francis5k on July 1st, 2011
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Why do you never hear a Republican say America should step up prosecution of employers who hire illegal immigrants‘ during a debate?
by Freedom00 on September 29th, 2011
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Your state passes law allowing government to heavily fine and/or shut down businesses that hire illegal aliens..agree or dis?
by Occams Electric Razor on June 3rd, 2011
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Has nothing to do with education or psych or culture. Only citizens can serve on juries.
by Scifisuz on April 18th, 2007
There's still a real ''risk'' that fundamentalist Muslims (for example) are sitting on juries all over the US. Simply being born in the US does not exclude one from being uneducated, having a limited ''psycholgical ability'' or being a supporter of rape.
by Carmella on July 25th, 2008
CC - all good pts. The law says "a jury of your peers" ...has (or may have) nothing to do with personal prejudices, belief systems, religions, educational level or morality.
by Scifisuz on July 28th, 2008
It wouldn't matter anyway, at least in the US, a very large pool of people are summoned for duty, many will not sit the trial. Everyone is examined by both the prosecution and the defense. Either side can disqualify a person from sitting on the jury. Any real extremes that might interfere with the juries impartiality should be discovered, and even if they are not these kinds of extreme viewpoints tend to lock up juries, which at worst results in a hung jury, and a retrial. It's a unanimous vote to convict in the US not a majority vote.
by Billybob_the_Bobber on December 2nd, 2010