Law in Contemporary Society

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<		As Trump continued to dominate Republican polls, his wall building proposal has gone from being outrageously incredulous

According to the OED, the use of "incredulous" to mean "incredible" has been obsolete since 1750.

to being deceptively effective. The fuel for this "madness" is the deep fear for immigrants, as they "take over" jobs, settle in large numbers, supposedly commit crimes, and insert their foreign language and culture into what is perceived to be what pure America should be like.

Perhaps. But this needed some evidence, which the polling data concerning Trump supporters plentifully reported on should have supplied.

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>		As Trump rises to a political height no one thought he could have, his wall building proposal has gone from being unbelievably naive to being deceptively effective. The fuel for this "madness" is partially the deep fear for immigrants, as they "take over" jobs, settle in large numbers, supposedly commit crimes, and insert their foreign language and culture into what is perceived to be what pure America should be like. [1]
 

In America

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