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Simon Hankinson

@watchfulwaiter1

Heritage Foundation: Center for Border Security and Immigration. Retired FSO. All tweets, opinions, comments, and retweets are the author’s alone.

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I foresee a spate of 99-employee companies, with multiple subsidiaries retaining 99 staff. Ancient Rome used to tax by the street-front window count, so houses became 10 feet wide and 50 deep. Plus ca change…

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In Britain, I’m reliably informed, the National Health Service hires foreign doctors while half of UK medical graduates can’t get jobs. Same pattern. Same reason.

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"I never asked the United States government for anything" -- except that it ignore the law and treat you like you're special and exempt from the rules others have to follow.

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Totally on brand for Chicago teachers, whose union recently honored the “life and legacy” of Ashata Shakur, leaving out a few salient bio details. nypost.com/2025/10/20/us-…

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And imagine how many Commercial Driver's Licenses have been handed out to aliens on parole, in the asylum process, TPS, etc. who have dangerous driving records in their own countries. U.S. applicants have to show 10 years clean driving record. LPRs should meet the same bar - and

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Thanks to a new friend in the St. Andrews University Foreign Affairs Society, I visited Hadrian’s Wall. Then, as now, walls do work. Romans knew the value of citizenship and didn’t give it away for nothing. foxnews.com/opinion/new-hi…

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Classic BBC. Japan elects woman PM for the first time, and they quote only critical Zoomettes who think she “perpetuates the patriarchal system.” bbc.com/news/articles/…