• Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Here is a prosecution summary page of the Iran-Contra scandal: https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/prosecutions.php

    Despite all the clearly illegal activity, only one guy got 16 months prison for lying on his tax returns. Everybody else got probation or pardoned.

    So I don’t think a well connected poultry CEO would ever actually do time for such a thing. It’s a nice thought tho.

    I agree there needs to be better pathways to legal immigration. The US population growth is slowing and is projected to decline. Need more Americans.

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      10 months ago

      Well currently there is nothing to arrest them under. We’d need congress to create a law to do it. Since they won’t fix the border. I can’t see them creating a law to punish their donors .

      It’s a nice idea to hold people accountable.