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To: Diana in Wisconsin
U.S. employers who abate the illegal immigration problem by bringing in or coddling undocumented workers

The word needed here is "ABET" not abate. Abate here is grammatcally misused and otherwise is the reverse of the probable intended meaning. Abate is to lessen. Abet is to assist and encourage.

9 posted on 03/31/2009 4:53:14 PM PDT by arthurus ( H.L. Mencken said, "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.")
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To: arthurus

Must be because professional journalists have a staff of proofreaders, who poor over an article before it is released.

(/sarc)


10 posted on 03/31/2009 5:03:56 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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