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Trump says that we need a wall. Te overwhelming evidence says that the wall offers no protection. A wall defeated by a tunnel is a prime example.
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Trump said the following
San Antoinio is 150 miles away from the border and has no wall.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-touts-nonexistent-border-wall-in-san-antonio_us_5c43abaee4b0bfa693c42235
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 01/20/2019 - 9:11pm
"Everybody knows" is a favorite blurb of both the Orange Gibbon and members of Cult45. I've used it with our own magatt, it works both ways, and is better than wasting time with links they won't click, read or believe.
by NCD on Sun, 01/20/2019 - 9:49pm
Good point in that it is one of his favorite phrases when he is going to do hyperbole if not an outright lie, just like "I'm an expert". And that's for decades.
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 12:26am
Combine that with "A lot of people don't know" and you have assembled all the tools you need to say stuff to people with similar gifts of comprehension.
by moat on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 10:47am
The CBP Arizona twitter feed is interesting to peruse in that it does focus on incidents that confirm a lot of Trump's favorite points, i.e., gang members, child sex offenders, people from many countries, violent activity. On Jan. 15 they retweeted a video from CBP San Diego where the agent says if they just had the extra border wall in the rural areas, that they could then use that manpower they now have to use to patrol the rural to put on more high tech enforcement. They certainly do a better job of making their case then the president does. But then most Democrats in Congress haven't opposed them getting what they say they need....
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 12:21am
Everybody knows Obama built 761 miles of border barriers. (makes it so easy!, convincing?)
And set a record for deportations of illegals, all with criminal records. Dems would approve more fencing, tech etc if it is needed, they don't want vanity projects, they offered close to $3 billion in last offer.
by NCD on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 12:39am
WaPo digital project of facts:
next it would be nice of them to do the northern border!
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 12:36am
The pinko dingbats at WaPo missed one small detail in their cartography, the whole state of New Mexico. The One of Our Fifty is Missing column in NM Magazine will have fun with this fact and let the east coast ignorants know our border patrol agents were busy last year arresting over 30,000 illegals.
At least people can now see that the existing deterrents are a combination of walls, fences and barriers and that most all of it needs upgrading and expanding. The duchbags at WaPo included the jibe that the new wall design is still scalable, duh, and so is Mt Everest. Chunky women and children won't be scaling this new wall and any climber will need equipment and some skill to conquer this vanity barrier.
by Peter (not verified) on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 11:50am
And conservative douchebags missed another important detail, per NBC:
Read more, think more, pontificate less, act like a racist smartass less.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 12:21pm
Read more, think more, pontificate less...
Well said!
Comes to mind that the pontificating with name calling as to who is good or evil is one of the biggest turnoffs for readers of comments. Why do people even do that as anonymous person on the internet? What does it do for them? Why do they think anyone else would care? It makes all the difference in making a comment interesting for the person instead to say something like that really pisses me off. Then it's an anecdotal bit of information, then they are not preaching. If they are going to preach, most people want some background on why one would be qualified to preach. Otherwise it just seems the babblings of another mad person to skip over.
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 12:37pm
Re: ICE "administrative" arrests of immigrants without criminal convictions have spiked 203 percent in the first full 14 months of his presidency compared to the final 14 months of the Obama administration, growing from 19,128 to 58,010, according to NBC's review of ICE figures. During the same time period, the numbers show that arrests of undocumented immigrants with criminal records grew just 18 percent.
Must be extremely expensive.Also strikes me as contrary to the ethos of the sentencing reform bill that the Trump administration touted. Without even getting into civil liberties issues about "sweeps", brings up the similar questions about whether any deterrent effect from word-of-mouth about "getting tough" is worth the expenditure. How many jobs saved for citizens? To be fair: jobs created for more ICE, guards, judicial system, jobs paid for with taxes in a bigger Federal government, grow it.
Proponents of a "wall" will of course say it will make this all unnecessary.
I am reminded of
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 1:10pm
Go ICE, keep up the good work. These illegal aliens, not immigrants, many if not most of whom have already committed felony level crimes outside the US by hiring other criminals to smuggle them across the border. Many of them have also committed felony level crimes in the US such as identity theft, they just haven't been caught and charged and we don't know what other crimes some may have committed.
People who virtue signal and spew weakling racism slurs and smear the people tasked with rounding up these undesirable aliens for political/ideological gain are poor examples of citizens or even human beings.
by Peter (not verified) on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 1:20pm
felony level crimes outside the US by hiring other criminals to smuggle them across the border
Nice try, asshole (pace, DoubleA...) Unauthorized border crossing is not criminal--it's more like speeding. Hence, buying space in a trailer driven by a second party is, likewise, not a crime.
You consuming air and befouling the planet with your bullshit, otoh....at the least, a crime against nature.
by jollyroger on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 1:35pm
Besides, we straight up stole Texas (which included half New Mexico ) from Mexico and then forced the Mexican Cession & Gadsden Purchase on Mexico to get that riverfront property. If we'd stayed comfortable with the Louisiana Purchase, this wouldn't have happened. But the house burglars are coming back complaining that the silverware they bagged wasn't the best stuff.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 1:41pm
When the thieves are squabbling over the loot it's hard for me to care which criminal conspiracy ends up with the lion's share.
by ocean-kat on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 2:42pm
Jolly [... asshile taunting from Peter remove - knock the bullshit off, Peter, or I just delete all your comments like I did the other (and set things up to track all your comments as spam... - PP]. Now you are an apologist for drug cartel thug smugglers and the people who make them rich. The penalty for crossing the border unassisted is deportation and a second offense can lead to jail time hardly a speeding like offense.DA.
by Peter (not verified) on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 6:44pm
For you, since you're always talking about pinkos and commies:
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 1:52pm
Rep. Will Hurd (R) Texas’ 23rd District:
from
Only One House Republican Represents the Borderland, and He Opposes a Wall
by Emily Cochrane @ NYTimes.com, Jan. 17
also says
and
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 8:16pm
More from the Texas border:
‘It’s Not a Wall,’ but Steel Slats and Barbed Wire Roil a Border Town
Mr. Trump has pointed to a project replacing two miles of fencing in Calexico, Calif., hailing it as “the start of our Southern Border WALL!” — to the consternation of many of the town’s residents.
6h ago @ NYTimes.com, Jose A. Del Real reporting from Calexico
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/23/2019 - 1:05pm