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Breaking: Trump's Wall

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Carl Herrera, Dec 18, 2018.

  1. Ottomaton

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    The gratuitous use of the dropped taco just brings together the redneck Klan Neo-Nazi chic styling. Echos of The Donald's classic Trump Tower Cinco de Mayo taco bowl tweet.
     
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    I'm just pointing out what Democrats supposedly care about and how to fix the issue
     
  3. Dubious

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    I don't think many of us have an opposition to urban walls, even 700 miles of them. The question I think is why anyone thinks we need to wall off Texas from the Rio Grande.

    Rationally, the costs and the effects on the population and wildlife is much greater than any objectively evaluated benefit. What are those again? (besides maintaining the illusion that the President is in any way a competent executive)
     
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    Of course, until they are told to think otherwise.
     
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    Border Patrol union deletes 2012 anti-border wall web page that argued walls waste taxpayer money

    A union that represents agents for the U.S. Border Patrol deleted a 2012 page from their website that said building walls or fences along the U.S./Mexico border to stop desperate migrants would be “wasting taxpayer money.”

    VICE's Motherboard reports that the deleted web page was originally posted in 2012. It carried an argument against walls like the one Trump's pushing today, and said border barriers don’t tackle migration's root causes, and may encourage more migrants to enter the U.S. through visa overstay.

    The Wayback Machine archives at archive.org show the page was deleted after the union's president supported building a border wall with Donald Trump in the White House Briefing Room on January 3, 2019.
     
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    50 Years Ago, A Fluid Border Made The U.S. 1 Square Mile Smaller

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    Fifty years ago, the United States shrank by a single square mile. It all happened where the Rio Grande divides El Paso and Ciudad Juárez in Mexico.

    Ever since Texas became a state, the river has been the border between the two countries. But rivers can move — and that's exactly what happened in 1864, when torrential rains caused it to jump its banks and go south. Suddenly the border was in a different place, and Texas had gained 700 acres of land called the Chamizal (pronounced chah-mee-ZAHL), so named for a type of plant that grew there.
     
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    The issue is fixed when trump quits bonering for have a wall named after him, ends the shutdown, and republicans and Democrats can agree on increased border security (technology, border agents, repaired/reinforced barriers and increased work with other countries).
     
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    I am just hoping to wake up one morning and the Republican party leadership will have enough of this clown and lead the way to having Trump removed from office. He is the most vile, selfish, egotistic, racist, stupid, spoiled, and dangerous president we have ever had in the history of this country. I am tired of everything about him. I can't believe anyone with average intelligence or better would support anything that this clown believes in.
     
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    We can have all that after the wall is built.
     
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    Don't need the wall to do all that. The wall is causing the shutdown and delaying real border security. The wall, and trump's selfish ego.
     
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    That's what a wall is for. Walls work plain and simple!
     
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    I know that @justtxyank is issuing warnings, so hopefully he’s taking note of the racist cartoons from you and @MojoMan .
     
  14. Harrisment

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    Please point me to the posts from “they” (or anyone) that has said illegal immigration is completely made up. TIA.
     
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    Latest CNN poll:

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/13/politics/cnn-poll-shutdown-trump/index.html
     
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    Are you sure?

     
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    Tell that to El Chapo...
     
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    Why don't you add this to the "racist cartoon" list:

    Death toll in Mexico border shootings rises to 30

    Mexican authorities said Friday that a soldier and five attackers died in a clash between gunmen and an army patrol in the northern border state of Tamaulipas, bringing that state's death toll in two days of presumed gang-related violence to 30.

    A group of armed assailants attacked a military patrol Thursday on a highway near the Rio Grande, wounding one soldier who later died of his wounds, said a Tamaulipas state official, who was not authorized to be quoted by name. The official said the patrol returned fire, killing five assailants.

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