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Maybe more of these instead? :D
This rescue beacon states in English and Spanish: "Attention: You Cannot Walk To Safety From This Point! You Are In Danger of Dying If You Do Not Summon Help! If You Need Help, Push Red Button, U.S. Border Patrol Will Arrive in One Hour, Do Not Leave This Location"
 
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Funny the complaint is how much it costs the US taxpayers. It's chump change. Doing the math on the current 5 billion request, that's about $15 for every man woman and child living in the US.
........Oh wait, the greedy top 1% pay 90% of the taxes. :eek:
Lets just say the rich will pay for the wall. Maybe that will sell. :D
.......or consider the entire US budget and then figuring money flows out of the treasury 24/7, then the wall would cost 6 hours out of the entire 24/7 year.
Further yet, the 5 billion wouldn't be paid out in one year because that much wall couldn't be built in one year.
Anti Trump is the only reason for the shutdown. They can't stand him winning on his promises.
 
It would take $100 billion or more to build a wall. It would take 30-40 years to get all the court fights over easements done. The wall has to be built on private property, the government owns almost none of the border. Remember, Trump promised that Mexico would pay for it.
Just another of his many lies. Make Republicans happy. Just shoot everyone who tries to cross men, women and children. We have been murdering women and children in the middle east for years already.
 
There is a federal easement at the border that the government owns. So Obammie increased the National Budget by 8 TRILLION dollars in his term, but Trump can't get this chump change. I call BS!

By the way, Jerry Brown's "Train to nowhere" is costing 110 BILLION, and us Californians are paying for it with no outside help.
 
There is a federal easement at the border that the government owns. So Obammie increased the National Budget by 8 TRILLION dollars in his term, but Trump can't get this chump change. I call BS!

By the way, Jerry Brown's "Train to nowhere" is costing 110 BILLION, and us Californians are paying for it with no outside help.
Let the Feds take over funding. Stop all northern progress, reverse the path to start building those train tracks southward and rename it the Home Bound Border Express.
If you come to a place to apply for asylum you can. Come across any other way, and you can skip the court process, get a free bus ride to the free train ride. Sandwich and water free of charge.
 
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It would take $100 billion or more to build a wall. It would take 30-40 years to get all the court fights over easements done. The wall has to be built on private property, the government owns almost none of the border. Remember, Trump promised that Mexico would pay for it.
Just another of his many lies. Make Republicans happy. Just shoot everyone who tries to cross men, women and children. We have been murdering women and children in the middle east for years already.
That rhetoric is the problem. Nobody wants or promotes shooting men women and children trying to cross the border, Not Trump, not Republicans, Democrats or anyone.
Trump said during the campaign he was going to pull us out of Syria and he's doing it. Obama was going to close Gitmo and immediately start pulling troops from the middle East. How did that go?
 
I suppose we could just invade and take over Syria and claim it as our 51st state. :D Make a nice secure launching pad for taking over more countries. ;)
 
Obama took months do decide not to fund the rebels in Syria and stop the slaughter of it's own citizens...yet we are still there doing what? Worst case scenario if we stayed is getting into war with Russia because of accidents or intentional confrontations.
Obliterate Assad and his regime or get out. There isn't much middle ground.
 
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Turkey is going in there to wipe out the Kurds , Our Allies.. Isis will flourish.. Russia will be in there to ..
It makes this country send a message to our Allies.. You can't trust us ..
 
The border wall is just not feasible or practical. It's not like our border is just straight flat land. There are rivers, streams, mountains, and farmlands. Animals migrate over the area & building the wall would disrupt the ecosystem. Yes, border enforcement has not been effective, but only something like 4 or 6 % of the budget allocated for it has actually been approved for use. The money is there but it's not being spent. There are other ways to strengthen our security without the wall-- which I guarantee will be vandalized. If they go with this steel slat idea, it will end up as someone's artwork or smelted down and used to make something else.

There are networks of underground tunnels that would still be used to get in underneath the wall. There are still boats & planes. People will still overstay their visas, sneak in via hiding in cars & trucks, etc. The wall won't stop them if they are desperate enough.

But the whole "caravan crisis" thing is just a smokescreen and distraction. This shutdown is hurting hundreds of thousands of federal employees & now they aren't even going to get the GS increase in January (if they even get paid then). People are accusing "the libs" of caring more about illegals than about veterans-- well, there are veterans who are suffering from the shutdown. He claimed he would own the shutdown before he reneged on his agreement to sign a bipartisan budget. He lied about signing & he lied about taking responsibility. Meanwhile, his tariffs have lost us all soybean sales to China. The investigation into the Mueller investigation was completed & it was determined that it is legitimate and necessary. Pulling out of Syria is a slap in the face to our allies and a gift to Russia. Also, removing Deripaska from the Magnitsky Act sanctions is a bad move. He was put on that list for a valid reason- he's a mobster.
 
And yet the killing of yet another police officer, by an illegal border jumper, was just another smokescreen and distraction to get Trump to built the wall? Damn, he is good. He has been orchestrating this smokescreen since an illegal killed my friend David, who was patrolling 5 minutes from where I was patrolling on April 29th, 2002.

https://www.odmp.org/officer/16258-deputy-sheriff-david-william-march

Dashcam video shows moment illegal immigrant suspect opens fire on ...

https://www.foxnews.com/.../dashcam-video-shows-moment-illegal-immigrant-suspect-o...

Nov 15, 2018 - Newly released dashcam video shows the moments a police officer in ... a gun during an intense shootout with an illegal immigrant suspect ... another officer about a half-hour later and once again shot at police, officials said.
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Illegal immigrant cop killer smirks at death sentence-- and victims ...

https://www.foxnews.com/.../illegal-immigrant-cop-killer-smirks-at-death-sentence-and-...

Mar 28, 2018 - Illegal immigrant Luis Bracamontes was given a death sentence Tuesday by a California jury following his conviction in the 2014 killings of two ...
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Six years of change since David March's murder - The Signal

archive.signalscv.com/archives/1601/

Apr 27, 2008 - Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy David March was shot and killed in the ... Deputy March, traveling alone in an LASD patrol vehicle, made a routine ... America's southern border is so porous, the flow of illegal alien entry is ...

3 days ago - “There is right now a full scale manhunt going on in California for an illegal immigrant accused of shooting and killing a police officer during a ...
3 days ago - “There is right now a full scale manhunt going on in California for an illegal immigrant accused of shooting and killing a police officer during a ...
 
Several years ago, Portugal decriminalized all drugs. They have had a dramatic drop in the number of addicts. Would it work here? Who knows? Our current "war on drugs" is certainly a disaster. Since the crackdown on legal opiods, death from illegal opiods has skyrocketed. Yet in the states where pot has been legalized, deaths from opiods have declined.
Some law enforcement benefits financially from people using drugs. If your property is seized, you have to prove you are innocent they don't have to prove guilt. (civil forfeiture)
Back in the 80s the Feds would pay locals for burning pot. The sheriff's Dept, in Jackson County, Mo.
(KC) would go film themselves burning ditch weed and get paid for it. It grows wild leftover from hemp farms during WW2. Local smokers would never touch it.
 
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The entire wall/fence/barricade is not feasible. Math says there's about 1 agent every 26 miles of border if you cut the agent employment into 3 shifts.
If two agents operate together for safety, that's 1 patrol for every 62 miles. Take a dozen or three agents temporarily out of the picture while perusing or arresting people and it gets worse. People are still making it across. Lets help by doing something that works. I bet the El Paso residents and police don't want their wall removed.
Does the border patrol object to the wall?
The wall doesn't fix everything, but it will help. Why not take action in places and use methods that will work. The financing cry is a bogus call.
 
I guess they do.
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/4...s-proposed-border-would-be-absolutely-helpful
If it won't help, why would the people that patrol the border want it? We know what works better than they do??? :confused:

""It's important to note that we have 2,000 arrests per day besides the caravan. That's everyday business right now for us. We're very busy. This caravan just adds another component or another challenge to what we do daily," he said."

2000 arrest per day with 16000+ agents. The arrests take agents off patrol while the tend to those arrests, transport the criminals and do reports. I'm sure this isn't a 5 minute deal.
 
Where they gonna buy their soybeans? China imports 94 million metric tons. Doing some math suggests they need our soybeans supply and there isn't many other large sources to fill the void. The rest of the world needs them too.

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10 Countries With Largest Soybean Production
  1. USA (108.0 million metric tons)
  2. Brazil (86.8 million metric tons) ...
  3. Argentina (53.4 million metric tons) ...
  4. China (12.2 million metric tons) ...
  5. India (10.5 million metric tons) ...
  6. Paraguay (10.0 million metric tons) ...
  7. Canada (6.0 million metric tons) ...
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