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(R) Trisha Calvarese
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(R) Donald Trump
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May 28, 2013 09:27 AM UTC
22 Comments
How many people does he want as border guards? Does he want them unionized? With full pensions?
The "secure the border" line is almost invariably used as a cliche to avoid thinking critically about the immigration issue.
Having been down near the border a few times since our obsession with border security began, I'd love to ask Rep Gardner what exactly it is that he believes is sufficient personnel.
I was stopped some 75 miles from the border in New Mexico by a checkpoint reminiscent of an actual border crossing. There were about twenty Border Patrol vehicles available at the checkpoint, "just in case". When I was down in Tucson, I saw what looked to be an entire Air Force base taken over by Border Patrol.
We have 10 drones patrolling the border, 650+ miles of fencing (out of 1929 total miles of border), more than 18,000 Border Patrol officers along the US-Mexico border. Last year it is reported that net immigration across the Mexican border was ZERO.
Gardner's about-face is just one of many that voters should consider when answering the question: will the Republican Party change its current stances? Of course they won't – they're too mired in the political extremism they themselves encouraged in order to drum up votes. Discourage that extremist base, and Republicans lose what representative strength they still maintain.
And I want to see that fence down the middle of the Rio Grande through Big Bend. It'll be kinda like a xenophoic Christo creation.
House Republicans are going to screw it up and then blame Democrats. They so dysfunctional now that they are incapable of doing anything successfully that involves the Obama Administration. The minority within this minority will prevail and immigration reform will be sacriviced for ideological bigotry.
Open Borders!
Let them all in.
. . . just say it, Corey — "If only those immigrants looked a little bit more like Canadians . . ." !!!
And spoke English as their first language.
Americans are tired of empty promises on border security. We need to reform immigration, but let's do it with our eyes open. Seal the border first, then implement the compassionate parts. Nobody wants to see people suffer, but that has to incude American workers.
Seal the border? You realize people even get through the North Korean border, and that has tens of thousands of US troops, South Korean troops, and massive minefields/fortifications defending it?
"Seal/secure the border" is often just used as a cliche to avoid thinking about the immigration issue.
Everything A-Guppy posts is 'a cliche to avoid thinking' in case you have not noticed.
As long as one brown person gets through alive, it will never be enough for Guppy. (Why doesn't he want the Canadian border sealed as well?)
I respectfully disagree. It may be a big challenge but the 21st century demands new thinking about America's security. We do need to secure the border, and we owe it to legal immigrants who play by the rules to make sure we do that before we even think about amnesty for illegal immigrants.
My opinion is very mainstream. Cory Gardner knows it, and good for him.
Romney. In a landslide.
Why not have the same rules as when my ancestors got off the boat?
That seems fair to me.
Because maybe the world is a different place? Or did your ancestors arrive recently?
1752
Sealing the border is unChristian. Ask the families of those left to die in the desert.
Huh? Sealing the border would stop those deaths in the desert. Nobody wants deaths in the desert. You're mad.
Would you use a zip lock or a zip tie to 'seal the border'?
"Build the danged fence!"
"Nobody wants deaths in the desert?" The current policy of locking down major crossing points was conceived with the full knowledge that it would lead to deaths in the desert. They told themselves it would only be a handful, not hundreds every year, but even so, they knew that people would try to go that way and some wouldn't make it. And you cheered this on, and now want to make it harder.
It's like this, guppy – economic forces trump all. It's still better in the USA than in Mexico, where our poverty is their lower middle class. People will risk anything because they have nothing to lose. And you want a Great Wall of North America. They'll just fucking sail around it, like the Mongols rode around China's.
UnChristian, like I said. Also expensive and unrealistic. Meanwhile, bridges around the country are collapsing, soldiers are screwed over when they leave the service, schools are getting more screwed up, and jobs aren't being created because your party would rather destroy this nation than work loyally with Dems.
And you think you're American? Truly American? Dead Mexicans in Arizona are more American than you.
Now I'm confused. Are there still people flooding accross our southern border? I was reading something online the other day that claimed there was more emigration to Mexico last year than immigation to the U.S., including not a few Americans ex-pats. Thanks to the greed that cause the banking collapse, the tanking of our economy, and the arrrogance of the Guppies who don't see a problem with taking from the poor to give to Wall Street, Mexico looks better to them than the U.S. Older ex-pats can live less expensively in retirement than they can here and even though the Mexican economy still sucks, a lot of their citizens have decided they if they're going to be broke and unemployed they'd rather do that at home.See, the Repubs solved the "immigration crisis" Aren't they clever?
Oops "caused"