Me thinks you went to the Roger Waters concert 1 too many times?
You’ll notice that that change did not require a Trump-eque wall. Existing structures, along with fear of new policies, did that. Indeed, the fall-off started before Trump had a chance to even enact any new policies.
I have heard that there is a great deal of discontent with Obamacare, and most Americans would prefer to scrap it and just keep their coverage under the ACA.
Imagine that. The mere suggestion of enforcing existing laws made a 40% difference. Trump’s supporters got it. The illegal immigrants got it. That just leaves…
Most Americans would have preferred not to get screwed by the ACA in the first place. They went to the polls and the result of that was both houses of Congress changing parties along with the President.
So then you agree with “Hell no, we don’t need a wall!”?
Kinda backs up my assertion - A well-maintained Border Patrol force is entirely adequate to the need, without any wasteful boondoggle white-elephant wall.
Border patrols are fine in unpopulated areas but not in urban areas.
Disagree, strongly.
I spent a LOT of time in San-Dog, and surrounding cities. Border Patrol were flexible, responsive, and able to detect many of the kinds of penetrations that a wall won’t stop - like tunnelling and vehicular scams.
Indeed, the only real issue at the Port of Entry there is that 1) there weren’t enough agents, and 2) policies prevented or inhibited pursuit and apprehension in a number of scenarios.
At least re-filled holes wouldn’t leave us with a 2000-mile long eyesore that pisses off our neighbors.
And make Trump pay for it.
A physical wall is literally what he proposed, which is why he is ridiculed for it. Of course, now that he’s got to make good on it, it’s a metaphorical wall.
Sharpened sticks are too 18th century. Lasers! Deadly gamma-ray lasers, zapping between concrete bunkers! Bonus: they can be aimed up, to zap North Korean missiles!
There is a lawsuit, now, filed on environmental grounds. The wall would be a hazard to the normal habitat of endangered species.
(I’d be interested in seeing how the wall is intended to deal with gullies and gulches. The desert gets the occasional flash flood of remarkable intensity. Will there be culverts to deal with such flooding? And if so, what keeps people from passing through? Are we looking at some kind of Watergate here?)
Is that a metaphorical lawsuit? Or metaphorical environment? Or metaphorical…“endangerd”, “Species”, “hazard” etc…?
Fortunately, Scott Pruitt is now in charge of the EPA. He’ll protect us from the environment.
It’s gonna be a wall! A beautiful bigly wall! The most tremendous wall anyone has ever built, better than the ‘Great’ Chinese wall, more popular than the Vietnam Wall, and more impenetrable than the Berlin Wall that Hitler built to keep the Russians out! It’s going to be a fantastic, powerful wall to end all walls. No little bit of rain is going to damage our wall. Don’t worry about it, folks, we’re going to get the best, the absolutely best wall builders to build our wall, and Mexico is going to pay for all of it! I promised, therefore it is true.
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Trump even tried to walk back the wall, but then saw that everyone was too excited about it, and then reluctantly said they’d build one.
I’m pretty sure that was the point when he found out it wouldn’t work. But lying to make a deal is what he does. And now he’s counting on a very basic psychological principle where people defend their choices to cover for it.
Problem for him is, I don’t think it’ll be enough. Because he’s making those same people pay for it. The people who see taxes as stealing from them.
'Whole new interpretation of ‘Environmental Hazard…’