He sounds like vast, overwhelming majority of all ‘illegal’ immigrants. They want a better life. Everyone does.
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Amen
He will prob keep it all as long as he goes home
Only thing is he took a job away from a legal citizen and it’s not the type of job people here don’t want.
Also, the amount of money we already have to the Ukraine could have easily paid for a border wall. So it’s not about the money but a lack of will on both sides.
No Fentanyl? But i heard closing the border was the only way to stop that drug from killing our children.
2018 with Rs controlling everything and a bloated federal budget which raised the deficit, they still came no where close to a border wall. Why? Because its not logical. Will Hurd had some great ideas on border security which included infrastructure to help citizens in Texas but he was basically kicked out of his party for not blindly following the wall idea.
Oh, and forgot that little part where the federal government would take land from private citizens to build the wall in certain parts.
Yeah nothing will get done. Ever!
The government can not “take” land. There is a process where they exercise imminent domain to acquire land but must pay the landowner.
And landowners just love imminent domain and would gladly give up the land to build a wall.
Also, wouldnt the wall also shift our border and cede land back to mexico?
Lots of headaches for what will most likely be little more than a security blanket for scared people.
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Unpublished data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection obtained via the Freedom of Information Act showed that Mexican smugglers cut through the wall 3,272 times over three years, according to The Washington Post. In some cases, they replaced the areas they cut with tinted putty, essentially creating secret passages.
One report last year found some smugglers were building effective ladders with about $5 worth of material. In another famous case from 2020, a stiff wind knocked over a segment.
Well if we do a wall, national e verify with heavy employer fines and no benefits it drys up
But anyway gotta do all 3 to work just not a wall.
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E Verify is the biggest deterrent but we have seen politicians look at it as a third rail they dont want to touch for the fear of upsetting employers who want cheap labor.
Instead, they go do photo ops at the wall.
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No politicians really wants border security. It’s all politics to rile up the base.
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Didn’t say steal, maybe take isn’t the best word but the government would get it one way or the other. Probably is good to point out that it would be tax payer money being used to over pay for the land as well. But is it possible to win against the government when imminent domain is used? Land to a lot of people is more valuable than any sum of tax payer money that is thrown at them.
The government can take land under the 5th amendment with compensation.
Randy, I am sure there are many politicians that do want border security.
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