Rex wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 6:15 pm
Yes, that’s the way I read it—cynical. It’s saying there are two sides of this argument: people who don’t want illegals around and support a muscular approach on one side, and people who don’t want illegals around but don’t have a position on what to do about it except to criticize the other side.
Or, we could continue the process of allowing asylum seekers into the country pending hearings, and deporting those who overstay visas or sneak in through the border the way we have for the past 50 years. Since the number of illegals entering or overstaying is at an all-time low, I don't understand why we suddenly have a national emergency crisis that requires the President to shutdown the government, and try to build a pointless fucking wall to appease his base, after Congress voted against it. Trumps claim of not having enough room is completely and utter bullshit. His policy of separating children from their parents is an attempt to flex his masculinity, dehumanize legal and legitimate asylum seekers, and treat them so cruelly they won't want to come. Another thing the media completely misses, is that the asylum seekers ARE entering legally. Asylum seekers are supposed to enter the country, and claim asylum. And if a judge rules they have a legitimate claim, they are granted legal residency, and if not, they are deported. Trump is trying to fix a problem that has actually been improving, so why do the Dems suddenly need a solution or else cave to the whims of a fear mongering race baiter screaming doom and gloom of murderous rape-monsters flooding into the country?
Most Dems in Congress support increasing technology at the border to help Border Patrol, and I agree with that. We can increase our ability to patrol the border, but a fucking wall is pointless, because walls are already in place at otherwise easy crossing points, and building his 2000 miles of big, beautiful wall will cause all sorts of problems, and large sections would have to be built inside the US due to rivers and terrain, so asylum seekers would be legally inside the US before they got to the wall, so it would be fucking pointless. I forgot the numbers, but the government would have to confiscate enormous amounts of land from private land owners who don't want to give up there land. It would cut off huge amounts of cattle ranches, golf clubs, farms... but Trump doesn't give a fuck, he can't be bothered with details, laws, or reality. He wants his big, beautiful wall so he can brag about building the most tremendous wall of anyone in history. Also, he needs to continue to cause fights to keep his base agitated. They don't care what he is fighting about, they just need to see him swinging his saggy orange ballsack around acting like a tough guy pissing off Libs.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt