task0778
Diamond Member
I'd bet big money if I had any that Pelosi's residence has a big wall around it. I bet Schumer's does too, along with most other rich people and not just in this country either. There's a reason for that, it's called security. If you can afford it, you have a big, beautiful wall built around your home to protect yourself from vandals, thieves, and other miscreants. And that is pretty much the same reason that wealthier countries build border walls and fences, to keep people from entering their territory and causing them much trouble and expense.
It ain't like in the old days when you had to worry about a military attack, nobody thinks we will be under attack from Mexico anytime soon. But we are being systematically invaded, and there are attendant financial and other problems as a result. There's no question that America has a drug problem, and a lot of it comes across our southern border every day. Anybody want to argue that we also have an MS13 problem, with gangs and criminals also entering the US illegally from the south? And there is information from Terrorist Screening Center, the group behind terrorist watch lists, that there were 7,712 terrorist encounters in the US – in just the past year. Between July 2015 and July 2016, the majority of terrorist encounters (interactions with known or suspected terror watch list suspects by law enforcement) unsurprisingly occurred in border states, with Texas, California, and Arizona ranking among the highest.
Then there is the financial aspect, how much is it costing us in dollars to support all these people who are entering our country illegally across that border over the past several decades? And how many have been killed or raped, lives and families destroyed or forever changed by somebody who isn't here via legal avenues? Sure, there is a positive side, many of them have not been a burden and many have not hurt anyone or been a nuisance one way or another, but what about the people who are? Especially the ones that keep coming back? Why the hell aren't we making it as hard as possible to keep them out?
Which leads us to the WALL. Putting up a bigass wall with cameras, drones, and other equipment to detect illegal entries is a deterrent, to ent that is to deny reality. Otherwise, rich people wouldn't spend gobs of money to put them up around their residences. It doesn't guarantee 100% security, but it sure as hell makes it a lot harder. Pelosi, Schumer, and other Dems are on record as saying the wall is immoral, ineffective, and/or unnecessary, but they didn't think so when they voted for the Secure Fence Act in 2006, which mandated the construction of multilayer pedestrian fencing along about 600 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. It passed with big, bipartisan majorities: 283 votes in the House and 80 in the Senate. Some top Democrats who are still in the Senate today supported the fence: Chuck Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Ron Wyden, Debbie Stabenow, and Sherrod Brown. Then Senator Obama did too, so WTF over?
What we oughta be doing is can the bullshit and develop and implement a comprehensive plan that reasonably secures that border and that should include a freakin' wall. And the message has to go out loud and clear, that wall is going to be big and hard to get over or dig under, because we're going to be looking for tunnels and blowing them up when we find them. There are several issues to resolve and it won't be a simple fix, but IMHO it's about effing time the US Gov't started doing it's job, specifically the US Congress.
There was a recent Gallup poll done a couple of weeks ago that listed Gov't and Immigration as the top 2 problems that most Americans think we have in this country. Every other issue was not even close. Think about that for a second, most Americans think our own gov't is our most pressing problem? Why do you think Trump got elected in the 1st place? It's mostly cuz there's a whole lot of people out there that really believe our politics is ruining this country, and I think the longer it takes to get our shit together the harder and more expensive it's going to be to right the ship.
It ain't like in the old days when you had to worry about a military attack, nobody thinks we will be under attack from Mexico anytime soon. But we are being systematically invaded, and there are attendant financial and other problems as a result. There's no question that America has a drug problem, and a lot of it comes across our southern border every day. Anybody want to argue that we also have an MS13 problem, with gangs and criminals also entering the US illegally from the south? And there is information from Terrorist Screening Center, the group behind terrorist watch lists, that there were 7,712 terrorist encounters in the US – in just the past year. Between July 2015 and July 2016, the majority of terrorist encounters (interactions with known or suspected terror watch list suspects by law enforcement) unsurprisingly occurred in border states, with Texas, California, and Arizona ranking among the highest.
Then there is the financial aspect, how much is it costing us in dollars to support all these people who are entering our country illegally across that border over the past several decades? And how many have been killed or raped, lives and families destroyed or forever changed by somebody who isn't here via legal avenues? Sure, there is a positive side, many of them have not been a burden and many have not hurt anyone or been a nuisance one way or another, but what about the people who are? Especially the ones that keep coming back? Why the hell aren't we making it as hard as possible to keep them out?
Which leads us to the WALL. Putting up a bigass wall with cameras, drones, and other equipment to detect illegal entries is a deterrent, to ent that is to deny reality. Otherwise, rich people wouldn't spend gobs of money to put them up around their residences. It doesn't guarantee 100% security, but it sure as hell makes it a lot harder. Pelosi, Schumer, and other Dems are on record as saying the wall is immoral, ineffective, and/or unnecessary, but they didn't think so when they voted for the Secure Fence Act in 2006, which mandated the construction of multilayer pedestrian fencing along about 600 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. It passed with big, bipartisan majorities: 283 votes in the House and 80 in the Senate. Some top Democrats who are still in the Senate today supported the fence: Chuck Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Ron Wyden, Debbie Stabenow, and Sherrod Brown. Then Senator Obama did too, so WTF over?
What we oughta be doing is can the bullshit and develop and implement a comprehensive plan that reasonably secures that border and that should include a freakin' wall. And the message has to go out loud and clear, that wall is going to be big and hard to get over or dig under, because we're going to be looking for tunnels and blowing them up when we find them. There are several issues to resolve and it won't be a simple fix, but IMHO it's about effing time the US Gov't started doing it's job, specifically the US Congress.
There was a recent Gallup poll done a couple of weeks ago that listed Gov't and Immigration as the top 2 problems that most Americans think we have in this country. Every other issue was not even close. Think about that for a second, most Americans think our own gov't is our most pressing problem? Why do you think Trump got elected in the 1st place? It's mostly cuz there's a whole lot of people out there that really believe our politics is ruining this country, and I think the longer it takes to get our shit together the harder and more expensive it's going to be to right the ship.