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(6,679 posts)donco
(1,548 posts)I don't speak DUMB.
JHB
(37,159 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)300 people a week sneak out?
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)And yeah, that 92.6% number I just pulled out of my arse.
Plus this is nonsense. Lose 300 Americans a week over the southern border? So we want to keep Americans IN?
FreeState
(10,572 posts)Drugs
The first false premise Trump pushed is that a border wall is needed to stop the flow of drugs into the country:
Our southern border is a pipeline for vast quantities of illegal drugs including meth, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl. Every week, 300 of our citizens are killed by heroin alone, 90 percent of which floods across from our southern border. More Americans will die from drugs this year than were killed in the entire Vietnam War.
Trumps facts are correct, but the conclusion he draws doesnt follow from them. The majority of drugs smuggled through the southern border come through official ports of entry not the areas in between them.
BigmanPigman
(51,588 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)If they can't get them in one way, they'll get them in some other way.
A big fancy wall won't help solve this problem any more than it will solve the problem of people being here illegally.
anarch
(6,535 posts)escaping "justice" (aka being locked up on some kind of drug charge)
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BootinUp
(47,141 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,946 posts)That's what they give kids for ADD.
Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)I tweet all night and I tweet all day
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Should be exhibit #1,574,673 in his committal hearing.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Explain that, dipshit. A wall is not going to stop anything. And illegal, deadly drugs are also coming in from Asia and other countries that will not be stopped by a wall.
You are so fucking clueless. It amazes me that you are able to function as an adult or anything resembling one.
RainCaster
(10,869 posts)spanone
(135,829 posts)Ilsa
(61,694 posts)cray-cray, isn't it? He needs his meds.
struggle4progress
(118,281 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Sad.