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By Igor Volsky
During an appearance on a local radio station Thursday morning, Texas Senator John Cornyn (R) claimed that people from all over the world are now entering the country illegally through Texas and insisted that any Congressional effort to reform the immigration system must invest in border security.
You gotta stop the flow of people coming across and my friends and your friends Edd who have places in South Texas tell me, as a matter a fact a guy told me last night, he said weve got people coming across our place speaking Chinese, French and basically all of the languages in the world, coming through and across our southern border, Cornyn said during an interview on KSEV.
While lawmakers agree that border security should be part of any comprehensive immigration reform package, the U.S. border is more secure than ever before. Border crossings are at 40-year low falling to their lowest level since the Nixon administration and net undocumented migration is at or below zero. Border agents patrol every single mile of the border every day and the vast majority of the border already meets one of Homeland Securitys highest standards of security.
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http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/03/28/1787161/top-republican-warns-of-french-people-illegally-crossing-the-mexican-border-in-south-texas/
Idiot!
sadbear
(4,340 posts)Will no one think of les enfants?!?
Shit! They've already gotten to me.
Cirque du So-What
(25,811 posts)'Commies,' 'illegals,' etc., are all invoked whenever it suits their xenophobic purposes - no matter how long ago the bogeyman ceased being scary. If the goopers ever decide to rename themselves, I'd vote for reviving the 'know-nothing party.'
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)We've heard this one before
Scuba
(53,475 posts)loudsue
(14,087 posts)have been feeding on the fucking loco weed growing out in the prairie, and they've all got mad cow disease. (Yes, I know. That's not how they get mad cow in other places. But stay with me here.... ) Their brains are being destroyed from the inside.
That's all I can figure.
tblue37
(64,979 posts)I bet they're on Cornyn's radar now.
SDjack
(1,448 posts)There are lots of French speaking people who are not French. Probably, he was referring to Haitians, West Africans, and SE Asians.
"There are lots of French speaking people who are not French. Probably, he was referring to Haitians, West Africans, and SE Asians."
...there are. Racist dog whistles? He also said "basically all of the languages in the world."
I maintain that he is an idiot. Was the "but" intended as a defense?
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)You've got dirt poor border counties there where there are two vehicles for every sheriff's deputy. But they can only drive one at a time.
OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)Mopar151
(9,965 posts)These goobers think in talking points. They are only interested in validating their own feelings and beleifs. If an actual fact becomes a talking point, it's pretty much by coincedence. And if someone refutes a talking point, for whatever reason - they become the enemy.
sarisataka
(18,197 posts)Me dire par mes frères francophone du Canada ne pas être pris par les ins à la frontière Mexicaine!! L'horreur est trop lourd à porter!
Sacrebleu!
JHB
(37,128 posts)...unless they're really bad ones.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)with his F-102 Delta Dagger.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Our vast array of fast food restaurants?
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)They are refugees from socialism, and from the dreaded Bureaus du Mort, which pitilessly deny care to those deemed unworthy.
Of course, you'll never find out about that from the librul media.
librechik
(30,663 posts)will be thrilled!
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)by those sneaky Canadians, you know...
Instead of raising suspicions by coming right over the border we share with them, they're floating on giant ice cubes taken from their igloos, down to the west coast of Mexico, where they make their way into the US to spread their evilness throughout the land.
First it was Celine Dion and Justin Bieber
Next it will be Poutine and moosemeat pot pies.
ceile
(8,692 posts)The border is extremely well patroled. You don't fuck w/ TX Border Patrol. They are some scary people.
struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Now that Jorge is gonna be the state land commissioner, with no qualifications other than his last name, expect the GOP to be a lot nicer than they were.
French and Chinese speakers will be the new enemy, so now they'll lay off those speaking Spanish. Which is fine by me.
I'm wondering what kind of deals JP Bush is prepared to make to suit the oligarchs as the land commissioner. And to hear him wooing Texans in Spanish. I hope he doesn't pull off the folksy routine like GWB did.
Battleground Texas is in for a hard haul stamping out the GOP but OFA is probably set to help the Democrats there. Hope that DFA will help flip the state as well.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)slipped over the Southern Border, while nobody was looking. When someone makes a statement like that, you just KNOW that they do not have two brain cells left in their head to think things through, before opening their mouth.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)accomplish. Sadly, some prominent posters here on DU play into that same bullshit.