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Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2019, 08:32 PM Jan 2019

Border Patrol agents unintentionally debunked Trump's case for the wall

Source: Quartz

By Ana Campoy 22 minutes ago

During a South Texas visit on Thursday, Donald Trump again stated his case that a wall along the Mexican border is the only way to prevent criminals from sneaking into the US, part of his renewed campaign to get funding for the project.

The US president made his pitch at a roundtable on border security, flanked by mounds of seized drugs, cash, and weapons that he presented as evidence of the border crisis he claims his proposed physical barrier would stop.

Except many of those items were actually intercepted at legal ports of entry, not the in-between places Trump wants to wall off.

It’s yet another reality check on Trump’s pet project. Experts have been pointing out the logistic and legal impracticalities of building a wall across the entire length of the US-Mexico border since then-candidate Trump made it a keystone campaign promise.

Read more: https://qz.com/1520651/border-patrol-agents-in-texas-showed-trump-why-his-wall-wont-work/

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Border Patrol agents unintentionally debunked Trump's case for the wall (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2019 OP

why I stopped sending paychecks to the people protecting the border keithbvadu2 Jan 2019 #1

Uugghh every photo of him Ohiogal Jan 2019 #2

Yes, that gaping maw is ALWAYS open, & did you ever think people would get sick of a Pres. voice? Judi Lynn Jan 2019 #4

On NPR this morning they talked to a few Border Guards Talitha Jan 2019 #3

Every photo in the Oval office always shows a totally bare desk, or 1 with 2 or 3 papers, spread out Judi Lynn Jan 2019 #5

LOL, he's so busy he has 2 telephones on his desk! FSogol Jan 2019 #6

You can see he has lots to read and can hardly keep up with it.... rgbecker Jan 2019 #7

keithbvadu2

(36,799 posts)

1. why I stopped sending paychecks to the people protecting the border

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Jan 10, 2019, 08:59 PM

Jan 2019

why I stopped sending paychecks to the people protecting the border

Ohiogal

(31,997 posts)

2. Uugghh every photo of him

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Jan 10, 2019, 09:27 PM

Jan 2019

that ugly pie hole is always wide open!

Meme makes an excellent point, however.

Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts)

4. Yes, that gaping maw is ALWAYS open, & did you ever think people would get sick of a Pres. voice?

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 11, 2019, 06:52 AM

Jan 2019

Just the sound of it, or the memory of hearing it at all, ever, can make one gag endlessly, without divine grace holding you up every moment of your life! 🤢

Talitha

(6,587 posts)

3. On NPR this morning they talked to a few Border Guards

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Jan 10, 2019, 09:35 PM

Jan 2019

And, depending on the specific area, they said they need better facilities, drones, night vision, that kind of stuff.

Naturally, there were a few who said they'd take a 'wall' if there was extra funding for it. But if not, they'd just keep on doin' what they've been doin' - no big whoop.

WHAT I'D LIKE TO SEE is an area-by-area list of needs, compiled by the folks who work the borders. Obviously Dump's "the wall will take care of everything" mentality just doesn't cut it with the people who are actually WORKING in the border areas. Not that Dumpy would know anything about the word "working". (insert LAZY-ASS graemlin here)