12’000.000/5 https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/trump-border-wall-ladders/ Nicol, an ardent opponent of border walls, can’t help but note the irony: asylum seekers turn themselves over to agents who then escort them through gates in the wall, while so-called regulars—unauthorized migrants—make use of rudimentary ladders to easily climb a barrier specifically designed to keep them out. “These ladders are probably $5 worth of hardware,” Nicol said, “and they’re defeating a wall that cost $12 million a mile in that location.” Rope-and-PVC ladders that make use of metal hooks are popular in areas upriver, but along the Granjeno-to-Hidalgo stretch of border, where it is a short dash from the Texas bank of the Rio Grande to the levee wall, simple wooden ladders seem to be the preferred technology. They are heavy, cheap, and rarely used more than once. Border Patrol agents drive their trucks over the ladders to break the rungs, then toss the mangled wood into piles. When the heaps grow large enough, the City of Hidalgo hauls them off to a landfill. The agents drive off with the migrants after an hour or so, and Nicol continues his search for ladders, by car and on foot, locating four more as the wall stretches westward. He finds still another in Granjeno, where the newly built 1.3-mile Trump wall joins up with a 1.75-mile piece of wall authorized during the Bush administration and built during Obama’s presidency. The cost of the Trump wall in this area—an 11.4-mile stretch from just west of Granjeno downriver to the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge—runs to about $27 million a mile. In recent months, the number of apprehensions has soared. Border Patrol caught more than 171,000 migrants along the southern border in March, the highest one-month total in fifteen years. Nicol is finding more and more ladders—further evidence, he said, that the wall is not about stopping people or drugs. “Border walls are just backdrops for politicians who want to rile up their voters,” Nicol said. “They have political value, and that’s what counts.”
In an attempt to widen my media bubble, I started following Fox News on social media. You guys would not believe how angry they are about the fact that Kamala Harris hasn't had a press conference about the BORDER CRISIS!!! in over a month. There's a new article about this every day, for some reason. And if they want to complain about the melanin lady while the white guy gets shit done, who am I to complain?
I'm pretty sure they're trying to bully the person in charge of arguably their #1 policy concern, who happens to be a black woman. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
So we are going to start flying Hatians from the Texas border to Haiti. Obviously some people are not happy, but this tweet made me make a double take. Wait... what?!Biden is planning to use the same mass airlift strategy used to bring white Afghans refugees into the country to ship massive numbers Haitian asylum seekers out of the country? Is Biden suffering from "empathy burnout" now that the faces of the needy are black. pic.twitter.com/1Iy19TGN7u— mi_keezy (@mi_keezy) September 18, 2021 I get his point a little as Afghanistan people are much lighter skin than Hatians. But I am not sure many Americans would consider them white.
I've been thinking about this, and I think it should be looked at in a different way: they are climate migrants/refugees. Sure, there was an earthquake and political instability, but I would gather the hurricane drove this migration, at least in the numbers which have appeared.
Law enforcement source on the ground at the bridge this morning just sent me this video showing the situation there. I’m told a large majority of the migrants are Haitians and more are crossing into the US and arriving at the bridge by the minute. BP w/ limited manpower @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/dHWCrhFikq— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 16, 2021
@argentine soccer fan @Yoshou @crazypete13 we already have an immigration thread. Please merge. @Karl K you may have 5e originator of that thread on ignore.
What the hell, Karl? Will you create a thread every time you have a thought? Please get up, go outside and enjoy the early fall weather.
He's here to feed his ego. And there's nothing better than seeing a lot of threads on the index page with your name as the OP.
In the end he'll be screaming about how he started these threads to "own the libs" or something along those lines. Must be exhausting to be KK.
Fantastic. Let's start with the "border" around your house, apartment, hovel...whatever. "Hey, border patrol... sorry, wrong title -- :"Hey, guys who let anybody and everybody in now, Q*bert Jones is not really into the border thing, as far as I can tell, so let's send a few drug runners, child molesters, and prospective MS-13 gang members to his now borderless place." Get the spare bedroom ready, assuming you have the wherewithal to even have one.
You're such a nice person, full of such concern. You must have had a wonderful mother. New thread for everyone of my thoughts? Sounds good. It would certainly push the characteristic idiocy in the P&CE forum to the back of the line.