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Title: Don’t look now, but there’s more border wall news
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HotAir
URL Source: https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-sh ... k-now-theres-border-wall-news/
Published: Sep 12, 2019
Author: Jazz Shaw
Post Date: 2019-09-12 12:27:53 by Tooconservative
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Views: 6133
Comments: 30
Except that doesn’t seem to be the case. In fact, construction is gearing up in multiple locations already. More on this from the Associated Press. This 5-mile (8-kilometer) section of fencing is where President Donald Trump’s most salient campaign promise — to build a wall along the entire southern border — is taking shape. The president and his administration said this week that they plan on building between 450 and 500 miles (724 and 806 kilometers) of fencing along the nearly 2,000-mile (3,218-kilometer) border by the end of 2020, an ambitious undertaking funded by billions of defense dollars that had been earmarked for things like military base schools, target ranges and maintenance facilities. I agree with the AP report saying that 450 to 500 miles of the border wall by next year is “ambitious” (to say the least), but it’s not impossible. And as long as the new construction is focused on the areas where the most illegal traffic is crossing the border, it will make a significant difference. (We’re already seeing measurable decreases in crossings thanks to help from Mexico, but we still need a significant barrier to really drive those numbers down.) The trick that’s being used by Axios, the Washington Post, and others to claim that there’s no “new wall” being built is that they add on a caveat in the fine print. They specify “where no previous barrier existed before.” But that’s a distinction without any real meaning. Take the stretch of bollard barrier going up in Yuma for example. Yes, there was technically a “barrier” there before, but it was a barrier to stop vehicles from driving over You can walk right through there with little more than a hop. A child could do it. What it’s being replaced with is a series of 30-foot tall steel bollards. And it’s not just a wall, by the way. As the Washington Examiner reported earlier this week, it’s actually a “border system.” It includes improved lighting and electronic surveillance to detect attempted crossings, allowing law enforcement to be quickly dispatched to the scene. Yes, it’s taken a while to pull this all together and the Democrats’ stonewalling on funding certainly didn’t help, but it looks like we’re finally making progress. What continues to amaze me is the desperation among Democrats and their media allies to prevent this from happening. Either you believe that we have immigration laws for a reason or you don’t. And if they really don’t support open borders (as many of them try to claim), why would you object to a wall, fence or barrier that helps control the flow of people? The answer? Because it was the Bad Orange Man’s idea. That’s why. Poster Comment: That darned Trump. The ignoramus actually believes he should fulfill his campaign promises instead of just lying about it like the real pols do, selling people a policy and then stabbing them in the back once the election is over.
I’m sure you’ve seen the gloating headlines about border wall construction in the media from liberal outlets recently. A few days ago, Axios crowed that “not a single mile has been built where no barrier existed before.” Last week the WaPo declared that “Trump’s border wall is now a monument to his failure.” So I guess that about wraps it up, eh? No wall for you, Mr. President. South of Yuma, Arizona, the tall brown bollards rising against a cloudless desert sky will replace much shorter barriers that are meant to keep out cars, but not people.
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#1. To: Tooconservative (#0)
Well, no, it has very real meaning. Trump was allowed (by Congress) to build a wall wherever any type of wall/wire fence/barrier previously existed. Congress, however, opposed any construction of a wall where nothing existed before. Even though Trump has found some money, I'm not convinced Congress will allow him to build wherever he wants. Maybe I'm wrong.
Well, maybe we're arguing semantics and visuals. If you replace a light fence meant only to stop vehicles but that any toddler could hop across unassisted with a new steel 30' tall bollard fence, some people would consider that a new fence. For practical purposes at stopping easy crossings by gangs of migrants under coyote guides, the new fence is a world of difference from the old "fence" located in the same place. It's a much more serious class of fence than the old one. Trump is starting to deliver some real election year wins. They hate him all the more because he does try to deliver what he campaigned on. China made a token gesture to pull back 16 of its brand-new tariffs just prior to negotiations starting in D.C. China can't outwait Trump, something people believed. Because the tariffs are high enough to hurt business, the Chinese are reimbursing their merchants for Trump's tariffs. But multinational companies are seeing how much more profitable and stable it would be to relocate their factories to other countries in cheap-labor countries like Vietnam. It is the relocation of the major industrial supply chains to follow these businesses that have convinced the Chinese that they must make a deal with Trump because they will lose too much supply chain dominance if they try to outwait him by hoping for his defeat and leaving office in January 2021. The House Dems can't even describe to the press on any day whether they are or are not impeaching Trump, let alone be able to say what they are (or are not) impeaching him for on a given day. Trump has largely destroyed the value of the Ninth Circuit to the Left. They will never forgive him for that. And now the Supremes have made it clear there will be no more such hijinks at the 9th, especially during election season when the judicial subtext looks so blatantly political. That judge was a former municipal judge, not that experienced, when 0bama put him on the 9th. He was promoted for his willingness to engage in naked judicial activism. There's another 0bama community-organizer type judge in Hawaii. But their hour has come. The Supremes clipped their wings, 7-2. And Trump has had more appeals court appointees confirmed in 3.5 years as other presidents get in two terms. McConnell is going to confirm a judge in every single vacancy; I think he's encouraging the old Nixon and Reagan judges to retire now. McConnell is really making his mark on history with the courts. Trump is going to have a definable record to bring to the 2020 race. I like seeing the details of what he's doing, smashing through every barrier they try to throw in front of him. And yet, Donald Trump is not a man of any particular political talents. It's just appalling, really, that Trump, a political amateur, has managed to enact so much of the agenda the GOP has had as its platform for decades and Trump has done it while weathering regular backstabbing from his own party, unrelenting opposition of his every action by Dems, and a completely unified Dem/libmedia media complex railing against him 24/7. And look at all those GOP losers who promised us all that stuff for decades but never would be caught dead enacting any of it. Instead, they often colluded with the Dems on saving the judicial filibuster (so Dems could use it to thwart Bush) and even conspired to enact multiple Shamnesties, like Rubio or McStain did to name just two of many bullshitter GOP leaders who clearly betrayed everything they had campaigned on. 0bamaCare would have been defunded if McStain didn't feel the need to thwart Trump as a final act of hatred for him on McStain's journey to Arlington. The Stain disgraced himself in his final actions as a senator, a pettiness and vindictiveness so many of us know were far more integral to him than to Trump. Some of these GOP pols hate Trump the most because he demonstrates that a pol should keep his campaign promises and that it isn't that hard to get things done if you just keep firing or discrediting the people who think they are entitled to make executive agency policy decisions, not some mere elected president. And especially not some low character they despise like that Trump person.
Technically it's an upgrade, and the Democrats in Congress have saved face by calling it that.
Okay, then let's call it an upgrade in the spirit of sincere bipartisanship and joining hands in comity with our partisan Dem fellow-citizens. Or are we now required to call them our "continental co-residents" or something less "White" than some suspicious term like "citizen"? Yep, citizen is another hopelessly racist word, like most every word in our vocabularies. I should report myself to Twitter and demand that they ban me for Bad Thoughts.
They called it an upgrade because they promised their constituents that they would not allow Trump to build any "new" wall.
#10. To: misterwhite, TooConservative, Vicomte13 (#5)
They called it an upgrade because they promised their constituents that they would not allow Trump to build any "new" wall. They can call it what they want. But by the Presidential debates next year, upgrade and new wall will be up. Lots of new wall will be up. Promise kept. The border bots will be happy, those who were concerned with the SCOTUS and federal courts will be happy (Trump just had another 6 justices appointed today for a total of 150 for the federal benches). And as Vic says, if the DemonCrats don't figure out a way to trash the economy, Trump will have that going for him. I just gassed up the car two days ago. Regular unleaded $2.05 a gallon here in Central Texas. Average $2.15 a gallon for the area. I joked while on line with my coffee in the convenience store with the manager I said "Making gas prices great again!" (in my best Trump imitation---using my hands Yugely as well) An elderly veteran in front of me turned around and said "Amen." Then started rattling off how great Trump was and that he does what he says. Only stupid ignorant liberals are listening to their own press. No one is buying their crap and Trump has made it known the media cannot be trusted.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThey specify “where no previous barrier existed before.” But that’s a distinction without any real meaning.
#2. To: misterwhite, Vicomte13 (#1)
Well, no, it has very real meaning. Trump was allowed (by Congress) to build a wall wherever any type of wall/wire fence/barrier previously existed. Congress, however, opposed any construction of a wall where nothing existed before.
#3. To: Tooconservative (#2)
If you replace a light fence meant only to stop vehicles but that any toddler could hop across unassisted with a new steel 30' tall bollard fence, some people would consider that a new fence.
#4. To: misterwhite (#3)
Technically it's an upgrade, and the Democrats in Congress have saved face by calling it that.
#5. To: Tooconservative (#4)
Okay, then let's call it an upgrade in the spirit of sincere bipartisanship and joining hands in comity with our partisan Dem fellow-citizens.
Replies to Comment # 5. Okay, then let's call it an upgrade in the spirit of sincere bipartisanship and joining hands in comity with our partisan Dem fellow-citizens.
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