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[Leader of the Banned]

I happily gave you an "Agree". The people collectively known as "Leader of the Lakeview Poppas" check those boxes: willfully ignorant, uninformed, feeble-minded.

Poppa is referring to people who think Trump has a strategy.

 

[PoppaJ]

Poppa is referring to people who think Trump has a strategy.

I can’t understand why anyone would want to allow the president to spend money on a project not approved by Congress and with no idea what the total cost will be. I really don’t understand the willingness to give money to a known conman.
I would support a bipartisan study, including independent experts, to be done to determine the cost and effectiveness then have congress vote on it before spending billions for the unknown.

 

[Leader of the Banned]

I can’t understand why anyone would want to allow the president to spend money on a project not approved by Congress and with no idea what the total cost will be. I really don’t understand the willingness to give money to a known conman.
I would support a bipartisan study, including independent experts, to be done to determine the cost and effectiveness then have congress vote on it before spending billions for the unknown.

The wall was just a campaign strategy. It's the modern day "chicken in every pot".

Report: Trump campaign advisors only invented border wall idea to make sure he slammed immigrants in speeches

 

[Kaydence]

@Emerald Drifter Roaches?

Racist much? Yes, it sure sounds like you are!

Michael Light, a criminologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, looked at whether the soaring increase in illegal immigration over the last 3 decades caused a commensurate jump in violent crimes: murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

"Increased undocumented immigration since 1990 has not increased violent crime over that same time period," Light said in a phone interview.

You can believe your Spanish speaking, career detective, forensic criminologist
wannabe (whose name you didn't bother to cite) but I'll leave it to real experts in the field!

Regarding "illegals" or undocumented workers. For 15 years or better, Trump hired illegals to work in his resorts, many of whom had worked for him since the early 90's. Only when the pressure mounted and Trump resorts came under investigation into the hiring practices of his resorts did he jump ship and abandon his hard working employees when, initially their legal status didn't matter to him. Can we say "hypocrite"? And just so you know...illegal immigrants have paid more in payroll taxes (undocumented immigrants have paid $12 billion dollars in taxes, every single year) than Donald Trump has in the last 20 years...money I might add they don't get back!!

Even Bloomberg reported Trump’s new Washington hotel — located just blocks from the White House —owes electricians, wood workers and a plumbing and heating business more than $5 million for unpaid labor.filed. Liens filed with the District of Columbia in November and December show the business owes electricians, woodworkers and a plumbing and heating business more than $5 million for unpaid labor. Should I mention the Government owns the building?

 

[Emerald Drifter]

Please provide quote by me to back up your claim because I don’t believe I ever said that.

It was a question, leading yes, but a question. If you were President, what would be your border policy? In other words, how do resolve the ILLEGAL immigration issue in this country?

 

[Kaydence]

Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2016 and 2017 — FBI

Active Shooter Incidents in the USA 2016-2017

I know it is easier to make the bogey man be someone from another country. That is human nature but the problems inside are a much more dangerous to our nation than any outside threat. Time to reexamine our own problems, before blaming them all on someone else.

@Emerald Drifter It's so much easier to blame Mexico for all the ills at our border but even the FBI concedes its an "inside job". If we can't secure ourselves how the hell are we going to secure the border???

 

[Emerald Drifter]

How will a wall stop this?

Do you really not understand how a border wall/fence, a physical barrier will dramatically lower the number of illegals coming across our Southern border? Please tell me this is a rhetorical question so we can have meaningful debate here.

If you need an example, look no further than when Israel built a fence network along its Southern border with Egypt, the Sinai.

Illegal entry to Israel from Egypt is a mere fraction of what it was just last year, new data from the Immigration and Population Authority has revealed.


While 9,570 citizens of various African countries entered Israel illegally in the first half of 2012, only 34 did the same in the first six months of 2013 – a decrease of over 99 percent.

New Data Shows 99% Drop in Illegal Entry

 

[Emerald Drifter]

What percentage are employed at various Trump properties?

What percentage of illegals built the homes in SoWal? What percentage of builders in Walton County employ illegals?

 

[Emerald Drifter]

The wall was just a campaign strategy. It's the modern day "chicken in every pot".

Report: Trump campaign advisors only invented border wall idea to make sure he slammed immigrants in speeches

But, but...Chuckie Schumer sponsored, in 2013,
S.744 - Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act

Or we can hear Hillary advocating sending kids of Illegals back:


Or go back to BILL Clinton, in 1995 from his SOTU speech:
01:02:52

Bill Clinton
All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens. In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

This was too easy Leader...

 

[PoppaJ]

Do you really not understand how a border wall/fence, a physical barrier will dramatically lower the number of illegals coming across our Southern border? Please tell me this is a rhetorical question so we can have meaningful debate here.

If you need an example, look no further than when Israel built a fence network along its Southern border with Egypt, the Sinai.

Illegal entry to Israel from Egypt is a mere fraction of what it was just last year, new data from the Immigration and Population Authority has revealed.


While 9,570 citizens of various African countries entered Israel illegally in the first half of 2012, only 34 did the same in the first six months of 2013 – a decrease of over 99 percent.

New Data Shows 99% Drop in Illegal Entry

As I said, have congress vote and pass a bill after a thorough study as to cost and effectiveness. Don’t just give money for a figure pulled straight out of trump’s ass.