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#6051

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In lighter news with the border immigrant crisis in #EaglePass, they are a great spectating crowd for the golf course next door.

 

 

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#6052

Dems are pathetic for just going along with this "crisis" framing. People are being herded, forcibly, by a police force. Then, when the media makes a spectacle of the herd, politicians are falling over themselves to label it a "crisis," as if these artificial crowds are somehow any different from or worse than 7AM at ABIA.

People have migrated for centuries, and they will continue to migrate until the end of time (which could be soon, given the actual crisis of global climate change). I guarantee not a single person in that crowd has fentanyl on them either.

#6053
Basically. Republicans refuse to take action on high grocery prices/health-care prices for millions of Texans. https://t.co/IhYjCQ9izc


 

 

#6055

The R’s have the house, they’re free to pass anything border related 

but then they couldn’t sit and bitch about biden’s ‘open border’ !!!

or fund raise off it 

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#6056
5 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

The R’s have the house, they’re free to pass anything border related 

but then they couldn’t sit and bitch about biden’s ‘open border’ !!!

or fund raise off it 

Yep.  The GQP has no desire to do anyting related to the border.  FYI, the 115th Congress was controlled by rhe GQP and had Trump in the White House.  Why did they not do anything then?  Rather, they shoved through tax cuts for billionaires.  Republican voters are complete morons.

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#6057
55 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Yep.  The GQP has no desire to do anyting related to the border.  FYI, the 115th Congress was controlled by Congress and had Trump in the White House.  Why did they not do anything then?  Rather, they shoved through tax cuts for billionaires.  Republican voters are complete morons.

Deputy AG Lisa Monaco says the Biden admin keeps asking Congress for more immigration judges, "We asked Congress in our latest budget request for a lot more money and authority to hire more immigration judges."House Republicans complain about the border then block funding.


 

more judges would be a great start !

#6058
4 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Republican voters are complete morons.

This can’t be stated often enough. 

#6059
9 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Yep.  The GQP has no desire to do anyting related to the border.  FYI, the 115th Congress was controlled by rhe GQP and had Trump in the White House.  Why did they not do anything then?  Rather, they shoved through tax cuts for billionaires.  Republican voters are complete morons.

 

From 2016 until 2018 Republicans controlled the House, the Senate & the Presidency.For those 2 years the GOP did FUCK ALL about securing the border.In 2019 Dems introduced a Border Funding Bill.EVERY Republican but 2 voted NO. The GOP is a ridiculous clown show. 🤡

 

#6060
On 12/21/2023 at 10:57 PM, InkaUtexas said:

Fuck MAGA. I am about Human Rights. But I also do not believe in open borders. I believe in controlled borders. I for sure do not believe in closed borders.

And did they? Reagan had a good idea. We made this argument about politics and not rights. I am against that. Fuck the left and the right on this issue.

My eldest’s high school years were scarred by the loss of a couple of good friends, who had to move to be with family who were US citizens. Parents deported after decades in the US, Productive, successful people.

On 12/21/2023 at 9:38 PM, Boss Hogg said:

Cartels now make a lot of money bringing those people through. That will be tough to stop, but doing nothing and screaming “racism” at people becomes less viable as time passes. 

Receipts, motherfucker.

 

Here’s what I learned, with little effort:

Experts say the renewed growth coincides with a gradual reboot of legal immigration, like processing visas and vetting refugees, which had all ground to a halt during COVID.”

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/14/1199417599/immigrant-population-us-foreign-born-census-bureau#:~:text=The immigrant population in the U.S. is growing again Census,gradual reboot of legal immigration.

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#6061
On 12/23/2023 at 8:57 PM, tx 3 putt said:

Made up crisis. The R’s need this story line to go after biden in 2024 

President Biden was negotiating with the Senate on both sides to include border security and aids to Ukraine. Sen Johnson is blocking the deal.

 

 

Is Adams a useful idiot in this made up crisis?

 

The asylum seeker crisis is a national crisis that needs a national solution. We're convening local elected officials from across the country to call for that solution. Join me and the mayors of Chicago and Denver now: https://t.co/weYJ3Dz0J1

 

#6062

We need more courts across the board 

asylum seekers a whole different animal. those are the people being bussed north 

#6064
2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Ron Johnson is not delaying this because of the border. He’s stopping any more aid to Ukraine. That’s what this is about. 


he’s putin’s hand in the senate, it’s well known 

https://rollcall.com/2018/07/09/after-moscow-trip-ron-johnson-says-election-meddling-overblown/
 

also, not sure why any red blooded american would be against this ….

Seems like a no brainer to me. Half the Russian army destroyed, that's 50% for 5% of our defense budget and no lost American lives. What is wrong with Republicans? Of course that is a rhetorical question, we know what is wrong with them. Traitors. https://t.co/gQAUOZoHnx


 

 

#6065
1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Ron Johnson is not delaying this because of the border. He’s stopping any more aid to Ukraine. That’s what this is about. 

And that's what GRUhorn Boss Hogg, along with his one-off socks in the DT Ukraine thread, wants.

#6066
49 minutes ago, bolverk said:

And that's what GRUhorn Boss Hogg, along with his one-off socks in the DT Ukraine thread, wants.

Precisely.  Strong Russia = more opportunity for dark money, corruption and grifting, which are the core values of the GQP.  

#6067
10 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Precisely.  Strong Russia = more opportunity for dark money, corruption and grifting, which are the core values of the GQP.  


I prefer a republican parry that treated russia like the enemy. Old ronnie would be pumping aid into ukraine 

#6068
1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:


I prefer a republican parry that treated russia like the enemy. Old ronnie would be pumping aid into ukraine 

Well he’d probably be pumping money into some shadow organization that half-assedly supported Ukraine so he could maintain plausible deniability in case things went south, because that’s how he rolled.  But yeah he would like to defeat Russia.  

#6069

As much as I detested Reagan, I often wonder how things would have gone down if Trump was shot like Ronnie was.  Can you even imagine the whining? We’d never hear the end of it. 

#6070
16 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Well he’d probably be pumping money into some shadow organization that half-assedly supported Ukraine so he could maintain plausible deniability in case things went south, because that’s how he rolled.  But yeah he would like to defeat Russia.  

Agree, but he did defeat the USSR.

#6071
3 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Agree, but he did defeat the USSR.

Nah, we, the middle class taxpayers did, at trickle down rates and a debt explosion.  Not like today where we are doing it with castoff armaments that we don’t need, and fighting every step of the way to even provide that.  

#6072
14 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Agree, but he did defeat the USSR.

I think the USSR being ruled by a dying gerontocracy comprised of entitled, selfish shits who were desperate to cling to power had more to do with it.  

It's a good thing we'll never experience something like that.

#6074

I don’t even hear the “taking our jobs” bullshit anymore. They’ve all elevated to murderers and rapists now. 

#6075
56 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

I don’t even hear the “taking our jobs” bullshit anymore. They’ve all elevated to murderers and rapists now. 


they all get free cell phones and $2200 cash !!!!

#6076
1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

I don’t even hear the “taking our jobs” bullshit anymore. They’ve all elevated to murderers and rapists now. 

Fear pron sells to the stupids

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#6077
On 12/21/2023 at 8:29 PM, Dbeasy said:

Denying there is a problem is why elections are lost. See how that strategy works out. 

 

On 12/21/2023 at 8:31 PM, InkaUtexas said:

No one is denying there is a problem on this thread.

 

On 12/21/2023 at 8:41 PM, Boss Hogg said:

Txputt basically was. 

hell, i am too.

i have a crazy fucking idea. stick with me here because it's real fucking complicated. 

what if we just let them in?

#6078
10 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

 

 

hell, i am too.

i have a crazy fucking idea. stick with me here because it's real fucking complicated. 

what if we just let them in?

Right there with you. Vet the shit heads and let Mama and the kiddos come in. Wow, labor, tax base, etc.

So what I wrote is aimed at that. Do it there so they do not need to walk to our border.

#6079

We need more courts / processing centers / border patrol personnel / better software to track it all / more staff and avenues for aide / non political fences (in the proper locations) / speedier vetting - processing 


 

The R house can pass all that at anytime <<< this is the crisis 

 

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#6080
28 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

 

 

hell, i am too.

i have a crazy fucking idea. stick with me here because it's real fucking complicated. 

what if we just let them in?

Unchecked flow of immigrants? Into New York City? Impossible. Such a thing could never happen.

#6081
17 minutes ago, Foosters said:

Unchecked flow of immigrants? Into New York City? Impossible. Such a thing could never happen.

But then we might spell some of their names wrong! /republicans probably 

#6082
4 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

 

 

hell, i am too.

i have a crazy fucking idea. stick with me here because it's real fucking complicated. 

what if we just let them in?

The immigration system in the US, and every other country, is based upon a set of processes and procedures for gaining entry lawfully and orderly. If you let them all in, as you suggest, not only do you destroy that system, you encourage a flood of millions upon millions of people to try and cross illegally. The system is already at the breaking point in handling the volume. An unlimited volume of immigrants is not a great idea.  I don’t understand why you would advocate for this. It seems like a horrifically bad idea. 

#6083
4 hours ago, Foosters said:

Unchecked flow of immigrants? Into New York City? Impossible. Such a thing could never happen.

This isn’t pre-income tax, pre-welfare state like during Ellis Island’s heyday. 
 

5 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

 

 

hell, i am too.

i have a crazy fucking idea. stick with me here because it's real fucking complicated. 

what if we just let them in?

Because there’s laws involved with entering any country. Also, the levels of illegal immigration currently happening are straining finances and social services of multiple parts of the country. But besides that, great idea. 
 

5 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Right there with you. Vet the shit heads and let Mama and the kiddos come in. Wow, labor, tax base, etc.

So what I wrote is aimed at that. Do it there so they do not need to walk to our border.

I’m curious how all the shitheads will be vetted. Also, what’s the percentage breakdown of male vs female etc? In Europe it’s overwhelmingly young males. Is that the best makeup for a society taking all these people in?
 

As far as the tax base goes, low educated/skilled illegal immigrants are a net negative fiscally. 
 

IMG-0621.jpg

https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/rector_testimony_913.pdf

 

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#6084

Now take away the cost of enforcement from those rosters. And also do Appalachia. Or inner cities where we have failed.

Look, I know it is not perfect, and I am not advocating for an open border. I am saying there are solutions, but neither side wants them.

#6085
47 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

The immigration system in the US, and every other country, is based upon a set of processes and procedures for gaining entry lawfully and orderly. If you let them all in, as you suggest, not only do you destroy that system, you encourage a flood of millions upon millions of people to try and cross illegally. The system is already at the breaking point in handling the volume. An unlimited volume of immigrants is not a great idea.  I don’t understand why you would advocate for this. It seems like a horrifically bad idea. 

Why is it a bad idea?

#6086
Volunteers partner to make dignity bags for children at Migrant Resource Center https://t.co/5SUm8Xcx3n

 

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#6087
5 hours ago, Foosters said:

Unchecked flow of immigrants? Into New York City? Impossible. Such a thing could never happen.

right? we could disperse 10 million immigrants into hundreds of thousands of communities throughout the us and nobody would even notice. 

1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

The immigration system in the US, and every other country, is based upon a set of processes and procedures for gaining entry lawfully and orderly. If you let them all in, as you suggest, not only do you destroy that system, you encourage a flood of millions upon millions of people to try and cross illegally. The system is already at the breaking point in handling the volume. An unlimited volume of immigrants is not a great idea.  I don’t understand why you would advocate for this. It seems like a horrifically bad idea. 

whose system is it? 

54 minutes ago, Boss Hogg said:

This isn’t pre-income tax, pre-welfare state like during Ellis Island’s heyday. 
 

Because there’s laws involved with entering any country. Also, the levels of illegal immigration currently happening are straining finances and social services of multiple parts of the country. But besides that, great idea. 
 

I’m curious how all the shitheads will be vetted. Also, what’s the percentage breakdown of male vs female etc? In Europe it’s overwhelmingly young males. Is that the best makeup for a society taking all these people in?
 

As far as the tax base goes, low educated/skilled illegal immigrants are a net negative fiscally. 
 

IMG-0621.jpg

https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/rector_testimony_913.pdf

 

who makes those laws? 

we could do this if we really wanted to. instead people feel better bitching that "nobody wants to work anymore" because...? I do not know. evidently we have "record numbers" of people who want to work but i guess no, because...?

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#6088
32 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Why is it a bad idea?

For the reasons I already listed in that paragraph. If you think a flood of 10’s of millions of illegal immigrants pouring across the border with no stoppage is not an obviously bad idea, then I don’t know what else to tell you. 

9 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

right? we could disperse 10 million immigrants into hundreds of thousands of communities throughout the us and nobody would even notice. 

whose system is it? 

who makes those laws? 

we could do this if we really wanted to. instead people feel better bitching that "nobody wants to work anymore" because...? I do not know. evidently we have "record numbers" of people who want to work but i guess n

 

Your views are truly nonsense. To believe that 10’s of millions of illegal aliens pouring across the border is a good idea is simply crazy and not worth wasting any more time discussing it with you. 

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#6089
3 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

For the reasons I already listed in that paragraph. If you think a flood of 10’s of millions of illegal immigrants pouring across the border with no stoppage is not an obviously bad idea, then I don’t know what else to tell you. 

Your views are truly nonsense. To believe that 10’s of millions of illegal aliens pouring across the border is a good idea is simply crazy and not worth wasting any more time discussing it with you. 

I'm not saying we should have "illegal aliens pouring across the border. "

what I'm presupposing is that... maybe we make them legal? 

#6090
55 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

For the reasons I already listed in that paragraph. If you think a flood of 10’s of millions of illegal immigrants pouring across the border with no stoppage is not an obviously bad idea, then I don’t know what else to tell you. 

Your views are truly nonsense. To believe that 10’s of millions of illegal aliens pouring across the border is a good idea is simply crazy and not worth wasting any more time discussing it with you. 

What actual societal problems would it cause? Not would it get backed up in the courts. That’s not a problem. Hire more judges. What real world problems would there be?

#6091

Hire lawyers, send them to Central America. A peace corps for immigration. Qualify people there.

Like it or not, they are coming until the situation improves in Latin America. Lets face it and do something. It would cost less to have camps there than in the US. I know a few of the groups running them. They LOVE this shit. Double billing on diapers, oh noes, we need more water, and the price it $18 a case today.

What we need, and won't have, is a solid strategy to handle the reason for immigration while we contend with those who are here. Juan goes to school in the US? Well shit, I want him to have the best education we can provide. Maybe he will go home, a lot do, and change some shit.

 

#6092
11 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

For the reasons I already listed in that paragraph. If you think a flood of 10’s of millions of illegal immigrants pouring across the border with no stoppage is not an obviously bad idea, then I don’t know what else to tell you. 

Your views are truly nonsense. To believe that 10’s of millions of illegal aliens pouring across the border is a good idea is simply crazy and not worth wasting any more time discussing it with you. 

I don’t understand why there is no other option than “millions of illegal aliens pouring across the border”?  Why are you being hyperbolic about it?  As others have said, there is a way to handle this if we really wanted. 
 

These aren’t zombie hoards like world war Z or whatever that gif is. They are people, the vast vast majority of which, are hard working, peaceful, and just trying to find a better life. 

#6093
Two completely wild facts in this one chart. The US once accounted for 50% of global emissions! The US is on a path to be <10% soon. 🤯

 

#6095
2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I don’t understand why there is no other option than “millions of illegal aliens pouring across the border”?  Why are you being hyperbolic about it?  As others have said, there is a way to handle this if we really wanted. 
 

These aren’t zombie hoards like world war Z or whatever that gif is. They are people, the vast vast majority of which, are hard working, peaceful, and just trying to find a better life. 

Maybe you should review the posts a little more closely. That is exactly what I’ve proposed. It’s the other posters who’ve said let everyone in that shows up, with no rejection of those who try to enter illegally. If you simply let millions in illegally, what do you think happens next? When the next wave of 5-50 million people sitting in central and South America see what happened, what do you think they are going to do? 

#6096
1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

Maybe you should review the posts a little more closely. That is exactly what I’ve proposed. It’s the other posters who’ve said let everyone in that shows up, with no rejection of those who try to enter illegally. If you simply let millions in illegally, what do you think happens next? When the next wave of 5-50 million people sitting in central and South America see what happened, what do you think they are going to do? 

They’re going to come too, and it will be great!

 

3 hours ago, Foosters said:

The fun part is when this is all part of the federal bailout of California. 

Edited by Boss Hogg

#6097

You know what I love? How when our country wants to solve a problem by wreaking destruction, we think strategically: in WWII, we didn’t focus exclusively on destroying German tanks and aircraft on the battlefield. Nope. Our main strategy was to take out their sources of fuel, and the factories that built them. We went to the source, and we cut off the problem right there.

Today, if you accept the rhetoric that Latin American immigration is a super-serious crisis, and an existential threat to the US, our ENTIRE strategy, as sold to us by the folks screaming those things, is “build a wall and more border enforcement!”

We will spend billions upon billions to attack immigration “on the battlefield.” When we could spend almost assuredly LESS than that attacking the problem at its source: if we invested money in helping Central American states stabilize and have decent employment/earning opportunities (e.g., pay incentives to US manufacturers to bring some of their manufacturing back from Asia and put it in Honduras)….immigration from those countries would slow to a trickle.

But we won’t do that. Why? Everyone on here knows why, but the immigration hawks won’t admit it: having a scary brown boogeyman to point at is WAY too politically useful, and solving the issue would take that away from them. And we can’t have that. How can you spew constant fear porn if you’ve eliminated the very thing we’re all supposed to fear?

Every one of these countries existed 50+ years ago. Every one of them had a large poor population. Yet, we weren’t “overrun” with people hauling ass out of there. Hmmmm….what has changed? The conservative immigration hawks also won’t like the answers to THAT question, being that much of what changed is directly attributable to their political pals.

TLDR; the Central American immigration “crisis” is largely a creation of the American right, and is the central political foundation for the American right, so they never, ever want the “crisis” to go away. They’ve proven this by their action/inaction for the past 20 years.

#6098
58 minutes ago, Boss Hogg said:

 

 

The fun part is when this is all part of the federal bailout of California. 

Been hearing this for 35 years now. In that time, California has continued to outpace other states to cement it's status as the economic, cultural, and technological powerhouse of this country. But sure, I bet it's collapse is imminent.

#6099
3 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

Maybe you should review the posts a little more closely. That is exactly what I’ve proposed. It’s the other posters who’ve said let everyone in that shows up, with no rejection of those who try to enter illegally. If you simply let millions in illegally, what do you think happens next? When the next wave of 5-50 million people sitting in central and South America see what happened, what do you think they are going to do? 

Why is that a problem? 

#6100
3 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Why is that a problem? 

There’s a limit to how many people you can assimilate into a country/culture at any one time without significant societal disruption. That’s without considering the financial issues of taking in tens of millions more of takers from the welfare system. 

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