Republican Congressman: Trump’s Border Crisis Is a ‘Myth’ (house of representatives, illegal)
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Congressman Will Hurd of Texas is an increasingly lonely voice in the “build the wall” Republican Party of Donald Trump. A 41-year-old former undercover CIA officer, Hurd represents one of the largest congressional districts in America, Texas’ 23rd, a vast expanse of land roughly the size of Georgia that stretches from San Antonio to El Paso.
Hurd’s district includes 820 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, more than any other member of the House of Representatives. But if you’re expecting Hurd, who was narrowly re-elected to a third term last year, to support President Trump’s “big, beautiful wall” and stand with the decision to partially shut down the federal government over the fight, you’ve got it all wrong. Trump’s border crisis is a “myth,” Hurd tells Rolling Stone, and a wall made of cement or steel slats is a “third-century solution to a 21st-century problem.”
There has been a crisis at the border for decades and our elected have been kicking the problem down the road for years. No one wants to confront it because they know the push back they would receive. Trump is trying to do something and they hate him for it.
How can the crisis be a myth? A few months back the caravan of thousands of people forced their way in to Mexico then made their way to our border. Imagine thousands of poor people showing up in your town or city all at once. They need food, water, shelter, healthcare and once they are stabilized the kids need education while the adults need something productive to do to keep them out of trouble. What if they can't or won't work? Is it our responsibility to hand them money to survive?
How is that not a crisis?
There is supposedly another caravan of 10,000 on its way and what happens when the poor people of Venezuela decide to make the trek? We could be facing hundreds of thousands of people that will stop at nothing until they get in.
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There has been a crisis at the border for decades and our elected have been kicking the problem down the road for years. No one wants to confront it because they know the push back they would receive. Trump is trying to do something and they hate him for it.
How can the crisis be a myth? A few months back the caravan of thousands of people forced their way in to Mexico then made their way to our border. Imagine thousands of poor people showing up in your town or city all at once. They need food, water, shelter, healthcare and once they are stabilized the kids need education while the adults need something productive to do to keep them out of trouble. What if they can't or won't work? Is it our responsibility to hand them money to survive?
How is that not a crisis?
There is supposedly another caravan of 10,000 on its way and what happens when the poor people of Venezuela decide to make the trek? We could be facing hundreds of thousands of people that will stop at nothing until they get in.
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
68,299 posts, read 54,213,280 times
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Originally Posted by Cape Cod Todd
There has been a crisis at the border for decades and our elected have been kicking the problem down the road for years. No one wants to confront it because they know the push back they would receive. Trump is trying to do something and they hate him for it.
How can the crisis be a myth? A few months back the caravan of thousands of people forced their way in to Mexico then made their way to our border. Imagine thousands of poor people showing up in your town or city all at once. They need food, water, shelter, healthcare and once they are stabilized the kids need education while the adults need something productive to do to keep them out of trouble. What if they can't or won't work? Is it our responsibility to hand them money to survive?
How is that not a crisis?
There is supposedly another caravan of 10,000 on its way and what happens when the poor people of Venezuela decide to make the trek? We could be facing hundreds of thousands of people that will stop at nothing until they get in.
A wall will stop them or at least slow them down so they can be caught.
I just don't get it. Why are so many people against border security? They think it is a joke.
Walls work PERIOD.
Have you or anyone you know ever been a victim of a crime by someone that was in the country illegally? If you are Pro illegal alien then probably not.
A wall will force people that are attempting to break our immigration laws to go around the barrier to a place that we can monitor and pick them up easier. If they have a proper case for asylum then they will be heard. If they are just trying to get into the country to scam our system and or continue their chosen trade of drugs dealing, sex trafficking, murder etc.. why would we want them to come in?
If Right Wingers love their cheap labor does that mean that the Left Wingers love their lay about sponges that suck up our welfare as long as they vote Democrat that is ??
There is nothing racist about protecting our country from people that bypass our established laws and sneak in in the dead of night.
There has been a crisis at the border for decades and our elected have been kicking the problem down the road for years. No one wants to confront it because they know the push back they would receive. Trump is trying to do something and they hate him for it.
How can the crisis be a myth? A few months back the caravan of thousands of people forced their way in to Mexico then made their way to our border. Imagine thousands of poor people showing up in your town or city all at once. They need food, water, shelter, healthcare and once they are stabilized the kids need education while the adults need something productive to do to keep them out of trouble. What if they can't or won't work? Is it our responsibility to hand them money to survive?
How is that not a crisis?
There is supposedly another caravan of 10,000 on its way and what happens when the poor people of Venezuela decide to make the trek? We could be facing hundreds of thousands of people that will stop at nothing until they get in.
How many poor needy people does a crisis make?
Oops. I guess you just blew your entire theory. I guess a wall won't help then.
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