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Old 02-05-2019, 10:47 AM
 
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They'll need to change Texas law. I was informed by my son, can't do drones all over. The rules are very specific.

He past his drone test, but said he couldn't use it the way he wanted to in Texas, due to current law.
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Old 02-05-2019, 10:50 AM
 
Location: Texas
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What the border REALLY needs is enough x-ray scanners to screen every vehicle (or at least, every cargo truck) at the ports of entry.

Because that's how most illegal labor and drugs get in.

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Old 02-05-2019, 11:09 AM
 
Location: SE corner of the Ozark Redoubt
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What the border REALLY needs is enough x-ray scanners to screen every vehicle (or at least, every cargo truck) at the ports of entry.

Because that's how most illegal labor and drugs get in.

No, it is not.
That is how most of the stuff that fails to get in, get caught.

And sometimes, the stuff that gets found at the ports of
entry is a diversion, like the huge load of fentenal discovered
a few days ago, to keep the focus there, instead where the
wall is needed.
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Old 02-05-2019, 11:19 AM
 
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This.

Which is exactly why Democrats are such proponents of "technology" and so irrationally opposed to a wall.

It let's them get a foot in the door and claim asylum, tying up the courts, while disappearing and popping out an anchor baby.
You mean like how all the fake news loving right wingers ignore the hundreds of tunnels between Mexico and the US and pretend the wall will solve all?

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Old 02-05-2019, 11:22 AM
 
Location: Houston
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Eliminate the primary incentive- employment.
You've touched on the one thing no pro-waller will even acknowledge. The wall is just a smokescreen concocted by Trump to rally his ignorant base. You'll never see illegal immigration curtailed in any meaningful way because these wealthy, predominantly conservative business owners will never give up their source of cheap immigrant labor. It's just not going to happen.
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Old 02-05-2019, 11:32 AM
 
Location: Texas
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No, it is not.
That is how most of the stuff that fails to get in, get caught.

And sometimes, the stuff that gets found at the ports of
entry is a diversion, like the huge load of fentenal discovered
a few days ago, to keep the focus there, instead where the
wall is needed.
Right...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ll/2591279002/

The cartels are driving those tractor trailer rigs through the desert to avoid the ports.

But thanks for sharing.

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Old 02-05-2019, 11:34 AM
 
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We are already paying 15 an hour in most big cities so how exactly do you think that would work?

We can't deport Americans even if they are anchor kids.

Last, if you can't run a business legally, it should fail. Every Single Time





It's much cheaper to demand that these greedy employers hire Americans for a fair wage rather than to pay illegals less because they are costing the taxpayer over $100 billion a year Yes, it is only the greedy employers who benefit from them because they only pocket the profits while pass the above on to us and no savings on to the consumer. Why would any sane person defend illegal aliens based on the above? Those so-called cheap meals and products aren't so cheap after all, are they? Such lame arguments to defend illegal aliens, isn't it?


Illegal aliens also send billions out of our country back to their homelands not spent in our economy. American workers don't do that.
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Old 02-05-2019, 11:49 AM
 
Location: SE corner of the Ozark Redoubt
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... Such lame arguments to defend illegal aliens, isn't it?

Illegal aliens also send billions out of our country back to their homelands not spent in our economy. American workers don't do that.
You and I are probably wasting our time, since we are discussing this with people who think it is easier to dig a tunnel under a field, than to walk across it, and think the the only way to move supplies is by tractor trailer. (Not to mention they must think that trucks cannot go where there are no paved roads.)

I even had one tell me that American land has no value.
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Old 02-05-2019, 11:53 AM
 
Location: Texas
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You and I are probably wasting our time, since we are discussing this with people who think it is easier to dig a tunnel under a field, than to walk across it, and think the the only way to move supplies is by tractor trailer. (Not to mention they must think that trucks cannot go where there are no paved roads.)

I even had one tell me that American land has no value.
You...

...pretending you can tell me about the border.

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Old 02-05-2019, 11:56 AM
 
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Fiber optic cables. Genius. Could combo it with drones

https://www.businessinsider.com/fibe...er-wall-2019-2
So they storm over the cable, eventually cut it and then head to the car wash in Dallas.........
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