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So where do you build a wall in a river that floods? "Barriers built in the Rio Grande floodplain will either wash away during floods or become dams that worsen the flooding." THIS stuff needs to get out to the ignorant population. https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-pla...-9b2fe78df789/
Aries63,
In El Paso there is currently a wall that has been built on the US side, throughout the course of the city. This wall has been here since I moved here in 2005 and has not washed away.
In El Paso there is currently a wall that has been built on the US side, throughout the course of the city. This wall has been here since I moved here in 2005 and has not washed away.
A barrier already existed when I lived there briefly in 1968.
So where do you build a wall in a river that floods? "Barriers built in the Rio Grande floodplain will either wash away during floods or become dams that worsen the flooding." THIS stuff needs to get out to the ignorant population. https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-pla...-9b2fe78df789/
They will take land owned by American citizens on the American side of the river by eminent domain, and then build the wall there. And if it floods, then they will just take more land farther away from the river, and build it. If Trump is allowed to get away with it, eventually they will build a secondary wall 100 miles from the border. Which is evident by all the immigration checkpoints being set up 100 miles from the border. That is the first step to a secondary wall.
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Governor Gruesome has her priorities all wrong instead of going after Trump focus like a laser beam on...Income is up and poverty is down in New Mexico, new Census data show, but the state still lags behind the rest of the country in economic growth and remains one of just two states where more than 1 in 5 residents live in poverty.
“There is relatively little movement out of poverty,” said Jeffrey Mitchell, director of the Bureau of Business & Economic Research at The University of New Mexico. “The poverty rate declined, but less so than other places.”
The portion of New Mexicans living below the poverty line is 20.4 percent, down from 21.3 percent in 2014, the U.S. Census Bureau says. The child poverty rate in the state dropped to 28.6 percent from 29.5 percent, but New Mexico remains second worst behind Mississippi.
A clue that politics is not the reason for either state's woes.
In El Paso there is currently a wall that has been built on the US side, throughout the course of the city. This wall has been here since I moved here in 2005 and has not washed away.
The river is just a concrete canal in El Paso. It's a regular river for most of the other 800 miles. Walls work in urban areas they don't work in the boonies.
The river is just a concrete canal in El Paso. It's a regular river for most of the other 800 miles. Walls work in urban areas they don't work in the boonies.
it depends on where you are. If someone attempts to cross around Big Bend, it would be extremely difficult. Same with Falcon Lake. Fort Hancock, not as much: https://goo.gl/maps/gW7uobZ2BDz
Better to militarize our border than to militarize the world. Our troops belong here far more than they belong in the middle east fighting illegal wars, and helping destroy secular regimes that certain theocratic and quasi-theocratic parties don't like.
I just want us to have a functioning border and real immigration enforcement, however it's done, as though we are a sovereign nation with defined geographic outlines. I did not vote for this illegal-first governor.
Democrats: (1) you can't build a wall, because it won't work (nobody expects it to work on its own) (2) you can't build a wall, because it will work, and it would be immoral to prevent anyone from coming here who wants to.
I'm not overly concerned with the details. Okay, maybe it won't be physically possible to build a wall across the entire border. Build as much of it as is possible, and take other measures for other stretches. And then take all the other immigration-enforcement steps that are necessary, many of which Trump barely ever mentions.
Democrats: (1) you can't build a wall, because it won't work (nobody expects it to work on its own) (2) you can't build a wall, because it will work, and it would be immoral to prevent anyone from coming here who wants to.
I'm not overly concerned with the details...
Reason: it won't work and it's a stupid waste of money.
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