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The Mexico–United States barrier is a series of walls and fences along the Mexico–United States border aimed at preventing illegal crossings from Mexico into the United States.[1] The barrier is not one continuous structure, but a grouping of relatively short physical walls, secured in between with a "virtual fence" which includes a system of sensors and cameras monitored by the United States Border Patrol.[2] As of January 2009, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that it had more than 580 miles (930 km) of barriers in place.[3]
Not really a shock to people with common sense, but this is a humiliating defeat after months of chest pounding and heated rhetoric for extremists who worship Trump.
For future reference, we dont have the authority to force a sovereign country to pay for anything. Welcome to the world.
During a town-hall meeting in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Donald Trump said if elected president he would build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border so tall that no one could scale it—or would regret it if they did. “Once they get up there,” he said, “there will be no way to get down. Well, maybe a rope, but...”
He asked for authorization to complete the wall, increase border patrol, increase electronic and areal surveillance, and make it easier to utilize the National Guard. The Congress didn't even want to talk about it.
The Secure Fence Act of 2006 was later amended by KB Hutchinson of Texas (an R) during the Bush admin to allow DHS to not build a double barrier 14 foot fence but to decide what was best. Chertoff did very little and Obama did even less. So, only a handful of miles was actually what was originally envisioned. Most of it is vehicle barriers or Normandy barriers and such.
He asked for authorization to complete the wall, increase border patrol, increase electronic and areal surveillance, and make it easier to utilize the National Guard. The Congress didn't even want to talk about it.
If you're talking about the "comprehensive immigration reform bill" that was so full of loopholes that you could drive a mack truck through it, you're right. They didn't approve it, and shouldn't have.
If you're talking about the fencing that WAS actually approved by Congress and never built thanks to the Democrats (that IS what we've been talking about here) then you are wrong.
After now years of party decimation, you should have learned that doltish chest thumping no longer impresses anyone. Enjoy this laugh, and all subsequent laughs as your party continues to shrink out of existence, and you continue to be marginalized along with all of the other snowflakes, gender fluids, anarchists, race baiters, criminals, illegals, guys who want to hang out in bathrooms with little girls, and protestors who stupidly waive Mexican flags in conjunction with signs that say "not my president."
I can feel the hate through the screen. Thanks for the wishes of " marginalization for all that are not like me ". I am not a Democrat, I vote democrat mostly because people like you vote Republican.
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