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Old 01-14-2017, 10:32 AM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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I thought I had heard it all. Mexico won't pay, too long, too hard, too costly, won't work, tall ladders, tunnels. Now comes this, but does a wall even need and "architect?"

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/t...135500463.html

Members of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Society of Civil Engineers, which include architects and engineers around the country, are both bound by codes of ethics, which might conflict with building a border-wall. The codes include statements like, "Members should uphold human rights in all their professional endeavors" and "exercise unprejudiced and unbiased judgment."
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Old 01-14-2017, 10:34 AM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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Do "human rights" include protecting people who are violating various laws in this case.

It's not a "human right" to illegally immigrate to another country.
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Old 01-14-2017, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Former land of plenty
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Grandsons of the builders of the Berlin Wall will come in to take their place.
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Old 01-14-2017, 10:36 AM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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Do "human rights" include protecting people who are violating various laws in this case.

It's not a "human right" to illegally immigrate to another country.

Isn't that the job of the Congressional 'Ethics' Committee?
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Old 01-14-2017, 10:37 AM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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Isn't that the job of the Congressional 'Ethics' Committee?
That's an entirely different subject.
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Old 01-14-2017, 10:40 AM
 
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A wall that blocks illegal immigrants from coming in and murdering citizens is consistent with Human Rights. Its that simple.
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Old 01-14-2017, 10:42 AM
 
Location: Keller, TX
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https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/109-2006/s262

Senators Biden, Obama, Clinton, Schumer, and Feinstein all voted to secure the border in 2006. Yet by 2016 you were racist scum if you wanted to do so. What changed?
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Old 01-14-2017, 10:52 AM
 
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Senators Biden, Obama, Clinton, Schumer, and Feinstein all voted to secure the border in 2006. Yet by 2016 you were racist scum if you wanted to do so. What changed?
Donors handing out money in support of globalism. Not limited to one party either. Trump couldn't be bought.
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Old 01-14-2017, 10:59 AM
 
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https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/109-2006/s262

Senators Biden, Obama, Clinton, Schumer, and Feinstein all voted to secure the border in 2006. Yet by 2016 you were racist scum if you wanted to do so. What changed?
Only in Trumpland does 700 miles of fence equal a 2,000 mile "impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall," (Trump's words, not mine.)
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Old 01-14-2017, 11:05 AM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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You know the "architect" is a hack when he warns that the Great Wal of China cost 400,000 lives. What does that mean? We will lose 400,000 lives building a wall in 2017? That said, there are legitimate questions. What do the landowners think? How much land do they lose due to set back etc. ? What about Rio Grande? Is the land beyond the wall still ours? Which segments don't need the wall due to natural barriers and how long are they?
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