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Old 03-30-2017, 09:47 AM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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A saw a news article that Hispanic contractors bidding on the wall are getting death threats.
We've come a long way, haven't we? German-Americans bombed the s---t of their ancestral home and nobody accused them of betraying their "community." Now you want to dig a foundation for a wall and you are accused of treason.
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Old 03-30-2017, 09:48 AM
 
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I am not sure if mom and pop contractors are equipped to build something like this. Give it to Bechtel and they will subcontract it out. I wonder at what point people start believing that the wall is really going up after all.
Your making the assumption that Mexican American contractors bidding on the wall are mom and pop. That's probably not the case by a long shot.
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Old 03-30-2017, 09:49 AM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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My God, President Trump's plan is starting to make sense......

Hire a bunch of Mexican firms to build the wall....

Then refuse to pay them after the work is completed....sort of like his New York and New Jersey deals.....

He WILL make Mexico pay for the Wall!

MAGA! Rahr!
This is one place where affirmative action could work for Trump. Contract out the wall to Hispanic firms and let them fight it out.
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Old 03-30-2017, 09:52 AM
 
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This is one place where affirmative action could work for Trump. Contract out the wall to Hispanic firms and let them fight it out.
I tried for humor....I failed....tough crowd....
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Old 03-30-2017, 09:57 AM
 
Location: Stasis
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Don't trust them, Mexican contractors will build a back door or weakness into the wall..... like a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port, with a shaft leading directly to the reactor system.
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Old 03-30-2017, 10:06 AM
 
Location: Elysium
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And maybe because of the language requirements Hispanics make up a large percentage of US Border Patrol Agents
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Old 03-30-2017, 10:12 AM
 
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Y'all voted for him. Lol
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Old 03-30-2017, 10:15 AM
 
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This is one place where affirmative action could work for Trump. Contract out the wall to Hispanic firms and let them fight it out.

Just send ICE to every Home Depot in the nation and shanghai all the day laborers standing outside.
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Old 03-30-2017, 10:36 AM
 
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I am failing to see what the controversy is about. Hispanics do own businesses, and they do bid on projects. The wall is not an anti-Hispanic wall, it is a wall to assist in keeping people from entering the country illegally.

It will be a prime contractor bidding and winning, and hundreds of subcontractors working on it.
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Old 03-30-2017, 10:39 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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It has been a running joke about illegal aliens building the wall. That's not quite true but this one comes close.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.a36427c6d55b

I guess "Money Trumps Ideology"
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