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Old 02-13-2019, 08:49 PM
 
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Sounds like people are losing patience with inept politicians and getting border security done themselves. First with We Build The Wall and now this. More power to them all!

Two members of the Texas House of Representatives are preparing a bill that would provide $2.5 billion to fund a border wall. The proposal would take the money from Texas’ “Rainy Day Fund.”

https://www.breitbart.com/border/201...n-border-wall/
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Old 02-13-2019, 08:53 PM
 
Location: NE Mississippi
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A 2014 study from the Federation for Immigration Reform (FAIR) concluded that the cost of providing education, health care, law enforcement, and social/government services to migrants who entered the U.S illegally is an estimated $12.1 billion per year. The costs today could be higher as the percentage of migrants classified as FMUA or UAC increased dramatically.
Fair enough. Using Texas money should (but won't) silence those who say it's a waste of money.
Using the $12B confiscated from El Chapo ought to finish the deal.
It's getting built one way or the other other.
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Old 02-13-2019, 09:00 PM
 
Location: Long Island
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They would be better off if they enforced E-Verify, grandstanding.
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Old 02-13-2019, 10:53 PM
 
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Good. Hopefully they’ll put it completely around their state.

Anyway, that’s rubbish. Texas will never build a border wall. If you know conservative Texans like I do, you’d know their mouths are way bigger than their actual intentions. They’re the very definition of “long on mouth, short on action.”

If they could build a wall around all the bull**** they talk, it’d reach the planet Uranus. 🙄
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Old 02-13-2019, 10:56 PM
 
Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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There going to build a wall along a river? What about wildlife and shifts in the river?
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Old 02-13-2019, 11:01 PM
 
Location: Springfield, Ohio
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The problem with that is most Texans don’t want a wall.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/s...152402734.html
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Old 02-13-2019, 11:17 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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What Texans did they poll?
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Old 02-13-2019, 11:23 PM
 
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Fair enough. Using Texas money should (but won't) silence those who say it's a waste of money.
Using the $12B confiscated from El Chapo ought to finish the deal.
It's getting built one way or the other other.
Chapo is not running the cartel anymore though, he no longer has access to cartel funds, whoever the new guy is, has that access now.
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Old 02-14-2019, 12:34 AM
 
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
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If you know conservative Texans like I do, you’d know their mouths are way bigger than their actual intentions. They’re the very definition of “long on mouth, short on action.”

If they could build a wall around all the bull**** they talk, it’d reach the planet Uranus. 🙄
That's called "All hat, no cattle" in Texas.

And if they even tried that - there will be endless lawsuits over getting the rights for the land via eminent domain.
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Old 02-14-2019, 12:38 AM
 
Location: New York
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Sounds like people are losing patience with inept politicians and getting border security done themselves. First with We Build The Wall and now this. More power to them all!

Two members of the Texas House of Representatives are preparing a bill that would provide $2.5 billion to fund a border wall. The proposal would take the money from Texas’ “Rainy Day Fund.”

https://www.breitbart.com/border/201...n-border-wall/
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That's called "All hat, no cattle" in Texas.

And if they even tried that - there will be endless lawsuits over getting the rights for the land via eminent domain.
Well, isn't that special bless your heart.


Let me know what that means in Texas.
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