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originally posted by: Voteforpedro
a reply to: shooterbrody
Bottom line is, if you don't live here and you aren't a US citizen and have no plans to migrate here, then you have no skin in the game, thus, no say in any of this. So just STFU, we don't really give a crap what your opinion is. We'll be just fine. Can't see the wall from NZ, can you?
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: Breakthestreak
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: Breakthestreak
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
originally posted by: chr0naut
Have you considered that the drug lords who aren't already living stateside will fly over the wall in their private 'planes, or travel around it in their yachts? ... and they'll offer lifts to their henchmen, too.
Several thoughts there.
1. The "Drug Lords" are businessmen. The guys running the cartels actually do fear the US legal system because that system can take something from them which they truly love: their money. The mules, not so much... you're talking about people with nothing to lose.
2. Most of the violent illegals in the US aren't allied with the cartels. They are small time thugs the cartels, themselves, have driven out of Mexico and into the US.
3. Ever hear of the Aerostat program or the Coast Guard? Nothing flies or sails into the USA without an eye in the sky seeing it... not as easy when dealing with people crossing the same land masses as other similarly sized animals under the cover of darkness. The Dept of HLS miss the land based night crossers because they have chased shadows that proved to be coyotes, deer, cows, etc too many times. The wall ends that confusion entirely because livestock and large wildlife don't climb 40 foot high walls with electrified concertina wire atop them.
Drug Lords in the US - a Google search
Narco-submarine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Drones become latest tool drug cartels use to smuggle drugs into U.S.
New Times Investigation: Drug Traffickers Are Buying Up Planes in South Florida
Drug cartels using new 'go-fast' boats that are almost INVISIBLE to radar on Central American smuggling missions
... and what ATS thread would be complete without:
Allegations of CIA drug trafficking From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wall ain't gonna do nuthin'.
Nuthin except stop illegals from sneaking across open land borders in the dark of night.
Right?
Oh that’s right, we don’t want that to be stopped.
No, stop the criminals. Absolutely.
Stop branding innocents as criminals, also absolutely.
Because you have law granting asylum, which can only be requested from US soil, some hopefuls cross the border and surrender to the guards just so they can request asylum.
They are being compliant with the law.
Do it at the border entry point. Apply for asylum at the border entry point.
The wall will still allow that to happen.
Follow the process WITHOUT sneaking across the border under cover of darkness
Do you imagine that the people at San Ysidro trying to apply to enter will eventually get through?
Immigration 101: Why Can’t Immigrants Just “Get Legal”, “Get in Line” and Get Their Papers? - America's Voice
The only way left open to them is undocumented entry.
originally posted by: projectvxn
a reply to: chr0naut
The only way left open to them is undocumented entry
Too bad. No one has a right to enter the nation of another unannounced.
originally posted by: Voteforpedro
I don't see you offering any alternatives to building a border wall. Show me one, just one, that is not cost prohibitive, is manageable and is effective.
originally posted by: Voteforpedro
a reply to: queenofswords
I may be wrong, but if the 8 year old diseased interloper stayed in whatever place he migrated from, I am fairly certain he would be down for breakfast on his 9th birthday. To say he was "killed" is slanderous and offensive. Border Patrol exhausted every option in an attempt to save this kid. Unless you have been in the unenviable position of trying to save a child and failing, I suggest you cease your rhetoric. No one stands by and watches a child die and to imply this was the case only codifies that you are lacking the mental capacity to discern reality from your fantasy world.