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originally posted by: TheRedneck
Uncle Tomahawk says we are being forced to invade Mexican soil to get them.
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
I didnt think this had to be pointed out because its so obvious but the women and children part was sarcasm.
originally posted by: MyToxicTash
Will .22 air rifle pellets kill women and children? If so just bring beer.
originally posted by: TheRedneck
OK, so the border wall is not a border wall now. How large a city is it between the border wall and the border?
There is a mile wide area north of the entire length of the rio grande before you reach the wall. That is about 1,900 sq miles. Of course asylum seekers just need enough space to stand on.
originally posted by: TheRedneck
We have a wall the entire length of the Rio Grande? Wow, where did that come from? I was there only a few years back and there was no wall.
So why are we debating over a wall? It's already there, right?
The area where there is a wall, and where new sections can be built, is a mile from the river.
originally posted by: TheRedneck
OK, so we can't build a wall on the border... why, exactly? My workshop is located across a stream and it doesn't impede the flow. It has 4 walls!
As for ceding property, that is done all the time in common law. If someone erects a fence between properties and each person cares for the property on their respective side, the fence becomes the property line. If one of the parties loses a tiny strip of land, too bad, so sad.
The article said it was a decades old treaty with mexico.
That isn't the case here, probably because it isn't all federal land and it was probably established in the treaty that they mentioned.
originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: TheRedneck
OK, so the border wall is not a border wall now. How large a city is it between the border wall and the border?
There is a mile wide area north of the entire length of the rio grande before you reach the wall. That is about 1,900 sq miles. Of course asylum seekers just need enough space to stand on.
If someone erects a fence between properties and each person cares for the property on their respective side, the fence becomes the property line.
originally posted by: TheRedneck
So Mexico controls the land, then. Mexico controls US soil. Sounds like it was already ceded.
So it's not part of the US, Mexico controls it, but it's US soil?
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
If they just wanted to seek asylum then why do they try to sneak past the athorities?
originally posted by: UncleTomahawk
a reply to: Alien Abduct
Except the wall is not stopping them and the numbers have increased much.
There are sections of wall where the wall is completely inside the usa and all they have to do now is go to that area on the mexican side and claim asylum and we have to go through the wall and pick them up.
NOPE!
That is not real life.