American taxpayers are continuing to fund border security measures and border walls in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Lebanon with President Trump’s signing of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spending bill..

While the United States-Mexico border received only $1.3 billion for construction of a border wall at the overwhelmed southern border with soaring illegal immigration, foreign countries are getting help from American taxpayers to secure their borders.

The Republican-Democrat spending bill signed by Trump last week provides Pakistan with at least $15 million in U.S. taxpayer money for “border security programs” a

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/18/u-s-taxpayers-fund-border-walls-in...

Jasin wrote on Feb 20^th, 2019 at 12:31am:

Just when they think they got him tied down......

longweekend58 wrote on Feb 20^th, 2019 at 10:00am:


Here is the thing that doesn't make sense.  If it really is an emergency, Trump has done everything in his power to avoid building the wall, literally the opposite you'd do if it were an emergency.

He had 2 years of control to build the wall after he'd been talking about it for nearly 2 years before winning the election.

That's 4 years of knowing about the issue, yet only now it's considered an emergency after he couldn't get funding for it, again, after he claimed Mexico would pay?

He had the offer of $25billion of funding for the wall, he turned it down.

Later he demanded $5.7billion and shutdown the government over it.

Now instead of taking the $1.3billion, he lost that and it went down to about 55 miles of fence, not even wall.

Rather than going to the negotiating table, he declared the national emergency, after admitting it wasn't necessary, and on the announcement proceeded to tell us all about how it would go to the courts etc, so he knew that would happen too.

It seems like every decision he's made is either a brilliant move in his 4D chess game of "I will say I want to build the wall, but I don't actually want to build it at all", or he can't negotiate his way out of a paper bag and is a giant incompetent fraud.

The issue is political, it's not an emergency.  He and his supporters have failed at every attempt to justify the wall.  Every single attempt.

And on top of that, there is no reason for Trump to have gone this long without getting it built already.  Yes, he's changed his slogan from "Built the wall" to "Finish the wall", but even that's a lie because none of his wall has got a dollar of funding let alone been built.

It's just spin, like, deceit and fake news.  Presidential Candidate Trump could get away with that, but sitting President Trump should be held to a much higher standard.

He's using the issue, he's using the declaration of a National Emergency for purely political purposes for his reelection changes in 2020.

There is no greater disrespect to the people, the constitution or the country than that.

Trump has done a lot of despicable things, but this is unforgivable.  The precedent he's setting is going to be disastrous for the country for decades to come.

Yet the braindead like Panther parrot the talking points, flip flop on all their past positions and show not an ounce of integrity or conviction in their claims supporting Trump against their own interests above all else.

Bloody idiots, all of them.

Jasin wrote on Feb 20^th, 2019 at 6:04pm:


going to do about the Mexican problem


What problem ?

It is better now than it was 10 years ago when it wasn't a problem ?

The fence will do nothing that actually doing nothing would do just as well if not better.

Building a fence will not achieve one of its stated goals, it's a fool solution to a problem that does not exist.

Jasin wrote on Feb 20^th, 2019 at 6:32pm:

 

Dnarever wrote on Feb 20^th, 2019 at 7:02pm:


And like FreeDiver, saying that 'Canals' would not 'help' the Australian 'Flood/Drought' situations ...but both of you do not offer a better alternative and to hide the fact that you can't provide a better alternative - you deny the 'reason' for such, as being factual.

Last year - murders, homocides, etc in Mexico 'tripled' from the previous year.
It's a nation out of control and a Wall is like a Bullet Proof Vest. That's all. Any help is good help.

So as you were saying... your 'alternative' solution to a Wall (just a start you know  ) is??????

Jasin wrote on Feb 20^th, 2019 at 6:32pm:


The problem is there is no evidence to support the "Mexican Problem" narrative, and hence there is no justification for the wall.

You'll need some evidence if you want to make those claims.