Compromise? There is nothing to compromise. Either Trump gets a wall or he doesn’t. The wall won’t cost $5.7 billion. It will be $40-50 billion at least, not even including the costs of eminent domain (those Republican border ranchers are really gonna love the government come and taking their land) and the litigation that will come from the takings as well as the massive ecological disaster the proposed construction would cause.
We already know Trump (Lucy Van Pelt, holding a football) can’t be trusted. Mitch McConnell (Charlie Brown) already trusted Trump’s lying, got a very rare UNANIMOUS vote in the Senate, and then Lucy pulled away the football and the turtle ended up flat on his back.
Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi is not fooled. She grabbed the football and said, “No thanks, I’ll just punt.”
THERE IS NO NEED FOR TRUMP’S PHONY VANITY WALL.
Illegal crossings at the southern border have declined steadily every year for the last ten years because of previous TARGETED fence construction at high-risk sites, in which Democrats joined with Republican on a bipartisan basis, and other policies enacted with bipartisan support at the end of Dubya’s tenure and implemented by Obama. Apprehensions of attempted illegal crossings on the Southern border are currently at a 46 year low.
It is not an emergency.
Total number of arrests for those with suspected possible terrorist connections (numbers are one-year figures for 2018 from TRUMP’s Dept of Homeland Security):
Compromise? There is nothing to compromise. Either Trump gets a wall or he doesn’t. The wall won’t cost $5.7 billion. It will be $40-50 billion at least, not even including the costs of eminent domain (those Republican border ranchers are really gonna love the government come and taking their land) and the litigation that will come from the takings as well as the massive ecological disaster the proposed construction would cause.
We already know Trump (Lucy Van Pelt, holding a football) can’t be trusted. Mitch McConnell (Charlie Brown) already trusted Trump’s lying, got a very rare UNANIMOUS vote in the Senate, and then Lucy pulled away the football and the turtle ended up flat on his back.
Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi is not fooled. She grabbed the football and said, “No thanks, I’ll just punt.”
THERE IS NO NEED FOR TRUMP’S PHONY VANITY WALL.
Illegal crossings at the southern border have declined steadily every year for the last ten years because of previous TARGETED fence construction at high-risk sites, in which Democrats joined with Republican on a bipartisan basis, and other policies enacted with bipartisan support at the end of Dubya’s tenure and implemented by Obama. Apprehensions of attempted illegal crossings on the Southern border are currently at a 46 year low.
It is not an emergency.
Total number of arrests for those with suspected possible terrorist connections (numbers are one-year figures for 2018 from TRUMP’s Dept of Homeland Security):
Airports: 2,170
Northern border with Canada: 91
Southern border with Mexico: 6