And 2,000 miles wide.
It is THISSSSSSS BIGGGGGG!
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Somebody wrote this like they were trying to save the Secretary’s job.
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My thought exactly; the Russian language does not use articles to modify nouns. Is someone in the GRU/KGB drafting these press releases?
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Isn’t it weird and absurd that that is actually a possibility?
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Frankly, nothing would surprise me at this point.
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Jeez. Press Releases are supposed to be written in AP style in the hopes that a news outlet will drop them in whole cloth.
No professional PR person would write such a release filled with poor grammar and hyperbole.
Damn…
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Sounded more like someone that’s taking his clues from the moron in the White House.
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Q: Why do many Russian speakers who speak proper English leave out the article (either “a” or “the”) when speaking English?
A: There is no definite or indefinite article in the Russian language
What you mean? You mean you! RT translate good!. What you expect from bot? Bot boy good! So say Pence.
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Hookery. Definitely. https://www.howwe.biz/celebagram/photo/1470128693.html
We laugh but, ahem, maybe DHS is using a Russian contractor for the website and/or PR? It’s not just that press release–which has by my count at least a half-dozen interesting mistakes in it–but a number of other recent DHS webpages and press releases have a similar feel.
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The terrible grammar at the beginning does cover for outright stupidity later in the statement (I assume someone copied and pasted from notes then didn’t check their grammar before publishing). As the article here mentions, it goes on to characterize the protest at the border as a “violent mob” of a thousand people who “tore” through a section of older fencing. The hole in the older fencing was from one guy with wire cutters, from what I gather.
After that, the article claims that “walls work…when it comes to stopping drugs and illegal aliens across our borders.” No evidence is offered that walls stop drug smuggling (most come in through air or water travel or hidden in trucks coming in through legal border crossings), the statement just throws that in out of nowhere.
I’m also fairly certain that a career official wouldn’t call people “illegal aliens”. The term “undocumented immigrants” is more accurate because people can’t themselves be illegal.
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ICE, and Border specifically, may well need to be abolished when the trump residency is over. The level of toxicity is just incredible.
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So sad a picture. Mean mouth, filler falling, hair extensions showing. A bit of ashes in the smoky eye too (or is it now “smocky eye”?)
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And why have we never done so, you ask? Because it’s STUPID.
Or tunnels with air, water and even trolleys to move product. Most recent finds are estimated to be in place for months before discovery. That means many tons have crossed the border.
In the “negotiation” with Pelosi and Schumer, Schumer pointed out that the tRump administration had only spent 6 percent of the money that had been allocated for the wall for 2018. Remember the back story - the Democrats offered to put $25 billion in the budget for the wall in exchange for strong DACA protections - tRump originally was going for the deal, but then shot it down (most likely at the urging of Miller and Kelly), demanding more concessions from the Democrats. They dropped the offer and the result was that tRump had brilliantly negotiated his way from $25B down to $1.6B (I read elsewhere $1.3B).
Now he wants $5B this coming year after not spending most of what he did get. fArt of the Deal indeed!
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Yep. Sometimes the pathology is too strong for ordinary reform.
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It looks to me like a Russian troll has hacked into the DHS website. The absence of articles in front of nouns is most curious. This happens to be the most illiterate thing I’ve ever think I’ve ever seen on a federal government website.