The Texas lawmaker sponsoring a sweeping effort to give the state unprecedented new powers to enforce the border says that his proposal is about a few things only: fentanyl, the cartels, and saving money.
That spending comes as federal COVID-19 aid dollars used to supplement the state’s border efforts run out.
Smells like someone wants to keep a boondoggle funded.
Oh, and fr!st!
1254 miles of Texas/ Mexico border. The state has completed 1.7 miles and is negotisting for 40 more miles.
Just fyi when ya look at money spent.
There’s plenty more boon to doggle.
I ran an industrial hydraulic repair facility back in the 80s. I look at that wall and see a hydraulic jack easily opening it up in minutes. It’s laughably useless.
A State that can’t even keep the lights on is going to control the border?
I read somewhere a few years ago that someone used a cordless reciprocating saw to defeat DFG’s silly wall.
We don’t understand, because Texas says we don’t, that taxpayer money is being used to pay for a wall that means nothing except to the folks that are building the walls.
These find folks, the builders, will use the profits to recycle the money to buy their favorite politician who will use taxpayer money to get reelected.
Didn’t wind just blow some parts of the barrier down? I think they called that wind storm Mariah.
Christo would have done a better job more cheaply and definitely more colorfully!
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” – from The Wizard of Oz
I don’t know about Texas, but in Arizona parts of Wall were undermined by monsoonal flooding and toppled.
Roberto Lopez of the Texas Civil Rights Project described it to TPM as a potential way to allow local militias, who already play in informal role in policing the border, operate under color of law. That, Lopez remarked, would be another way to defray costs.
“That way they can send home the Department of Public Safety troopers and the state national guard, and the only way to do that is by having some sort of mechanism to recruit people,” he said.
There has never been a shortage of people eager to follow someone’s blueprints for ruining people’s lives.
Particularly in the Southwest when middle aged white men are engaged.
Ah yes, Ducey tried to be Trump by using shipping containers for a wall.
So it was water in AZ and reciprocating saw in Tx?
Given the threat to their burial grounds and other sacred sites, I believe the Tohono O’odham would concur.
Also, east of their land, there are some right formidable mountains; the idea of a wall literally running “from sea to shining sea” (or whatever TFeloniousG said) struck me as problematic.
And one of the pretexts is false. Fentanyl, though originating in Mexico is mostly brought in by US Citizens, at ports of entry, not migrants schlepping it across the the desert. Even the CATO institute agrees.
https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers
