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Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says

posted by martyb on Friday February 15 2019, @03:52AM   
from the President's-precedents dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

"President Trump will sign the border security compromise package on Capitol Hill to avert another government shutdown and will take the extraordinary step of declaring a national emergency to obtain funding for the border wall, the White House announced Thursday."

https://foxnews.com/politics/mcconnell-says-trump-prepared-to-sign-border-security-bill-and-will-declare-national-emergency

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• Re:Not with a whimper, not with a bang... Re:Not with a whimper, not with a bang... (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @08:43AM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @08:43AM (#801462)

  And if the wall drops illegal immigration by half, you’ll eat crow, right? Or will you just start crying “muh Russia”.

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• mmm, crow mmm, crow (Score: 3, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Friday February 15 2019, @06:21PM (2 children)

  by fyngyrz (6567) on Friday February 15 2019, @06:21PM (#801698) Journal

  And if the wall drops illegal immigration by half, you’ll eat crow, right?

  Hell, you might have to. You'll sure be eating fewer — and more expensive — fruits and vegetables.

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  • Re:mmm, crow Re:mmm, crow (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @06:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @06:47PM (#801711)

    So weird to see people supporting slave labor, not just this about also regarding China.

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    • mmm, ignorance (Score: 4, Informative) by fyngyrz on Friday February 15 2019, @07:45PM

      by fyngyrz (6567) on Friday February 15 2019, @07:45PM (#801742) Journal

      So weird to see people supporting slave labor

      WRT the general wash of immigration from the south:

      • You really need to go learn what "slave labor" means
      • Immigration law minions and their sycophants are the primary force stopping these people from learning a trade off-hours
      • Immigration law minions and their sycophants are the primary force stopping these people from working at jobs they can demonstrate the required skills for at any point
      • Immigration law minions and their sycophants are the primary force separating these people's children from their parents
      • The vast majority of working immigrants are here because they want to be here — if they want to leave, they certainly can
      • What you perceive as an undesirable circumstance is often a significantly better circumstance than these people faced elsewhere
      • Here, they may start low, but very few people (other than immigration law minions and their sycophants) are stopping the vast majority of them from bettering their positions

      WRT the drug issues that are attributed to border porosity:

      • All of the violence and every sector of the USA's black market in drugs arise due to our drug laws — not drugs
      • A great deal of the popularity of recreational drug use is because it's perceived as forbidden and "edgy"
      • A great deal of the harm done by recreational drugs use is consequent to unregulated, low-quality production of same — because it is illegal
      • Stop the idiotic drug war, and you will kill the entire impetus driving the black market in them, and in so doing, you will eliminate the vast majority of the violence, theft, bribery, and cross-border trafficking of recreational drugs

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