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For a long time now I've been for increased legal immigration and ease of legal immigration and just as strongly against illegal immigration. So you can see how I would be pretty big on border patrol being relatively heavy handed. That ended this afternoon.
I'm still just as strongly against illegal immigration but the border patrol being too aggressive is infringing on one of the most fundamental rights of the Mexican folks. Which is to say, catching the bigass flathead catfish that live in the Rio Grande. There's a lot of things I'm willing to allow for a solid border and rule of law but fucking with the pursuit of huge, delicious flathead is not among them. I'm going to have to revisit my views on river policy.
For them of you what ain't aware, most catfish over five pounds start getting unfortunate amounts of yellow, fatty meat that is other than the light, flaky, delicious meat that you expect to enjoy when experienced on a dinner plate. Now you can cut it out but that always seems wasteful, which is part of why a lot of catfish folks throw back anything over a certain size. Flatheads taste better than blues and channels (what you eat if you order catfish at a restaurant) to start with because they eat live bait almost exclusively and hardly have the yellow fat issue at all; if you catch an eighty pound flathead, you can expect to enjoy every bit of meat on it. They're also the most challenging to catch of the catfish in the US.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Sulla on Thursday September 19 2019, @01:29AM (3 children)
Screw those people. Mexico is a soverign country and non-Mexicans have no right to steal those fish.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 19 2019, @01:41AM (1 child)
The wall would be on US soil, the river is the boundary belonging essentially to both/neither. In other words anywhere it was would require a boat to fish.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @07:21PM
No, there is very much a boundary line. It might be hard to distinguish in a river, but if you ever go out onto Lake Superior you can bet your ass there are Canadians and Indians waiting to arrest you for trespassing over their borders.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @08:03AM
I love how at least two people thought this was a good comeback (poster and moderator). I am talking about U.S. land because they can't build a wall down the middle of the river or in most of the wetlands. Therefore, there would be strip of U.S. and Texas land between said wall and the real border, which means you would have to cross said wall to reach it. And, crossing said wall would require reinspection by Border Patrol at a port of entry or ICE because I highly doubt they will have the entries located anywhere other than at openings in said wall. Or I guess they could just put other openings, as required by usage needs, without inspection points, like they did in the We Build the Wall "wall" but that kind of defeats the purpose of a wall in the first place.
Or I guess you could be suggesting that we will be giving Mexico the land between the wall and the border.