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Title: GOP Budget Axe Turns Trump's Wall Into a Fence
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NY Daily News
URL Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol ... l-wall-fence-article-1.2867648
Published: Nov 10, 2016
Author: Dan Gunderman
Post Date: 2016-11-10 14:19:09 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 9297
Comments: 28
President-elect Donald Trump once said, “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border.” But it turns out that glorious promise may wind up being a modest fence.
Republicans in the House of Representatives are hoping to discuss an alternative border plan with Trump once his transition team is firmly set in place, Reuters reports.
It could prove to be the first advance that House Republicans make in defusing the quixotic rhetoric from Trump’s lengthy campaign.
On Wednesday, just a day after Trump won the White House, congressional aides told Reuters that they plan on discussing a less costly option to Trump’s grand — and expensive — wall.
Their plan includes more border fencing and increased patrol via federal agents, many of whom are a part of a labor union which backed Trump’s bid for the presidency.
A double-layered fence would hypothetically be laid across the nearly 2,000-mile border. This contrasts Trump’s vision of a tall, impenetrable, brick-and-mortar wall.
A House Republican aide and an official from the Department of Homeland Security maintained that a wall is not practical, for it would reduce visibility for those patrolling the border, and it would have to be erected on rough terrain, even bodies of water and private land.
Mexico reiterated the fact that they would not finance a border wall — which Trump suggested could happen while stumping on the campaign trail. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto did, however, congratulate Trump on his victory over the phone before saying they agreed to work towards a relationship of trust in the future.
After the president-elect rode the escalator down Trump Tower in June 2015 to announce his candidacy, he said, “I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me — and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”
According to the Reuters report, immigration law expert Steve Legomsky believes that Congress will not fund a vast wall, but to save face, the new president and congressional leaders may agree to extend the existing fence.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell underscored the importance of border security on Wednesday, saying that they’ll achieve it “in whatever way is the most effective,” Reuters reports.
Trump takes office January 20, 2017, but the plan’s specifics could be introduced to the president-elect once his cabinet has been named.
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And already they begin to backstab the gullible fools who voted for Trump.
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It is beginning to sound like We are being sold out already.
#2. To: Willie Green (#0)
Are these the same heroic congresscritters who stood up to Trump in the primaries?
#3. To: Willie Green (#0) (Edited)
PRESIDENT elect DONALD TRUMP.
Brings tears to you doesn't it.
#4. To: rlk (#1)
If it stops the illegals from crossing the border, who cares what it looks like?
#5. To: Willie Green (#0)
"... are hoping to discuss an alternative border plan with Trump once his transition team is firmly set in place ... in defusing the quixotic rhetoric from Trump’s lengthy campaign."
WHAT?? Defusing the quixotic rhetoric? It was that quixotic rhetoric that got Trump elected, you ignorant assholes.
So what's the point in defusing it now? Did Obama defuse Obamacare once he was elected?
#6. To: Willie Green (#0)
"an official from the Department of Homeland Security maintained that a wall is not practical, for it would reduce visibility for those patrolling the border"
Damn! I wish there was some sort of device that could capture images and transfer them, possibly through the air, to some other receiving device like a TV or something.
#7. To: Willie Green (#0)
Congress will not fund a vast wall
President Trump should call them out by name: "The following GOPe chickenshits don't want to secure our border ..."
A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.
#8. To: misterwhite (#6)
#9. To: civilwarbuff (#4)
If it stops the illegals from crossing the border, who cares what it looks like?
I do! It will perform only as good as it looks. If it looks rickety and ramshackle, that's the way it will perform. A wall is what was promised and is what we need. I want to see a concrete interstate highway turned sideways with gun turrets manned by snipers every quarter mile.
#10. To: ConservingFreedom (#7)
President Trump should call them out by name: "The following GOPe chickenshits don't want to secure our border ..."
That's how Reagan did it. Although not using those exact words. :)
When he was stonewalled by Congress, he went on national television appealing to the very people who elected him. He even gave out the phone numbers of the House and Senate switch.
#11. To: Willie Green (#0)
Nobody is backstabbing anybody.
Trump laid out his three legislative priorities today: the Border, Health Care, Jobs.
That's just what he hammered on in his campaign. Now he's starting to discuss implementing it, with men in a Congress who never thought they would actually be dealing with a President Trump.
So, they're thinking in terms of the already passed 2006 Border Fence Act. There's already legislation in place to allow the building of the wall. The act says fence. If the border barriers get built, and the patrols happen, and illegal immigration is cut off, and illegals begin to be deported, do you really think that Trump voters are so stupid as to turn on him? There will be walls in parts, probably fences in other parts. How are you going to build a wall along a mountain canyon? It's silly. YOU may think we're so stupid as to get hung up on this, that we're going to be betrayed because the Border FENCE Act is used to fund the Border Wall, and Fence - the barrier.
It's not about the physical structure, it's about stopping the illegal immigration WITH a physical structure. There will be PLENTY of brick and mortar, or metal, wall on that border. The whole thing will start to be built. Suppose we get 500 miles into it, and illegal immigration has stopped, and the combination of other policies have caused illegals to self-deport by the millions. Do you really think we're going to reject Trump if he slows down on the wall then? The OBJECTIVE will have been achieved.
If Illegals continue to flow in, then the Wall will be completed. The whole thing may ultimately have to be completeld. If part of it is Korean DMZ barbed wire barriers as opposed to Greak Wall of China masonry, YOU might care, but most of us won't. Stop the illegal immigration. Get the wall up. Deport.
If it works, without completely finishing the wall, then you don't have to spend the money to finish it do you? No.
#12. To: Vicomte13 (#11)
Add to that, just having Trump as President many will give up trying to get in illegally.
#13. To: Willie Green (#0)
Doesn't matter since Mexico will pay for the wall.
#14. To: Vicomte13 (#11)
Nobody is backstabbing anybody.
Horse manure...
#15. To: Willie Green (#14)
Horse manure...
I thought you liberals ate murdered babies. Thanks for letting us know it is also horse manure. You're a strange bunch. Munch on.
#16. To: Willie Green (#14)
Your bimbo cunt lost and your racist Kenyan is out of a job. Suck it the fuck UP.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
#17. To: A K A Stone (#15)
Here's a clue for you: Trump isn't going to save any babies.... If anything, more innocent babies will suffer developmental disorders and agonizing disabilities & death due to inadequate health care...
And like Pontius Pilate, you & Trump will simply wash your hands of any responsibility because you didn't want to pay any taxes to help them out of poverty.
#18. To: Willie Green (#17)
I don't owe your deadbeat family anything. Go pay for chelseas abortion.
#19. To: rlk (#9)
manned by snipers every quarter mile.
You volunteering to be one of the snipers?
#20. To: misterwhite (#6)
Damn! I wish there was some sort of device that could capture images and transfer them, possibly through the air, to some other receiving device like a TV or something.
Check with Walmart and see where they got theirs.
I do not go to church every time the doors are opened, but I love Jesus Christ. I am only human and fail Him daily. I believe Jesus is the Son of God, was born of a virgin, was crucified on a cross, died for my sins and rose from the dead and that He loves us dearly, and is faithful to forgive us of our sins. But He says that if you deny me in front of your friends I will deny you in front of my Father. Can I get an Amen!
#21. To: Willie Green (#17)
And like Pontius Pilate, you & Trump will simply wash your hands of any responsibility because you didn't want to pay any taxes to help them out of poverty.
Yeah letting the poor have a good paying job is too demeaning isn't it?
Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
#22. To: CZ82 (#21)
"Trickle Down" didn't work for Bush... there's no reason to expect it'll work for Trump.
#23. To: Willie Green (#22)
"Trickle Down" didn't work for Bush... there's no reason to expect it'll work for Trump.
Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
#24. To: Roscoe (#8)
Well ... yeah. That, too.
#25. To: rlk (#9)
"I want to see a concrete interstate highway turned sideways with gun turrets manned by snipers every quarter mile."
The blueprints are on order from Israel. Pre-cast concrete slabs lifted and l locked into place. Simple and effective.
#26. To: misterwhite (#25)
Where are the murder holes?
#27. To: Roscoe (#26)
"Where are the murder holes?"
That's coming in Phase III. Phase II is remote-controlled machine guns e equipped with cameras:
Here's your Phase III:
#28. To: misterwhite (#27)
Phase IV - Taunting
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