The Wall

[Lou]

18 minutes ago, st1ckboy said:

Like marrying a fat, old, rich guy?

Plump works, too. 

[Taylor]

1 hour ago, Rico said:

Meanwhile our government is doing forced sterilzation, not even telling the women what they are doing. 

A bunch of pro-life folks are suddenly pro-sterilization, as long as we're forcing it on brown people.

[Lhalo]

Your posts are multiplying like Mexicans. 

[Taylor]

Just now, Lhalo said:

Your posts are multiplying like Mexicans. 

Aren't you Mexican? Or was that just cals messing with us a few months ago?

[Tank]

2 hours ago, Rico said:

Because under TPS status they can't apply for citizenship. 

why not? why isn't there a mechanism in place? 

and who/what is TPS?

[St1ck]

5 minutes ago, Tank said:

why not? why isn't there a mechanism in place? 

and who/what is TPS?

Temporary Protected Status

[Blarg]

4 minutes ago, Tank said:

why not? why isn't there a mechanism in place? 

and who/what is TPS?

[Tank]

7 minutes ago, st1ckboy said:

Temporary Protected Status

how long is 'temporary' supposed to last?

[St1ck]

5 minutes ago, Tank said:

how long is 'temporary' supposed to last?

So that's the rub. Obviously it's not supposed to be permanent. Let's say someone has been here going on 20 years though, has kids born here that are citizens, and have lived an honest life. What benefit does it have to anyone to deport that person? If they have committed a serious felony though fuck them. Send them back.

[Tank]

1 hour ago, st1ckboy said:

So that's the rub. Obviously it's not supposed to be permanent. Let's say someone has been here going on 20 years though, has kids born here that are citizens, and have lived an honest life. What benefit does it have to anyone to deport that person? If they have committed a serious felony though fuck them. Send them back.

the lack of a workable and reasonable immigration plan is one of the absolute great failures of our congress. year after year after year they've screwed around so much and accomplished almost nothing. what an embarrassment. 

[arch stanton]

6 hours ago, Tank said:

the lack of a workable and reasonable immigration plan is one of the absolute great failures of our congress. year after year after year they've screwed around so much and accomplished almost nothing. what an embarrassment. 

Is it the failure of Congress or is it the failure of the voters to elect anyone who actually wants to create a workable and reasonable immigration policy?

[Lhalo]

10 hours ago, Taylor said:

Aren't you Mexican? Or was that just cals messing with us a few months ago?

I wouldn’t qualify for the Boyle Heights soccer team but my cousin has 6 kids from 3 different dads. It’s complicated. 

[Jason]

12 hours ago, calscuf said:

Even if true, all these women have already had like 8 kids. No big loss.

and they're only 21 years old, right? 

[Jason]

9 hours ago, st1ckboy said:

So that's the rub. Obviously it's not supposed to be permanent. Let's say someone has been here going on 20 years though, has kids born here that are citizens, and have lived an honest life. What benefit does it have to anyone to deport that person? If they have committed a serious felony though fuck them. Send them back.

I can agree with this

[Tank]

2 hours ago, arch stanton said:

Is it the failure of Congress or is it the failure of the voters to elect anyone who actually wants to create a workable and reasonable immigration policy?

it's going to land on congress for not coming up with the legislation to address it since they're the ones in the position to do so.

there's also a good argument to be made for us as voters for not electing people who are willing to jump in and get the work done once they're in washington. we tend to vote for candidates who are at the extreme ends of the scale, not ones who want to work and figure out a compromise (though nearly all of them say they'll do that). 

[Taylor]

Neither party is interested in working on immigration. Otherwise it would have happened when Democrats had control of both branches from 2008 to 2010, or Republicans would have done it when they had control of both branches from 2016 to 2018.

Edited September 15, 2020 by Taylor

[Jason]

8 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Neither party is interested in working on immigration. Otherwise it would have happened when Democrats had control of both branches from 2008 to 2010, or Republicans would have done it when they had control of both branches from 2016 to 2018.

It's almost like our elected officials are in it to better themselves or something 

Edited September 15, 2020 by Jason

[Taylor]

2 hours ago, Jason said:

It's almost like our elected officials are in it to better themselves or something 

[Lhalo]

 

[Lhalo]

7 minutes ago, cals said:

That dude has leg envy more than any other cripple I’ve ever seen.

[Lhalo]

 

[Jason]

1 minute ago, Lhalo said:

 

Oh good, problem solved

[Crampknees]

8 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

 

Out for some photo ops then the rest of the time spent at this wall. 

[Kevin]

Biden has been a disaster on the border and hasn’t maintained the Wall but it has had some issues recently due to monsoons in Arizona. I haven’t seen this anywhere else and I have no idea how reputable the guardian is.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/23/trump-border-wall-reportedly-severe-disrepair-arizona
 

“…when Trump was still in power, experts warned that floodgates in some places along the 701-mile, $21bn wall would need to be left open during heavy rains and flooding, to avoid collapse amid surges of tons of water carrying rocks, sediment, tree limbs and other debris.

Because of their remote locations, many of the gates would have to be manually opened and left unattended for months at a time, the Washington Post reported – potentially allowing for the easy entry into the US of smugglers and migrants.

It appears the gates were open during last week’s storms, but the wall was still no match for “historic flooding” after months of drought. According to climate experts at the University of Arizona, the Douglas area has this year received almost twice its average annual amount of monsoon rainfall.”

[Kotchman]

2 minutes ago, Kevin said:

Biden has been a disaster on the border and hasn’t maintained the Wall but it has had some issues recently due to monsoons in Arizona.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/23/trump-border-wall-reportedly-severe-disrepair-arizona
 

“…when Trump was still in power, experts warned that floodgates in some places along the 701-mile, $21bn wall would need to be left open during heavy rains and flooding, to avoid collapse amid surges of tons of water carrying rocks, sediment, tree limbs and other debris.

Because of their remote locations, many of the gates would have to be manually opened and left unattended for months at a time, the Washington Post reported – potentially allowing for the easy entry into the US of smugglers and migrants.

It appears the gates were open during last week’s storms, but the wall was still no match for “historic flooding” after months of drought. According to climate experts at the University of Arizona, the Douglas area has this year received almost twice its average annual amount of monsoon rainfall.”

Interesting to say the least. I couldn’t help seeing Troll Daddy started the thread. He was always good at making me laugh.