5 Billion for a wall ... 5 bucks for a shovel.

[DandyDon]

I'll just leave this... well, you know the rest.

US agents discover tunnel in Texas leading toward Mexican border

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing ... nnel-where

[Antknot]

I'll just leave this... well, you know the rest.

US agents discover tunnel in Texas leading toward Mexican border

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing ... nnel-where

Wonder if it was to meet one from the other side?

[DandyDon]

I'll just leave this... well, you know the rest.

US agents discover tunnel in Texas leading toward Mexican border

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing ... nnel-where

Wonder if it was to meet one from the other side?

Doesnt matter. It dosnt work!

[Charliesheen]

Gotta admit I'm pulling for the bad guys when it comes to blow making it up from down south. Quality and price are outstanding as of late. These are the good ole days.

[AnalHamster]

Looking like it's all over for Trump's wall, blind support from the republicans in the senate has crumbled with McConnell telling him he'll be overruled on any further attempt to shut down the government over it and they'll pass a resolution to block him if he declares a national emergency.
https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/ ... order-wall

No other options for a president who is too incompetent to negotiate and has had his shutdown toy taken away. He'll have to declare the imaginary emergency anyway, veto the resulting resolution of disapproval, then watch it get tied up in the courts until his impeachment or 2020.

[CaptQuint]

[CHEEZY17]

US prepares to start building portion of Texas border wall

https://apnews.com/e653d5a305114835bb399e480ac44ab8

[CaptQuint]

Congress last March approved more than $600 million for 33 miles (53 kilometers) of new barriers in the Rio Grande Valley

[AnalHamster]

It would actually be a promising sign if trumpcucks start pushing that as 'the wall', might allow incompetrump to claim victory, take a nice groundbreaking photo with gold shovel and ribbon etc. He obviously can't keep his promises, but any new construction at all would at least allow him to pretend it's all on the way and the cucks will slurp it up.

Senate republicans are desperate to head him off from declaring an emergency over it, not just because it would be a hugely unpopular move that will force them to break with him publicly, but because there's a chance the courts wouldn't block it in the end, paving the way for declaring emergencies over healthcare coverage, guns, climate change. Basically anything president Harris can think of. I guess there's at least a chance of congress rewriting the law on it though, with dem support to rein in trump and gop support because they know they lose in 2020. It's an area in need of reform.

[CHEEZY17]

Congress last March approved more than $600 million for 33 miles (53 kilometers) of new barriers in the Rio Grande Valley

And? Thats actually my point. The wall is already under way and has been for awhile. The latest fiasco means there probably wont be additional sections of the wall built but in the meantime construction continues on portions already approved.

[CaptQuint]

national emergency that the last administration was so corrupt it is necessary to remove all federal judges and appointments from Trumps felonious compromised time in office.

[CaptQuint]

Congress last March approved more than $600 million for 33 miles (53 kilometers) of new barriers in the Rio Grande Valley

And? Thats actually my point. The wall is already under way and has been for awhile. The latest fiasco means there probably wont be additional sections of the wall built but in the meantime construction continues on portions already approved.

And the fact a year later they are finally using the money? It takes a year to actually do something in a national emergency?

[AnalHamster]

Sections of border fencing have been around since 94, you know trump isn't referring to sections where it's actually worth doing, his border wall refers to a contiguous barrier from sea to shining sea 30 feet high made of concrete and paid for by Mexico. He's backed off the mexico claim, the concrete claim and the length, while intermittently claiming he hasn't, but you really can't stretch 30 miles into trump's proposed border wall. I do hope he tries though.

[CHEEZY17]

Having a wall stretch uninterrupted from east to west is and always has been a pretty silly idea. Electronic surveillance, fencing and more agents is the correct answer for those remote areas. That said, there is no doubt that in some areas a wall or physical barrier does make perfect sense.

[stymiegreen]

Having a wall stretch uninterrupted from east to west is and always has been a pretty silly idea. Electronic surveillance, fencing and more agents is the correct answer for those remote areas. That said, there is no doubt that in some areas a wall or physical barrier does make perfect sense.

At this point there is little doubt that he is only interested in being able to say the Dems capitulated to his demands on the wall. He probably doesn't even care if 1/10th of the wall actually gets built so long as he can say it was a victory for Himself. But then again that's all his supporters really seem interested in at this point as well. Their only point of pride left is being able to tell the libruls that Trump kicked their ass at something. Sad!

[Stapes]

I have no doubt in my mind that what Trump envisioned was a glorious medieval concrete wall soaring to the sky from west to east uninterrupted. The nuances of actually securing a border properly with combinations of fencing, technology and boots on the ground are waaaay beyond his thinking process. He wanted a massive monument to the Trump ego and now it's his ego on the line.

[Charliesheen]

Perhaps. Or maybe he simply recognized that letting future dim voters walk in and set themselves up,for asylum was problematic for our republic.