[Handsome Creepy Eel]

I love the "big beautiful door" part. If you're entering the country legally, you'll feel like you're getting into a nice, wealthy place and that you ought to appreciate the privilege.

[ElFlaco]

(03-18-2017 06:18 PM)stugatz Wrote:  

IS there a wall in Southern Mexico?

According to Wikipedia, there's a fence near border checkpoints and in heavily populated areas. Other than that, nothing but natural boundaries (rivers).

Mexico also has a lesser known border with Belize.

[JayMillz]

With healthcare off the table now maybe the attention can turn to illegal immigration. Thus far, it seems like the administration is moving in the right direction on this. Wall or no wall, enforcing the law is a good start.

[MOVSM]

Who will build the wall? The Mexicans!

These Hispanic contractors offered to build Trump’s border wall. Then the death threats began

Quote:

They’ve received death threats and had profanities and rocks hurled at them. One company’s tractor was stolen.

...

“A lot of people are saying, ‘You’re Latino. How can you build a wall to keep other Latinos out?’ We had to do a lot of soul-searching before we jumped into this because it’s obviously a very, very controversial topic,” said Michael Evangelista-Ysasaga, chief executive and owner of the Penna Group, a firm based in Fort Worth.

Evangelista-Ysasaga, whose grandparents emigrated from Mexico, said he fielded five death threats one morning alone this week from “random people calling into the office and just screaming.”

...

Of the approximately 200 companies that have responded to the federal government’s two requests for proposals for a solid concrete border wall and another wall design, at least 32 companies are Hispanic-owned, according to a Washington Post analysis of a federal database. The deadline for proposals has been extended to April 4.

[Gmac]

Breaking/Genius: Border wall to be paid for by a 2% tax on immigrants sending money abroad...

Quote:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017...wall-bill/

Border wall funding solved: GOP pushes for 2% fee on money immigrants send home



A group of House Republicans on Thursday introduced the first major bill to fund President Trump’s border wall, saying the government could collect billions of dollars by imposing a 2 percent fee on all the money Mexicans and other immigrants send back home.

Estimates vary, but remittances from those in the U.S. to their relatives back home could top $130 billion a year. A 2 percent tax could net more than $2 billion a year if it applied to all money regardless of who’s sending it.

“This bill is simple — anyone who sends their money to countries that benefit from our porous borders and illegal immigration should be responsible for providing some of the funds needed to complete the wall,” Rep. Mike Rogers, Alabama Republican, said in a statement. “This bill keeps money in the American economy, and most importantly, it creates a funding stream to build the wall.”

Mr. Rogers and Rep. Lou Barletta of Pennsylvania are leading the effort.

Mr. Trump has vowed to make Mexico foot the bill for his border wall, but Mexican authorities have said they won’t play along.

Left without a funding source, the president has said American taxpayers will pick up the tab for now, and he’ll look for ways to soak Mexico in the long run.

[Luvianka]

This is weird, guys:

[kbell]

So what's the status of getting funds for the wall?

[Nineteen84]

(04-26-2017 11:09 AM)Luvianka Wrote:  

This is weird, guys:

   

[JayMillz]

One of President Trump's boldest, most ambitious proposals on the campaign trail was to build a wall along the Southern border and get Mexico to pay for it. Amid the tumult of Trump's first few months in office, the border wall hasn't gotten as much attention as some other things. But new legislation has been introduced in Congress to help fund it.

It's called the Border Wall Funding Act of 2017, introduced on March 30 by Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala.

And it would put a 2 percent tax on all person-to-person wire transfers to Mexico, the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean.

It's not the only bill targeting remittances. An earlier proposal in the Senate, which didn't advance out of committee, would have placed a 7 percent "fine" on remittances unless the sender can prove he or she is in the U.S. legally.

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda...t=20170525

[MOVSM]

[JayMillz]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/po...&smtyp=cur

Trump Will Allow ‘Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S., Reversing Campaign Promise

The Department of Homeland Security announced late Thursday night that it would continue the Obama-era program intended to protect those immigrants from deportation and provide them work permits so they can find legal employment.

A fact sheet posted on the department’s website says immigrants enrolled in the 2012 program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, “will continue to be eligible” to renew every two years and notes that “no work permits will be terminated prior to their current expiration dates.”

Immigration rights activists, who have fiercely battled Mr. Trump’s travel ban and increased enforcement of other immigration laws, hailed the decision.

[Fast Eddie]

(06-16-2017 09:48 AM)JayMillz Wrote:  

Immigration rights activists, who have fiercely battled Mr. Trump’s travel ban and increased enforcement of other immigration laws, hailed the decision.

Well, as long as those folks are happy I'm sure Trump is happy. He certainly doesn't seem to care about what the people who actually voted for him think.

Trump might have lied about many of his campaign promises but when he said we'd get tired of "winning" he was certainly telling the truth.

[Samseau]

(06-16-2017 09:48 AM)JayMillz Wrote:  

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/po...&smtyp=cur

Trump Will Allow ‘Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S., Reversing Campaign Promise

The Department of Homeland Security announced late Thursday night that it would continue the Obama-era program intended to protect those immigrants from deportation and provide them work permits so they can find legal employment.

A fact sheet posted on the department’s website says immigrants enrolled in the 2012 program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, “will continue to be eligible” to renew every two years and notes that “no work permits will be terminated prior to their current expiration dates.”

Immigration rights activists, who have fiercely battled Mr. Trump’s travel ban and increased enforcement of other immigration laws, hailed the decision.

Fake news.

Nothing new is presented. All this article does is elaborate on the existing policy Trump has had since the election.

So far it looks like Trump lets them stay, but no citizenship. They won't get to vote but they'll get to work and pay taxes. Although I do not like the idea of two-tiered citizenship, no one asked their parents to come.

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

Guys, it's #fakenews Times.

[RaccoonFace]

[url=https://twitter.com/thehill/status/884948943876087809][/url]

[redpillage]

Quote:

Democrats fail to block Trump border wall in defense bill

House Democrats tried but failed Friday to block spending on President Trump's proposed border wall under the annual defense bill.

Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., pressed for a House floor vote that would have added a prohibition on any Pentagon spending to build the wall. She did so at the end of debate on the National Defense Authorization Act, and her move was a protest against the House GOP decision to strip language out of that bill that would have prevented the NDAA from authorizing work on the border wall.

"The only way this body can guarantee that Trump cannot use Department of Defense funds to construct the border wall is to put that prohibition in the bill explicitly," Grisham said on the floor.

But Republicans thwarted the move, and Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, received a standing ovation for his opposition speech that said the House needs to quickly approve the fiscal 2018 defense authorization bill. The NDAA was passed by the chamber moments later, in a vote that saw most Democrats support it.

"We could spend all day and night arguing provisions that prohibit what is not in the bill. There's nothing in this bill that authorizes a border wall," Thornberry said. "The focus of the bill is the men and women who serve our nation in the military and the national security of the United States."

Thornberry, the Armed Services Committee chairman, also argued against Democrat attempts to add the controversial amendment to the $696 billion annual policy bill while it was being heard in the committee last month.

Grisham argued that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has the authority to shift existing money to begin construction of the wall, which was a top campaign promise of Trump.

[MOVSM]

What's going on? WHO is supporting WHAT?

Hell Freezes Over: RINO Paul Ryan Releases Video Promoting POTUS’s Border Wall (VIDEO)


Also: U.S. eases environment laws for Mexico border wall near San Diego

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday it would waive environmental and related laws in order to expedite building security-related barriers and roads along the nation’s border with Mexico near San Diego.

The projects would focus on about 15 miles (24 km) of the frontier extending eastward from the Pacific Ocean as part of President Donald Trump’s planned wall between the United States and Mexico, the DHS said in a statement. It said the area is one of the busiest U.S. border sections.

“The sector remains an area of high illegal entry for which there is an immediate need to improve current infrastructure and construct additional border barriers and roads,” the DHS said.

The department will oversee the installation of extra barriers, roads, lights, cameras and sensors on the border under the authority of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) of 1996, the statement said.

The act grants the secretary of homeland security authority to waive requirements to comply with various laws to ensure the building of barriers and roads, while being mindful of cultural and environmental impacts, the statement said.

[911]

Paul Ryan is a complete cuck, but a smart politician. He knows that if he cucks too hard, he could lose to a MAGA challenger or at least take a lot of flak from his constituency.

[RaccoonFace]

Quote:

Mark Meadows: Wall May Have to Wait to Avoid Government Shutdown


Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) is signaling that members of the House Freedom Caucus, which he chairs, are willing to pass a Continuing Resolution to temporarily fund the federal government and avoid a government shutdown, even if it does not include funding for a wall on the U.S. southern border.

“In talking to a number of my members, if there was a vote for a continuing resolution next week that did not include border wall funding, the majority of those members would be supportive of that,” Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., told ABC News‘ Jonathan Karl and Rick Klein on the “Powerhouse Politics” podcast.

This position is at odds with President Trump and the message Meadows sent during an interview with Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel.

“Last week, at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Trump suggested that he would allow a shutdown to occur if Congress does not include appropriations for his signature campaign promise as part of a funding measure,” ABC reported.

“Believe me, if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall,” said Trump.

Meadows told Breitbart that it is imperative there be funding for President Donald Trump’s planned wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

“It always helps to do what you said you were going to do and the president talked about the wall,” Meadows said. “He campaigned on that. Many of us supported that particular position — myself included. And so we’ve got that in the spending bill that’s coming out of the House. So the problem is going to be with the Senate and if we end up with a CR [continuing resolution] I don’t see a way that there is going to be money for a wall and that’s going to be problematic. So the Democrats are going to have to come to grips with fact that the president is serious with this and start negotiating in good faith. Right now they’re saying that’s there’s no amount of money that they would put for one of their special projects in order to fund the wall. I find that to be really not negotiating in good faith — but it’s a position that very, very difficult to hold. Everybody knows that from a national security standpoint we need to secure our southern border. And I’m in support of the president in that.”

Now, Meadows is supportive of passing a CR to fund the government with no wall funding.

“Meadows said he prefers a solution where government funding will continue through the rest of 2017, with a possible showdown involving the border wall not coming until December or January,” ABC reported. “He cited, in part, the need to keep government operations running in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.”

“Next week, in September, we are encouraging our leadership to go ahead and put a bill on the House floor and let us vote for that,” Meadows said. “Most of the conservatives that I talked to are willing to … vote for a continuing resolution that just basically would not have wall funding in it — would continue the current stream of money that keeps the government operational while we work through and negotiate on the appropriations bill.”

“While Meadows and other conservatives, including Texas Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, voted against disaster relief packages after Hurricane Sandy slammed the Northeast in 2012, the North Carolina congressman said that those positions were in opposition to what those members considered to be unnecessary spending included in the legislation,” ABC reported. “He offered his support for Harvey relief after Congress can gauge the ‘full amount of the damage’ in the Gulf Coast.”

“When we have disaster relief a lot of times it becomes a vehicle for special spending,” Meadows said, adding, “As long as we keep the emergency relief really to support the people in need, whether they be in New York or Texas, I think you’ll find plenty of conservative support and certainly my support.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/...-shutdown/

[Samseau]

Quote:

“Meadows said he prefers a solution where government funding will continue through the rest of 2017, with a possible showdown involving the border wall not coming until December or January,” ABC reported. “He cited, in part, the need to keep government operations running in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.”

Such BS, they can't just pass a separate bill for Harvey funding and debt allocation?

Love this "Freedom Caucus," they are really good at doing everything except being conservatives. They voted against the Obamacare repeal, they voted against immigration crackdowns, they vote against the wall, but they'll vote for more wars, more debt, and more job-killing free trade. Straight cucks all day long, boy o boy did the TeaParty movement get hijacked bad.

[RaccoonFace]

Quote:

White House weighing a tax on remittances to Mexico to fund border wall

President Trump is mulling a tax on cash transfers between immigrants in the U.S. and their relatives in Mexico as a way to fund his promised border wall without forcing American taxpayers to open their wallets, according to sources familiar with the proposal.

Trump first floated the idea of taxing or halting person-to-person wire transfers, known as remittances, during his bid for the White House. A two-page memo released by his campaign last April described a plan "to compel Mexico to pay for the wall" by preventing immigrants from wiring money outside of the U.S. unless they can prove their legal status to law enforcement authorities.

Because the Mexican economy has become so dependent on wages sent home by migrant workers, which surpassed oil revenues as its leading source of foreign income in 2015, Trump said he could convince the country's leaders to make a "one-time payment of $5-10 billion" toward his border wall by threatening to stop the annual flow of billions of dollars from the U.S. to Mexico in the form of cash transfers.

In 2016, Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. sent $27 billion to family members and friends in their native country.

http://archive.is/MhAiE

[YoungBlade]

Official Trump Wall Promo Crew

[MOVSM]

So much to like, I don't know which one I like more!

[url=https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/920354857214545920][/url]

[kbell]

[url=https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/922515047607234560][/url]

Border crossing happens when NBC interviews an ICE guy about the wall prototypes. Proves why we need it on film.

[Leonard D Neubache]

A more cynical man might suggest that the jumpers had a few fresh bills in their pockets.