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When people cry to close the border, they are creating a police state. It work for both sides. This will continue on and on. An American gets stopped, they get irate because the are "American" and everything goes down hill from there. Without exception, every closed border in the world has these issues. Instead of fixing our immigration policy problems, we build a wall. It did not work for the Chinese, the Russians, or the Germans. It will not work here and honest people will continue to get hurt.
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Oh, I think it worked very well for the Russians. People who tried to get through the Iron Curtain were shot. You're always going to have extremely brave and/or clever attempts to cross the line but you either make to effort to stop them or else you lose your country.
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The wall seems to be working pretty good for Israel.
And as for our immigration policy problems. People violating our borders and coming across illegally is *not* a problem with our immigration policy. Illegal *aliens* are not immigrants - they have not been granted immigration status.
Illegal aliens are a *BORDER SECURITY* problem. I don't have any problems discussing and solving the 'immigration process' problem (I've dealt with them and am dealing with them now.) - but that has *NOTHING* to do with the flood if illegal aliens crossing our borders.
As for this I think it is a case of poor hiring and screening of potential agents and bad (or too little training). As well as oversight. And don't forget that most of the complaints are from illegal alien advocates or the ACLU - no ulterior motive there...
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Se,, the problem I have is they are enforce ing "security" agains US Citizens, and they are doing it 40+ miles form the border.
1. Build the damend fence.
2. Man the fence.
3. Patrol between the manning points.
4. Fed funds for non-mmilitarized state forces to patrol behind the border, i.e. Texas Rangers, for internal border area enforcement.
Once that's done, then open the border crossings for temp/contract workers (braceros), etc.
[THEHILL] Senate Democrats will schedule a vote this year on a constitutional amendment to reform campaign finance as they face tens of millions of dollars worth of attack ads from conservative groups.
The Senate will vote on an amendment sponsored by Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) that would overturn two recent court cases that have given corporations, labor unions and wealthy individuals free rein to spend freely on federal races.
"The Supreme Court is trying to take this country back to the days of the robber barons, allowing dark money to flood our elections. That needs to stop, and it needs to stop now," said Senate Rules Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. (D-N.Y.), who announced the plan.
Does that mean the Democrats will stop taking money from billionaire donors?
"The only way to undo the damage the court has done is to pass Senator Udall's amendment to the Constitution, and Senate Democrats are going to try to do that," he said.
Schumer said the vote would take place by year's end and called on Republican colleagues to join Democrats to ensure "the wealthy can't drown out middle-class voices in our Democracy."
The amendment has little chance of becoming a part of the Constitution anytime soon because Republicans generally support the high court's decisions in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and McCutcheon v. FEC.
In other words, it'll never get passed in the House, and has no chance to become law. *yawn* Grandstanding is soooo 2009
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As the Democrats watch their party go down the drain, frantically, yet futiley racing around the deck, moving chairs and hoping the band will play on... November 2014 elections approach, Republican, Democrat and also ran parties gather their chips to play the 1972 game...
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It will go nowhere, but the Donks will blame "Obstructionist" Tea-Party Conservatives.
This message will resonate with the Dem core, a/k/a Low Information Voters.
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I would mind putting restrictions on the donations of corporations IF AND ONLY IF they put the same restrictions on unions. And that ain't gonna happen.
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Both cash contributions and in-kind contributions - phone banks, leaflets, mailings, headstone reading, GOTV activities, Intimidation work, etc...
[NYDAILYNEWS] Marie Strumolo Burke, a Democrat running for mayor of Belleville, N.J., is allegedly heard on tape ranting about her fear that her village could become a 'f------ n----- town.' She has denied the voice on the tape is hers.
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I'm certain the term she was searching for was 'demographic imbalance.' She really should become more familiar with the social justice tools of her own political party.
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New Jersey AG should suspend Marie Strumolo Burke from politics For Life,and impose a $25 per letter fine - for 'f------ n----- town.'
Oh Vana White, could turn the letters and add up her fine ?
Kind of in keeping with recent - "free speech" racist rant issues - NBA Suspends Clippers' Owner Donald Sterling For Life, Imposes $2.5 Million Fine
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Look forward to the Donk introducing the Internet Choking Act to suppress the social media that dares to hold a mirror up to the PC police's own acts of outrage. They dominate the print and broadcast media to suppress their hypocrisies but can't quite hid it all because of that dang internet thingy.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah, concerned about the armed agents that surrounded Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's property, is mulling a measure to cut funding for any "paramilitary units" that work for the Bureau of Land Management, the Internal Revenue Service and other federal regulatory agencies.
"There are lots of people who are really concerned when the BLM shows up with its own SWAT team," he said, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. "They're regulatory agencies. They're not paramilitary units, and I think that concerns a lot of us."
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1.6 billion rounds.
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...or make them subject to the UCMJ. That'll put a twist in their knickers. Wait till they get a taste of some 'good order and discipline' in their pay checks.
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I'm not against some sort of arming some agents. IRS agents that investigate fraud and conduct raids with the treasury should have a side arm. The same with BLM personal that patrol for poachers or drug grow/lab areas on federal land.
HOWEVER..... SWAT units with automatic weapons and 200 snipers are way...way... WAY out of bounds and make them into a paramilitary police unit. These units have no place in for them and if they need heavy backup they can call the local SWAT team or an FBI SWAT team.
[DAILYCALLER] Outgoing Health and Human Services Sec. Kathleen Sebelius is now refusing to testify before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, a Senate aide told The Daily Caller Tuesday.
Sebelius had originally been set to testify before the subcommittee about the department's 2015 $70 billion budget request on April 2.
According to another aide, however, several weeks after confirming the hearing date, she requested a date switch with the National Institutes of Health budget hearing on May 7. The committee accommodated her request.
Now, after announcing her resignation on April 11, she is refusing to testify according to the two aides, even though she is still the sitting secretary -- remaining at the post until her successor, OMB Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell is confirmed.
"It appears that Sec. Sebelius has unilaterally decided that she is no longer accountable to Congress," the first aide said.
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Hold her in contempt, anything to stop her 5 year govt svc pension. Then she will sing like a bird.
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"It appears that Sec. Sebelius has unilaterally decided that she is no longer accountable to Congress," the first aide said.
Then the Rule of Law is supplanted by a cabal of tribalistic thugs, what is to be expected ?
Data provided to the committee by every insurance provider in the health care law's Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM) shows that, as of April 15, 2014, only 67 percent of individuals and families that had selected a health plan in the federally facilitated marketplace had paid their first month's premium and therefore completed the enrollment process. Nationwide, only 25 percent of paid enrollees are ages 18 to 34. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today invited the leaders of some of the nation's largest insurance providers and their trade groups to testify at a hearing, "PPACA Enrollment and the Insurance Industry," on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.
House Energy and Commerce Committee members sent letters requesting specific enrollment data, including the number of individuals who have paid their first month's premium and demographic breakdowns. The committee has compiled the data that provides a snapshot of the true enrollment picture as of April 15, 2014, after the official end of the open enrollment period. Due to the administration's repeated and unilateral extensions and changes, as well as the fact that many insurers have reported that individuals will still have time to pay their first month's premium, the committee plans to ask the insurers in the federally facilitated marketplace to provide an enrollment update by May 20, 2014.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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