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Texas Governor Greg Abbott Deploys National Guard to the Border

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-04-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Last report I saw was dated March 31 and the "Caravan" was still in Oaxaca, a long way from the border without motorized transportation. Sometime soon they will have to decide on either Texas or California to avoid the mountains.

Posted by brujotejano 2018-04-03 01:04|| 2018-04-03 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Cut all trade w/Mexico. Close the bridges. Nafta goes away, too. Build the wall.

Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-04-03 01:24|| 2018-04-03 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Turn these people away and arrest the California based organizers.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-03 04:08|| 2018-04-03 04:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Then send the bill for the operation to them and their backers.

Joint action has consequences.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-04-03 05:32|| 2018-04-03 05:32|| Front Page Top

#5 #2 Cut all trade w/Mexico. Close the bridges. Nafta goes away, too. Build the wall.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 2018-04-03 01:24

...THIS. Quietly give the Mexicans one - and only one - chance: the caravan stops, and stops within 24 hours...because if a single one of these people tries to set foot in the US, the border will be closed indefinitely and NAFTA with Mexico will be suspended. And if that doesn't work, deploy the gorram Army. Anybody who tries it then gets to live in tents in the desert until we vet every single one of them. Could take years.

They're not going to understand unless it hurts.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-04-03 05:58|| 2018-04-03 05:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Bill the backers? They're funding an invasion; execute them.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-04-03 07:07|| 2018-04-03 07:07|| Front Page Top

#7 How about an immediate and open-ended tax of, say, 25% on all cash transfers from the U.S. to Central American countries. That would get their attention.

Posted by Flinenter Glereling9074 2018-04-03 08:25|| 2018-04-03 08:25|| Front Page Top

#8 How about an immediate and open-ended tax of, say, 25% on all cash transfers from the U.S. to Central American countries. That would get their attention.

Wouldn't be enough bank vault space to handle that level of deposit.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-03 08:29|| 2018-04-03 08:29|| Front Page Top

#9 How about an immediate and open-ended tax of, say, 25% on all cash transfers from the U.S. to Central American countries. That would get their attention.

Before this caravan issue came up, I'd think something in the 5% range would be close to maximizing our take, as it doesn't give a massive incentive to try other avenues. With this fucking obnoxious caravan coning our way with help from Mexico, jack it to 25%. Like Mike says, make it hurt.

Posted by Raj 2018-04-03 09:28|| 2018-04-03 09:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Enough! This is a direct invasion with the tacit support of the government of Mexico. Move military forces to the border, close all commercial traffic to and from Mexico, impose the wire funds taxes mentioned above. Either we are a sovereign nation or we are finished as a first world power. Get some spine America, these people want to play confrontation so give them one. A goddam big one!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2018-04-03 12:06|| 2018-04-03 12:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Figure out how to make it a cartel problem and it's gone in 10 minutes.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-04-03 12:37|| 2018-04-03 12:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Move military forces to the border

If I were me, I'd position forces just across the border. Create a buffer zone and totally freak out the Mexican govt. I'd even send a letter of apology to Mex Prez Nieto - Sorry for the intrusion, dude, but we care more about America than Mexico's illusory sovereignty.

Posted by SteveS 2018-04-03 12:40|| 2018-04-03 12:40|| Front Page Top

#13 My father was in the military just before WWII. During that time he manned a 50 caliber machine gun on the Texas border.

Posted by Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-04-03 13:32|| 2018-04-03 13:32|| Front Page Top

#14 One well placed .50 Cal would do the trick.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-03 13:57|| 2018-04-03 13:57|| Front Page Top

#15 Trump is moving the Military to the border.

Posted by Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-04-03 15:32|| 2018-04-03 15:32|| Front Page Top

#16 He's reading the Burg.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-03 17:05|| 2018-04-03 17:05|| Front Page Top

#17 We can only hope he does. Thank you PDT.

Posted by Blackbeard Bumble5724 2018-04-03 18:30|| 2018-04-03 18:30|| Front Page Top

#18 still in Oaxaca

oracion...

"Señor, guide our footsteps and keep us
From Trump and his gringos who'd bleep us,
Preserving our wealth
For your friends on the Gulf
Once your children have reached Tamaulipas!"

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-04-03 18:45|| 2018-04-03 18:45|| Front Page Top

#19 He checked in his morning Izvestia:
No schedule, as yet, for la Bestia.
"See the ladies for lunch --
You'll be walking (a bunch!) --
And I'll leave on a light for the rest of ya."

Sleep or coffee? I always choose wrong... dammit.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-04-03 18:54|| 2018-04-03 18:54|| Front Page Top

#20 My main concern of sending The National Guard to the border is that the resource is deployed and unavailable for other purposes.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-04-03 21:43|| 2018-04-03 21:43|| Front Page Top

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