If Trump Carries Through on Threat to close ports of entry?

[g5000]

Apparently president Trump has gotten under your skin again. Illegals are killing and raping Americans, so yes the border may need to be shut down.

15,000 Americans die each year by gun homicides, so yes gun sales may need to be shut down...

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Apparently president Trump has gotten under your skin again. Illegals are killing and raping Americans, so yes the border may need to be shut down.

15,000 Americans die each year by gun homicides, so yes gun sales may need to be shut down...

Because of that Constitutional amendment saying the Southern border must always remain open?

 

[B. Kidd]

Apparently president Trump has gotten under your skin again. Illegals are killing and raping Americans, so yes the border may need to be shut down.

15,000 Americans die each year by gun homicides, so yes gun sales may need to be shut down...

And 70,000 die each year from overdoses.
So, eat yourself!!!

 

[g5000]

Apparently president Trump has gotten under your skin again. Illegals are killing and raping Americans, so yes the border may need to be shut down.

15,000 Americans die each year by gun homicides, so yes gun sales may need to be shut down...

Because of that Constitutional amendment saying the Southern border must always remain open?

IT'S A "NATIONAL EMERGENCY!!!"

 

[toomuchtime_]

Apparently president Trump has gotten under your skin again. Illegals are killing and raping Americans, so yes the border may need to be shut down.

15,000 Americans die each year by gun homicides, so yes gun sales may need to be shut down...

Because of that Constitutional amendment saying the Southern border must always remain open?

IT'S A "NATIONAL EMERGENCY!!!"

Indeed, it is, and the Democrats are doing all they can turn it into a humanitarian crisis.

 

[22lcidw]

Apparently president Trump has gotten under your skin again. Illegals are killing and raping Americans, so yes the border may need to be shut down.

15,000 Americans die each year by gun homicides, so yes gun sales may need to be shut down...

We don't trust you.

 

[francoHFW]

We are in this mess because democrats (and cowardly republicans) kicked it down the road for decades. The democrat solution....send more money to the crooked regimes.

Actually, in reality, typical GOP dunderhead, the Democrats have been trying to pass and ID card that would end this GOP scam for years, including when they started to pass their 2010 comprehensive immigration bill that included an ID card, not for the first time. The GOP is totally against it that would be communism Nazism and God knows what else LOL. It's pretty obvious they love having the cheap easily bullied labor. The wall is a joke and will not work. 58% overstay visas for one thing....

 

[dblack]

Trump is threatening to shut down the Mexican border.
Says he's not kidding.
Says it will be an economic boom for the U.S.
LOL!

What a fucking idiot.

I hope he does shut the border down, but it's the only way to get through the thick skulls of his supporters: through their jobs and the food on their tables.


""""Mexico is America's third-largest trade partner, and the two economies are deeply intertwined, with $558 billion in goods crossing the border in two-way trade last year alone. The Commerce Department estimated that in 2015, nearly 100,000 American jobs were supported by goods trade with Mexico.

If the border were to be shut down, experts say, the consequences would be immediate.

“The first thing you’d start to see is a spike in car prices and factories in trouble,” said Richard Miles, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’s Americas program.

A huge portion of American trade with Mexico deals in parts, so shutting the border would immediately throw a wrench into the auto supply chain, as well as other manufacturing.

Another major casualty would be agriculture, which would hit farm states already facing a squeeze from a trade war with China.

Miles noted that corn and soybean exports to Mexico are big business for farmers in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois and Indiana.

American consumers would see the difference at the supermarket, said Wilson.

Many foods such as avocados, tomatoes, lettuce, celery and a variety of berries come to the United State by way of Mexico."""
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https://thehill.com/policy/finance/423150-border-closure-could-cost-billions
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It really would be the best thing for prompting an honest national debate on the subject.

 

[francoHFW]

Yet another "the sky is falling" thread from a triggered TDS patient. This is the most entertaining part of this Forum, and WaitingFor2020 is one of my favorites. But I guess you have to post a lot when your username will expire soon!

But here's the facts: We don't really know what "close the border" means, because the President has not defined it. TDS sufferers pretend it means "block all roads with tanks and troops" because that fits their warped narrative, but there's no reason to assume this. It could just as easily mean "cease all immigrant processing", we really don't know.

Just more of this silly chaos he causes everywhere which is going to end the Obama expansion....

 

[the other mike]

Trump is threatening to shut down the Mexican border.
Says he's not kidding.
Says it will be an economic boom for the U.S.

But where will we get our avacados ?
US will run out of avocados in three weeks if Trump closes Mexico border

 

[georgephillip]

Perhaps the money Trump wants to spend on his wall could be put to better use funding more asylum courts and related infrastructure?

The best use for it is to keep the illegals out by building the fence, but if the Democrats hadn't refused funding for more detention facilities, the growing humanitarian crisis they created could have been eased.

The best use for it is to keep the illegals out by building the fence, but if the Democrats hadn't refused funding for more detention facilities, the growing humanitarian crisis they created could have been eased.

"Trump plan fails to cut immigration court backlog, as caseload soars more than 26%"

Trump plan fails to cut immigration court backlog, as caseload soars more than 26%

"The Trump administration's controversial plan to shrink the ballooning backlog of immigration cases by pushing judges to hear more cases has failed, according to the latest data, with the average wait for an immigration hearing now more than two years.

"Since October 2017, when the Justice Department approved a plan aimed at reducing the backlog in immigration court, the pending caseload has grown by more than 26%, from 655,932 cases to just shy of 830,000, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Access Records Clearinghouse, which tracks data from immigration courts."

Why are you surprised when an idiot racist makes legal immigration into a humanitarian disaster?

Huh?? Controlling the border is racist?

Huh?? Controlling the border is racist

Denying legitimate claims of political asylum is consistent with the actions of a lifelong bigot whose name was first published in his hometown newspaper as a defendant in a racial discrimination lawsuit.

Refugee Blockade: The Trump Administration’s Obstruction of Asylum Claims at the Border

"In the run-up to the mid-term elections, President Trump focused much of his rhetoric on 'the caravan' of migrants heading north through Mexico.

"The caravan, which included many refugees, was, in the president’s telling, a would-be 'invasion' of the United States by 'bad people,' 'terrorists,' and 'Middle Easterners.'

"This purported threat to the country’s security was his stated rationale for deploying thousands of troops and, later, for firing tear gas at a group of migrants as they approached the border.

"But Human Rights First’s research shows that the Trump Administration itself has cultivated this alleged crisis.

"The actual threat to the law comes not from refugees seeking asylum but from the Trump Administration seeking to restrict this right.

"Instead of managing migration and processing refugee protection requests in an orderly way that upholds U.S. law and ideals, border officials are illegally turning away asylum seekers and have slowed processing of asylum claims at 'ports of entry.'"

Stop with the bullchitt. This issue is decades old. This is not being mean. And it is an issue that needs to be addressed. I feel sorry for the young people in our nation. All of those in your face out of shape people who are Progs are carcasses waiting for the feeding. The 1980's had Paul Volcker as the Fed chairman squeezing out debt with double digit interest rates. We had a massive stock market drop several years later. We had astock market collapse in Bill Clinton's last year as president. We had a housing collpapse because of the Progs delaying it for giving people who never paid off a debt loans in the first decade of this century. And we needed massive fiat currency infusion that screwed the taxpayer over. The next stock market downturn will be far worse as pensions will be affected and loans will collapse and even medical may be rationed.

Stop with the bullchitt. This issue is decades old. This is not being mean. And it is an issue that needs to be addressed.

When it comes to immigration, Trump seems to be making the issue much more confusing and much less fair:

Refugee Blockade: The Trump Administration’s Obstruction of Asylum Claims at the Border

"Human Rights First sent legal monitoring teams to the U.S.-Mexico border in November and early December 2018. They conducted field observations both before and after the arrival of the caravan. This report is based on that research, as well as analyses of government statistics and interviews with attorneys, legal organizations, asylum seekers, and government officials. Their findings include:

• 'Illegal turn-backs and orchestrated bottlenecks at U.S. ports of entry are preventing many asylum seekers from requesting protection at official border posts. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has reduced asylum processing at ports of entry for months even though the U.N. Refugee Agency warned of a 'significant increase in the number of people fleeing violence and persecution in the North of Central America,' and even as Trump Administration officials were telling asylum seekers to request protection at ports of entry to avoid criminal prosecution for illegal entry.
• Unaccompanied children are being blocked from U.S. ports of entry. CBP agents and their Mexican counterparts have blocked children from seeking asylum at ports of entry. Since April 2018 when CBP adopted new policies to throttle the entry of asylum seekers—which officials claim do not apply to unaccompanied children—the number of unaccompanied children processed at southern border ports of entry has dropped by 61 percent."

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Trump is threatening to shut down the Mexican border.
Says he's not kidding.
Says it will be an economic boom for the U.S.

But where will we get our avacados ?
US will run out of avocados in three weeks if Trump closes Mexico border

No worries....
Don't Worry, You'll Still Be Able To Buy Avocados If Trump Shuts The Border With Mexico

 

[Jitss617]

I’d love to back to eating traditional American foods.. kick all Latinos out

 

[ABikerSailor]

If Trump does decide to completely shut down the southern border like he's threatened, it's gonna cause so much chaos and loss of revenue that he won't keep it closed more than a day.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I’d love to back to eating traditional American foods.. kick all Latinos out

Being from Texas I can make my own messycan food.

 

[ABikerSailor]

I’d love to back to eating traditional American foods.. kick all Latinos out

WTF are "traditional American foods" to you?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

If Trump does decide to completely shut down the southern border like he's threatened, it's gonna cause so much chaos and loss of revenue that he won't keep it closed more than a day.

It'll hurt mehico far worse than it'll hurt the US.

 

[ABikerSailor]

If Trump does decide to completely shut down the southern border like he's threatened, it's gonna cause so much chaos and loss of revenue that he won't keep it closed more than a day.

It'll hurt mehico far worse than it'll hurt the US.

But why hurt American businesses at all?

 

[Flash]

So you think it will harm the country but you want him to do it anyway, for partisan bullshit?
You are fucking pathetic

The harm is letting all these shithole countries export their poverty to the US.

 

[Jitss617]

I’d love to back to eating traditional American foods.. kick all Latinos out

WTF are "traditional American foods" to you?

The foods I grew up eating,, meats, potato, beans, eggs. Etc..