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President Trump's Rumored Potential Border Wall Deal
Townhall.com ^ | January 19, 2019 | Timothy Meads

Posted on 01/19/2019 2:34:52 PM PST by Kaslin

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To: jjotto

Look it up.....the concensus estimate of building the entire wall is 25 billion. The absolute least amount was 15 billion and the absolute highest was close to 50 billion.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trumps-border-wall-how-much-it-will-actually-cost-according-to-a-statistician


61 posted on 01/20/2019 10:45:36 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: grey_whiskers; DoughtyOne; Williams; Liz; Kaslin; Libloather; BipolarBob; marajade
institute extended protection for DACA recipients

Does that mean that the US accepts NEW DACA applications now and for the foreseeable future? AFAIK no law has been passed by congress, but this makes it harder for Trump to veto such a bill if passed.

62 posted on 01/20/2019 10:45:52 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: GOPJ

See #62


63 posted on 01/20/2019 10:47:12 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: traderrob6

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2006/9/29/senate-section/article/s10608-2

...The bill will dramatically raise spending and increase welfare costs. The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation, JCT, estimate that this bill would increase direct spending by $16 billion over the 5 years and $48 billion over 10 years...


64 posted on 01/20/2019 10:51:14 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: jjotto

“The bill will dramatically raise spending and increase welfare costs”.

Makes no sense, please explain.


65 posted on 01/20/2019 10:53:19 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6
...But what about all of the entitlement programs such as welfare?

Illegal immigrants are currently ineligible for most federal welfare benefits, but when you give citizenship as this bill does those currently here illegally will be eligible for welfare programs.

If just 60 percent of those currently here illegally get citizenship -- the ballpark figure of the number that have been here more than 5 years -- Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation estimates that welfare costs will increase by more than $11 billion per year...

66 posted on 01/20/2019 11:00:27 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: grey_whiskers
Trump's speech was meant to fracture the Dems (Pelosi and the old guard vs. Occasional-Cortex and the Somali from MN......
and to screw the Dems' optics as "having the high ground". Trump is not a politician: he plays to WIN for we, the people....the beleaguered citizens.

I like it.

67 posted on 01/20/2019 11:04:45 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

Yr. obdt. srvt.,
@grey_whiskers


68 posted on 01/20/2019 11:06:20 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Sweet......


69 posted on 01/20/2019 11:06:53 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run
Show me the luxury buildings all over the world with YOUR name on them, and a photo of your world-class-supermodel wife, then.

Since you're a better negotiator than GEOTUS, and all.

70 posted on 01/20/2019 11:09:22 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Kaslin

The compromise may gain some voters for the Republican party but if actually passed would more likely guarantee an influx of illegal immigration and full amnesty down the road when a Democratic president assumes office.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes, one other reason that we need to elect President Trump in 2020 and a Republican President in 2024


71 posted on 01/20/2019 11:13:35 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: jjotto

I’m sorry you have lost me. I was discussing the cost of building the wall using the most current consensus estimates. You are talking about a bill and estimates of the cost of granting citizenship to all illegal aliens of a bill from 2006.


72 posted on 01/20/2019 11:44:28 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Toespi
And before I am flamed, I am a pure American, having twenty three ancestors, maternal and paternal who fought in the American Revolution

Also you are pure moron and a pure traitor like rats in congress (both Rs & Ds)

73 posted on 01/20/2019 1:01:33 PM PST by va22030
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To: Liz; grey_whiskers; DoughtyOne

If the Dem house passes a “compromise” bill with Dreamers+Path to Citizenship that means 10 million extra citizens (maybe 50 million eventually), 60-70% of which will vote Dem. 7 million new Dem voters and maybe 3 million GOP voters who might not vote, or might support RINOs. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already.


74 posted on 01/20/2019 2:46:13 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Any bill passed has to include the ‘NO NEW DACA’ PROVISION. This is it... no more illegals to legal under any circumstances.

These toxic incentives to come here illegally have to sen.


75 posted on 01/20/2019 2:57:59 PM PST by GOPJ (Anyone remember MSNBC bimbos crying about out-of-work steel workers or coal miners or anyone?)
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To: traderrob6
So are people who lack an intuitive sense to realize what are bonafide facts and what are off the cuff remarks that signify nothing.

Those are often the ones that reveal the truth.

I am not and never have been a NeverTrumper, I was a Trump supporter as soon as the debates began, can't cay the same for the many, many Cruizers that occupied these forums.

I am totally committed to Trump and his agenda, it is when he yields to the hand wringers that worship every move as some kind of super 6D chess game that irritate me. Trump may be the only man for this job, at least I don't know of one that could fill in right now and likely neither do you.

Just saying Hillary would be worse does not excuse every misstep the President makes, and he does make them. If even the people who love him can't tell him the truth then what hope does he have for success? If he caves on this wall and amnesty then you can all celebrate the loss of the Republic.

76 posted on 01/20/2019 3:06:59 PM PST by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Just Stop, NEVERTRUMPER.

Get a clue.

77 posted on 01/20/2019 3:07:34 PM PST by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Just Stop, NEVERTRUMPER.

You didn't answer the question did you? Tell us what happens after they discover the illegal crossing over the fence/wall?

78 posted on 01/20/2019 3:10:22 PM PST by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: itsahoot

I’ll answer. I don’t know.

They should be arrested and deported.

Will they? I don’t know, and neither do you.

What do you want, a shirtless Donald Trump with a mini-gun mowing them down?

Cause that’s NOT going to happen, as much as it would excite you.


79 posted on 01/20/2019 3:16:48 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: itsahoot

Here’s one. Anne Coulter is not the President.


80 posted on 01/20/2019 3:17:36 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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