Posted on 08/26/2015 5:24:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican Presidential Candidate and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush told a group at a Florida rally about his Texas border trip and explained why a border wall wouldn’t be practical or conservative. Bush returned to the friendly turf of the Sunshine State on Wednesday, with a town hall style meeting in Pensacola.
Pensacola is a solidly conservative town in the Florida panhandle. He spoke of his experience as the state’s former governor, but only answered a single question about the Border Crisis.
“I went to McAllen, Texas, in Hildago County, last week and met with the Mayors, the County Judge, and the Sheriff, right out of central casting with a big mustache, and these are good salt of the earth people who are concerned about their community,” Bush stated during the rally attended by Breitbart Texas....
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Make the freaking illegals build it!!!!
Tens of people come to see Yeb.
Tens of thousands come to see Trump.
Except that's not true.
It has become a space-based myth. The Great Wall of China, frequently billed as the only man-made object visible from space, generally isn't, at least to the unaided eye in low Earth orbit. It certainly isn't visible from the Moon.
You can, though, see a lot of other results of human activity.
No border, no country.
I am 100% on board with that idea.
See your 300 mile Israeli wall....and raise you a 600 mile Saudi wall
IOW, he's now claiming that there's nothing wrong with a wall, it's just not practical. I wonder if he ran that by any Asian Anchor Baby focus groups?
“...explained why a border wall wouldn’t be practical ....”
Mainly because he doesn’t want it, not that it would be impractical or ineffective, just because it wouldn’t be practical for him to suck up to his bosses with it.
I’m saving that!
That high-tech Saudi-Iraq wall hasn’t yet been built.
Maybe the Bush clan should move the Kennebunkport mansion to the border...?
But only in the parts of Texas where it makes sense.
7.23.2015, Laredo, Texas
QUESTION
Are you still in favor of a wall?
00:07:53
Donald Trump
Yes, in certain sections, you have to have a wall, absolutely.
00:07:57
Donald Trump
And, by the way, the wall — the wall will save you a tremendous amount of money. But you absolutely — there are areas that you have to have the wall.
“It IS an agricultural problem to cut off South Texas farming communities from the river.”
I realize that these have been around for 5,000 years, but I guess you never hear of them.
But just so you know, there are OPTIONS for these farmers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_%28fluid_conveyance%29
Regardless of the overwhelming disregard for Bush here, he’s right about this.
Along much of the Texas border with Mexico, a wall is completely impractical.
Through Big Bend National Park?? Have you been there?
Along the Rio Grande — where you going to build it? Build it on the US side and block ranchers from the water they need? Invade Mexico and build it on their side? Or put it down the middle?
A wall works, somewhat, along the desert (absent tunnels and ladders), but there are other ways of patrolling and securing that make better sense in Texas.
What would stop us from building it a mile or two North of the border?
I’ll sure pass along your ingenius solution. I’m sure South Texas ranchers and famers haven’t thought about irrigation. /s
We’ve already done that. Therein lies the problem or one of ‘em anyway.
Some South Texas residents have been fenced out of the United States.
Besides, WHY would we cede land and water to Mexico?
Private property rights and water access. It would be a lot easier without the Rio.
That would be a daunting eminent domain project.
"Those Flyover-country Americans, they're so stereotypical, aren't they? /sarc
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