Posted on 01/13/2017 5:48:01 PM PST by jazusamo
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to build a U.S.-Mexico wall has touched off a fierce debate in the U.S. border towns that would be most affected – with local Democrats vowing to fight Trump tooth and nail if he proceeds.
“Mexico is an ally, not an enemy,” Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Texas, told FoxNews.com. “It is our second-largest trading partner, and building a wall between two countries with such important ties is a senseless and wasteful exercise."
Vela is a colorful Trump critic. He made headlines after calling the president-elect's illegal immigrant policies “hateful, dehumanizing, and frankly shameful.” In a public letter, he also advised Trump to “take your border wall and shove it up your ass.”
Vela is part of a growing number of Democratic lawmakers bracing for a fight with Trump over his proposed 1,933-mile border wall with Mexico -- one of several big immigration clashes on the horizon. Many Democratic officials in "sanctuary cities" also are preparing to battle Trump over his threat to cut their federal funding.
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Oh I’m sure even now theyre hunting for a snail darter to stop the building...
after all a one cell ameba has more rights than we humans do...
It will be open season for the rattlesnakes.
Park flame throwers at tunnels as they crop up to discourage, with extreme prejudice, any future tunnel construction.
Bremer Wall.
Even best friends know it’s good to have some separation in their lives. Why can’t these fools realize the wall has nothing to do with trade agreements, but with two separate countries remaining two distinct countries, and the fact that one of those countries people seems to think it can just come and go as pleases and harm in various ways folks in the other country as if it’s no big deal?
Excellent point.
Build the wall!!!!
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