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Trump visited the Mexican border, and still thinks it's a good idea to put up a wall
Mashable ^ | July 23, 2015 | Megan Specia & Jessica Eggert

Posted on 07/23/2015 7:27:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump reiterated calls to erect a wall on the border between Mexico and the United States during a visit to the border city of Laredo, Texas, on Thursday.

"In certain sections you have to have a wall, absolutely," Trump said, speaking to the press shortly after touring the border crossing. "The wall will save you a tremendous amount of money."

The comments came during a fly in visit to the city to discuss plans for increasing border security. Just one month ago, during his campaign launch, Trump said one of the priorities of his presidency would be to build a wall between Mexico and the U.S.

His anti-immigration stance has ignited outrage, and Trump has come under fire from Latino groups for disparaging comments made about Mexicans.

"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best," Trump said during his campaign announcement, which devolved into an off-script rant. "They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists."

The population of Laredo, Texas, is 250,000, and 95.6% of those residents are Hispanic or Latino. Much of the city's economy is based on cross-border trade. Trump weighed in on this on Thursday, saying the prosperity that Laredo sees as the largest border crossing for goods traded between the United States and Mexico is due to Mexico.

"A lot of what's happening here is because Mexico is doing so well," said Trump. "I don’t know if that's good for the United States."

Trump has already received pushback from residents ahead of his arrival, and a group gathered to protest against his visit when he arrived at Laredo International Airport on Thursday, in a 757 with his name emblazoned on its side....

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TOPICS: Texas; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: aliens; borders; mexico; texas; trump
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See what they tried to do there with that headline?
1 posted on 07/23/2015 7:27:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That headline hurts my sensibilities. Remove that darned comma!


2 posted on 07/23/2015 7:28:08 PM PDT by petitfour (Americans need to repent.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A Wayward Pines wall.


3 posted on 07/23/2015 7:30:21 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Damn right it is a good idea to put up a wall and secure our border.


4 posted on 07/23/2015 7:30:30 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can’t believe Jessica and Megan aren’t out shopping.


5 posted on 07/23/2015 7:35:03 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember! It's not a hate crime if the victim is white.)
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To: Parley Baer

We are going to build the wall. Very soon.


6 posted on 07/23/2015 7:51:09 PM PDT by WENDLE (There are way too many. There souldn't be any!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Put Mongo on border. Mexican scared of Mongo.

Santa Maria its Mongo!

Mongo only pawn in game of life.

7 posted on 07/23/2015 8:02:19 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Chinese did it without bulldozers, dump trucks and modern manufacturing.

Build the damn wall or at least a double layer 18 foot barb wired topped fence from shore to freaking shore.

and, deport by the train load.


8 posted on 07/23/2015 8:11:30 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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9 posted on 07/23/2015 8:12:56 PM PDT by caww
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

10 posted on 07/23/2015 8:14:36 PM PDT by caww
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McStain on BOR now blaming 0bama and the House for no border security.

Oh, and that “crazy” name he called Arizonans, was a “term of endearment”. Yukity yuk.

What a PUTZ!


11 posted on 07/23/2015 8:17:35 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Typical MSM twist.

His anti-immigration stance has ignited outrage

Should read:

His anti-ILLEGAL-immigration stance has ignited outrage

12 posted on 07/23/2015 8:20:58 PM PDT by Antoninus II
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Of course it’s a good idea as part of a “comprehensive border security package”. Along with the wall we need concertina wire, cameras, drones, more border patrol agents manning the border, the wall, the cameras, and the drones. Oh, and we need a little political will to actualy secure the border while we’re at it, some more prisons and prison guards to house the repeat offenders and the drug dealers.


13 posted on 07/23/2015 8:37:41 PM PDT by RC one
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To: Antoninus II

among illegals.


14 posted on 07/23/2015 8:51:42 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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And racist insurrectionists like La Raza!


15 posted on 07/23/2015 8:59:55 PM PDT by Antoninus II
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To: RC one

Don’t forget the claymores.


16 posted on 07/23/2015 9:02:01 PM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is wall synonymous with fence?


17 posted on 07/23/2015 9:19:00 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: caww

Why we love Trump?

It’s because for the last 6 years we’ve been begging the Republicans to do something. Anything. At first they said they couldn’t do anything because they didn’t have the Presidency, House or Senate. Then they said they couldn’t do anything because Harry Reid was blocking everything in the Senate. Then they said they couldn’t do anything until the 2016 elections because Obama would veto. Now they are saying they won’t be able to do anything even with a Republican President because too many Senate seats are up for grabs in 2018.

On and on and on and on with the excuses of why they can’t do anything. Now comes Trump. Who has no power at all but the bully pulpit. He’s been on the scene two months. But we’ve already seen what he’s done and he isn’t even in the White House yet. Thanks to Donald Trump, they are holding hearings on the hill focusing on the deaths of Americans by illegals. Thanks to Trump, many low information voters in this country who had never heard of sanctuary cities, or didn’t even believe they existed when they did hear about it.

This is all happening thanks to one man, Donald Trump.
Trump isn’t making excuses. He’s getting things done.
That’s why we love him.

-—————excerpted from a post on Hot Air


18 posted on 07/23/2015 9:57:16 PM PDT by entropy12 (War heroes display extraordinary bravery. McCain just a bad pilot. Sang like a bird to avoid torture)
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To: entropy12

We like Trump because the Gope didn’t hear us in 2014......with our votes as they dropped one at a time....now they’re hearing our voice....

Whenever I hear any Gope candidate attempt to push Trump out of his ‘rightful place’ to speak as a candidate....then I know they’re a Rhino.

I heard three of them won’t debate if Trumps there.....I need to see who these three are....they are no friends of Conservatives....


19 posted on 07/23/2015 10:39:26 PM PDT by caww
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To: RC one

They’ll never fence off Texas.


20 posted on 07/24/2015 3:35:34 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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