Posted on 11/16/2018 5:46:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
“tourist dollars dry up...”
You forgot to mention the drug flow.
There’s much more scrutiny with the
added security. It wouldn’t surprise
me to see increased skirmishes with
the cartels trying to run their junk
across.
We need to take a significant portion of our military funding and use it to fund a border wall, and dramatically increase the size of our border patrol and ICE. We should bring most of our troops home, and stop all the blatant waste we see in the defense department. If our military is only allowed to defend foreign nations it doesn’t need the bloated budget it has now anyway.
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As far as I can see, Tijuana is a large flea market with donkeys painted like zebras.
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Force the migrants to swim the Sea of Cortez. Those who make it through the swarms of human flesh eating Humboldt Squid, will then be allowed a pass to the next stage of immigration. /sarcasm
For most residents of TJ, they respect El Hefe. When 9-11 hit, the border was immediately shut down for a couple of months. Prior to the shutdown, there were 3 large county wide swap meets near the border, with booths hosted by parties from both sides. The border closure hurt the small entrepreneurs more than anybody else. After the 3 month closure, the 3 swap meets never really remained solvent again. The locals place their politics more on that type of local entrepreneurship, than on larger economic issues.
In their minds, Trump is wealthy and powerful enough, that he’d just pay off people to get what he wants. There is a lack of Judaeo-Christian ethic in decision making. A lack of faith in Christ.
I suspect we are witnessing a similar lack of faith in the migrant caravan tactic being deployed by political groups, whose focus are several levels higher than local politics, but only planning by frag orders wit small groups of planners, who have less than 5-15 years experience in planning “social” movements. They hinge their comm off cell phone and internet technology, but little to no depth in planning.
This is a critical vulnerability in their operational art.
The enemy are those directing the migrant caravan and socialism movements. They are controlled by lessor intellects using limited resources also lacking in faith.
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