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Top House Dem: Invest in Better Cell Service for Border Patrol Instead of Wall
PJ Media ^ | 01/05/2019 | Nicholas Ballasy

Posted on 01/05/2019 1:35:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind

WASHINGTON – House Democratic Caucus Vice Chairwoman Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) told PJM that she hopes President Donald Trump settles for building border barriers that are not as high as a “giant wall” while helping DREAMers as part of a deal to reopen the government.

Clark was asked if she would support a deal with Trump that includes legal status for DREAMers in exchange for the $5 billion in wall funding.

“We’re hoping for some sort of compromise. The wall is a bad idea. We have better technology. There are better things that we can spend our money on to improve security so I hope the president is open to doing some sort of barrier that is short of this giant wall he wants and will work with us to do things like get our DREAMers the security they need and deserve, so I think we’re waiting for his move,” Clark said during an interview at the EMILY’s List reception for members of the 116th Congress on Thursday.

“We already have fencing and barriers, but when we have Border Patrol agents that don’t even have cell phone service that’s where we should be investing our dollars, that sort of technology,” she added.

Clark attended a meeting about the government shutdown with Trump at the White House today.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) was also asked if he would support the president’s wall funding request in exchange for granting legal protection to DREAMers, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that gave work permits to some people brought to the country illegally as children.

“Every time we try to do something for DREAMers, the right wing calls him ‘amnesty Donald’ and he backs off,” Schumer said. “We will wait to see if he is willing to do anything for DREAMers. Myself, Leader Pelosi, Dick Durbin and the DREAMers themselves have no faith in Trump.”

Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) signaled that she might be open to supporting a wall funding deal that involves DREAMers even though she personally opposes Trump’s call for more border barriers of some sort.

“I’m not for the wall,” she said.

When asked if she would vote to fund the wall under any circumstance, Frankel replied, “I don’t know. I don’t know. It’s a waste of money.”

Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) told PJM he opposes funding additional border barriers and said legal status for DREAMers is a separate issue.

“The DREAMers have nothing to do with the president’s wall. As a matter of fact, we should be able to pass the DREAM Act out of the U.S. House of Representatives and, if Mitch McConnell wants to do the right thing, as many of the Republican senators have said that they support protecting the DREAMers, we can take that action in the U.S. Senate as well,” Lujan said.

“President Trump, through the use of his pen, took this disrespectful action towards DREAMers in America and he could very well reverse it. He shouldn’t be using them as pawns to negotiate for this ridiculous wall,” he added.

To support his position, Lujan cited his recent trip to the Antelope Wells Port of Entry in New Mexico; he said there was no running water.

“The water was contaminated. They had no drinking water. They had no water to bathe or to cook – not just for the asylum-seekers but also for the agents. That is no way to have facilities across the country and we should be talking about the ports of entry on the southern border of Mexico,” he said. “It’s also with Canada and also with our water ports as well – that’s where the investment of infrastructure and border security is absolutely necessary.”

Lujan said Trump could reopen government by signing the same bill that already passed the Senate, which included $1.3 billion for border security not including any concrete wall.

“There was a deal, clearly. When Mitch McConnell put a bill on the Senate floor that passed unanimously, I cannot imagine that he did not do that without the president’s support. President Trump decided to turn on Fox News and watch Sean Hannity and changed his mind,” he said of the bill that passed by voice vote before Christmas. “How can you work with someone like that? The president needs to own up, get the government opened up again and then see how we can negotiate with each other. So I’m still hopeful. I’m optimistic.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2stupid4words; aliens; borderpatrol; borerwall; illegalimmigration; immigration; mexico; schumer
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To: chiller

Yep.


41 posted on 01/05/2019 2:10:23 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

42 posted on 01/05/2019 2:10:34 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

So might nuke excavation of a sea level moat all along the border.


43 posted on 01/05/2019 2:11:24 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Well, the theory was that you put physical walls/fences where the invaders would have easy access to towns or cities so they couldn’t just disappear into the crowd, so to speak. Then in the middle of nowhere, where there are vast stretches of uninhabitable dessert, you detect them and then pick them up using your fixed and mobile sensor towers and ground sensors. The downside is that yes, that means they are in the US when you apprehend them. At the time, that wasn’t something the government considered important to prevent. I think it was before the scam of asking for asylum from muggers was taken seriously at all, so you catch ‘em you can deport ‘em. I now know Bush would have never done that. In fact, even catching them was too much for Bush so I believe he had Chertoff make sure he picked the most useless solution possible - phones.


44 posted on 01/05/2019 2:11:45 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Just look to Israel for answers about walls and security. This Marxist RAT schmuck should get his empty head out of his rectum.


45 posted on 01/05/2019 2:13:15 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: SeekAndFind

Why not give them feather dusters too. Amazing how uneducated these criminals are


46 posted on 01/05/2019 2:13:51 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

How does someone from MA know what is needed on our southern border ?

Has she ever heard any border patrol agent say cell phone service is the answer or that clean running water is the answer to securing our borders ? Those are issue but different issues and are just plain noise from the left.


47 posted on 01/05/2019 2:13:55 PM PST by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: SeekAndFind

And Top Dim donor Carlos Slim welcomes the opportunity to provide this ‘better cell service.’


48 posted on 01/05/2019 2:14:57 PM PST by Heart of Georgia
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To: SeekAndFind

The woman is a moronic dipshit.


49 posted on 01/05/2019 2:17:41 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: rigelkentaurus

I think we need patrol kittys with lasers on their heads.


50 posted on 01/05/2019 2:18:27 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: SeekAndFind

When they say we can do the same things with tech in lieu of a wall, they are unable to define what they mean. Then bozo statements like this appear to confirm that suspicion.


51 posted on 01/05/2019 2:20:49 PM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: SeekAndFind

better follow the money. This guy is getting something from phone company.


52 posted on 01/05/2019 2:21:15 PM PST by the_daug
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To: SeekAndFind

“With better cell service, you Republicans can convince your rube voters that border security has been strengthened while we can still get our voters across unnoticed.” :)


53 posted on 01/05/2019 2:23:17 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: SeekAndFind

“get our DREAMers the security they need and deserve”

Our? Security they need and deserve?

How about OUR fellow citizens get the security they need and deserve?


54 posted on 01/05/2019 2:28:39 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: SeekAndFind

Erma a Gawd. What an idiot


55 posted on 01/05/2019 2:30:36 PM PST by Nifster (II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: SeekAndFind

A Massachusetts woman says down on the border, the main need, is cell service. These east coast types really should just shut up on the border issue.


56 posted on 01/05/2019 2:37:16 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: SeekAndFind

“We already have fencing and barriers, but when we have Border Patrol agents that don’t even have cell phone service that’s where we should be investing our dollars, that sort of technology,” she added.

We're happy to do that. Bump the $5.6 billion originally asked for up to $5.7 billion and I'm confident Trump will sign on the dotted line and erect $100 million dollars worth of cell towers too. I suspect he'll think that is a right good idea and thank Clark for suggesting it.


57 posted on 01/05/2019 2:52:39 PM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: SeekAndFind

DO. IT. ALL.


58 posted on 01/05/2019 2:56:31 PM PST by jimfree (My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

FlingWingFlyer wrote: “Why not a massive hospital and welcome center built on the border so we can hurry the illegals on their way to the DNC Voter registration office?”

Did you miss this part: “and we should be talking about the ports of entry on the southern border of Mexico,” POE on the Southern Border of Mexico so they don’t have to walk all the way to the Rio Grande. Why not just send a couple of cruise ships every day to ports in their home countries to pick them up there?


59 posted on 01/05/2019 3:06:35 PM PST by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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To: jimfree

This DIMwit woman needs to self-exile this evening for being such a sovereignty-despising, Citizen-despising loser. Those who voted for her should also accompany her on her journey”. The group nitwittery couldn’t be stronger there.


60 posted on 01/05/2019 3:07:45 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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