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Beto O'Rourke blames climate change for the crisis at the Mexican border
The Washington Examiner ^ | May 10, 2019 | Emily Larsen

Posted on 05/10/2019 12:18:58 PM PDT by detective

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke said climate change is a reason so many Central American migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.

"These storms, these floods, the historic wildfires that we saw in California, the droughts through which our farmers in Texas attempt to persist to grow the food and the fiber that feeds and clothes not just this country but the world, are going to be exponentially worse going forward," O'Rourke, a former Texas congressman who represented El Paso, said at a campaign stop Thursday in Salem, N.H. “There were 400,000 apprehensions at our border with Mexico last year. As you know, many of them were kids – kids who, if they were lucky, showed up with their parents," he said. "But increasingly, we are finding that those who are arriving are farmers from Honduras who are trying to plant what used to grow but does not any longer because they, too, are in historic droughts and cannot feed themselves.

"If you think 400,000 is bad, wait until some countries in the Western Hemisphere can no longer support human life, because that is the direction we are headed,” O'Rourke said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary; betoorourke; border; climatechange; dumbass; globalwarming; moron; orourke
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He also blamed climate change for the time he drove drunk and left the scene of an accident.
1 posted on 05/10/2019 12:18:58 PM PDT by detective
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perhaps climate change has fried his brain?


2 posted on 05/10/2019 12:22:06 PM PDT by Bob434
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I blame the climate for him being such a freak, the political climate.


3 posted on 05/10/2019 12:22:07 PM PDT by rey
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To: detective

Newsom said the same thing.


4 posted on 05/10/2019 12:22:44 PM PDT by rey
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To: detective; All

This guy is a doofus unto his own.


5 posted on 05/10/2019 12:22:59 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: detective

Maybe it is due to really bad tasting guacamole.


6 posted on 05/10/2019 12:23:08 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (Prov 24: Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not associate with those given to change.)
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Hey, why not? Keep throwing his monkey sh*t against the wall to see if it sticks.
 
7 posted on 05/10/2019 12:23:30 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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How do Leftists keep straight what to blame on Climate Change and what to blame on Donald J Trump’s “Divisive Rhetoric™?”

Of course we all know that Climate Change is ultimately caused by Trump’s divisive rhetoric, which so upsets the sun and atmosphere, so I guess it’s a moot point.


8 posted on 05/10/2019 12:24:06 PM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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and juss for the record beto- nearly 75% of illegals end up on welfare in this country- and illegals cost this country more than $600 BILLION DOLLARS per year- money that could be going to our nation’s LEGAL citizen’s needs!-

Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants

http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_crime_summary.html

In recent Testimony of District Attorney John M. Morganelli before the House Subcommittee on immigration, Border, Security and Claims he stated:

“Unfortunately, the majority of illegal aliens who are here are engaged in criminal activity. Identity theft, use of fraudulent social security numbers and green cards, tax evasion, driving without licenses represent some of the crimes that are engaged in by the majority of illegal aliens on a daily basis merely to maintain and hide their illegal status.

In addition, violent crime and drug distribution and possession is also prevalent among illegal aliens. Over 25% of today’s federal prison population are illegal aliens. In some areas of the country, 12% of felonies, 25% of burglaries and 34% of thefts are committed by illegal aliens.”

•In Los Angeles, 95% of some 1,500 outstanding warrants for homicides are for illegal aliens. About 67% of the 17,000 outstanding fugitive felony warrants are for illegal aliens.

•There are currently over 400,000 unaccounted for illegal alien criminals with outstanding deportation orders. At least one fourth of these are hard core criminals.

•80,000 to 100,000 illegal aliens who have been convicted of serious crimes are walking the streets. Based on studies they will commit an average of 13 serious crimes per perpetrator.

•Illegal aliens are involved in criminal activities at a rate that is 2-5 times their representative proportion of the population.

•In 1980, our Federal and state facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens but at the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities at a cost of about $6.8 billion per year.

•At least 4.5 million pounds of cocaine with a street value of at least $72 billion is smuggled across the southern border every year. ..

•56% of illegal aliens charged with a reentry offense had previously been convicted on at least 5 prior occasions.

•Illegal aliens charged with unlawful reentry had the most extensive criminal histories. 90% had been previously arrested. Of those with a prior arrest, 50% had been arrested for violent or drug-related felonies.

•Illegal aliens commit between 700,000 to 1,289,000 or more crimes per year.

•Illegal aliens commit at least 2,158 murders each year – a number that represents three times greater participation than their proportion of the population.

•Illegal alien sexual predators commit an estimated 130,909 sexual crimes each year.

•There may be as many as 240,000 illegal alien sex offenders circulating throughout America. Based on studies, they will commit an average of 8 sex crimes per perpetrator before being caught.

•Nearly 63% of illegal alien sex offenders had been deported on another offense prior to committing the sex crime.

•Only 2% of the illegal alien sex offenders in one study had no history of criminal behavior, beyond crossing the border illegally.

•In Operation Predator, ICE arrested and deported 6,085 illegal alien pedophiles. Some studies suggest each pedophile molests average of 148 children. If so, that could be as many as 900,580 victims.

•Nobody knows how big the Sex Slave problem is but it is enormous.

•The very brutal MS-13 gang has over 15,000 members and associates in at least 115 different cliques in 33 states.

•The overall financial impact of illegal alien crimes is estimated at between $14.4 and $81 billion or more per year. Factor in the crime as a result of the cocaine and other drugs being smuggled in and the number may reach $150 billion per year.

Where does Rubio come off berating Trump for citing FACTS?

[[Congressman Steve King (R-IA) estimates that illegal alien drunk drivers kill 13 Americans every day — that’s a death toll of 4,745 per year.[4]

The 23 percent criminal traffic offenders figure is only part of the overall picture. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, another 23 percent, more than 43,000 illegal aliens, were convicted of drug offenses. The violent crime category of assault, robbery, sexual assault, and family offenses comes to 12 percent. The non-violent crime grouping of larceny, fraud, and burglary totaled seven percent, and on the list goes — equaling 100 percent of illegal aliens who have been through the criminal justice system and inflicted thousands to millions in cost per alien on the system, for issues having nothing to do with their illegal entry into the country]]

http://www.constitutionparty.com/illegal-alien-crime-and-violence-by-the-numbers-were-all-victims/


9 posted on 05/10/2019 12:24:53 PM PDT by Bob434
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The illegal alien inundation is directly linked to the resistance to border security and interior enforcement by Democrats and Bush League Republicans.
Just after the 2016 election, the numbers dropped dramatically.
They increased again after talk of amnesty and blocking any meaningful border security.
They are now reaching critical mass.

Stop it now or forever be North Mexico.


10 posted on 05/10/2019 12:24:55 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Bobby is failing miserably. He will be out by June. No money!!


11 posted on 05/10/2019 12:25:02 PM PDT by bingoplayer (MAGA)
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Last time this came up I checked, and Honduras has gotten cooler and wetter since the 1990’s.


12 posted on 05/10/2019 12:26:31 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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Micro Rubio is an Amnesty Senator and should have already been thrown out of office.


13 posted on 05/10/2019 12:26:46 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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I blame Monsanto food additives and drugs which have rotted old Beat-Off’s brain.


14 posted on 05/10/2019 12:28:00 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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Everything bad can be blamed either on Climate Change or Donald Trump or both.


15 posted on 05/10/2019 12:28:03 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: detective
[ Beto O'Rourke ]

Looks like Beto crashed
tripped
hit a wall


16 posted on 05/10/2019 12:28:11 PM PDT 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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perhaps climate change has fried his brain! Just, who, we want as our Potus???

A lover of really rare beef???

A skateboarder without a helmet or pads????

After skateboarding without a helmet and loving your cow, real men don’t need a hankerchief:

“The Next President of the United States???, Not!"

17 posted on 05/10/2019 12:31:56 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( You can't normalize the type of behavior the left is trying to normalize because it isn't normal!)
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Thanks to Hot Hunt and others for the above realities versus the end of humans due to Gorebull Warming BS Predictions.

18 posted on 05/10/2019 12:35:32 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( You can't normalize the type of behavior the left is trying to normalize because it isn't normal!)
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I might have to swipe that last one - it’s hilarious - and sad at the same time


19 posted on 05/10/2019 12:37:52 PM PDT 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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General obesity in the population is directly caused by Climate Change as is the measles outbreak and the slow service at the local Waffle House.


20 posted on 05/10/2019 12:47:44 PM PDT by arthurus (doob)
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