How long until they have to pull back that headline though, for not be sufficiently disparaging of our President?
At least they do have a subsection entitled "Why he is Racist".
Posted on 09/06/2019 6:39:22 AM PDT by BeauBo
The Trump administration's decision to divert $3.6 billion in funding for military construction projects to help build a wall along the southern border with Mexico prompted swift, and mostly critical, responses from lawmakers in Washington but on the ground in areas that will be impacted, the reaction has varied, ranging from extreme outrage to tempered support.
Responses from politicians and residents in areas affected covered a wide spectrum but were primarily shaped by how those individuals feel about President Donald Trump and his commitment to building a border wall.
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How long until they have to pull back that headline though, for not be sufficiently disparaging of our President?
At least they do have a subsection entitled "Why he is Racist".
What good is the US military if its not being used to protect America?
I’m more outraged over the fact that Trump didn’t take $10 BILLION in military funds to get the wall completely finished.
I’m ELATED by it, CNN.
What’cha gon’ do ‘bout that?
Only 3.6 billion? Sheesh, New York diverts that much annually from their “general” fund earmarked for infrastructure and diverts it to welfare programs.
Almost no one outraged at Trump diverting military funds to, er, defend the US by building wall....
Defense of national boundaries IS an obligation of the military. The Border Patrol is only the first line, but ultimately, it is the duty of the military to supply backup and logistic support to maintain the integrity of that national boundary. Or to put a physical presence at that frontier.
If this control of the border can be done with a physical barrier, then build the barrier. And man it as needed.
A barbed wire fence suitable for holding in cattle is not always enough.
Money well spent that will provide added savings in the future.
I don’t know anyone who is.
“I’m more outraged over the fact that Trump didn’t take $10 BILLION in military funds to get the wall completely finished.”
The program can only ramp up so fast. He is effectively ramming money down their throats faster than they can chew.
We are really off to the races from here on out, building barrier.
I am outraged though, that CNN is not outraged, that President Trump was left to clean up such an outrageous mess in the first place. Outrageous outrage!
That's why they hate the border wall while America wants the wall secured BADLY.
It's as simple as that.
Even then they have to downplay the support, but they sure emphasize the outrage as extreme. Surprised actually that they didn't emphasize it as very extreme outrage.
Right - and this is CNN’s way of grudgingly admitting the point without completely conceding that they were (again) wrong.
The people that are so-called outraged, are the same people that say they want to cut the military budget as the first answer they give when asked is there any part of the budget they would cut.
yup
I debate a lot of leftists on the interwebs. They loved to shove into my face the fact that Trump could not complete his campaign promise to build the wall. I kept telling them that all that matters is what is happening in 2020.
And now he has the money, blessed by the SCOTUS.
enough said.
Hell, why not just have the SeaBees build it? They’d cut cost by steeling what they needed from Mexico, and probably get it done in a week.
I'm hoping for the curse of every government program happens to border wall construction. The longer the wall keeps being built and the more money that is spent on it the more construction contractors will get addicted to the money and start lobbying Congress to build MORE WALL.
Who knows, maybe we will get a Canadian wall that runs from eastern US to the Pacific and then along entire Alaska-Canadian border.
200 gold toilets for Pentagon Generals vs Securing our Southern Border?
And the answer is.....
“They (Leftists) loved to shove into my face the fact that Trump could not complete his campaign promise to build the wall.”
San Diego, the biggest city on the border is already transformed from last year. The first run on bollards (Primary Barrier) is complete. Those types of bollards were able to defeat the caravan mob rush tactics last year, where they were at that time - now they protect all of San Diego, from the Mountain to the Ocean. A second run (Secondary Barrier) of mighty 30 foot bollards is underway behind them, scheduled for completion in January.
In the enforcement zone between the barriers, vegetation has been cleared, extensive grading completed, high speed patrol road improved, stadium lighting installed, and a series of alarm systems and sensors installed - complete coverage by persistent surveillance, monitored by operators in the command center, alerted by unblinking artificial intelligence software.
Illegal crossings have dropped significantly, and fifty officers per shift (150 per day) are already available for reassignment elsewhere from San Diego.
In Calexico, where the first stretch of Trump-style 30 foot bollards was installed, attacks on Border Patrol Officers dropped 85% (Calexico led the Nation in such attacks before). DoD just this week announced that they would fund a Secondary Barrier in Calexico. Consider that door closed as well as San Diego.
Yuma (formerly the third highest volume of illegal crossings) is also already funded and contracted (construction started earlier this year) for effectively complete closure.
The Rio Grande Valley, which has been the location of more than 40% of the illegal crossings along the whole of the Southern border, is already funded for substantial closure (around a hundred miles worth), except for a few miles of specific Congressional exceptions. Five contracts for 32 miles have already been awarded, and the rest are likely to come before the end of the year. The miles in the Rio Grande Valley, will be almost entirely “new” miles, where no previous barrier existed. Construction was expected to start last month, so it should be soon.
More than half of the New Mexico border will be done with existing funds, and almost half of Arizona.
We should be running at a mile a day average pace next year.
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