Posted on 10/01/2019 5:46:43 PM PDT by RummyChick
Donald Trump floated adding a moat filled with snakes and alligators at the border and shooting border jumpers in the legs as a solution to the influx of illegal immigration coming from the south, it was revealed Tuesday.
During a private March meeting with White House advisers, the president asked for cost estimates on several ideas he had that he felt would stop migrants from illegally crossing into the U.S., more than a dozen White House and administration officials directly involved in the events revealed in a new book.
The book, 'Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration' by New York Times Washington correspondence Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, will be published by Simon & Schuster on October 8, but excerpts were adapted and published on the Times' website Tuesday.
One idea he proposed was shutting down the entire 2,000-mile border the U.S. shares with Mexico by noon the following day.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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Anything can happen
You just know this is true.
All it would take is 10,000 or so alligators, a moat the full length of the border and fencing on both sides of the moat to keep them in and the fence would have to be placed far enough back on each side to give them access to dry land.
And then there is the little matter of getting enough water to fill it.
And of course it would need to be graded for the full length of the border so the water level would be the same at any spot.
Either that or locks to maintain the water level.
And where would all of that water come from?
When I was a much younger man, we just laughed at fools.
Now we make them reporters, editors and congress critters.
You’re right.
Sorry. You’ll have to settle for mutated sea bass.
A “BM” from the “DM” Daily Mail.
This is ridiculous— the maintenance alone on the gators-— way too costly to be effective. Water moats however, if steep enough very effective.
Wait until someone “leaks” out plans that turn out to be the Berlin and E/W Germany DDR’s border... complete with mine fields, and wire trigger scatter guns (they did have both of those and more).
Well, not really...
If you blow up a mine it’s gone forever.
If you feed an alligator, he’ll be hungry for more in a day or two. Even big pythons feel “the need for feed” within a month of eating a full grown pig.
I’d prefer to see piranhas.
You got a topic?..DM has a story. I haven’t watched this video because I am sure it would gross me out
“more than a dozen White House and administration officials directly involved in the events revealed “
Names?
Those are, incidentally still present on the Cuban side of the US Base at Guantanamo. Don’t know if the base still allows Cuban day workers in through a single gate and walkway in- through theirs and then our guard gates.
A business contact was Gitmo hospital commander years back— and said that Cubans tried to escape INTO Gitmo, and often at night he could hear the mines going off. The Cubans would leave them there in the dark and come out into the mine field using both a map and detectors— to tread out and collect the bodies.
Anti-personnel mines, guard towers with machine guns and spotlights.
I thought of the moat and gators first. But I’ll cut you in for 25% of the net and give you intellectual property rights on that Warthog thing. That one slipped past me. Good call.
Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs: NYT
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/463928-trump-suggested-shooting-migrants-in-the-legs-nyt
Pick your leaker
“The meeting was set for 30 minutes, but the Times reported that it lasted more than an hour. Officials in the room included then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, acting Customs and Border Protection chief Kevin McAleenan, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, and White House adviser Stephen Miller, according to the Times. “
“Ok...not bad ideas...next.”
Build the wall out of hungry dobermans.
So Simon and Schuster publishes Clinton’s “Gutsy Women” book and then publishes two NYT reporters who printed “private” discussions that Trump wants to shoot border jumpers.
Coincidence, no?
I’d expect them to publish at least one “trash Trump” book every month until next November and probably two or three next October. Won’t matter if a word of it is true.
I personally would go for a minefield, but that is just me a person of non-Caucasian persuasion.
Why don’t Pres. Trump use some o dem gorillas from the Gorilla Channel?
They can make lots of new episodes. I’m sure he’d have fun watching gorillas beating up Messicans!
LOL, sounds like a fiction novel. People write the craziest things to sell their books
I favor US Marines and dug in behind well-situated Ma Deuces!
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