Posted on 04/09/2020 8:31:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Four Democrat congressmen, three of whom represent districts along the U.S. southern border, demanded the Trump administration halt border construction amid the coronavirus pandemic and direct the funds instead to fight the outbreak.
In the letter dated Wednesday to the heads of the Justice Department, the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security, Reps. Raul Grijalva, Filemon Vela and Ann Kirkpatrick and House Homeland Security Committee chairman Bennie Thompson demanded border wall construction immediately cease to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
"At a time when we are all taking extraordinary steps to limit the death toll and economic devastation wrought by this unprecedented pandemic, it is deeply concerning to learn that government officials, contractors and construction workers in border communities will defy public orders and continue border wall construction unabated, perhaps even accelerating construction in our border communities," the letter read.
President Donald Trump has claimed the border wall will stymie the spread of the disease but the Democrats said in their letter that workers congregating in rural towns threaten to overwhelm their limited medical facilities and resources if an outbreak were to occur. "As the virus continues to spread and our healthcare system grows even more strained, all federal resources being spent on the wall are desperately needed to fight the pandemic," the congressmen said in the letter, pointing out that hundreds of millions of dollars funding the border wall construction were originally earmarked for emergency and disaster response.
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Well, if half their voters are dying off, it’s understandable they’re going to worry about how to replace them.
but.. but... liberals said Trump wasn’t building it!
ROFL
Clearly these idiots know nothing about construction.
The teams are isolated so water, food and materials are not spread all over the place and to cut down on theft from locals.
Theft is the biggest problem
The wall DOES help stop the spread of the virus. Illegal aliens may innocently, and with the best intentions, carry the virus unawares. “If it saves just one life, it’s worth it.” “We need to do everything we can.”
This should be part of a Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement bill, missing since 1986 ONE TIME amnesty. The List of Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement, missing since 1986 goes like this -
1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents);
5) end work visas;
6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population);
7) Set up an illegal aliens’ victim restitution fund.
Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to SELF-deport, and remove colonizadors from our welfare rolls.
Democrats are criminally stupid. Anybody who suggests we need to open borders to these diseased third world invaders? Anybody who suggests such a thing needs to be locked up for their own safety.
Ask the American people. Today. I dare them.
Long answer: NO. Short answer: NO
The rationale of the Liberal mind is like spaghetti...it's all twisted up. No offense intended to spaghetti.
Halt the construction of the border wall? I say now is the time to accelerate it.Get the wall done.
We can’t afford to let the rats play games by trying to defund the monies already available to complete the construction.Get it done now.
Rep. Raul Grijalva
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The most effective representative that Mexico has in the US House of Representatives.
the death to America crowd wants what??????
Let’s compromise. I agree that they should halt the construction of the border wall. After it’s all finished.
Idiots. The wall DOES fight the outbreak of the virus.
Bull .it!
Trump has beaten them so thoroughly in this Chinese flu “crisis” that the left doesn’t know what lie to tell.
This is proof Libs are so welded to their current political orthodoxy, they will hold onto it even if their policy causes death to the people of the U.S.
we need that damned wall now more than ever.
Muslim terrorists and Mexican gang members usually “only” kill a few (or in the Muslim case, up to a few thousand) Americans at a time, whereas this new Chinese virus has already killed 14,800 Americans (half in New York). any country needs to have control over what kind of people or (to the extent possible) sicknesses get in.
The are no well intended innocent ILLEGAL ALIENS.
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