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Democrats Who Won’t Build Border Wall Build Border Fence Around US Capitol
The Federalist. ^ | FEBRUARY 28, 2022 | Tristan Justice

Posted on 02/28/2022 6:31:39 PM PST by george76

After years of opposition to a southern border wall and even a government shutdown to prevent one, congressional Democrats have become fond of physical barriers on their own doorstep as they deprive Americans of the same protection.

On Sunday, the U.S. Capitol Police confirmed that the same perimeter fencing that surrounded the complex months after last year’s Jan. 6 riot would be restored ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday.

“Out of an abundance of caution, and in conjunction with the United States Secret Service, a plan has been approved to put up the inner-perimeter fence around the Capitol building for the State of the Union Address,” said Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger in a press release. “I have also requested support from outside law enforcement agencies as well as the National Guard to assist with our security precautions.”

The fencing was up in 2021 from January through July. It was last installed ahead of a rally for Jan. 6 defendants in September. The barrier’s resurrection comes as Washington, D.C., braces for a U.S. version of the Canadian trucker convoy in peaceful protest of dystopian coronavirus measures. Vehicles are expected to arrive in the capital throughout the week.

The enhanced Capitol security at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s behest comes after the Democratic leader repeatedly resisted President Donald Trump’s demands for border security and called them “immoral.”

“We’re not doing a wall,” Pelosi reiterated in January of 2019 amid a government shutdown provoked by Democrats’ refusal to include wall funding in appropriations. “A wall is an immorality between countries. It’s an old way of thinking.”

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Walls between Washington politicians and their constituents, however, are apparently far more necessary.

Democrats, meanwhile, have maintained their opposition to offering the same protection they’ve erected for themselves in the capital to border states. On day one of his presidency, Joe Biden’s first executive orders axed construction of the border wall put underway by Trump.

“It shall be the policy of my Administration that no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall,” said the order by Biden, whose Tuesday night speech will be protected by a border wall.

The nation’s immigration crisis has reached new heights under Biden, whose 2020 campaign signaled a pledge for open borders, provoking South and Central American caravans to prepare for U.S.-bound travel in the event of a Democrat victory. By the spring of Biden’s first year in office, a humanitarian crisis manifested itself on the southern border with record-high crossings, apprehensions, and drug seizures. The crisis has only continued to swell in the absence of legitimate reform, such as the types of security walls Democrat politicians are eager to use for their own personal protection.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: border; borderwall; wall
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1 posted on 02/28/2022 6:31:39 PM PST by george76
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That’s because democrats love illegal aliens who vote for them, and they hate American citizens who won’t vote for them.


2 posted on 02/28/2022 6:34:43 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Merry Christmas Illhan!)
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If politicians don’t trust the voters they should RESIGN


3 posted on 02/28/2022 6:38:26 PM PST by butlerweave
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Nothing says “legimitate election” like building walls to protect the coup’s puppet.


4 posted on 02/28/2022 6:39:37 PM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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BTTT


5 posted on 02/28/2022 6:42:08 PM PST by nopardons
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To: george76

Right now they’re more worried about the Ukrain / Poland border than our own.


6 posted on 02/28/2022 6:45:21 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE ( ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
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To: george76
This is just manipulative histrionics.
7 posted on 02/28/2022 6:48:13 PM PST by lizma2
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I still think the SOTU will wind up being virtual.


8 posted on 02/28/2022 6:49:40 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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I was told by libtards walls don’t work.


9 posted on 02/28/2022 6:50:18 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Any politician who can’t give a speech without putting up barbed- wire and the military between them and their public audience is corrupt to the core and should be removed IMMEDIATELY.


10 posted on 02/28/2022 6:51:10 PM PST by joethedrummer (We can’t vote our way out of this, folks..)
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Would you have ever imagined that unelected officials who successfully pulled of a coup are fencing themselves in to protect themselves from the people


11 posted on 02/28/2022 6:54:37 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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2017-2019 the Senate and House were both GOP.
It was they who would not build the fence that Trump wanted.


12 posted on 02/28/2022 6:56:38 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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A government that builds fortifications against its own people is by its very nature an illegitimate government.

This is just all part of the 2020 Coup continuing on.


13 posted on 02/28/2022 7:01:50 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (Welcome to leftist Planet Lab Cage where are YOU are the rat)
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The quickest way to get DC’s attention is not to go there and protest, where we’d get our asses thrown into the gulag. But block the borders like the Canadians did and you get their attention. Especially the Southern border.


14 posted on 02/28/2022 7:05:20 PM PST by cabojoe
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Can’t let honkers get too close


15 posted on 02/28/2022 7:17:15 PM PST by delchiante
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They wouldn’t be this afraid unless they knew they had done something terribly wrong.


16 posted on 02/28/2022 7:37:08 PM PST by TigersEye (Is it time for a general strike yet?)
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Brandon Junta Iron Curtain.

“Brandon Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”


17 posted on 02/28/2022 7:42:00 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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18 posted on 02/28/2022 7:56:34 PM PST by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.)
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They’re afraid of a Trucksurrection.


19 posted on 02/28/2022 8:25:34 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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RINO Ryan and pals.


20 posted on 02/28/2022 8:35:02 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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