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Americans who live near border say Trump's wall is unwelcome
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 22, 2016 | Frank Bajak

Posted on 11/22/2016 6:10:59 AM PST by artichokegrower

Forget Donald Trump's Great Wall.

The people who live in the bustling, fertile Rio Grande Valley, where the U.S. border meets the Gulf of Mexico, think a "virtual wall" of surveillance technology makes a lot more sense. It's already in wide use and expanding.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderfence; bordersecurity; borderwall
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At a community center in McAllen, Texas, a 21-year-old Guatemalan who is eight months' pregnant was bound for Kansas after turning herself in.


Bet the taxpayers in Kansas are happy to hear that.

1 posted on 11/22/2016 6:10:59 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

#fakenews


2 posted on 11/22/2016 6:11:41 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (A proud, irredeemable deplorable of the Trump Revolution.)
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To: artichokegrower

Not only is the wall broken, but the gate is wide open.
I think that is the real problem.


3 posted on 11/22/2016 6:12:48 AM PST by 9422WMR (President Trump, I like the sound of that!)
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To: artichokegrower

Will it spoil their view? Bless their hearts.


4 posted on 11/22/2016 6:13:02 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: FlingWingFlyer

#fakenews


5 posted on 11/22/2016 6:13:06 AM PST by Luke21
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“...a “virtual wall” of surveillance technology makes a lot more sense. It’s already in wide use and expanding...”

And really working so well, huh????? *ROFL*


6 posted on 11/22/2016 6:13:19 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: artichokegrower

You can have a real wall and a virtual wall at the same time.


7 posted on 11/22/2016 6:14:14 AM PST by VisualizeSmallerGovernment
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To: artichokegrower

...in SF anything Trump is unwelcome....we’ll have to see how they deal with defunding sanctuary cities


8 posted on 11/22/2016 6:14:28 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: artichokegrower

The “virtual wall” was already tried IIRC. Boeing I think. It failed MISERABLY and the program discarded.


9 posted on 11/22/2016 6:15:09 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: artichokegrower
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10 posted on 11/22/2016 6:15:32 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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>>People cackled at Trump’s idea that Mexico would willingly deliver the billions required. Mexican officials say they won’t. <<

Tax retail money transfers — boom, wall paid for with extra for more ICE officers.


11 posted on 11/22/2016 6:15:54 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Good morning President Trump)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

BULLFROG!!!! I live on a border town and WE WOULD WELCOME THE WALL!! Our Community here are terrified of the cartel crossing over !


12 posted on 11/22/2016 6:16:34 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: JBW1949

Microwaves and data links are bitch. Towers sway and processing systems that depend on stability at microwave frequencies, coupled with radar (basically) data processing of crude means didn’t work.


13 posted on 11/22/2016 6:17:14 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: RoseofTexas

Look at where the OP article comes from.


14 posted on 11/22/2016 6:17:50 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: freedumb2003

Exactly. Charge 40% on wire transfers.


15 posted on 11/22/2016 6:17:50 AM PST by combat_boots (I no longer know what to say to put here. Pray for us.)
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To: artichokegrower
Maybe they can have something to go along with the virtual wall. Like...

a shrubbery?


16 posted on 11/22/2016 6:18:18 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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“The wall might make mid-America feel safer, but for those of us that live on the border, it’s not making us feel any safer when we know that people can go over it, around it, under it and through it,” said Monica Weisberg-Stewart, security expert...”

So, in her world, it would be better, and safer, to build a highway across and make it a little easier for the drug cartel to ferry illegals and drugs in.

Of course, the phrase “through it” is a dead giveaway of her real agenda, and the paper’s.


17 posted on 11/22/2016 6:18:32 AM PST by odawg
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To: RoseofTexas

Rose I hate to say it but there will never be a wall between Texas and Mexico.


18 posted on 11/22/2016 6:19:57 AM PST by Dusty Road (")
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To: artichokegrower

This is so much bull crap. Yeah, I’m sure the people on the border love having droves of drug mules, criminals and terrorists crossing over their property every day.


19 posted on 11/22/2016 6:20:28 AM PST by bigtoona (The media, GOPe, dems, commie Pope, hate Trump. He is the destroyerttk we've been waiting for!)
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To: artichokegrower

As I said on another thread, I don’t believe there is any intent of a wall along the river. This is just the press trolling.


20 posted on 11/22/2016 6:21:36 AM PST by marron
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