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If We Want to End the Border Crisis, It’s Time to Give Trump His Wall (the winds are shifting)
nymag.com ^ | Andrew Sullivan

Posted on 06/24/2018 3:39:35 AM PDT by cotton1706

Edited on 06/24/2018 5:41:42 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

So give him his f@#!ing wall. He won the election. He is owed this. It may never be completed; it may not work, as hoped. But it is now the only way to reassure a critical mass of Americans that mass immigration is under control, and the only way to make any progress under this president. And until the white working and middle classes are reassured, we will get nowhere. Don’t give it to him for nothing, of course. It should come with a full path to citizenship for all DACA immigrants, as in the proposed deal in January that Trump first liked and then reneged on, under Miller’s toxic influence. But it should also go bigger: a legislative fix for Flores; massive new funding for detention facilities, humane family-friendly housing, and, above all, much more money for the immigration legal system, now completely overwhelmed by asylum cases. If Democrats can show they want to deal with the humanitarian problem as a whole, and are willing to compromise on the wall, they’ll be in a much stronger position going forward than in the recent past.*


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; buildthewall; elections; immigration; trump; trumpwall
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To: cotton1706

And until the white working and middle classes are reassured, we will get nowhere.

...

That’s a racist statement. Sullivan should be fired and all his assets confiscated.


61 posted on 06/24/2018 6:31:35 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: heshtesh

Those people would be starving in a week. Then the President can unleash Twitter hell on the entire Leftist/Celebrity world.

“Dem’s care so much but won’t spend a dime to help families in need. I thought they were so kind, caring and compassionate”

“Celebrities wanted to put my kid in a cage, but when it was time for them to help they won’t answer the phone.”

He would be able to basically level the entire Leftist world to the ground.


62 posted on 06/24/2018 6:39:21 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: cotton1706

Amen


63 posted on 06/24/2018 6:42:09 AM PDT by CPT Clay
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To: cotton1706
And until the white working and middle classes are reassured, we will get nowhere.

Wow! I can't believe he went there.
What about the Hispanic, Asian, Indian and Black working and middle class who also want the same assurances as their fellow "white" Citizens?

Oh, that's right...you can't let on that it's anything other than a "white" issue to promote the racist angle.

Actually, it's pretty pathetic and obvious what you're trying to do, Andrew.

64 posted on 06/24/2018 6:42:31 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: cotton1706

No.
NO!
NOO!!!!!

We need those Democrat voters!
We can’t get enough AMERICANS to vote for us!!!


65 posted on 06/24/2018 6:51:39 AM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: cotton1706

No wall — no country.


66 posted on 06/24/2018 6:58:30 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: cba123

Sometimes I wonder if Trump really won given the hard time that he daily receives from the MSM.
Please president Trump, don’t ever give up. May God bless you always.


67 posted on 06/24/2018 7:03:04 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

The whole world seems to think that America belongs to them. America always gave it that impression.


68 posted on 06/24/2018 7:07:23 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: cotton1706

BUILD THE WALL!


69 posted on 06/24/2018 7:07:29 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: cotton1706

“As in everything, Trump makes things worse. His rhetoric, his callousness, his wanton lies all make a compromise harder.”

Yet it took Trump’s “callousness” even to get to the slightly honest level of discussion shown in this article. Exactly why I voted for him and will again. Sometimes you need the bull in the china shop.


70 posted on 06/24/2018 7:10:47 AM PDT by AndrewB
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To: cotton1706

This sudden child crisis was orchestrated to keep something out of the headlines. Smoke and mirrors.

Until the wall is built. And after. Station the military at the border and don’t let anyone across.


71 posted on 06/24/2018 7:13:59 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bert
xcept..... .the President promised that Mexico would pay for the wall.

He is now insisting that American taxpayers pay for the wall.

That was not the deal

What an absurd point to argue. The completed and guarded wall will be a bargain, even if we are ultimately unable to recover a penny of its cost from Mexico.

72 posted on 06/24/2018 7:18:59 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Yes, Mark Meadows, I was going through 20 different thoughts when I posted that - at least you recognized the reference.


73 posted on 06/24/2018 7:19:43 AM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: raybbr

They also are spitting inot the face of those who worked hard all their lives & now live on Soc Sec of about $480 a month.

The ideas of what to GIVE to these INVADERS is an insult to those persons.

The INVADERS will be living better than 60-70-80- + year old AMERICANS who worked hard.


74 posted on 06/24/2018 7:25:40 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Elsie

Hungary also sent the bill for that wall to the EU !!!


75 posted on 06/24/2018 7:28:02 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: cotton1706

It’s not HIS wall. It belongs to the AMERICAN people. Especially the 50% of all AMERICANS who are forced to pay income taxes.


76 posted on 06/24/2018 7:30:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Charles Martel

You have added a clause to the deal above the signature line.

That is not honest business


77 posted on 06/24/2018 7:45:54 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... In August our cities will be burning))
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To: Spacetrucker

No problem, I just wasn’t sure if a similar event had occurred, and totally missed it. 8>)


78 posted on 06/24/2018 8:13:20 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: cotton1706

The more the LIBTARDS lie, FAKE NEWS the HARDER President Trump’s supporters DIG IN. We are taking a page from the SHEEPLE and fighting back through Social Media.


79 posted on 06/24/2018 8:17:04 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO Wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: cotton1706

Conservatives are not going to like what they get. They will not got enough for a real wall without tons of now and forever amnesty.


80 posted on 06/24/2018 8:53:58 AM PDT by Wuli
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