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Trump admin wants to send more troops to border to string concertina wire
NBC News ^ | Jan 3, 2018 | By Courtney Kube and Julia Ainsley

Posted on 01/03/2019 6:23:16 PM PST by 11th_VA

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To: 98charlie
Now all juveniles have to looked at by an EMT or taken to the hospital for a doctor to check. Yes that is every juvenile caught no exception.

If that's the policy then it doesn't matter if they are injured or not does it?

21 posted on 01/03/2019 6:54:57 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: central_va

Good question...


22 posted on 01/03/2019 6:59:26 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: 11th_VA

Maybe ‘this’ is what the GOFUNDME money should be used for.

We could probably pay for enough wire to cover all the necessary areas.


23 posted on 01/03/2019 7:04:04 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: 11th_VA

We need a wall, trenches, barbed wire, and a good parallel east-west access road, communications. Walls work as long as they are completed. Even the Maginot line could have worked if the French had extended it from the Luxembourg border to the Channel.

Just think of the money that will be saved on local law enforcement, schools, healthcare, food stamps.


24 posted on 01/03/2019 7:05:41 PM PST by grumpygresh (Abolish administrative law. It's regressive, medieval and unconstitutional!)
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To: central_va

All that I am saying is that due to policy(two agents to hospital) that the wire is causing man power shortages. At the same time it might be deterring or slowing crossing. The point is that we need a better barrier that can not be easily climbed, tougher laws and to unite the hands of agents.


25 posted on 01/03/2019 7:06:54 PM PST by 98charlie
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To: 98charlie

Thanks for your work - post any time


26 posted on 01/03/2019 7:07:07 PM PST by 11th_VA ("When passions are most inflamed, fairness is most in jeopardy." - Susan Collins)
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To: UCANSEE2

Why waste time and money on wire? I could build the fence for what the wire costs.


27 posted on 01/03/2019 7:08:16 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: hoosiermama

No, a border patrol emt can look at juveniles but if they sign off on one without sending them to the hospital and they die the agent is liable. The military medics at this time are not providing any kind of medical care where I work.


28 posted on 01/03/2019 7:09:09 PM PST by 98charlie
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To: BenLurkin

What I’ve seen is - at least in some places - they’re adding two more rolls along the bottom so there’s one on top and then 3 at the bottom. It’s funny how many troops POTUS has directed to these efforts and drawn out over time so that any single deployment is a repeated “ho-hum” even by friendlies like Ann Coulter and it’s been building with several increases / additional troops sent over past months, each time + team(s) with their own missions. That there & then + this here & now + TBD ;)


29 posted on 01/03/2019 7:10:15 PM PST by Steven W.
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30 posted on 01/03/2019 7:14:10 PM PST by Steven W.
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To: Steven W.

As of right now at my station we only have wire at the top. Maybe that will change.


31 posted on 01/03/2019 7:18:26 PM PST by 98charlie
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To: Pravious

The Demonrats know what they want—a brand new America where there will be only one party—their party. They know Hispanics vote for them 70% of the time. If they get enough Hispanics the Demoncrats will be the majority party by a long shot. The Republican party will be a tiny powerless party and this will never be America again. We will have no rights. As a mother and a grandmother I say over my dead body!


32 posted on 01/03/2019 7:19:02 PM PST by cradle of freedom
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To: tomkat

Hell yes.

Have a Claymore for lunch, pendejo..


33 posted on 01/03/2019 7:21:13 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: 11th_VA

"...razor wire..."


The additional advantage of razor wire is that it can remain in place even after the adjacent primary border wall is completed.
The reality is that 95% of people do not even wish to walk too close to a rose bush with sharp thorns.
A thick string of razor wire in front of a formidable high wall will likely discourage 99.99% of people who even look at it from afar.


34 posted on 01/03/2019 7:22:05 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: 11th_VA

How about stringing 1000 miles, 20 foot high.


35 posted on 01/03/2019 7:22:37 PM PST by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: 11th_VA

Is there a way to spin it constantly like a Cuisinart?


36 posted on 01/03/2019 7:23:55 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: 98charlie

Thanks for what you do and for putting up with it all.


37 posted on 01/03/2019 7:24:31 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: 11th_VA

What does SECDEF have to do with this?

POTUS is the Commander in Chief, and if he says “Do it,” they HAVE to do it!


38 posted on 01/03/2019 7:30:58 PM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: cradle of freedom

"...[they] want a brand new America where there will be only one party — their party..."


Totally agree. We are in the struggle of our lifetimes.
It is not overly dramatic to say that had not President Trump been elected, our nation could have been several months into its collapse.
While not a religious person, there have been times where I have felt that President Trump was actually sent by divine intervention.


39 posted on 01/03/2019 7:31:26 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: 98charlie

Well, that task could certainly be done by a couple of Army privates!


40 posted on 01/03/2019 7:31:47 PM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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