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Joy Reid: Wall Won't Stop Drugs—'Traffickers Can Get on a Plane and Come'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/06/2019 3:34:38 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Granted, it's early January. Even so, we have a strong candidate for 2019's most inane piece of political punditry.

On her MSNBC show Sunday morning, Joy Reid declared that a wall would not affect drug trafficking into the United States because:

"People who are drug traffickers can get on a plane and come."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; belongsinbloggers; borderwall; drugmules; drugs; drugtrafficking; flyaerodroga; illegals; invasion; joyreid; msdnc; mslsd; msnbc; msnpc; pmsnbc; reid; thewall; wod
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Thanks for pointing out the obvious there, Joy. Bet the FBI will give you a medal or something.


21 posted on 01/06/2019 4:08:09 PM PST by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I am becoming more and more convinced that we have our share of NPCs. She may be dumb, but have you guys ever heard of general aviation?


22 posted on 01/06/2019 4:08:27 PM PST by T. P. Pole
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
joy reid; living proof stupid is incurable, but can be incredibly profitable.
23 posted on 01/06/2019 4:10:31 PM PST by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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To: Flick Lives

“People who are drug traffickers can get on a plane and come.”


Occasionally-Coherent could have said the same thing, and probably did.


24 posted on 01/06/2019 4:10:44 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: VTenigma

[Dumb as a bag of hammers.]

There’s no reason to diss a bag of hammers.

;)


25 posted on 01/06/2019 4:12:09 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: VTenigma

By comparing them to Joy Reid, I mean.

;)


26 posted on 01/06/2019 4:12:34 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: bramps

I see helicopters sitting on the Mexican side waiting for their drop off, zipping up and over and unloading on the American side. I don’t know how this would be stopped.


27 posted on 01/06/2019 4:13:11 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: T. P. Pole

I think everyone is aware that traffickers use mules in every capacity. Submarines, etc.

It is not a coherent argument against a wall to slow down the majority of illegal border jumpers.


28 posted on 01/06/2019 4:15:01 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: bramps

In addition to the prolonged exposure to detection, no drug trafficker is going to hand hundreds of little patches through cracks in the fence.


29 posted on 01/06/2019 4:15:10 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: JudyinCanada

Even Mexico would not like for it to be that obvious.


30 posted on 01/06/2019 4:15:57 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: sparklite2

patches = packages


31 posted on 01/06/2019 4:17:09 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yeah, you can carry so much in your luggage or on your person. Rolls eyes.


32 posted on 01/06/2019 4:17:20 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: T. P. Pole

As it turns out, I’m a small-plane pilot. So yes, some planes can get across the border. But most are going to turn up on radar and be interdicted. There’s no way it can serve as an alternative to thousands of carriers coming on foot across the border.


33 posted on 01/06/2019 4:17:44 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReep mail me to be added to my Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: JudyinCanada

I believe those could be shot down for violating American airspace, in the act of smuggling drugs.


34 posted on 01/06/2019 4:18:03 PM PST by Yulee
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To: T. P. Pole

Yes, and there’s also ships and boats at sea. Some are even submarines! But both general aviation planes and boats and ships coming into the country are highly scrutinized and tracked.

VERY risky to try. If they get too bold, chances are the President will move to have them shot down.

How’s the cartel’s life insurance policies?


35 posted on 01/06/2019 4:19:02 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Boycott ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NBC!)
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To: Flick Lives
Forget about the illegals voting and draining our tax coffers dry.

Are Joy and all her buds just upset that Trump may somehow stop the flow of all their pot?

36 posted on 01/06/2019 4:19:22 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: JudyinCanada

I see helicopters sitting on the Mexican side waiting for their drop off, zipping up and over and unloading on the American side. I don’t know how this would be stopped.
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A wall would free up personnel and resources to go after that sort of thing more aggressively.


37 posted on 01/06/2019 4:20:52 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: JudyinCanada

Surface to air missiles. Ready to launch. Border sensors that listen for unauthorized prop noise from Mexico. Bang—you’re dead!


38 posted on 01/06/2019 4:20:52 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Boycott ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NBC!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

What’s the U.S. equivalent of a ZSU-23? (No, not that disaster from the 1980’s....)

I’m thinking a quad .50 that was radar-guided.

Shame to lose the helo, but.....


39 posted on 01/06/2019 4:27:56 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Flick Lives

Yeah, they can get on a plane, they just couldn’t bring their drugs with them. DUH


40 posted on 01/06/2019 4:28:26 PM PST by McGavin999 (Border security without a wall is like having a Ring doorbell without a door)
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