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© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.GOP makes push to weaken Democrats' grip on Texas border
By PAUL J. WEBER and WILL WEISSERT HARLINGEN, Texas©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
48 Comments
Happy Day
Proof is in the pudding. Democratic cities are riddled with crime and homelessness and people are fleeing California and New York. Biden's policies have taken hold and when they bring up Trump, they are grasping for straws.
TokyoLiving
The medieval anti-immigrant texans are scared, their inhuman policies of expelling immigrants from their state can be costly..
The most pathetic thing about these clowns is that the same immigrants expelled from Florida by the clown DeSantis are returning to rebuild the state for the last hurricane..
The pathetic way of acting of the medieval GOP is once again demonstrated..
In all states there is crime, homelessness and people want to change places.. Cut the drama..
dagon
It is hilarious when Republicans campaign on being against "the elite and Wall Street bankers".
Or being a friend to Hispanics and other minorities.
Ah_so
I understand that this is a popular meme on the radical right. The numbers are actually insignificant.
theFu
I lived in 4 different Texas cities and saw issues in all parts of the state.
The GOP has too many liars running for office and they are pushing their ultra-right religion onto the rest of their state. That will matter this fall in every race in states where they've gone too far on abortion and voting restrictions.
Texas does end up with a disproportionate number of uninvited immigrants - illegal and legal. They didn't ask for them and shouldn't be stuck funding at the state level mandates by politicians outside the state.
Yes, I care about the economy and other business-centric issues too, but our politicians need re remember they work for us, not their right-wing or left-wing funders. A core issue with election funding in the US is that people who cannot vote in the specific election are allowed to fund candidates. That's a huge problem when you want politicians to pay attention to the people they represent. Huge system flaw.
bass4funk
Precisely.
No, they’re not scared, but this administration doesn’t have the right to just simply allow the border to just stand open and allow anyone to come, no one along the border wants this. The majority of Americans want and support LEGAL immigration, what this administration is doing is illegal. And yes, when you have illegals on your residence hiding on your property of course you are scared and cautious as any normal human would be. You don’t know who these un-vetted people are. This is why gun sales are through the roof.
Not the overwhelming majority, that myth was overly exaggerated by the media. Not surprised.
For wanting sovereign borders, but you advocate it for China. Why are you all over the place.
Not like along the border. But this helps the Republicans to the highest degree.
Numan
@Happy Day
Here are the 10 states with the highest crime rates:
New Mexico - 6,462.03 per 100,000 people
Louisiana - 6,408.22 per 100,000 people
Colorado - 6,090.76 per 100,000 people
South Carolina - 5,972.84 per 100,000 people
Arkansas - 5,898.75 per 100,000 people
Oklahoma - 5,869.82 per 100,000 people
Washington - 5,758.57 per 100,000 people
Tennessee - 5,658.30 per 100,000 people
Oregon - 5,609.89 per 100,000 people
Missouri - 5,604.78 per 100,000 people
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/crime-rate-by-state
@Bass...............How many of those states are red states again?
LOL!!!! Precisely!
Numan
If you look at the website the lowest are blue states!
plasticmonkey
What a superhero!
By the way, McCarthy doesn't get his little toy gavel until January 20. Only then can he start to clean up America.
Yrral
Nemo,what do you know about Texas, people are flocking to Texas in ,drove Houston has 100 of thousands of millionaires,the best medical care in the World and the majority people live in Houston are Hispanic,, Houston GDP is twice the size of Ukraine
Numan
@Bass
Nice try with the deflection. You are trying to show results of a single city when the state of Missouri is a Red State.
Critical thinking is your friend!
wallace
I thought the previous president, Trump had resolved the border issues after he built his border wall, ocean to ocean.
Blacklabel
Cant wait until the liberals here have to post that they “only” lost 35 seats in the House and start making excuses why.
painkiller
NumanToday 08:49 am JST
This seems critical:
State with most murders:
California
State with most violent crimes:
California
wallace
I thought Abbot was going to build a Texas border wall.
Numan
@Bass
You stated most crime in the US are from Blue States. I just showed you with facts that the Red States make of most the top ten states with the highest crime. I also showed that the lowest are Blue.
Your counter was to show a "City" in a "Red State." You and your buddies no longer have a narrative.
Nice try with the deflection!
wallace
During Trump's term 1.5 million migrants lived in Texas. The Texas businesses employing them.
Express sister
Could you give any advice? MAGAts are the experts when it comes to making excuses for losing.
Express sister
Sorry, just saw your post whining about mail-in votes. Good tip, thank you.
bass4funk
McCarthy says priority is to building the wall will be one of the first priorities once he takes over.
NotThe One
painkiller.......That is no different than Bass4funk's argument. Using a particular crime or one city to justify an illogical argument when the topic is about which states have the most/least crime. The answer is red states have the most crime, lowest education rate and use more federal aid!
Rodney
USA should break up into independent countries and function like the EU.
Blacklabel
Yep. Illegal as it was the last time too. In Delaware of all places.
https://whyy.org/articles/delaware-supreme-court-strikes-down-no-excuse-mail-in-voting/amp/
why? because this keeps happening. “Accidentally” of course.
https://www.cpr.org/2022/10/07/colorado-voter-registration-notices-non-citizens/
bass4funk
Yes, the largest and urban states. Why do you think so many people are fleeing NYC and California? That’s just one reason, one of many.
I never said crime was not present in red states, but compared to blue states, they will prosecute more, the states that have the death penalty will use it more frequently. The DAs will prosecute more compared to blue states. Again, look at the landscape, Democrats are the ones not being elected. Again, no deflection, just the hard truth.
wallace
bass4funk
Didn't get the memo, Trump already did that
bass4funk
Then you should stay updated. So after January Abbott will finally get the help he wants.
wallace
Texas voting restrictions.
Voting in Texas
https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_in_Texas
wallace
bass4funk
So you are saying, Trump, lied and Abbot failed. OK, I've got it!
UChosePoorly
Do you advocate that other large, diverse countries (China, Russia, India) do the same? Or just the US?
plasticmonkey
Does the Speaker of the House get to decide those things? What a magic gavel indeed!
BTW, McCarthy said his priority is to fire IRS agents who dare to audit billionaire tax cheats.
wallace
McCarthy is sponsoring the "Build the Wall, Enforce the Law Act," which would dedicate over $23 billion to building the McCarthy Wall. Not to be confused with the Trump wall.
Trump built 52 miles of the wall where no barrier previously existed, with some wall segments costing American taxpayers up to $46 million per mile.
bass4funk
No, I’m saying now Nancy won’t be there to stop the wall and border security from being funded, Hallelujar
Nancy did, even without congressional support so…
One can only hope.
Honestly, it doesn’t matter, a wall, a barrier, Trump, Abbott, no one gives a rats….they just want the incursion to stop whatever form it takes matters little.
Money well spent, I’ll donate as much as I can. Exciting times ahead.
painkiller
wallaceToday 10:01 am JST
Yes, that is true.
Any reason a non-US citizen is obsessed with this?
starpunk
He blubbered violent hatred about Hispanics and too many ignoramuses fell for his lies. Migrants have been working our wineries, orchards, farms for decades. trump wanted that wall because he's a totalitarian egotistical Caligula with delusions of divinity. A Berlin Wall would do no good today. And most drugs come in via robot submarines coming ashore. Ask the 'Coasties' about that. It's 2022 and there's no reason or excuse for a wall. The borders are guarded. Trump is a liar. And he's long proven that he can't be believed/relied on/trusted/included in any social setting/more. There is a no 'invasion' or migrant 'crisis', that's just Orwellian hate crap.
Blacklabel
seem pretty inclusive to me.
whose voting rights are being restricted and in what way?
(and dont give me this racist trope that Black people cant get ID)
plasticmonkey
See how much the GOP cares about law and order? Kevin's main priority is protecting rich people who scam the tax system, and bass is right there cheering him on.
The immigration issue riles up the low-information Republican base because they need someone to blame, preferably people who are different from them. If they actually got what they wanted, they'd be paying a whole lot more at the supermarket.
bass4funk
No, he was specific about illegals coming into the country and the prior administrations did absolutely nothing to stop it.
Which has nothing to do with mass illegal migration. That’s the problem and another why Republicans are 13 points ahead and more trustworthy to properly seal the border.
Because the US like every other nation on the planet has the right to retain their sovereignty.
Yes, it would if you would man it the same way the Stasi did. Absolutely
Which doesn’t mean you leave the borders open. I have a home with two doors and windows, even if my home is fortified and all security measures are met, people can still try and make an attempt to break in but all precautionary security measures are in place. You use all the tools available to you to prevent that.
If so, and you want to hold him to that standard then you’ll be even more disappointed by our politicians….all of them.
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wallace
A federal judge in Texas issued a ruling last month striking down provisions in Texas' new law, known as Senate Bill 1, that set limits on how people can help voters cast their ballots. State officials had until last week to appeal the ruling, but they declined. The office of the Texas attorney general has not responded to requests for comment.
Lisa Snead, a litigation attorney at Disability Rights Texas, said the court decision is a big win for voters with disabilities in the state.
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/19/1112310993/texas-is-barred-from-enforcing-new-restrictions-on-voter-assistance
wallace
bass4funk
You are 100% supporting Ukraine then.
Blacklabel
ok then that isnt a factor in the upcoming election.
Whose vote is being suppressed and how?
I see voter ID with multiple ways to ID yourself and multiple provisions for someone who has no ID
I see absentee balloting for people who are absent on election day and during early voting.
I see polling places that will be open for same day voting. I see ability to register to vote.
I see felons voting in some situations.
whats wrong with the voting procedures?
bass4funk
I supported, of course I do, I just do not support this administration, sending more and more US tax dollars out there to help fund Zelenskyy’s war. Let Europe take care of it and do more of the heavy lifting.
wallace
bass4funk
Europe is doing much to support. 5-7 million Ukrainian refugees. Dealing with the gas and oil supplies being cut off. Sending money and weapons. That is heavy lifting. The US just needs to send money and weapons.
bass4funk
Great! That’s what I want to hear.
And they should do more.
We sent enough, way too much. No more.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/09/15/most-americans-say-the-us-should-only-continue-to-spend-money-ukraine-under-certain-conditions/
wallace
bass4funk
have you made your donation to the Texas wall? As of September 28, 2022: $55,367,009. That will build a couple of miles.
https://www.usatoday.com/border-wall/us-mexico-interactive-border-map/
wallace
bass4funk
money wasted
https://www.usatoday.com/border-wall/us-mexico-interactive-border-map/?lng=-105.5271996&lat=30.978349&modal=true
bass4funk
Yes.
But on Biden’s first day in office, he terminated the funding allocated for the border wall, pausing its construction.
Biden recently directed the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense secretaries to come up with plans to fund the border wall amid a record surge in illegal immigration, but appears not to have followed through with many recent construction plans.
Between October 2021 and July 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered over 1.9 million migrants at the southern border.
Republican Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford said in July 2021 that the Biden administration had been spending around $3 million a day to pay DOD contractors not to finish construction on the southern border wall since January 2021.
That is why the money was wasted. That’s all going to change next year.
https://www.westernjournal.com/illegal-immigration-biden-admin-costs-taxpayers-trumps-border-wall-report/
starpunk
The border is well protected, just like that of Canada. Besides, the Rio Grande is wide and the desert terrain makes it tough for anyone who does come in illegally.
We lost that when Trump can in the WH because he's a Russian sputnik satellite. A collaborating traitor.
You really believe that crap? The Stasi were Communist murderous scum. Walls are ugly scars of hatred, of totalitarian dictatorships. And we have technology to track down illegals anyway without a wasteful Berlin wall. Do you believe that kidnapping ethnic children and placing them in concentration camps is OK too?
Our borders are secure enough. Illegal aliens have a hard enough time coming in, we don't need to lower ourselves down to the Communist East Germans. Walls are for totalitarian dictators who are SCARED.
And you know it's true! Admit it.
bass4funk
Absolutely not, that’s the reason why Abbott is doing what he’s doing and that’s why Hispanic Americans are fleeing from the Democrat party. That’s very bad that the Dems have lost more than 8% of their Latino base. Helps the GOP.
Mueller proved otherwise and dispelled all those myths after a 2 year exhaustive wasted taxpayer investigation.
I know it, been more than once and some of my kin are from the former East block
Absolutely, but we’re they here in the present they would still be able to keep the wall intact using the same means.
Do you believe or think it’s ok that ethnic children come to the country on accompanyent, and with no money, brought in by truck, mules and drug traffickers on a dangerous journey for a little girls are raped daily, are you OK with that that hundreds of people are dying every day in the desert and this administration says nothing? You ok with that?
if that were true, then Democrats wouldn’t be hemorrhaging Hispanics and they wouldn’t be losing support, Beto O’Rourke would beat Abbet and the Democrats would be able to retain the house, none of that is happening, so you’re very wrong on that one, every poll says it, everyone that lives along the border, knows it
So Joe Biden can have a wall built around his house, liberals want a wall or perimeter surrounding the nations capital, liberals want to enjoy living behind their walls, but the rest of us can’t, the rest of us shouldn’t?, Do you have a door, do you lock it, if you do, why? You can call it whatever you want, but they work, they always have, and always will, there’s a reason why we have it, there is a reason why every other country has wall.