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Katie_au_lait 78F
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6/8/2019 11:57 am

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I take it you're numerology is as bad as your language skills!


TxJW21 81M

6/8/2019 12:43 pm

Deb
How does anyone pick out a potential killer, or a hard worker, or a drug head, or one who wants to better their family when they walk up to the border.

I assume we are to do it like we identify would be school shooters?

I must also ask Hiram. ---(WHY) is the number of people running for an office a problem?
I must be missing something on that one.

And it would seem that the time to determine a loss is when the game is over.
Stand back & watch. The game is just beginning. Read the news. Better yet try to understand what you read rather than shooting you mouth off without thinking.
Dang me. LOL
Party On!


TxJW21 81M

6/8/2019 1:12 pm

I was for a border wall until last week.
I read a study with statistics that took into consideration every aspect of immigration and how it affects Texas.
The immigration can actually help the Social Security System Which the repubs like to claim is failing.
More workers. = more $ going into the fund. Plus a 10 yr. limitation before the new ones could draw on it.
Thus the burden of pay for the increasing aged is spread over more people rather than a dwindling few young here now.

The percentage of freeloader immigrants is much less than the percentage of freeloading natives.

Repubs fear that immigrants would vote for the party of the people Which would be the best thing that can happen for the middle class.

Soooooo the repubs come up with negatives about immigrants & the gullible buy into it and vote for corporations rather than for the benefit of the working class. (Themselves).


LeafReport 73M

6/9/2019 3:13 am

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Homeland Security Cancels ‘Virtual Fence’ After $1 Billion Is Spent
By JULIA PRESTONJAN. 14, 2011

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday canceled a project to build a technology-based “virtual fence” across the Southwest border, saying that the effort — on which $1 billion has already been spent — was ineffective and too costly.

Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary, said she had decided to end the five-year-old project, known as SBI-Net, because it “does not meet current standards for viability and cost effectiveness.” In a statement, Ms. Napolitano said border agents would instead use less expensive technology that is already part of their surveillance equipment, tailoring it to the specific terrain where they will be scouting for illegal border crossers and drug traffickers.

Ms. Napolitano’s decision brought a long-expected close to a project carried out by the Boeing Corporation under a contract first signed in 2005 under President George W. Bush, which had been plagued by delays and cost overruns. Originally estimated to cost more than $7 billion to cover the 2,000-mile length of the border, it was the subject of more than a dozen scathing reports by the Government Accountability Office.

In a pilot program in Arizona, it cost about $1 billion to build the system across 53 miles of the state’s border. Officials said the new approach, using mobile surveillance systems and unmanned drones already in the Border Patrol’s arsenal, would cost less than $750 million to cover the remaining 323 miles of Arizona’s border.

Ms. Napolitano suspended financing for the project in March and ordered a review, which was just completed.

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Richard Funke, a United States Border Patrol agent, inspects the junction of the new and old border fence near Nogales, Ariz. Credit John Moore/Getty Images
But officials moved slowly to cancel the project because it had been ensnared in the contentious debate over border security. Many Republican lawmakers have accused the Obama administration of being lax on enforcement, and they have said they would not consider an overhaul of immigration laws that President Obama supports until the border is tighter.

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Anticipating criticism, homeland security officials released documents on Friday showing big increases in the Border Patrol — to 20,500 today from 10,000 in 2004 — and other border agents, and a steep decline in the number of immigrants detained at the border, indicating fewer illegal crossings. About 463,000 illegal crossers were detained last year, compared with 724,000 in 2008, according to the figures.

Ms. Napolitano said she had concluded that the original concept of the project, to develop a single technology that could be used across the entire border, was not viable. Boeing had built a complex system of sensors, radars and cameras mounted on towers that was supposed to lead border agents to the exact location of illegal crossers. But the system functioned inconsistently in the rough terrain along much of the border.

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“There is no one-size-fits-all solution to meet our border technology needs,” Ms. Napolitano said.

The announcement came in advance of the expiration of the Boeing contract next Tuesday, a homeland security official said.

In a statement, Boeing noted that officials said they would continue to use equipment it had designed. “We appreciate that they recognize the value of the integrated fixed towers Boeing has built, tested and delivered so far,” the company said.


LeafReport 73M

6/9/2019 3:15 am

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Hi Deborah, hope you are doing well. The American people simply do not want a stupid wall, and the congress refuses to fund it. It's a ridiculous racist inspired argument.


LeafReport 73M

6/9/2019 3:22 am

Frankly, I feel it borders on being subversive itself to refuse to read the Mueller report or substantial portions of it. It took me about a week to read it and I don't see how anybody could objectively review this and not conclude immediate congressional investigations are not appropriate. Trump clearly has obstructed justice and I believe his Russian activity does indeed rise to subversive conspiracy levels.