Yes, so where did that 2006 money go? And why is "the wall" all that you people have cared about since Trump made it fashionable in 2016? Immigration enforcement has received
$324 billion since 2003. And all organizations always want more money. It is baloney and it is politicized baloney. If Border Patrol declares that they need fencing, then buy some fencing. The Pentagon doesn't receive billions and then cry that they failed to purchase what they needed to defend the nation. That's what the money is for. Or is Border Patrol waiting for combat trained Marines, after paying for it, to go down and put a fence up for them too?
See? This is that FOX News hyperbole you have been bombarded with. Are there thousands and millions of illegals hanging out in your living room? The illegal immigration issue is what it has always been. Except now, the passage of time has blown past the older contexts in which our immigration laws fit better. Hence the need to reform bad code while you people busy yourself with "walls" for the immigrants to climb over and tunnel under.
Familiar. This is the FOX News crap my Mother declares. Because this is a Veteran issue now? It's about our resources? And you talk about diverting attention? It's like you people walk away from your community television sets with your distracting scripts in hand. After "crime and the terrorism" angle proved false, it's now become about the homeless Veteran and our resources? OK...
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Vets. The issue is not funding. The
VA receives hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The VA offers millions of dollars in small business grants, home assistance, elderly Veteran assisted living, etc. The issue is, yet again, a broken system with a lack of quality in employees. As for the homeless Vets, they fall into the same category as other homeless people: mentally ill. Most, if not all, have families, but
choose to be homeless. The lacking of funding towards America's insanity began under Ronald Reagan. Fund that issue, and you may get a handle on the homeless Vet issue, which FOX News exaggerates to get your "patriotism" fueled up against immigration. Denying the Mexican family somehow helps a Vet? Hard to get that line drawn if one thinks beyond the bumper sticker. I tire of you people exploiting and insulting the military for political purposes. It's false patriotism and actually avoids helping a Vet.
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Generosity? Like our free medical or something? We aren't Europe. They come here for the same reason immigrants have always come here. Nothing has changed, except now Central Americans are leaving the "****holes" that we created for them. You want people to stay in Central America? Here's a thought... fix Central America and give them a reason to stay home. We do have a history with this in India. Trump did exactly that with Mexico when he reformed NAFTA. Time will tell, but I suspect that much of the burden that out-of-work Mexican farmers have suffered because of NAFTA is going to be eased under the new trade deal (if it was done right). With a proper means to feed their families, why would they come north? It's the whole reason illegal immigration dramatically increased by the late 1990s in the first place.
And by the way, by trying to use all these social distractions to rage about immigration, you are actually declaring that America should practice socialism. Yet, on any other thread, you will rage against "the left" and their communism/socialism while celebrating tax-cuts. This is the sort of nonsense that FOX News arms you people with. Your ideologies lack firm ground anymore.
