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originally posted by: seeker1963
a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck
The Border Patrols hands are not tied any longer! I am quite sure their new President has given them full permission to shoot back if they are being shot at!
I am also pretty sure there are plenty of military personnel who would love to be sent to the border and take out any cartel filth crossing the border to harm Americans.
originally posted by: enlightenedservant
a reply to: Matt11
He's not a govt official. As many many posters have pointed out, he hasn't been a govt official since around 2003. Don't fall for the clickbait.
I have a few friends that are Border Patrol agents, and no that issue hasnt been resolved yet, they are still hamstrung on how they are allowed to handle situations like this......
originally posted by: D8Tee
a reply to: ManBehindTheMask
I have a few friends that are Border Patrol agents, and no that issue hasnt been resolved yet, they are still hamstrung on how they are allowed to handle situations like this......
Just wondering what the situation is really like. What do you mean by hamstrung?
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
originally posted by: D8Tee
a reply to: ManBehindTheMask
I have a few friends that are Border Patrol agents, and no that issue hasnt been resolved yet, they are still hamstrung on how they are allowed to handle situations like this......
Just wondering what the situation is really like. What do you mean by hamstrung?
About how they can approach anyone coming over the border illegally, or how they can approach when they actively see cartels coming over the border because they are severely under armed and because they have rules that hinder them from being able to defend themselves.....
He says more often then not all they can do is watch the illegals come over if they are armed, or if there are a large group and just call it in.....
originally posted by: MichiganSwampBuck
Well, looks like I may have been right when I posted the following in the "Mexico ready to quit NAFTA if US talks fail" thread. Here is what I wrote there.
It seems obvious to me that if building a secure border wall is more important than losing 80% of Mexico's exports to the U.S.A., then the exports they are really worried about are not that "80%" that is being accounted for, it's the black market in the drug trade and moving illegals that they are really worried about.
Apparently Mexico is starting to show it's true colors in regards to Trump's wall.
If people had doubts about the Mexican government being influenced and controlled by drug cartels, well, they can put that doubt away. In a stunning segment on Fareed Zakaria’s CNN broadcast today Mexico’s former foreign minister, Jorge Castaneda, states the Mexican government is willing to counter U.S. President Donald Trump policy by unleashing drug cartels upon the U.S. border.
Castaneda not only threatens to send drugs, he also threatens to flood the United States will illegal South Americans and openly admits Mexico could stop the border crossings if it wanted to, but instead chooses to use immigration as a weapon against the United States.
Li nk to Article
If Mexico's former foreign minister is being truthful, then the opposition to tighter border security is all about the black market money from exporting illegal drugs and immigrants. Their economy is in danger if they can't keep up the black market trade to the U.S. through a porous border guarded by agents with their hands tied or who are on the take.
originally posted by: sycomix
a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck
All the more reason for the wall, might want to add armed guards in watch towers with a DMZ and shoot in sight orders.
originally posted by: Bedlam
originally posted by: sycomix
a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck
All the more reason for the wall, might want to add armed guards in watch towers with a DMZ and shoot in sight orders.
Man, pay-to-play robot gun towers manned by legions of internet users would bring in enough money to pay off the wall AND keep every person out of the area.
COD would have NOTHING on it.