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President Trump visits the border in Texas to highlight security needs. In San Diego, hundreds of Customs and Border Protection agents echo the same line: the fence is not secure and a wall is needed.
Mark Morgan, a career FBI official who served as Border Patrol chief for the last six months of the Obama administration before being removed once President Trump took office, has come out this week in support of a border wall.
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The morning after Trump reiterated in a prime-time address to the nation why wall funding was worth shutting down 25 percent of the federal government, Morgan told The Fix that he’s breaking his silence because, in his view, the wall is an important piece in a group of policy changes needed to secure the border.
“I was removed. I’m standing up and saying, ‘I should have disdain for them, but I don’t because they are right,' " Morgan said. “I can stand up and say they are right because it’s the right thing to do for this country. I’m begging the president to stay the course.”
originally posted by: Extorris
a reply to: Grambler
LOL
You should actually listen to that audio that the NPR blerb you linked summarizes.
It isn't what you think.
originally posted by: Extorris
a reply to: Grambler
Your second link citing Mark Morgan?
He admits that he was ousted by the Border Patrol Union who viewed him as an outsider, from the FBI, with little knowledge of the border situation. He only served for 6 months.
originally posted by: Extorris
a reply to: Grambler
5 miles of fencing.
On a mountain that everyone agrees would be a bitch to climb.
Sure, it saves manpower that would otherwise need to patrol that five miles. Or they could hire another agent.
That is a long way from "Build that wall!".
You are saying that 5 mile stretch is the cause of the shutdown?
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: Extorris
a reply to: Grambler
Your second link citing Mark Morgan?
He admits that he was ousted by the Border Patrol Union who viewed him as an outsider, from the FBI, with little knowledge of the border situation. He only served for 6 months.
CAn you provide me border patrol people saying the wall is immoral?
originally posted by: Extorris
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: Extorris
a reply to: Grambler
Your second link citing Mark Morgan?
He admits that he was ousted by the Border Patrol Union who viewed him as an outsider, from the FBI, with little knowledge of the border situation. He only served for 6 months.
CAn you provide me border patrol people saying the wall is immoral?
You seem very stuck on that even after I have answered you.
If you want to discuss the issue with me, I am interested.
If you want to debate Nancy Pelosi, I can't help you.
G'Day.
originally posted by: Extorris
a reply to: Grambler
Once the discussion turns away from substance to baiting and trolling rhetoric it has no value.
Best wishes on your thread.
originally posted by: ketsuko
You got it that time.
Isn't it fun when they get so worked up they don't think about what they're really saying? Either that or they don't count on people being smart enough to more or less parse it out and think it through.
I know I'm just some dumb ol' hick from flyover, but seriously! I wasn't born yesterday.
originally posted by: Breakthestreak
Democrats putting value on American citizens. NEVER gonna happen.
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: Extorris
a reply to: Grambler
Once the discussion turns away from substance to baiting and trolling rhetoric it has no value.
Best wishes on your thread.
Its not baiting or trolling.
Tghe leader of the party said the wall was immoral. She refuses to give oe dollar to the wall based on that.
If you disagree with her, thats fine.
But to say discussing that is trolling is absurd.
Her position, in light of the info outlined in the OP and by Cuomo is indefensible.
“The wall is, in my view, immoral, expensive, unwise, and when the president says, 'Well, I promised a wall during my campaign.' I don’t think he said he was going to pass billions of dollars of cost of the wall on to the taxpayer. "
originally posted by: Asktheanimals
Cuomo's only future is as a stunt bicyclist.
The amount of backpedaling he will have to do to keep his job will be monumental.