Texas border wall dying a silent death

[butters]

no money was made available to continue the project

For years, conservatives have framed the idea of a border wall as essential to immigration enforcement, despite a chorus of critics denouncing it as costly and ineffective. And Texas Republicans’ decision to defund the project seems like a tacit acknowledgment of that reality.

The Texas Tribune was first to report that a new state budget signed into law earlier this month includes no money for the wall, which was envisioned as covering more than 800 miles. But only a fraction of that was ever completed — at great cost to taxpayers.

Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border.

That decision, made in the waning hours of this year’s legislative session, leaves the future of the state wall unclear. Just 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to date. The Texas Tribune reported last year that the wall is full of gaps that migrants and smugglers can easily walk around and mostly concentrated on sprawling ranches in rural areas, where illegal border crossings are less likely to occur.

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[PaxNurgle]

So if, as many acknowledge, there is a real crisis at the border with people pouring in constantly, what should be done to mitigate or staunch the flow of illegal crossings? I am neither for nor against the wall by the way. (I AM, however, opposed to the Gestapo-styled round-ups that are currently taking place across the country.) I hear a lot about the need to secure the border and stop the crossings, but how do we go about doing so?

 

[butters]

So if, as many acknowledge, there is a real crisis at the border with people pouring in constantly, what should be done to mitigate or staunch the flow of illegal crossings? I am neither for nor against the wall by the way. (I AM, however, opposed to the Gestapo-styled round-ups that are currently taking place across the country.) I hear a lot about the need to secure the border and stop the crossings, but how do we go about doing so?

I do believe there was a bipartisan bill already in place and likely to pass before trump tanked it

it involved more guards, more immigration judges and assosciated bodies to expedite the legal process of asylum or rejection and deportation, plus funding to cover all of this. It was more involved than that, but that was the main gist I believe.

 

[Saint_Ann]

You must have missed today's press conference.

 

[Lazaran]

I do believe there was a bipartisan bill already in place and likely to pass before trump tanked it

it involved more guards, more immigration judges and assosciated bodies to expedite the legal process of asylum or rejection and deportation, plus funding to cover all of this. It was more involved than that, but that was the main gist I believe.

All of that ^ was in the bill, plus high tech scanners for searching vehicles for FENTANYL, etc.

DonOld & the MAGAt republicans SABOTAGED that bill.

THAT ^ CANNOT be repeated enough.





We. Told. Them. So.

 

[YDB95]

But I had it on good authority that Mexico would pay for the wall!

 

[Politruk]

Not even Trump talks about the wall any more. He seems to have given up on it.

 

[RobDownSouth]

So if, as many acknowledge, there is a real crisis at the border with people pouring in constantly, what should be done to mitigate or staunch the flow of illegal crossings? I am neither for nor against the wall by the way. (I AM, however, opposed to the Gestapo-styled round-ups that are currently taking place across the country.) I hear a lot about the need to secure the border and stop the crossings, but how do we go about doing so?

Drones and landmines. Too much open terrain for caltrops to be effective

*nods*

Note: the only reason the USA has not deployed landmines is because former Beatle Paul McCartney said he'd never perform in a country that deployed landmines. Sir Paul, however, is getting old and Mango Mussolini™ is savvy enough to wait until Macca passes before he deploys landmines. Trump at some level realizes that Sir Paul has a higher "Q score" than he does, and doesn't want to ruffle boomer feathers.

 

[coati]

A transcontinental border wall was the dumbest, most medieval, and strictly political idea ever proposed to address migration in North America. In other words, it was the perfect pitch for Trump to make to ignorant Amerikans.

The human species is so arrogant to think they are the only migrating species on planet Earth. Half-assed walls do not stop human migration, but they greatly restrict wildlife migration.

 

[Bray123]

You must have missed today's press conference.

You mean when your Liar in Chief said that the wall was complete and perfect?

Because that means that no unauthorized immigrants can possibly cross the border now.

 

[Saint_Ann]

You mean when your Liar in Chief said that the wall was complete and perfect?

Because that means that no unauthorized immigrants can possibly cross the border now.

You don't believe him?