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Beto is not going to win ****. Let him come down to South Texas. He has no idea what he is saying. Come and take it!!! Beto
Ahhhh, he's been to all the counties in Texas. He's been to all the border counties. He lives in a border city. So you're wrong.
So what if he's been to every county. Last I saw Beto, he lost an election and was unemployed. And when he ran for senate, he didn't have the cojones to campaign on removing border protections.
Technically, what you said is 100% true.
You're right. Republicans in Texas should just completely ignore him. Your logic is completely sound. No reason to worry AT ALL.
I never said ignore. Thats your comment. If he'd have stated that 6 months ago when he was running, he'd have never gotten within 5 points of Cruz. By aligning himself with the far left, no borders crowd, he's taken Texas out of play for 2020 IMO.
What the **** are you even talking about? You have no idea what Beto's platform even was, it's obvious.
He wrote/co-sponsored multiple bills that would INCREASE border security and funding where it is ACTUALLY needed: in the Ports.
You are breath-takingly wrong.
And you are breathtakingly ignorant like your boy Beto. A link from the post above not only demonstrates his policy shift but also demonstrates his ignorance. Please find where during his recent senate campaign loss where he verbally campaigned on and stated that he'd tear down existing border walls. He couldn't because he'd have lost conservative democrat and independent votes. Like illegals, drug and sex traffickers slip through PoEs? I'm sure they do, but not like where there's no wall or barrier. Hahahaha!!!!
https://www.dailywire.com/news/43517/watch-beto-calls-tearing-down-border-walls-ends-james-barrett
Did you even read that article?
I'm just trying to gauge whether you're intentionally ignorant, or just lazy.
I did. I wouldn't have referenced it if I hadn't.
beto's own words prove that walls work, "And it has pushed migrants and asylum seekers and refugees to the most inhospitable, the most hostile stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border, ensuring their suffering and death."
You should look in your mirror for ignorance and laziness.
I love mirrors.
If you'd actually read the article (and seen Dan Crenshaw's embedded tweet) you would notice that the steep decline of crossing the wall supposedly caused, started BEFORE they built the Wall.
If a wall through town has helped, the numbers don't support it. Actually, it's quite the contrary. Prior to the wall (and increased border laws), immigration was cyclical. Workers would cross, work for a season, and go home.
Now that it's difficult, they come, but then they bring their families and stay.
Walls don't work. At least not like you want them to.
If walls don't work, then why does the graph demonstrate the wall's consistency in the reduction? Using the data you now reference, proves the point. Walls work. Always have, always will.
First off, the drop started BEFORE the wall. Not after. It merely continued to drop (almost as if the wall wasn't there at all).
Walls. Do. Not. Work. Not on the scale of the 2,000 miles needed to complete this. Don't ask me. The super liberal Cato Institute [sarcasm] has weighed in on this they're pretty unequivocal that the wall is a bad idea.
No one on the border wants it (Will Hurd, anyone?).
My Hispanic family in Harlingen wants it and the other part of my family in El Paso wants it.
My family in El Paso thinks it's stupid.
So I guess we cancel each other out? It's almost like anecdotal evidence doesn't have a lot of use.
Really ?
What part of El Paso does your family live in ?
He!! he lies like all the rest of em
He has no fam in El Paso
If the grad student says he has family in El Paso....I believe him.
Just curious where. Maybe we are neighbors.
They used to live in a giant house with a view of the mountains with the writing in stones? My uncle was a season ticket holder for Utep (poor guy). I know my cousins went to Coronado? Any time I tell people that they get all "oh, they're rich."
They were. After my uncle died last year, my aunt moved to a smaller house right next to a High School that's like 4-5 miles from the airport. Like, it's a straight shot due west, I think? And then you turn left when you see a newish center for the arts.
I can ask, if you really care. 90% of my family is from rural Illinois or Chicago. They were the only Texans I knew before I went to Baylor.
OK your late Uncle lived in the Coronado ( West Side ) area.
Probably the 'best' area of El Paso ...at least has fewer incidents of burglary and gang activity .
The wedding I'm attending this Saturday is the daughter of a long time friend of mine who was the Ag teacher at Coronado High School for over 25 years .
Wedding will be at Cattleman's Steak House 30 miles east of El Paso out in the middle of the desert. But the best steaks I've ever had outside of Las Vegas .
Did your family say why they are against the wall ?
My aunt lives in Cielo Vista, but the old house was in the Upper Valley. (I just asked her).
They're Shi-Ite Catholics (most of my family is) and just felt it was wrong-headed way to approach things. Walls only make you "feel" better. My uncle could be a little racist (especially against Vietnamese -but that was the War) but he had a big heart and was really generous.
One of my Aunts (a different one) would work a contract job and save every dime she had for 2 years (she was a literal genius) and then take every dime and go into Mexico and work with Mexican widows teaching them how to sew until she'd spent every bit of money she had, and then we'd go get her and 3 animals she'd rescued in a van and come back. She was certifiable.
But she lived what she preached, I guess.
My El Paso aunt finally retired a couple years ago.
Oh! I'm also friends with the son and daughter of the O'Neill's who just retired from Ysleta ISD. The daughter went to Baylor and I dated one of her friends for a bit.
Tiny world.
What is a Shi-lte Catholic ? Honestly have no idea.
My wife taught at Riverside High School and Austin High School before our children were born . Was the research entomologist at the A&M Ag Station on the east side of town . Then bought a farm off of North Loop...one mile from the Zaragoza International Bridge .
Left for Colorado when the air pollution got so bad 2 of my 3 kids were developing respiratory problems . One was very serious .
It's -now that I think about it- a culturally insensitive way of saying they where hard-core Catholics. Picture of JohnPaul2 in most rooms of the house. My father became a deacon in the church after the 4th heart attack made him retire from the State of Illinois. He hated working for the state. Best years of his life were when he was a deacon. He and mom would go around the council doing cooking demonstrations for Boy Scout Troops (we were -and are- a Scouting Family). He did it literally until the day he died.
It's funny. One of the last conversations we had was about me getting my PhD. He was like "so... you're going to be a doctor after all?"
I was like "that's the hope."
Him: "that's great. A doctor. But, yknow, not the kind that helps people..."
He was a funny dude, my dad.
Sorry for the overshare. It was nice to talk about him. I miss him everyday.
Now. I have a paper on the 1st Amendment on College Campuses to write!
I'm really sorry to hear about the health issues. Hopefully Colorado cleated that up. I LOVE Colorado. Going on vacation there this summer.
