Gleichschaltung?

[Benton]

(01-26-2017, 12:59 PM)Au165 Wrote: This is the issue. If the demand is high enough no wall is keeping them out. The cartels build god damn submarines to get drugs across borders you think a wall will stop them? There are already tunnels, they will just build better more sophisticated systems to get people under the wall. It's a red herring. I'd rather give Mexico the 15 Billion to improve their country and make people want to stay. As long as their country is run by cartels and lacking jobs they will come no matter what we do.

My brother and his family go to Reynosa every year with their church to build houses for people who need them. It's a pretty violent city controlled by drug cartels. The people don't have any way of opposing them, so the cartels do what they want. It's a pretty rough place, and I can only see those people getting stronger going this direction as they'll have more money and more control over who comes and goes.

(01-26-2017, 02:06 PM)CageTheBengal Wrote: He said they will reimburse us but we will be paying for it initially. When Muir tried pinning him down on specifics he sounded like an un-polished politician attempting to sound like a real politician providing no answers.

Mexico has plainly said they won't pay for the wall. I guess Trump is gonna stick his tiny red white and blue fist down their throat and rupture their internal organs with democracy if they refuse. Cause we're Merica!

I assume he plans on "making them pay for it" by cutting off the $400ish million we  give them each year in economic and military aide. Which is a hugely dumb idea.

Sure, it will allow him to say he's "making" them pay for it, but a big chunk of that money goes to Mexico because we've got a giant border and they don't have the resources to defend/patrol it for us. If we cut off that aide, I imagine one of the first things Mexico does is end their patrols along the border (because why should they give a crap if people go north and send money home).