Yesterday Donald Trump attended a meeting at Camp David re: The Wall. Upon arrival, he gave an address to the media. In it he justified the need for a wall due to HUMAN & CHILD TRAFFICKING
https://www.c-span.org/video/?456721-2/president-trump-open-declaring-national-emergency-secure-border-wall
President Trump: I will say this: I have tremendous support within the Republican Party. If you look at Congress, you saw - with all of the numbers, you saw just a very small group of people voting. And it wasn't really against; it was a vote to open. It wasn't against. Because I think everybody agrees - frankly, the Democrats agree that you need border security. They agree that you need a barrier.I put out a quote this morning of Barack Obama; I put out a quote this morning of Hillary Clinton in 2015 - that was a few years ago - strongly saying that you need a border to keep illegals out. And that's what you have to have.
But it's not just illegals. It's criminals. It's drugs. It's the new phenomena that's been age-old, been going on for thousands of years, but it's never been worse than now because of the Internet. Human trafficking - where they grab women, put tape over their mouth, come through our border, and sell them. And they go both ways, in both directions. Now, they don't go through a port of entry. They'd be caught. But they go up where there's no wall. They make a right; they go to Mexico.
Look, we better get smart. Human trafficking is a big business. It's a big deal. DEALING IN CHILDREN IS A BIG DEAL. CHILDREN ARE probably THE MOST HARMED by not having the wall or its equivalent. But if you look at the human trafficking, they come in, they nab women, they grab them, they put tape over their mouth, they ties their hands, and they take them to another country, and they go right over that border. If we had a powerful wall, or its equivalent, they wouldn't be able to do it because they'd have to go through ports of entry.
Upon returning from Camp David, Trump explains he may declare National Emergency due to the drug/human trafficking "crisis". This would allow him to build the wall w/out Congressional Approval.
No, we're looking at a national emergency, because we have a national emergency. Just read the papers. We have a crisis at the border of drugs, of human beings being trafficked all over the world. They're coming through. And we have an absolute crisis, and of criminals and gang members coming through. It is national security. It's a national emergency....
It'll all work out. What we need is we need a strong border. We have criminals coming in. We have human traffickers coming in. We have drugs pouring in. We have things happening that you don't want to even know about. And it's been that way for decades, and we can't have it anymore.
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septimasexta ago
I've been waiting since he was elected to hear him mention human trafficking as it relates to the border wall. And of course, much comes UNDER THE BORDER through tunnels. Glad that this topic is his Ace in the Hole to get the wall built. I just hope it does not become an Iron Curtain. Thank you President Trump!
septimasexta ago
LET'S GET ISRAEL TO FUND THE WALL!
Did you know that Israel is buildinG an UNDERGROUND WALL ALONG THEIR BORDER?
"Israel Speeds Up Underground Border Wall To Block Gaza Tunnels" January 24, 20189:08 AM ET
"The Israeli military is speeding up construction of its first underground border wall. The 40-mile-long wall will run the length of Israel's border with the Gaza Strip to counter tunnels that Palestinian militants have dug into Israeli territory. Dozens of tunnels, reportedly running dozens of miles long, have been constructed in attempts to infiltrate Israeli territory and carry out attacks, according to the Israeli military. "This is now a significant game changer," said Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus. Work on the "obstacle," as the military dubs it, began last summer. About 2.5 miles are already complete. Now the military says it is accelerating construction, working 24 hours a day, six days a week — breaking only for the Sabbath — to complete the wall by mid-2019."
"On top of the underground barrier, Israel is also building an aboveground border fence. The government is installing sensor technology to detect when militants are tunneling close to the border, the military says." https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/01/24/579180146/israel-speeds-up-underground-border-wall-to-block-gaza-tunnels
WHY SHOULD AMERICANS PAY FOR ISRAEL'S UNDER AND ABOVE GROUND BORDER WALL, WHEN CONGRESS WON'T FORK OVER A MEASELY $5 BILLION TO PROTECT OUR OWN CITIZENS?
I think Israel can spare $5 billion from their GENEROUS U.S. military aid package......Can't Israelis just ask Niki Rothschild for a donation? https://www.eonline.com/news/674957/nicky-hilton-is-married-heiress-weds-james-rothschild-at-kensington-palace-all-the-details
"US Military Aid to Israel Set to Exceed $3.8B, or $23,000 Per Year for Every Jewish Family Living in Israel" August 5, 2018 by Edward Morgan https://prepareforchange.net/2018/08/05/us-military-aid-to-israel-set-to-exceed-3-8b-or-23000-per-year-for-every-jewish-family-living-in-israel/
septimasexta ago
Cartel Tunnel to California Discovered in Mexico
"Breitbart Texas recently reported on assertions by Roberto Mendez Meza, the vice president of the Association of Engineers in Mexico, which dispute a claim made by the Mexican Attorney General that there were 30 narco-tunnels found along the U.S.—Mexico Border between January 2010 to June 2017. Mendez Meza said that the likely number was 80. Mexicali is a stronghold for the Sinaloa Cartel and registered more than 60 homicides in 2018, most believed to be related to internal conflicts involving the cartel and regional gangs aligned with competing factions.." https://www.breit bart.com/border/2018/04/30/cartel-tunnel-california-discovered-mexico/
""We know that the main function of these clandestine excavations is to get drugs across," Kevin Kelly, a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Nogales, Arizona, told Efe.... "Once they set up a tunnel it's a virtually secure way to move the drugs," Kelly said. He added that the cartels invest a lot of money and employ many people in the construction of and operation of a tunnel, and so when authorities discover and dismantle one it's a heavy blow to the traffickers.... "We've had all sorts of discoveries, ... tunnels that begin in one house or business on the Mexican side and end inside a house or establishment in the United States," he said. Kelly said that these tunnels are particularly sophisticated, and some of them have electricity and ventilation. "These organizations are always going beyond the (old) limits, they're always thinking about new ways to build and set up new tunnels," he emphasized." https://www.alipac.us/f12/increase-narco-tunnels-found-arizona-border-239399/
septimasexta ago
TRUMP IS ALSO APPEALING TO THE STEEL INDUSTRY: "And we have to build a wall, or we have to build a barrier.The barrier, or the wall, can be of steel instead of concrete, if that helps people. It may be better. But I'm willing to do that so our great steel companies - which are now back in business - they were very, very - they were doing very poorly when I took office, and now they're doing very well. A lot of steel workers working that never had a chance of getting a job in the steel industry again. Our steel industry was dying, and now it's very vibrant.I intend to call the head of United States Steel and a couple of other of our great steel companies to have them come up with a plate or a design of a beautiful steel product, which we now make here, and we'll use that as our barrier.So we're trying to do everything possible to get money to our incredible people.."
If you believe Q, our imported steel used for military purposes had been degraded and one of his first priorities has been to restart U.S. steel production. Perhaps the "slats" will go DEEP into the ground.