Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On Tue, 12 Nov 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:

The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

The catch is that it has become so well known that the US southern
border is pretty much wide open that people from LOTS of places other
than Mexico are arriving in Mexico, going to Mexico's northern border
and crossing into the US.

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Yes.  We used to have illegal Mexican immigration, but with the PRI out
of power the Mexican economy has improved a bit and there isn't much
of that.  Now we get folks from Honduras and Guatemala where bad governments
have destroyed the economies who want to get into the US and they are
at the border.
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Thing is... the reason why all those people are massing at the border
is that it's not wide open.  If it were wide open, there wouldn't be
so many people camping there.
--scott
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But maybe it is not a binary question? Maybe the border can have various degrees of openness?
I read today that Trump is thinking about a multi-tier system consisting of mine fields, autonomous drones with guns, and the wall.
Then, surely, the border would be truly closed for criminals! =)