Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
I've noticed.
Indeed . The super macho Jeremy Corbyn for example . Or " El Capitain " as we call him round this way .
I've noticed.
There's already a border wall along some of it. It's also prevents the migratory patterns of humans to tragic effect.
Border Deaths Spike 27 Percent, Even As Immigration From Mexico Drops, Report Says
No. Leaving aside that it's not the 1980s and there are a plethora of different ways to transfer money, Mexico is not going to undertake the logistics of of such a border wall, never mind the finance.
Even his own party says the wall is unworkable and as border runs through both private and public land. The only thing that the border wall if built will prevent is the migratory patterns of hundreds of species, with potentially tragic effect.
What about the water?
Billions of gallons flow between the United States and Mexico, funneling lifeblood to farms and communities on both sides of the border. The Colorado River sends water south; the Rio Grande, a natural boundary for hundreds of miles, delivers precious water from Mexico, through dozens of canals, to much of South Texas.
Water experts in the Southwest question how Mr. Trump’s border wall could accommodate those crucial flows and still provide the barrier he wants.
Another complication is that a nearly 50-year-old treaty between Mexico and the United States prevents any construction that obstructs or diverts the flow of the waterways. The wall, in other words, could not interfere in any way with the flow of water in either direction.
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A bigger concern, he said, was the addition of a potential major wrinkle into the delicate bilateral diplomacy over water sharing. “Any proposal that would threaten that relationship or trust we’ve built would concern me,” Mr. Connor said.
Several treaties, particularly one from 1944, outline rules for sharing water from the Colorado River, the Tijuana River and the Rio Grande.
It is a complex system that involves water flowing down the Colorado River through Nevada and Arizona into Mexico, and down the Rio Grande from New Mexico into Mexico, where it is replenished by major tributaries before turning to Texas. (On the United States side, the Rio Grande watershed alone includes well over four million people.)
The relationship has been strained by drought: Tensions have flared over the last 15 years when Texas accused Mexico of delivering insufficient supplies of water.
The Texas Commission of Environmental Quality, overseen by appointees of the governor, cited a 2013 Texas A&M study saying that Mexico’s failure to deliver its annual water allotment cost the state economy nearly 5,000 jobs and $400 million each year.
Mexico countered that it did not have the water because of drought — a position that some American environmentalists said was valid.
The issue was resolved this year when the United States, jointly with Mexico, said the water debt had been paid off. Separately, the United States and Mexico took five years, from 2007 to 2012, to reach a landmark agreement to fix canals and water delivery systems to cope with historic drought.
As part of that agreement, Mexico agreed to share some of its water supply from the Colorado River so that the water could be retained in Lake Mead, near the Nevada-Arizona border. That situation worked out well, highlighting friendly but delicate relations.
“I was there, and I know the hurdles we had to overcome to assure them we weren’t manipulating the system,” said Ms. Mulroy, from Brookings.
“We are dependent on the Mexicans trusting us,” she said. “ It’s an enormous diplomatic issue.”
With a wall, Ms. Mulroy said, “the chances of another cooperative agreement would be nil.”
Getting the Mexican government to pay for it outright is almost certainly wishful thinking.
President Enrique Pena Nieto said Monday that "there is no scenario" under which Mexico would pay for the wall and likened Trump's rhetoric to that of Hitler and Mussolini. Former President Vicente Fox put it more bluntly: "I am not going to pay for that f---ing wall." Both Fox and another former president, Felipe Calderon, have also compared Trump to Hitler.
So there's diplomatic ill will, a question the Congressional Research Service raised in 2009.
"Do the gains in border security outweigh the risk of alienating Mexico and Canada?" it asked. "Should the Mexican or Canadian government's opinions or wishes be taken into account when border fencing is concerned? Given the need to co-ordinate intelligence and law enforcement activities at the border, should maintaining cordial working relationships with Mexico and Canada take precedence over sealing the border with physical barriers?"
And, on Wednesday, a group of Republican national security community members, including former government officials, blasted the idea.
"Controlling our border and preventing illegal immigration is a serious issue, but his insistence that Mexico will fund a wall on the southern border inflames unhelpful passions, and rests on an utter misreading of, and contempt for, our southern neighbour," they wrote in an open letter critical of Trump.
Isn't that the one Hillary supports and wants to make even bigger ? The " its not racist because it's the Hillary wall to keep Mexicans out " I think it's called . By liberals .
Smug hypocrisy in abundance all over this thread . why is Trumps wall racist but Hillary Clintons wall not racist ?
John Oliver takes the correct tone with which to discuss Trump's wall:
By correct tone I suppose you mean ignores Clintons wall .
I'd laugh if trump deported Mr smug limey as well .
Donald Trump is America’s back mole. It may have seemed harmless a year ago, but now that it’s become frighteningly bigger, it’s no longer wise to ignore it.”–John Oliver
“Donald Trump has had several foreign wives. It turns out that there are really are jobs Americans won’t do.”–Mitt Romney
This is an amazing fucking video of Clinton . Here she is claiming the Mexican government has a policy of forcing people to emigrate to America , highlighting how many of them are criminals , that the US needs to build a physical barrier to keep them out and that the US has to make the Mexican government deal with the issue .
If her sycophants had any decency they'd be accusing Trump of outright plagiarism . He's just nicked her ideas wholesale .
But of course none of that is racist, because it's Hillary Clinton .
You might have noticed: building a wall is part of Trump's current election platform.
‘Trump NOT Doing FOX Debate Cause Of MEGAN (sic) KELLY… fkng PRIMA DONNA. HOW CAN HE FACE ISIS, HE CANT FACE A CHICK ON TV.” –Cher
A Maoist bike the Times calls it
It's smart because the entire media has decided to cover this totally evidence-free 'Russia wot done it' angle while ignoring the contents of the e-mails which make clear the endemic corruption of the political process. He is saying to the people who are rightly angry about that, 'look, it doesn't matter who hacked what given the gravity of what the leaks reveal' and he's right.
Oh yeah, what a legend. Here are the remarks.
“Ariana Huffington is unattractive, both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man – he made a good decision.”
“If I were running ‘The View’, I’d fire Rosie O’Donnell. I mean, I’d look at her right in that fat, ugly face of hers, I’d say ‘Rosie, you’re fired.’”
He's a fucking genius !!!
Ick.
“I have black guys counting my money. … I hate it,” Trump told John R. O’Donnell, the former president of Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, according O’Donnell’s account in his 1991 book “Trumped!” “The only guys I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes all day.”
Trump, according to O’Donnell, went on to say, “‘Laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that.”
"When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump’s Castle, told the New Yorker for a September article. “It was the eighties, I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.”
“You know, it really doesn't matter what (the media) write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”
― Donald J. Trump