It is generally understood that the US-Mexico border is the source of the drugs entering the country. It is the reason that many demand a wall along the southern border. According to a 2018 DEA Drug Assessment Report, the southern border remains the principal entry point for drugs, especially cocaine, heroin and fentanyl. The important… Read More US Border Patrol and Customs Hotbed Of Corruption
Donald Trump launched his presidential candidacy telling everyone that México sends “rapists” to the U.S. Trump also told everyone that the southern border is so dangerous that he needs to build a wall. Never mind that Saudi Arabia sends “its best” who promptly kill U.S. citizens on a military base. You know what else, Donald… Read More Trump And His Undocumented Workers
Remember when Donald Trump told everyone that México sends “rapists” to the US? As a Mexican immigrant I took his rhetoric about México sending its worst personally. Since then I have been on a mission to show Trump’s hypocrisy when it comes to immigrants. The latest example of hypocrisy is how Trump talks about Mexican… Read More Remember How Mexico Sends Its Worst? How About Saudi Arabia?
Donald Trump said he is building a wall in Colorado. Yes, he really said that. He also said he is building one in New Mexico. While everyone is focused on the wall in Colorado, they are missing the important thing about what Trump said. It wasn’t a faux pas; it was a Trump slip-up exposing… Read More The Colorado Wall
Donald Trump has been trying to create the illusion that most of the country supports his xenophobic attacks on immigrants and Mexicans. Even though Trump enjoyed a majority in both houses of Congress, he was unable to muster funds to build his wall. He has blamed spineless Republicans. Unfortunately for Trump and his xenophobic friends,… Read More Build The Wall At Any Cost
There are some readers today believing that Donald Trump is delivering on his core promise to build a wall along the U.S.-México border. I can’t blame them because the Trump administration is keen on creating fake news. But the fact is that Donald Trump is not building his wall of hatred. But, but, I thought… Read More Still No Trump Wall
Donald Trump declared a national emergency to build The Wall, while elsewhere in America lies the real danger to Americans. As everyone surely knows by now, the facts are just inconvenient details for Donald Trump and his cohorts. But the facts cannot be hidden nor ignored. We know that the dangers from the border are… Read More Meanwhile Elsewhere in America
There is something very important that everyone is missing in the debate over The Wall aka the border fence in El Paso. I’m actually pretty surprised that no one else has thought about this. It clearly ends the debate over walls keeping America safe from drugs. When Donald Trump argued that the border fence (The… Read More What Everyone Has Wrong About the El Paso Border Fence
Donald Trump was in El Paso last night. I can’t tell you much because the coverage was lackluster on national television. I had to sit through Fox News to watch Trump’s remarks. Obviously, The Wall reared its ugly head again. Not only is the fence NOT a wall, but Trump had the audacity to say… Read More Trump Does El Paso
Tonight is the State of the Union, but it should be renamed to the State of The Wall. It is now official; the Trump presidency will be defined by The Wall. It is hard to tell what Donald Trump is going to say tonight. I don’t believe that Trump, himself, even knows. But the one… Read More State of the Wall
Donald Trump caved on Friday. It means that The Wall is very unlikely to be funded. Yes, I know that Trump is threatening to declare a national emergency. But here is the problem with that. Declaring a national emergency only gives Donald Trump the ability to task federal departments to begin constructing The Wall. It… Read More Donald Trump Caved
Donald Trump and cohorts are screaming that there is a crisis on the border. They use the word “crisis” as the cornerstone of their call for The Wall. Trump and cohorts understand that telling the American people that The Wall is about keeping brown people out of the country, most Americans would be outraged, thus… Read More The Donald Trump Crisis
There are about 1 million American workers without paychecks today. We know about the 800,000 federal workers who are not getting paid because of the government shutdown. What we don’t know is the number of contractors and business workers who are without paychecks because part of the federal government is shutdown. The cleaning staff, the… Read More Donald Trump Wins If He Gets Wall Money
In episode two of the Border Mic I discuss answering a simple question, will the wall solve the drug crisis in America? It is a simple question that deserves an answer. Listen in for the answer. It might surprise you. The Border Mic Podcast is now available in all the major Podcast Apps! Subscribe on… Read More Podcast Episode Two – Drugs and The Wall
Americans do not want The Wall. We know this because even with a Republican-controlled Congress in 2018, Donald Trump was unable to get funding for The Wall. Now that the Democrats control the House, Trump is on a tirade that the Democrats are against border security. He is trying to equate border security with The… Read More Americans Do Not Want The Wall
Why is the wall offensive when there is already a fence on the border is the question I most often get asked. It is a good question. The answer is also simple. It comes down to context. It has to do with intent. Donald Trump launched his presidential candidacy by proclaiming México sends “rapists” to… Read More Why the Wall is Offensive
Donald Trump is demanding wall funding at the expense of federal workers. America is shutdown because the American people (see yesterday’s post) do not want to fund the wall that Trump is demanding. Trump apologists will argue that the country is not shutdown, only a part of it. But here is the uncomfortable truth. The… Read More Wall Funding Hypocrisy and Immigrants Gaming the System
“It’s an invasion!” “Americans want border security!” The wall “is immoral.” The immigration rhetoric is on overdrive. The political debate is being driven by The Wall all over the country. But lost in all the noise is an uncomfortable truth. Immigrants have nothing to do with The Wall! Here is the very uncomfortable truth behind… Read More Stop Blaming Immigrants for the Wall
One of the seldom discussed issues about immigration policies is that the Democrats have historically imposed draconian immigration policies. Yet today, the Democrats take control of the House amid the latest government shutdown around the narrative of being pro-immigrants. What will the Democrats do? The narrative is that the Democrats are for “open borders” and… Read More Will the Democrats Cave?
From the moment that Donald Trump called Mexicans “rapists,” I have been opposed to him and his presidency. It comes down to that simple thing. I saw The Wall as nothing more than a symbol of hate. The hate of Mexicans and other brown people. The political rhetoric has worked overtime trying to persuade me… Read More The Wall of Hate is Dead
As I prepare for Christmas, I can’t help but wonder what would Donald Trump do if the Savior’s parents came knocking on the door? Would Trump and his cohorts give shelter to a pregnant woman and her husband, our would he put up a wall to keep them out? Two thousand years ago, an unmarried… Read More What Would Trump Do
There are some immigration news items that are important to the overall debate about immigration in America but are, sadly, lost amongst the noise of the wall debate. I’m sharing them today as they are important for further discussions in the upcoming weeks. U.S. Agrees to Pay México and Central American Countries On Tuesday, the… Read More Immigration News Lost in Wall Rhetoric
Donald Trump is mired in controversy this week as there are court documents alleging that Trump, himself, committed crimes. This is not surprising to those of us who see Trump as the worst of America. As if that wasn’t bad enough for the Trump Administration, his chief of staff, John Kelly is giving up on… Read More The Last Trump Wall Battle
Tuesday’s biggest win for America is that the Trump Wall is dead. It is not going to happen. Sayonara to the wall. The reason? The House holds the purse strings to the nation. Without an appropriation from Congress, there is no money for the wall. Oh, and México is not paying for the wall. There… Read More The Wall Is Dead on Arrival
As I like to point out, nothing changes in El Paso. The controversies and the inept news media remain exactly as they did almost two decades ago. Sadly, the stupidity of the news media isn’t limited to El Paso as many news outlets carried news reports of aliens in New Mexico. It started with the… Read More Aliens, Walls and Fake News
Remember when Donald Trump promised you that México would pay for The Wall? Trump has been promising to build a wall on the U.S.-México border from the moment he announced his presidential bid. Many of his voters still believe that The Wall will be built. Some even believe that The Wall is being built as… Read More Trump Offers Mexico $20 Million
Donald Trump’s base continues to focus on the Trump’s promise to build the wall. Donald Trump is feeling a lot of pressure to convince his voting base that he will build the promised wall. The inconvenient truth is that the wall will not be built. Reluctantly, many of Trump’s voters seem to have acknowledged that… Read More Donald Trump Continues to Lie About the Wall
The War on Immigrants started by Donald Trump has come down to one symbol – The Wall. As I have written various times before, The Wall symbolizes Donald Trump’s politics of hate. As some pundits have suggested, Donald Trump is about symbols. He builds hulking buildings and puts his name on them. Apparently, he believes… Read More Symbology and Donald Trump
For all his bluster, and huffing and puffing, it looks like Donald Trump isn’t getting any money for his pinche wall. Yup, that’s right, even with a Republican controlled Congress, money for The Wall isn’t being allocated. Oh, and guess what? México isn’t paying for the pinche wall. Yes, I know, Donald Trump tweeted that… Read More No Wall Money
The Donald Trump Wall has always been the symbol of intolerance and of the need, by some voters, to keep the “white” supremacy of the country. Trump, and his ilk, fear that the demographics of the country is shifting away from “white” towards darker skinned Americans. Many of The Wall supporters will deny this, because,… Read More Border Patrol Agent’s Death Proves Reason for The Wall
The Republican Party must now own Donald Trump. For ever more, the Republican Party will be known as the party that put the Trump scourge on the American people. But not all is lost. The Republican Party can put some sanity back into American politics by governing for the people, as they should. This week,… Read More The Party of the Wall
I am happy in the current state of my life today. However, occasionally, I find myself day dreaming about what ifs. The most common dream I have is sitting in my brand-new Porsche 911 Targa 4 GTS. Since I sold my 1976 911 S Targa, (I miss that car!) I have had the dream of… Read More My 2018 State of the Union Dream
So, the media manipulation by Donald Trump about The Wall and the Dreamers has begun. Last Wednesday, Donald Trump dropped in, on an ongoing press conference with John Kelly at the Whitehouse before he left for Davos. Trump is a media manipulator and his “drop in” to the ongoing conference was orchestrated to rehabilitate his… Read More Trump Vacillating on Dreamers and Wall
Donald Trump made many promises to his voters leading up to the election. Trump promised you that he would bring his business acumen and negotiating skills to Washington and work diligently to deliver the promises he made to you within the first 100 days of being in office. How’d that work out for you? Trump… Read More The Donald Trump Wall Folly
Once again, a terrorist targets the United States and once again he proves that the danger to the United States from ISIS-inspired terrorism isn’t from México nor the U.S.-México border. But the Mexican-haters and immigrant-haters are nonetheless using the recent terror attack as a reason for the wall and travel ban on immigrants from certain… Read More The NY Port Authority Attack and the Build the Wall Movement
As you likely know, there was a mass shooting in Las Vegas yesterday. (About 10pm Sunday, Las Vegas time) At this point we know only two things for certain – the shooter, Stephen Paddock is not from México nor did he cross the U.S.-México border to commit mass murder of U.S. citizens. Paddock is a… Read More Las Vegas Again Disproves Border Security Notion
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The Wall is Donald Trump’s albatross around his neck. The Wall is the symbol of the Donald Trump administration. The Wall will define the Donald Trump administration now, and for many years to come. Donald Trump knows this. Look closely at the telephone call transcript between Enrique Peña Nieto and Trump recently leaked to the… Read More The Trump Wall
I hope you enjoy RumpToons No: 43.
The House Republicans released the Homeland Security funding bill on Tuesday. In it there are $1.6 Billion to fund the U.S.-México border wall. This is only the initial amount requested by the Trump administration. The total appropriations bill is for $44.3 billion. The wall portion accounts for less than one percent. However, the proposed amount… Read More The Trump Wall Paid for by America