Enough is enough

[KUTradition]

and?

you guys are both idiots that lack reading comprehension

par for the course

You’re the one that can’t read.

um…both you and numbnutz need to re-read Plano’s post and think hard about it’s meaning/intent

my comment had zero to do with your article

again, reading comprehension

[Deleted User 863]

and?

you guys are both idiots that lack reading comprehension

par for the course

You’re the one that can’t read.

um…both you and numbnutz need to re-read Plano’s post and think hard about it’s meaning/intent

my comment had zero to do with your article

again, reading comprehension

Which post?

The one where he said people who live on the border aren't concerned about illegal immigration? To which I provided evidence of the contrary.

Or the post where he said Fentanyl ONLY comes from Mexico? Even though NOBODY said that was the ONLY source of the drug.

Or the one about immigration? Even though legal immigration is a COMPLETELY different topic than illegal immigration.


Maybe it's you who doesn't read/comprehend so well?

[KUTradition]

[Deleted User 863]

[dolomite]

and?

you guys are both idiots that lack reading comprehension

par for the course

You’re the one that can’t read.

um…both you and numbnutz need to re-read Plano’s post and think hard about it’s meaning/intent

my comment had zero to do with your article

again, reading comprehension

Then stick to the subject of the topic!
Shirley’s law happens.

[twocoach]

Why do you think such a low number of Democrats are worried about immigration?

votes.

The border covers Texas, New Mexico (Republican), Arizona (flip flops bewteen Dem and Republican and California (Dem). I don't see "votes" as anything that makes any difference, especially since illegal immigrants cannot vote in those national elections.

It's more that I don't want to pay $25 for a head of lettuce of a container of strawberries.

[Deleted User 863]

It's more that I don't want to pay $25 for a head of lettuce of a container of strawberries.

Yikes. Did you really just say that out loud?

[twocoach]

It's more that I don't want to pay $25 for a head of lettuce of a container of strawberries.

Yikes. Did you really just say that out loud?

And? There are certain jobs in our nation that are simply too expensive to have done by legal, US citizens. To have our entire produce industry employed by legal US citizens would result in unsustainable costs. Do some research.

[Deleted User 863]

Yikes. Doubled down.

Just because it makes strawberries cheaper for you, doesn't make it "right".

Wish Qusdahl was here to explain it more in depth. Maybe if we have to pay illegal immigrants an unlivable and unfair wage to do a job because so few American's will do it, that it indicates a larger problem?

Also, you can grow strawberries in your back yard. Or in your basement/house.

[twocoach]

Yikes. Doubled down.

Just because it makes strawberries cheaper for you, doesn't make it "right".

Wish Qusdahl was here to explain it more in depth. Maybe if we have to pay illegal immigrants an unlivable and unfair wage to do a job because so few American's will do it, that it indicates a larger problem?

Also, you can grow strawberries in your back yard. Or in your basement/house.

Oh, I was totally unaware of that. Thanks.

[MICHHAWK]

i don't care how my cherries get to my table. i just know i gotta have em.

[Overlander]

i don't care how my cherries get to my table. i just know i gotta have em.

Then thank a Mexican

[Deleted User 863]

Yikes. Doubled down.

Just because it makes strawberries cheaper for you, doesn't make it "right".

Wish Qusdahl was here to explain it more in depth. Maybe if we have to pay illegal immigrants an unlivable and unfair wage to do a job because so few American's will do it, that it indicates a larger problem?

Also, you can grow strawberries in your back yard. Or in your basement/house.

Oh, I was totally unaware of that. Thanks.

No problem at all!

It's a good way to save some money at the store. And also reduce the demand for those types of jobs where workers are treated what some would consider inhumanely for such a low wage. All so that the owners of those companies can profit off their labor.

[zsn]

Yikes. Doubled down.

Just because it makes strawberries cheaper for you, doesn't make it "right".

Wish Qusdahl was here to explain it more in depth. Maybe if we have to pay illegal immigrants an unlivable and unfair wage to do a job because so few American's will do it, that it indicates a larger problem?

Also, you can grow strawberries in your back yard. Or in your basement/house.

Therein lies the problem for the modern Republican Party. They’re against not-white people but they want what the non-white people are doing. What’s a bigot to do!

The immigration issue is similar to the anti-choice issue for the Republicans. If it’s resolved, one way or another, they have nothing. The dog that caught the car!!

[dolomite]

Why do you think such a low number of Democrats are worried about immigration?

votes.

It’s because they don’t like to borrow trouble?
Maybe they don’t know or care about the drug overdoses from the Fentanyl coming across the border.
During FY 2021, CBP officers at the eight ports of entry extending from Brownsville to Del Rio that comprise the Laredo Field Office seized 87,652 pounds of narcotics that would have commanded a combined estimated street value of $786 million. Specifically, they seized 41,713 pounds of marijuana; 8,592 pounds of cocaine, up 98 percent from FY 20; 33,777 pounds of methamphetamine; 1,215 pounds of heroin, 588 pounds of fentanyl, up 1,066 percent from FY 2020, $10.4 million in unreported currency, 463 weapons, up 21 percent from FY 2020 and 84,863 rounds of ammunition.
(www.cbp.gov)

[twocoach]

Why do you think such a low number of Democrats are worried about immigration?

votes.

It’s because they don’t like to borrow trouble?
Maybe they don’t know or care about the drug overdoses from the Fentanyl coming across the border.
During FY 2021, CBP officers at the eight ports of entry extending from Brownsville to Del Rio that comprise the Laredo Field Office seized 87,652 pounds of narcotics that would have commanded a combined estimated street value of $786 million. Specifically, they seized 41,713 pounds of marijuana; 8,592 pounds of cocaine, up 98 percent from FY 20; 33,777 pounds of methamphetamine; 1,215 pounds of heroin, 588 pounds of fentanyl, up 1,066 percent from FY 2020, $10.4 million in unreported currency, 463 weapons, up 21 percent from FY 2020 and 84,863 rounds of ammunition.
(www.cbp.gov)

Glad to see they are doing their job. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing additional US jobs created to do a better, quicker and more thorough job of inspecting all items entering our country for illegal drugs/guns/persons, etc... but I don't think deploying our US military to the border to lock us down is the answer. A lock down severely reduces the flow of goods into our country and we have seen that severe reductions in supply combined with an increase in expense to deliver to market just drives up costs to US consumers.

[dolomite]

votes.

It’s because they don’t like to borrow trouble?
Maybe they don’t know or care about the drug overdoses from the Fentanyl coming across the border.
During FY 2021, CBP officers at the eight ports of entry extending from Brownsville to Del Rio that comprise the Laredo Field Office seized 87,652 pounds of narcotics that would have commanded a combined estimated street value of $786 million. Specifically, they seized 41,713 pounds of marijuana; 8,592 pounds of cocaine, up 98 percent from FY 20; 33,777 pounds of methamphetamine; 1,215 pounds of heroin, 588 pounds of fentanyl, up 1,066 percent from FY 2020, $10.4 million in unreported currency, 463 weapons, up 21 percent from FY 2020 and 84,863 rounds of ammunition.
(www.cbp.gov)

Glad to see they are doing their job. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing additional US jobs created to do a better, quicker and more thorough job of inspecting all items entering our country for illegal drugs/guns/persons, etc... but I don't think deploying our US military to the border to lock us down is the answer. A lock down severely reduces the flow of goods into our country and we have seen that severe reductions in supply combined with an increase in expense to deliver to market just drives up costs to US consumers.

https://cis.org/Arthur/Drug-Overdose-De ... Key-Factor


Why is there a “proliferation of fentanyl”? One main reason (if not the sole reason) is that the drug is flowing into the United States in record amounts. Which brings me to the Southwest border.

As I explained on May 24, the migrant surge there is degrading Border Patrol’s ability to stop the drug smugglers who are bringing in much of the fentanyl that is hitting American streets.

That flood is due to the Biden administration’s border policies, but you don’t have to take my word for it.

In a letter last month to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey complained that the Biden administration's failure to secure the border was flooding his state with fentanyl, which he estimated was responsible for the deaths of 975 West Virginians in 2020.

Just say no to drugs?

[zsn]

How does Mr. Morrisey know that the source isn’t Oklahoma or Missouri

[jhawks99]

Why is there a proliferation in fentanyl?

Because Americans are buying it.

[dolomite]

How does Mr. Morrisey know that the source isn’t Oklahoma or Missouri

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publicatio ... e-fentanyl

This investigation sought to better situate Mexico’s role in the fentanyl trade. Chinese companies produce the vast majority of fentanyl, fentanyl analogues, and fentanyl precursors, but Mexico is becoming a major transit and production point for the drug and its analogues as well, and Mexican traffickers appear to be playing a role in its distribution in the United States.