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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[kidcarter8]

51 dead in tractor-trailer people smuggling racket in Texas.

The use of large trucks to pack together and conceal migrants has been on the rise, current and former officials said, a means of maximizing profits for criminal networks and a sign of the increasing desperation of those seeking to enter the country by any means possible.

Increasingly using tractor-trailers because they can cram 80 people into them.

Now I might just be a broken down choir boy/failed student from the 60's...old age pensioner from the land of the kangaroos, emus, wombats and koalas...BUT...since 9/11 I have gotten a lot smarter, a lot wiser.
Now even I know that the US govt can seal the Mexican border *airtight*, *watertight*, and every other tight to the activities of people-smugglers and migrants entering the country illegally...if it wants to.

Governo Abbott wanted to stop and inspect all the truccks.  Biden administration was against this.

TRUE?

Heck, maybe it is Joe's fault.

[Holly Martins]

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/13/1092686718/gov-abbotts-order-for-truck-inspections-is-all-an-unnecessary-pr-stunt-critics-s

[Hairy Lime]

51 dead in tractor-trailer people smuggling racket in Texas.

The use of large trucks to pack together and conceal migrants has been on the rise, current and former officials said, a means of maximizing profits for criminal networks and a sign of the increasing desperation of those seeking to enter the country by any means possible.

Increasingly using tractor-trailers because they can cram 80 people into them.

Now I might just be a broken down choir boy/failed student from the 60's...old age pensioner from the land of the kangaroos, emus, wombats and koalas...BUT...since 9/11 I have gotten a lot smarter, a lot wiser.
Now even I know that the US govt can seal the Mexican border *airtight*, *watertight*, and every other tight to the activities of people-smugglers and migrants entering the country illegally...if it wants to.

Governo Abbott wanted to stop and inspect all the truccks.  Biden administration was against this.

TRUE?

No. It was all the food rotting in day long lines, the week long bottleneck in the supply chain and pressure from business that forced Governor Bud to change his policy. If it was Biden he would be out in front of the milest long back up today bragging about standing up to Biden.

[Holly Martins]

https://www.cpr.org/2022/06/29/election-denial-is-a-losing-message-as-centrist-republicans-sweep-statewide-colorado-primaries/

Thinner air helps Republican cognitive function.

[Holly Martins]

No. It was all the food rotting in day long lines, the week long bottleneck in the supply chain and pressure from business that forced Governor Bud to change his policy. If it was Biden he would be out in front of the miles-long back up today bragging about standing up to Biden.

[Oilcandide]

  Migrants cross border by others means (often steered to locations where foot crossings are feasible), then loaded in Laredo.

The tractor trailer part of the journey may very well end here, but it didnt start necessarily in Mexico because U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents use very sophisticated undercarriage X-ray systems, he added.

People who want to evade the authorities face an array of challenges, from X-rays to K-9 teams and cameras. As in the 2017 tragedy, its likely that people who were in the trailer in San Antonio this week had crossed the border on foot, before gathering in Laredo to be loaded into a truck...
 

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/28/1108280982/texas-migrant-deaths-human-smuggling-mexico

[Espnthree]

  Migrants cross border by others means (often steered to locations where foot crossings are feasible), then loaded in Laredo.

The tractor trailer part of the journey may very well end here, but it didnt start necessarily in Mexico because U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents use very sophisticated undercarriage X-ray systems, he added.

People who want to evade the authorities face an array of challenges, from X-rays to K-9 teams and cameras. As in the 2017 tragedy, its likely that people who were in the trailer in San Antonio this week had crossed the border on foot, before gathering in Laredo to be loaded into a truck...
 

Imagine that.
People willing to face almost certain death to move to a theocracy dominated by racists who support forcing women to have babies.

[josh]

For Kid and ward,

http://www.thebulwark.com/cassidy-hutchinson-held-their-manhoods-cheap/

I found this one more moving:
thebulwark.com/hutchinson-puts-trumps-violence-on-display/

[josh]

51 dead in tractor-trailer people smuggling racket in Texas.

The use of large trucks to pack together and conceal migrants has been on the rise, current and former officials said, a means of maximizing profits for criminal networks and a sign of the increasing desperation of those seeking to enter the country by any means possible.

Increasingly using tractor-trailers because they can cram 80 people into them.

Now I might just be a broken down choir boy/failed student from the 60's...old age pensioner from the land of the kangaroos, emus, wombats and koalas...BUT...since 9/11 I have gotten a lot smarter, a lot wiser.
Now even I know that the US govt can seal the Mexican border *airtight*, *watertight*, and every other tight to the activities of people-smugglers and migrants entering the country illegally...if it wants to.

Governo Abbott wanted to stop and inspect all the truccks.  Biden administration was against this.

TRUE?

Every bit of unsubstantiated gossip about Biden comes spewing from your fingers.

But testimony under oath and at risk of perjury - and at risk of threats on her and her family - and you declare "She's lying!"

You remain such an asshole.

[josh]

  Migrants cross border by others means (often steered to locations where foot crossings are feasible), then loaded in Laredo.

The tractor trailer part of the journey may very well end here, but it didnt start necessarily in Mexico because U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents use very sophisticated undercarriage X-ray systems, he added.

People who want to evade the authorities face an array of challenges, from X-rays to K-9 teams and cameras. As in the 2017 tragedy, its likely that people who were in the trailer in San Antonio this week had crossed the border on foot, before gathering in Laredo to be loaded into a truck...
 

Imagine that.
People willing to face almost certain death to move to a theocracy dominated by racists who support forcing women to have babies.

Yes.

It should tell you how dire their lives are in their homelands.

But you hear it as praise for America.

[Espnthree]

But testimony under oath and at risk of perjury - and at risk of threats on her and her family - and you declare "She's lying!"

If all the Jan6 Committee accomplishes is getting Trump out of the 2024 campaign it is fine with me.
And that is exactly how it has been set up.  No cross examinations, no detailed transcripts, etc.
 Basically a grand jury set up with prosecutors only asking the questions.
They will get an indictment but no trial will ever follow.

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/politics/trump-blindsided-january-6-hearing/index.html

It sounds like at lease one person lying is the former president, as Trump tries to distance himself from her, but other aides are saying she was close to the action.

OTOH, it sounds from this story as if the Secret Service agents are going to deny having told her that stuff about Trump grabbing for the wheel.

Whether they will also deny he grabbed for the wheel remains to be seen. And once they start testifying, where will that stop?

[kidcarter8]

But testimony under oath and at risk of perjury  and at risk of threats on her and her family  and you declare  She's lying!


She was threatened TO TESTIFY!

And like all the others - not a great career move - and will go down in history as a political pawn, nothing more.

[kidcarter8]

And...

she fucking LIED!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tony-ornato-did-not-brief-cassidy-hutchinson-trump-tried-lunge-secret-service-agent-sources

[Hamilton Samuels]

But testimony under oath and at risk of perjury  and at risk of threats on her and her family  and you declare  She's lying!


She was threatened TO TESTIFY!

And like all the others - not a great career move - and will go down in history as a political pawn, nothing more.

That's what Nixon said about John Dean.

Pay attention, kid. You're on the wrong side of this. Think of this way, though. You can abandon team GOP. After all, if you can keep switching around your favorite MLB and NFL teams, you can certainly support a different political party, and one that understands and follows the Constitution.