Trump's Beautiful Wall

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The website talks about the near impossibility to accurately gather data, so I think they're doing the best they can with the information available to them. So, I'm not sure if your questions can be accurately answered.

That said, I'm absolutely sympathetic to nativists and their resistance to allowing undocumented immigrants live here. I think everyone ought to have biometrics done, which is then tied to an I.D. of some sort. But my motivation mostly comes from getting everyone to pony up their taxes. Businesses and employees all ought to have everyone verified, taxed, and regulated so we're all paying for the services we use.

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I'm fine with using technology to enforce the border. I don't care how it's done. I just want the border enforced.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
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ajax18 wrote:
EAllusion wrote:One of the weird things about the “open borders” rhetoric Ajax is imbibing in is literally no other area of law do you see people pointing to the existence of lawbreakers as proof no law exists at all. Like, people aren’t saying we live in a speed limit free society. And the Venn diagram between people who do that and argue that gun laws are a bad idea because criminals won’t listen to them is pretty tight.


I've yet to hear a gun grabber say we need to enforce existing gun control laws. I've yet to hear a 2nd amendment advocate be excused or even pardoned for disobeying existing gun laws because he doesn't agree with them.
I see the point of my comment flew right by you.

Until we execute every single person caught speeding, we live in a nation without speed limits.
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subgenius wrote:
Kevin Graham wrote:
And you're stupid enough to think someone that determined is going to let a wall stop them?

Um, this "stupidity" works for Israel...works.


Israel enforces its much shorter barrier by patrolling it with armed soldiers authorized to use lethal force if need be. This is effective, but not perfect. The wall isn't what's "working". It's the military blockade backing it up. Are you suggesting that we have a standing army at the border and enforce the wall similarly?

America should be a lot more like Soviet Russia - a lot of Republicans all of a sudden.
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You lost me at biometrics.

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Okay I looked it up. It's used for authentication purposes. I'm happy it uses more than fingerprints.

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Jersey Girl wrote:You lost me at biometrics.

It's okay. I don't mind being lost.

Biometrics just refers to a variety of biological identification markers. It ranges from the quasi-pseudoscientific like fingerprints to the dystopian sci-fi like facial recognition software.
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EAllusion wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:You lost me at biometrics.

It's okay. I don't mind being lost.


Biometrics just refers to a variety of biological identification markers. It ranges from the quasi-pseudoscientific like fingerprints to the dystopian sci-fi like facial recognition software.


I know. I stated that I looked it up.
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Jersey Girl wrote:I know. I stated that I I looked it up.

I had my reply post up before you wrote a second post saying that. You probably could've inferred that from my post. Wait. I don't think I did that right. You probably could've inferred that from my post. Is that better?
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EAllusion wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:I know. I stated that I I looked it up.

I had my reply post up before you wrote a second post saying that. You probably could've inferred that from my post. Wait. I don't think I did that right. You probably could've inferred that from my post. Is that better?

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