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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:06:15 -0800
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:00:28 -0500, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 11/13/2024 4:40 AM, D wrote:
>>=20
>>=20
>> On Tue, 12 Nov 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>=20
>>> The Horny Goat=A0 <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>>> The catch is that it has become so well known that the US southern
>>>> border is pretty much wide open that people from LOTS of places =
other
>>>> than Mexico are arriving in Mexico, going to Mexico's northern =
border
>>>> and crossing into the US.
>>>
>>> Yes.=A0 We used to have illegal Mexican immigration, but with the PRI=
 out
>>> of power the Mexican economy has improved a bit and there isn't much
>>> of that.=A0 Now we get folks from Honduras and Guatemala where bad=20
>>> governments
>>> have destroyed the economies who want to get into the US and they are
>>> at the border.
>>>
>>> Thing is... the reason why all those people are massing at the border
>>> is that it's not wide open.=A0 If it were wide open, there wouldn't =
be
>>> so many people camping there.
>>> --scott
>>>
>>=20
>> But maybe it is not a binary question? Maybe the border can have =
various=20
>> degrees of openness?
>>=20
>> I read today that Trump is thinking about a multi-tier system =
consisting=20
>> of mine fields, autonomous drones with guns, and the wall.
>>=20
>> Then, surely, the border would be truly closed for criminals! =3D)
>
>Seems unlikely, but if it occurs, would its main role be to keep
>non-Americans out, or Americans in?

No reason it can't do both, I suppose. It would just take more mines
and more drones, after all.

Some landowners along the border are already uptight about having
their property rendered inaccessible to them. This would probably make
that worse.

Well, unless he plans to build it on the Mexican side ...
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"