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Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:00:28 -0500
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On 11/13/2024 4:40 AM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 
>> The Horny Goat  <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.  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.  Now we get folks from Honduras and Guatemala where bad 
>> 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.  If it were wide open, there wouldn't be
>> so many people camping there.
>> --scott
>>
> 
> But maybe it is not a binary question? Maybe the border can have various 
> degrees of openness?
> 
> I read today that Trump is thinking about a multi-tier system consisting 
> of mine fields, autonomous drones with guns, and the wall.
> 
> Then, surely, the border would be truly closed for criminals! =)

Seems unlikely, but if it occurs, would its main role be to keep
non-Americans out, or Americans in?

pt