Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:00:28 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <8ehfhj9jphf08ssafje6l45ugf8dd4gjub@4ax.com> <6b5001df-b947-3b5e-a84b-14b9978a8b2c@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:00:29 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4784701939f1ca93004175f423fbed31"; logging-data="2378796"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+CtJtjdNrHdnEX6Nzb748T2m4JYPuQwtY=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q9I7mZXNTxyFtNbRrC/Dx/lFLJE= In-Reply-To: <6b5001df-b947-3b5e-a84b-14b9978a8b2c@example.net> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2676 On 11/13/2024 4:40 AM, D wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Nov 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote: > >> The Horny Goat  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