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A week ago today, a callous and heartless criminal attempted to murder two of the heroes that work hard everyday to keep you safe when ride @metrolosangeles.

The outpouring of love and support from our Department, @lacosheriff, the community, and indeed from around the world, has been overwhelming, but also very much appreciated!

This week #potus45 @realdonaldtrump called both of our deputies to check on their spirits, wish them a speedy recovery and remind them that the #american people are behind them and that the coward that harmed them will be brought to #justice!!

Here, you can see @lasdtransit Sergeant Frederickson with our #heroine and her husband when the President called her in the ICU. Due to her injuries, Sergeant Frederickson relayed her written responses to #presidenttrump.
Both of the deputies and their families were very appreciative of the call!

Please continue to keep these #lawenforcement professionals in your prayers and know that they will be back, keeping you safe, when you #gometro!!!

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#bettertogether
#wewillnotstandforthis
#lawandorder
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1. Nearly four years later, Trump has built just three miles of new wall.

Just shy of four years in office, Donald Trump has completely failed to deliver on his signature campaign promise—building a wall on the country’s southern border with Mexico. For starters, our southern border is nearly 2,000 miles long. After completing just about 60 miles of replacement barrier during the first 2 ½ years of his presidency, Trump really raised the bar and guaranteed 500 miles of new construction by year’s end.2 As usual, Trump over promised and under delivered. To date, he’s gotten a measly 235 miles of replacement wall built where previous barriers already existed.3 And in terms of new wall where no barriers previously existed, as of late June, Trump has built just three miles of wall.4 Three. 

2. Despite having control of both chambers of Congress for two years, Trump couldn’t deliver.

To make matters worse for Trump, he doesn’t even have Democrats to blame for his epic fail. Trump had unified Republican control of the House, Senate, and White House for the first two years of his presidency, and he couldn’t even get his own party on board to support his wall. The wall has never been popular (polling at best around 40 percent support), so even Congressional Republicans  have been wise enough to realize that Trump’s wall is bad politics and bad policy.5 Texas Congressman Will Hurd, whose district runs eight hundred miles along the Rio Grande, described building a wall in his district as “impossible,” and called Trump’s border wall “a 3rdcentury solution to a 21st century problem.”6 Even reliable Trump loyalists like John Cornyn and Thom Tillis have criticized the feasibility and efficacy of the wall. In February 2017 Cornyn admitted that, “There’s parts of our border which [building a wall] makes absolutely no sense,” and correctly predicted that people would be able to “climb over the wall or go under the wall or through the wall.”7 In a post on his website, Tillis also once readily admitted “that a continuous wall from one end of our Southern border to the other is neither feasible nor effective. It’s basic geology.”8

3. Trump raided $10 billion from DHS and Defense spending for the wall, and couldn’t deliver.

With even his own party in Congress unwilling to handover a blank check to cover ballooning costs for the wall—which DHS has estimated will cost at least $21 billion—and with payments from Mexico nowhere in sight, Trump has spent the last year raiding Homeland and Defense budgets in an attempt to unilaterally start construction.9 In 2020 alone, Trump siphoned roughly $10 billion of DHS and Defense funding that was intended to subsidize the construction of military aircrafts and fund various military bases across the country.10 As a frame of reference, the CDC’s entire budget for FY 2020 is $6.5 billion and its budget to combat infectious diseases is $2.5 billion.11 Even Congressional Republicans spoke out against Trump’s brazen and unconstitutional blitzkrieg of the military budget. Texas Rep. Mac Thornberry, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, called Trump’s raiding of the military budget “contrary to Congress’ constitutional authority,” and criticized the order as being “in violation of the separation of powers within the Constitution.”12 With only three miles of new wall and 200 miles of largely cosmetic and wholly ineffective upgrades to show for it, Trump has basically done to the border what he’s done in the past with steaks and apartment buildings: slap his name on the front, call it new, and try to profit off of it—only this time on the back of taxpayers and military families.

4. Trump is still trying to confiscate privately-owned land for his vanity project.

If siphoning billions from the military wasn’t enough, Trump is still actively engaging in seizing the private property of American citizens for his failed wall. Nearly two-thirds of the border’s 2,000 miles is privately owned, and Trump will be damned before he lets a measly thing like property rights get in the way of his wall crusade.13 And as the clock ticks on his presidency, Trump has only gotten more aggressive in his willingness to trample over everyday Americans. The administration filed 29 separate eminent domain suits to purloin land from farmers and ranchers last year alone, up from 11 in both 2018 and 2017.14

5. And Trump can’t keep up the few miles he’s actually built.

Despite raiding billions of dollars from the defense budget—violating Congress’s constitutional authority—and only completing construction on about 10 percent of the border, Trump has still managed to make what’s actually been built on the border an unmitigated disaster. Over the course of its short existence, the few completed portions of Trump’s wall have routinely been breached overhead, underground, and right through.15 It’s gotten so bad for Trump’s titanic wall that some portions have even been blown down by “gusty” winds.16

Conclusion

In a presidency defined by its unprecedented floundering and failures, the border wall (or lack thereof) is readily apparent and visually stark. It encapsulates all of Trump’s worst qualities. He didn’t “build that wall.” Mexico isn’t paying for it. The fraction he’s actually gotten built isn’t an “impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall.” It’s a barely standing house of cards.

Trump has recently been outspoken in his support for monuments—including those of Confederate generals. With that in mind, Trump’s three miles of wall stands as a monument to his failure. And that’s a message that will ring loudly in November.

https://www.thirdway.org/memo/trumps-great-wall-of-failure

 

 

 

 

 

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A different look at the Border Wall issue from a non-partisan organization.

 

https://www.fairus.org/issue/border-security/current-state-border-fence

 

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A physical barrier on the southern border is a necessity if our government wishes to meet its obligation to protect the sovereignty and security of the United States of America. Besides helping stem the tide of illegal immigration, it also limits the ability of drug cartels, human traffickers, terrorists, and other national security threats to access the United States from Mexico and the rest of Central and South America. Furthermore, a secure border sends the message that prospective immigrants are expected to follow the rule of law.

 

Of course, if this is not what you want for our country, which seems to be the case for "Never Trumpers" and Democrats, then I understand you not wanting to know the truth about this issue.  BTW, John Cornyn is NOT and NEVER has been a Trump supporter ---- he is a typical RINO and only supports John Cornyn.

 

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5 hours ago, caddieman said:

Nearly four years later, Trump has built just three miles of new wall. Your in Denial it symptoms of the disease  of TDS. For your sake it only last 8 years..

Trump Commemorates the 200th Mile of the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall in Arizona
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Bloomberg QuickTake: Now
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President Donald Trump commemorated the 200th mile of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in San Luis, Arizona, on Tuesday, June 23, 2020.  

Trump’s focus on the construction of his long-promised border wall also is meant to shore up support with his most loyal supporters.

His administration has promised to build 450 miles (724 kilometers) by the end of the year, but that seems unlikely. The government has awarded more than $6.1 billion in construction contracts since April 2019 for various projects along the border. It has also waived procurement rules that critics say make the process of awarding multimillion-dollar contracts secretive and opaque.

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