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[–]fugwb 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thanks for these links. I just watched the first one and it was very informative. The IDs and passports and coins like euros, etc. the sheriff found littering the landscape, some of it during this filming. I think the most egregious aspect is the court decisions that immigration is the preserve of the federal government, with limits on what local and state governments can do, yet the latter's law enforcement and hospitals are not being reimbursed by the federal government for the humanitarian aid they must necessarily provide. The group of Indians they came across who had stopped and were waiting to be rescued after repeatedly calling 911, the Customs department signs that instructed migrants to do this. As the sheriff and the videographer pointed out, people in the rest of the country can ignore it because it's a "border problem" but only for now, the impacts on communities across the country are already starting to be felt.

Doug Macgregor has said many times that we need to bring our military home from the US bases strewn across the rest of the world and used on the border. Sounds a little shocking at first but as he pointed out, every WWII commander you can name (Bradley, MacArthur, and so on) served on the border doing just that at some point in their early careers. He suggests the same for our Coast Guard, who are being deployed in various places around the world and should be instead used to protect domestic waters.

[–]fugwb 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In one of the videos the sheriff makes the point that these people, for the most part, are not hanging around the border, they're heading North so yeah, it's going to be felt by even the most rural of Americans before long. And I agree with what Macgregor says about the military.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We're already seeing it in big cities, with a little help from border state governments bussing the migrants north. Interesting but not surprising how quickly attitudes change when it's their backyard being impacted.