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POTUS Threatens to Close Southern Border if Dems Fail to Fund Border Security

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-28 12:02|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Haha GENIUS!

No funding for border control with Mexico.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-12-28 13:54|| 2018-12-28 13:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Close Congress instead.

Posted by 49 Pan 2018-12-28 15:48|| 2018-12-28 15:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Trump accused Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador of "doing nothing" to help keep their people from traveling to America despite receiving millions of dollars in aid from the United States.

"Word is that a new Caravan is forming in Honduras and they are doing nothing about it," he wrote. "We will be cutting off all aid to these 3 countries ‐ taking advantage of U.S. for years!"

President Trump is finding all sorts of reasons to stop payments all over the place. A closed wallet can be awfully clarifying of national priorities. Friends, after all, don’t send their underclass to pick their friend’s pockets.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-12-28 17:10|| 2018-12-28 17:10|| Front Page Top

#4 um. how does this mesh with the headlines last week that the US was going to ~~p*ss away~~ donate $10B to latin american countries

Posted by Fester Chusoper5495 2018-12-28 17:18|| 2018-12-28 17:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Messico and Border State businesses just got a spark to start calling their congresscritters to resolve this. A shutdown will cost $ to business on both sides. The wall is cheaper than a couple days shutdown. How many gringos will visit if they don't know if/when they'll be allowed to cross back? Call and RAISE, bitches

Posted by Frank G 2018-12-28 17:19|| 2018-12-28 17:19|| Front Page Top

#6 He should also threaten to halt money to California as well. Better yet begin wholesale employment verification in California.

Posted by Airandee 2018-12-28 18:48|| 2018-12-28 18:48|| Front Page Top

#7 ".....close the Southern Border. Bring our car industry back into the United States where it belongs."

Jesus, does this man have no advisors left? If Trump closes the border, the German car factories will close in ten days.

In the USA.

Posted by European Conservative 2018-12-28 19:34|| 2018-12-28 19:34|| Front Page Top

#8 It's war. Might as well have it out now. It's been a long time coming and it'll only get worse the longer it's delayed. The only alternative is surrender.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-12-28 19:55|| 2018-12-28 19:55|| Front Page Top

#9 War by threatening suicide. How clever.
If Trump continues this Republicans will beg Democrats to impeach him.

Posted by European Conservative 2018-12-28 20:03|| 2018-12-28 20:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Jesus, does this man have no advisors left? If Trump closes the border, the German car factories will close in ten days.

If we don't secure the border it's only a matter of time before German car factories replace American workers with Mexicans. This shit only gets worse the longer we delay putting a stop to it. Move those factories to Mexico if you want and try to sell your cars there. We'll call that bluff.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-12-28 20:04|| 2018-12-28 20:04|| Front Page Top

#11 You don't think that caravan was an act of war? It's about damn time we started fighting back.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-12-28 20:07|| 2018-12-28 20:07|| Front Page Top

#12 EC should be concerned with what Merkel just said about ignoring the instructions of her employers (AKA democracy) and handing away that which is not politicians to give (sovereignty)

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-12-28 20:22|| 2018-12-28 20:22|| Front Page Top

#13 Abu Uluque

Don't you understand how the car industry works? The German factories in the U.S. use some vital parts manufactured in Mexico (or Germany). Any problems with the supply chain can be fatal.

Germany actually wants to build MORE car factories in the U.S., increase production, hire more U.S. workers.

If the supply chain can't be guaranteed this won't happen.

Posted by European Conservative 2018-12-28 20:27|| 2018-12-28 20:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Btw most of the German cars built in Mexico are not sold in Mexico but exported. And many German cars built in the U.S. are exported, too.

Posted by European Conservative 2018-12-28 20:29|| 2018-12-28 20:29|| Front Page Top

#15 The German factories in the U.S. use some vital parts manufactured in Mexico (or Germany).

So do American car manufacturers, and Japanese. So it would be a good idea for them to start pressing their Congressional representatives to find a compromise with the president.

And yes, the caravans are an act of war. Civil war, to be precise, but the home countries are not acting to prevent this act of war committed on their behalf.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-12-28 20:45|| 2018-12-28 20:45|| Front Page Top

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