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Biden Builds the Wall

by Will Jones
21 October 2023 3:00 PM

Biden promised during his presidential campaign that “not another foot” of border wall would be built under his leadership, but his administration is now pushing through the construction of 20 additional miles along the Texas-Mexico border, writes Laurel Duggan in UnHerd. And that’s not all that the Democrats are doing to control the border, despite once scoring political points by criticising such measures. Here’s an excerpt.

Amid a surge of migrants illegally entering the U.S., the Biden administration is reopening a detention centre for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, Texas, evoking a popular criticism from the Trump years that border authorities who detain minors in such facilities are placing “kids in cages”.

The Obama administration built detention facilities specifically to accommodate minors, beginning in 2014, in response to massive waves of Central American migrants crossing the border with children. This practice was encouraged by smugglers because of the reduced risk of deportation such families faced compared to single adults.

These facilities, often built in massive warehouses with chain link fences dividing the population into various groups by age and other factors, became a political flashpoint during the Trump presidency, particularly during the short-lived zero-tolerance policy, under which the administration criminally prosecuted all migrants caught crossing the border illegally. The policy resulted in the separation of children from adults, at least 170 of whom had fraudulently claimed to be related to said children.

The Biden administration’s reopening of the Carrizo Springs facility that was built in 2019 is the latest in a series of efforts to curb illegal immigration, often in stark contrast to the President’s anti-Trump messaging in 2020. 

In another example, the U.S. has recently resumed the deportation of Venezuelans who illegally enter the country to discourage migrants from undertaking the dangerous journey through South and Central America. Biden officials hope that the decision will encourage prospective migrants to opt for expanded legal pathways available to Venezuelan migrants instead.

Biden promised during his presidential campaign that “not another foot” of border wall would be built under his leadership, but his administration is now pushing through the construction of 20 additional miles along the Texas-Mexico border, waiving numerous laws and regulations to get the project done. Funding came from a 2019 congressional appropriation, according to Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, who wrote that the border wall construction was consistent with the President’s pledge to use such funds for their intended purpose — but halt the allocating funds for border wall construction in the future. 

But if it’s a good idea to build 20 more miles, why is it not a good idea to build more? Once again the utopian radicalism of the Left meets the hard reality of serious social problems and unhappy voters.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: AmericaBarack ObamaBorder controlsDonald TrumpImmigrationJoe BidenWoke Gobbledegook

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

If a country and it’s history have to be undermined and ultimately destroyed then our Flag has to go.

The spirit of this country, the very essence of Great Britain is enshrined within the Union Jack ergo it must be destroyed. We can’t have a one world government running the country while remnants of Britishers cling mournfully to their flag.

“Build Back Better” doncha know.

They can Firk right off.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Yes exactly, hux. There’s that godawful word again: ”Inclusive”. Because didn’t we feel just so excluded for all of these decades prior to 2024? I mean, what better way to feel *included*, right? FFS! Inclusivity equates to excluding white folk, from where I’m standing.
Tenuous link here, but you know I seldom come to the table empty-handed. Look at this UN ‘climate advisor’. Yes, the ‘climate crisis’ is not just ‘manmade’ but it is ‘white man-made’. But it’s the corrupt disgraceful UN, which recently unanimously appointed that bastion of equal rights for women, Saudi Arabia, to chair a gender equality forum next year, so it shouldn’t surprise us that they install this shameless racist biatch to chat toxic garbage to Useless Idiots;

”Meet Ayisha Siddiqa, a climate adviser for the UN. She claims the “white man” and “capitalism” are responsible for bringing life to “the verge of extinction” and calls white men k*llers, looters, and abusers.

Her account is filled with hateful anti-white posts.

Apparently, it’s totally fine to be disgustingly racist against white people if you work at the @UN”

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1775191286032523366
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Thanks Mogs 👍

Lovely bit of womanhood that Siddiqa. Bright too.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

A nice way to handle such a nasty bit of work would be to stop all payments of money taken from white people to her. That would cause her income to drop to about nothing and she’d henceforth be forced to save something more proportionate than planets.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

You’re getting the German treatment here (the one Britain and the USA co-invented) because to the people who talk of European fascism and colonialism (like the American guy who keeps writing about the new WHO pandemic treaty) you’re equally in the way and equally part of the forces of evil which have to be pushed aside.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

Well it does make one wonder just how many white people were in that audience actually…Something tells me a lot, so here we have another example of the nonsensical and toxic, ”white guilt” phenomena. Or basically just ‘delusional, treacherous Leftards’, as I call them. The kind that would attend a BLM protest/riot. Fully masktarded up, of course.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Exactly. Very little of this insanity is organic. The objective is the communist goal of a single identity – the identity that the state will provide for you. Build on the back of existing divisive ideologies to further the demolition of the traditional family unit. Build a blob of people who have so many different identities that there is no identity; identity becomes a characteristic like hair colour – meaningless. Your identity will be your name. Then your number. You will comply because your thoughts are the thoughts of everyone, and everyone’s thoughts are the thoughts of the state. You will be the states identity. Nothing more.

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10navigator
10navigator
1 year ago

Sam Goldwyn’s quote is appropriate from 80 years ago. “Gentlemen, include me out!”

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sskinner
sskinner
1 year ago

The Union already includes all within it’s shores. This ‘new’ rebranding is a from of exclusion, in the extreme.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago

How appropriate having that wilting white rose above the words Team GB.
Team GB = Team Gay Boys?
= Team Gender Benders?
I am sure you can come up with more.

Last edited 1 year ago by For a fist full of roubles
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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

Grandiloquent Bollocks

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

And another thing… by what right does the alphabet minority have the right to dictate the colours and content of our National flag? How many alphabet people are there in Great Britain? One per cent if that. Dictating to seventy million if we include all the immigrants.

Furthermore, by what right do the Olympic Association deem it within their remit to take a wrecking ball to the Union Jack? The flag and all it represents belongs to all the people of these nations and not some tiny pea-brained minority which clearly has some WEF Fifth Columnists within its ranks.

Absolutely appalling and treasonous behaviour.

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RW
RW
1 year ago

But the agency […] says its Team GB redesign should appeal to a “new generation of sports fans”.

With this, the agency (SPECTRE?) means to communicate that it has absolutely no idea whether or not the new design will actually appeal to anyone but is absolutely certain that it will rub the majority of current sports fans absolutely the wrong way. Which is presumably the sole point of the exercise.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago

“How can we unite all the disparate folk of Britain around their national team?”
“I know! Why not antagonise everyone who cares about the nation?

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

You mean the ‘Far Right’, decent family type people who pay their bills, and won’t take part in turning their nation into a rancid shithole.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Everybody’s Far Right now – my take.

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Alan M
Alan M
1 year ago

“For fans of all backgrounds” They’ve just lost one here.

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RW
RW
1 year ago

Also has to be said here: This is an absolutely shitty design which steals the general layout of the Union Jack, splashes a blue – pink – purple colour gradient over it and fills all available spaces with seemingly random patterns introducing a lot of optic noise which seems to exist for the sake of it. Kindergartenkids using finger paint would easily come up with something of much more artistic substance because they’d be trying to paint something and not just to obscure someone else’s creation.

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Spycatcher
Spycatcher
1 year ago

Outrageous!!

It reminds me of a section from the Hitchiker’s Guide, which described the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who shall be first against the wall come the revolution”. A copy of the Guide from the future fell through a wormhole and described them as “a bunch of mindless jerks who were first against the wall…”

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Spycatcher

For some reason, this made be think of the depressed, telepathic elevators sulking in the basement.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

Our enemies are ramping up the pressure. Let them – they will be more clearly seen for what they are.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

This chap nails the whole ‘DEI’ anti-white/racist scam, in my opinion;

”The best way to understand DEI is to separate the marketing pitch—which, I agree, is attractive—from the reality of DEI in practice. Here is how I see it:

1. Diversity: We agree that it is important for people of all backgrounds to be treated fairly. But “diversity” in the political sense means treating individuals as a representation of their group identity, sorting them into a hierarchy based on the “oppressor-oppressed” dynamic, and then discriminating for or against certain groups on that basis. In practice, it means putting identity above merit, rewarding and punishing individuals based on their ancestry and, increasingly, their political ideology. In academia, for example, “diversity statements” are used to measure conformity to left-wing racial theories.

2. Equity: We agree that we should maximize opportunity for all. But “equity” is a political ideology that is distinct from, and contradictory to, “equality.” In the highest sense, equality means that the state should treat individuals impartially, as in “equality under law,” while recognizing that individuals have different talents, desires, and motivations, which will inevitably lead to inequalities. In a sense, you cannot have equality without inequality—they are two sides of the same coin. “Equity,” on the other hand, treats all inequality as illegitimate and attempts to force group equalization, or “equality of outcomes,” through redistribution of wealth and property. This is a key tenet of critical race theory.

3. Inclusion: We agree that institutions should have constructive, creative environments. But in practice, “inclusion” is a code word for a distinct, left-wing orthodoxy and is used to suppress disfavored groups and opinions. At many universities, DEI administrators publish speech codes in the name of “inclusion” that restrict the range of discourse and speech on campus. Additionally, the “inclusion” principle is never extended to supposed “oppressor” groups, such as whites, men, and Christians—instead, it becomes a form of exclusion. We can see this in the real world with many institutions implementing “hate,” “bias,” and “safe space” policies, which, in practice, are used to silence dissent and, especially, conservative speech.

This is not speculation. I have substantiated all of these claims with dozens of investigative reports on DEI bureaucracies in universities, schools, and corporations. It is, in fact, much worse in the particular than in the general dynamics I am describing above.”

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1774891216737538166

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Great comment

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago

From where I am in France, I simply cannot imagine French men and women of any background standing by if their flag was debased in this way. Or Marianne being portrayed as anything other than a white woman. Hell would freeze over first. Too right, too. And it’s not because they’re racist. They aren’t. They actually care. Common courtesy exists here.

I ain’t patrotic. Too anarchic for that. But just because:

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
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AJPotts
AJPotts
1 year ago

The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are intent on destroying our country.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

People from all corners of the globe come here to live and work. They obviously come here for a better life and when you ask them “Where do you come from”? they will often get offended and adamantly state “I am British”. —–OK that is great you are all British. So why then are culture warriors fiddling about with the British flag talking about trying to be “inclusive” and other such woke language? ——-There is clearly no need for this absurd idea that our flag may offend people from other parts of the world, since they all say they are British when it suits them. —–STOP IT.

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
1 year ago

Another Bud-Lite fiasco. They never learn.

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Geoff Cox
Geoff Cox
1 year ago
Reply to  Covid-1984

They know exactly what they are doing. The thick ones are our unconcerned British (for the moment) brethren.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

No other country would allow its National Flag to be disrespected and abused in this way.

Why do we?

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  RTSC

The government of the state of Berlin (SPD – Left- Greens) has banned display of the German flag by the police during the upcomfing Euros because of “state neutrality”. And the present chancer (Olaf Scholz¹) is on record for referring to marches where people were carrying placards with stuff like “Against nation, state and capitalism!” written on them a fine demonstration of comittment to democractic values.

¹ Most famous for getting out of an anti-corruption and tax fraud hearing by declaring that he really couldn’t remember anything about the events in question.

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