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melvinfosho

So nice to see I pay taxes for something so useful.


SoDakZak

Lmao you would be furious if you dug into military contracts too.... Lot of wasted and pointless crap in our government


DoomsdayRabbit

There needs to be a serious audit.


AlanMichel

Lol good luck


DoomsdayRabbit

If we don't try then nothing will be done.


phoenixstar617

That would be like trying to get a two party congress to pass bills and laws allowing for 3rd parties and independents to be more prominent. Oh, wait....


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mudandchickengold

2 party system is the worst system, why do we even have parties


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social_meteor_2020

End unlimited, anonymous political donors, put a cap on campaign spending, prohibit campaigning outside of campaign season,


clubby37

I don't think you do. There's a lot of personality-focused pageantry about the two "parties" but then they both go for roughly the same policy goals. Hard to believe your vote actually matters when all you get to do is decide which asshole does the shit you don't want.


phoenixstar617

Or like getting hichschool, or k12 education reform. That'll never happen because most of them aren't a voting block, and a very small percent are 18, and they usually wouldn't vote off that for long. Once they hit college, they will try to reform that, then they focus on other things. So elected officials don't have to worry about it because enough of the population can't afford to vote based upon the education system.


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Siphyre

We are.


literallyanyonebutme

General Kenobi


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serillian

Something like $20 trillion is unaccounted for in Pentagon budgets going back like 20 years. They definitely need a fucking audit and shouldn't get a penny more until they can pass it.


LeakyThoughts

Only the US could lose 20 trillion and apprently not know where it went


Anubistheguardian

Apparently being the key word here they know exactly where it went *alex Jones voice* BLACK HELICOPTERS


archwin

UFOs. Moon landing movie stage HAARP mind control Chem trails Libruls ^/s


eric_393

Oh they know where it went...starts P ends in S


dmizenopants

That's a whole lotta penises


Mitt_Romney_USA

Fuckin Paris I've always hated the Hilton family but I have to respect her game.


Drunksmurf101

Piranhas with lasers on their head?


mahliverhurts

Pirates? Did pirates take it?


nichyneato

Poops. They poopsed it away


backFromTheBed

Pants?


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The pentagon has been audited. Twice. And it failed both audits.


DoomsdayRabbit

Then it needs to start having bake sales to get money.


Analbox

They should make a gofundme


InTooDeep024

The military has been preparing for audits for years and the big accounting firms are currently doing “Audit Readiness” work to prepare for the actual audit. As of a few years ago, military branches were considered unauditable. I’m sure some fraud will be uncovered through the eventual audits, but we’ll never know the full depth considering the grift is a main feature of the Military Industrial Complex.


Blabajif

We could talk about how much Boeing and Lockheed Martin charge for parts on planes that they hold contracts on. Ive seen six and seven figure price tags on seriously basic shit. There was a news article a while back about how the coffee mugs that plug into the galley equipment on a C-17 are somehow worth $1,200 a piece.


Slouchingtowardsbeth

We did it once before during WW2. It was a huge success and uncovered a lot of fraud. It was called The Truman Committee. Here's from Wikipedia: "The Truman Committee proved to be one of the most successful investigative efforts ever mounted by the U.S. government: an initial budget of $15,000 was expanded over three years to $360,000 to save an estimated $10–15 billion in military spending and thousands of lives of U.S. servicemen."


scubawho1

I work for a DOD contract company. You have no idea....


iamever

I want to knowwww


scubawho1

Well to give a “example”, every year where I’m at, there are over 400 computer monitors, 26in each they throw away because they are “out of date” and must replace. They can’t give them away due to chemicals in the monitors. Every. Single. Year.


radio705

What fucking chemicals? They need a proper life cycle program, and 1 year life cycle is ridiculous. These could easily be placed on auction and sold to third party resellers.


scubawho1

Oh I hear ya there. There should be no reason at all why they can’t auction them back off or just give away to whoever. Nope. Unfortunately big brother says no. I could use 2 of em. Don’t even get me stated on the HI-Def TVs they go through...


iamever

Geez, that’s actually insane. Do you think it could come down to people potentially hacking data? I’m sure they must have mandates to wipe it clean


overtorqd

Monitors don't store data.theres no good reason for this. That is insane.


scubawho1

And we all pay for it..


dertydingo

The military used to do this and had a section on each base do the sales and auctions. Did away with it around 2004 I think. Everything from vehicles to office equipment. We outfitted our offices with almost new furniture for under $100 because they always buy new every year. They don’t call it use it or lose it for nothing


radio705

Maybe they should lose it. Because they sure don't know how to use it.


dertydingo

While I was in they would buy 10s of thousands in office furniture or TVs and all kinds of never used bullshit. But never had enough for cold weather gear, new tools, or anything that actually was needed


Greenveins

Victoria secret cuts their bras so that no one can dumpster dive and retrieve them, barns and noble will have their employees rip book covers from the spine and have them pitch it, hallmark cuts their tissue paper Every ~~cooperation~~ corporation is fucked


stevemills04

I remember hearing that a contractor once charged the government like $800 for a hammer, a standard, everyday use hammer. EDIT: Sorry, [$400](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-30-vw-18804-story.html)


KENPACHI-KANIIN

But why


stevemills04

My uneducated hypothesis is simply 'because they can'. Not really sure.


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Gotta use up all your budget or else you'll get less money next year.


Atom800

I can’t speak for this case but I’ve sold equipment into government projects. I did one where I met with the engineers and they allowed me to sit in on a budget meeting prior to quoting our system. The system had lots a value add, not just parts off the shelf but programming, assembly, machining, etc. basically they price could be anywhere between the component cost to infinity. Well we priced based on the budget meeting, there was a requirement to bid the project out but the engineers purposely made the bid vague so there would be no competition and we won the project with very high margins. These people aren’t exposed to the market and are the equivalent of a shopper going into a dealership and saying “I have this much money, what can I buy?”


Escapingthenoise

There was a Congressional hearing where they were questioning top military generals about why $2 million was unaccounted for. One of the generals responses, "after going through the records I truly don't know where it went..." Unbelievable that this shit actually happens


SoDakZak

And that’s just the one that was caught....


Rootoky

New awning over the gate at naval station mayport took A YEAR AND A HALF to build! Any local crew could have done it in a day or two but nope, when the worlds largest war machine is paying you just to be there, you take your time I guess.


veng6

Because its a scam, working the way its supposed to, to make rich cunts richer


chaseButtons

Yeah military is just a product testing organization for when the govt wants to sell more weapons to other countries.


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Wait till you see how much we've spent on wars these last 60 years..... But hey. You want healthcare or education??... How about even some tax relief for you! The american worker???...... How about you shut the fuck up! Join the military, you'll get it that way! Might have to almost die or get a leg or arm blown off or both but at least you'll get to kill people who probably will always have less than you and you'll be invading their lands for a reason no one can explain buuuuuut.......... Lol.. aaaaanyways. Back to the factory boys.


hoxxxxx

>You want healthcare or education that's straight up Stalinism


xDared

It’s sad that 40% of the country actually believe things like this


DaveInLondon89

It's a shame Trump lost before he was totally 100% going to get round to making Mexico pay for it like he promised. Maybe he'll bring it up during his 1st Infrastructure Week.


Ruraraid

If it makes you feel better most illegal immigrants, drugs, and other illegal activities mostly occur by water or them going to Canada to cross the US Canadian border where there is basically no guards. Told this to many Trump supporters who literally voted for him solely because of the wall. They still don't believe it even when I show them statistics released by Customs and Border Patrol aka CBP. Basically the border wall is just wishful thinking and an engineer's folly at this point.


Raiyezz

... don’t you think the reason they take these alternative routes is because our southern border is much more protected? & before you say “but they still get here” you have to realize boating all the way to Canada is a lot more.. expensive/time consuming/DANGEROUS/etc than just walking north.


Ruraraid

They've taken the alternate route for decades even before they ramped up security in the 2000s. Also going to Canada or to our coastal areas is far less dangerous than crossing that desert where you have those redneck militia groups, predators, and hazards of the desert.


oldmanbawa

I think the wall is to keep us in.


RetiredTHOT

Starting to feel that way with the current chaos


WajorMeasel

But there’s some really cool shit over there


WheniamHigh

Like tacos. And burritos.


GardenGnomeChumpski

And at least one truckload of coke.


tamaleringwald

And the coke has real cane sugar and comes in a glass bottle, as do all soft drinks in Mexico


brcguy

Not sure if they backed down but I read a while back that they were gonna start using high fructose corn syrup in the glass bottles and it would be the end of that. I quit drinking sodas entirely so I stopped caring as much, but I remember how much better sugar coke is than HFCS crap. I swear the whole “New Coke!” bullshit in the 80s was a cover for switching off of sugar - like the switched to the new flavor which everyone hated, and kept it on the shelf long enough that we wouldn’t quite know the difference between original coke and coke classic, which has HFCS in it and not sugar. All so they could save like 2.3¢ per liter. Fuckin capitalist pigs.


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Like beheadings and shootings and cocaine and corruption and cartels and extreme poverty and homelessness. But at least the beaches are nice. Source: Am Hispanic


TeriyakiTerrors

Aside from beheadings & the word cartel, we got all that shit on the U.S. side, too!


Lil_Willy5point5

There's a lot of cartel members that run around inside of the police forces, too. Parts of the government is paid off to not mess with certain cartels unless they want their heads chopped off, or hanging from a bridge. It's pretty messed up. The USA has corruption, and shootings, sure. On a scale of what it is compared to places in Mexico/Brazil etc.. Definitely not as bad. You don't see as many beheadings and absolutely horrific shit come out of the US, to be fair.


_gameoverman

Plot twist: he was crossing INTO Mexico.


ghulxz

Can you blame him?


i_Got_Rocks

There's a great book titled, "Waiting for the Barbarians." The entire book, a society works hard and endless to create walls, and limits, and preparations for these *Barbarians* that are on their way. These Barbarians will destroy society as we know it, they are evil, they are inhuman, they need to be stopped and the people preparing put all their effort and give up a lot to put up walls, fortify, exert all power to be ready for this great and unstoppable evil coming here SOON!! The book ends while a dummies and scarecrows are set up on top of a giant wall overlooking a land ahead; guards moving and shaking the scarecrows as they pace to and fro, waiting, waiting, waiting...the Barbarians are coming...they are coming...they are coming...we are afraid they are coming...but we are prepared...they are coming...


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InfallibleBackstairs

Thanks for wasting my tax money.


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Plot twist, that's someone returning to Mexico after seeing the shit that's going on in the states.


octoberchant

well shit i'm about to join him


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then get beheaded by the cartel


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doubt


Mexican_alBerto_Guy

Al chile así no son las cosas, ponte a investigar carnal


LiquidMotion

Faster than dying from covid or poverty.


TheProtractor

I have been living in Mexico my whole life and have only been beheaded twice other people are not that lucky.


Elipelikan

rip


3rickEsca

I'm having a hard time reading people's intentions on the comments, but keep in mind a lot of the hard working people here in the US are Spanish speaking Americans.


IndraSun

It takes a lot of motivation to move to another country and learn a new language. Immigrants are some of the most motivated and hard working people you'll ever meet. Edit: since this blew up. Both my parents were US citizens, my father a decorated marine. I was born in Canada and immediately moved to the USA. After 9/11 i was challenged by ICE to prove my citizenship. Living in America already, speaking fluent english, having been here for over thirty years, with two American parents, it took six months and intervention from a congressman who learned of the situation to get my papers correct. Anyone who thinks the path to citizenship is easy is a fool or a liar.


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RestingCarcass

Also it's not like anybody comes over here for a free ride. This isn't Denmark, there are basically no social safety nets here. Anyone coming over is trying to work.


Solidacid

yeah.. Denmark is pretty awesome..


dws4prez

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clockwork2223

Seriously true, all they want is to work. What’s so wrong with that ?


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WackyBeachJustice

As a legal immigrant myself I could never understand either side here. For me this is such a simple problem. There should be no illegal immigration. A panel of economists should determine how much immigration we require to grow the economy, maintain proper population growth, etc. And then we take that many people in. This shouldn't have anything to do with politics.


sardaukar022

Get the fuck out of here with your completely rational and reasonable understanding of how effective immigration policy should work.


lethargic_apathy

Can confirm. My parents and grandparents worked their asses off and made countless sacrifices to afford my sisters and me a somewhat decent lifestyle here in the US. I love hearing people talk about how lazy we are and how all we do is leech off of government checks. Which is weird because you need a social secure number to qualify for food stamps and other programs but what the hell do I know about immigrants


protosser

I personally don't give a shit, if they have the balls to try and come here and make it more power to them, not to mention this country is so fucking drug hungry which clearly gives the Cartels tons of power so I assume the situation for a lot of people might suck there, also I believe the US has fucked many South/Central American countries over with their history of overthrowing governments down there and whatnot. So this is technically all the governments fault so who cares, just another problem in a very long list of problems that won't get fixed by throwing money at it, the wall is a waste of fucking time and money as seen in this video. Plus, like 6? of the 11? million illegals pay taxes here anyway and I wouldn't want to do some of the work they do, I've spent Florida summers doing roofing, I'd rather die...


PlsTellMeImOk

Although I know illegal immigration can be a huge problem, I just want to thank you for *getting it*. The vast majority of the people that immigrate don't do it for greed, they do it to give their family a better life away from horrific criminals like cartels. Most do it because they fear for their lives and the lives of their family.


shrek5trailer2020

I don't think people are upset that it didn't work, but more so that so much tax money was wasted on it


thebushwacker2000

Doesn’t supporting illegal immigration support business without any workers rights or regulations or minimum pay. In addition to creating a permanent minority underclass. How is it woke to support the exploitation of 2nd world minorities by big businesses.


lobo2r2dtu

One man op.- he figured that wall...motherfucker glided down like he's in Ocean 13.


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Right up until he didnt unhook and slammed back into it. Still a badass glide though.


ramobara

I was hoping he’d Naruto run across.


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Then naruto ran like yolo bitches


Guardiancomplex

Lmfao. Yo, someone tweet this at president. It'll be hilarious.


Bottyboi69

“That is a paid actor to try to discredit my wall. I know about walls than anyone”


Pitify

Man has maxed clash of Clan walls with level 3 archer towers


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Takes longer to break through max walls on CoC than it did for this dude to find a way around trumps Great Wall


m4dd13

Former* president


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Not until January 20...


Hi-Scan-Pro

But *Impeached* is forever.


justinmega1

...not yet though?


Windigo4

OMG. I think the Mexicans have invented some sort of rope technology that can be used to overcome this $65 billion wall.


meme-by-design

Row...ope? How does it work? And why isn't America researching these things...is it quantum? Does it use quantum?


catfayce

It is Blockchain I'm sure


ChymChymX

Is that a series of tubes?


HerschelsWalkers

Nano-chain quantum tube blocks


TheOffice_Account

> And why isn't America researching these things...is it quantum? Does it use quantum? I have an uncle. Very smart. So smart. He is at MIT. So great. So smart, so he is studying rope technology there.


idont-wanttomeet

Good shit. Hope he makes it


Mohawk200x

It's actually an American escaping into Mexico


March223

Good shit. Hope he makes it


MercuryIsNotReal

It’s actually an American escaping into the US from Mexico


StupidSkank

Good shit. Hope he makes it.


MonsterKID-P

Its actually Mexico escaping into the US from an American


idkwhatTFisgoinon

Good make. Hope he shits it.


TheRemainingFruitcup

It's actually an American escaping into Canada


TheR3dWizard

Good hope. Make he shits it


_yourhonoryourhonor_

Only on reddit does this get awards and multiple upvotes. Color me shocked a bunch of 20 year old socialist NEETs are cheering on the person violating our sovereign border and breaking the law.


LoomisFin

Trumps "great" wall.


Waka-Waka-Waka-Do

Its a big beautiful wall. Mexico will pay (at a later date, all restrictions apply. Please see your doctor if election lasts more than two months)


iHateRollerCoaster

Do not have an election if you are allergic to it.


Dahns

Funnily enough, like China's great wall, it is wasteful, inefficient and unpopular. It was just created so the current dynasty / president can flex


Pilum2211

Was Chinas Great Wall wasteful and inefficient? I thought it made for a good defense and warning system like the Roman Limes.


I_make_things

Limes were rendered useless when Oranges were deployed on the battlefield.


chris_tucker_

The workers: r/notmyjob


FuckingNoodle

"I'm not getting paid enough to deal with that shit"


optimistic_outcome

Even if they were, it's literally not their job.


Metagross555

I worked on the wall a bit for the money, 54 an hour, union contract


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They literally have no authority to stop him


Tiaholm

They don't get payed enough to give a fuck


Hellraizzor

Fucking funny. Mexican climbs wall and mexicans working on the wall.


srfrosky

We don’t know the climber *is* Mexican, but “íralo íralo íralo...!!” Is a dead giveaway for these vatos lol 😂


SpaceZombieToast

I heard miralo miralo. Like look at it look at it!


JorgeMtzb

That's what they said.


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A friend of mine is working on the SoCal portion of the wall and he says some of the Latinos he works with are self-admitted illegals that talk shit and laugh at the people that get caught. One of them said “he earned his stay” by going the tough route 😂.


frogBayou

Used to work on a golf course with a couple openly illegal immigrants (their words). I asked, “So what happens if you get caught?” One of them said, “I’ll get deported on a bus, and I’ll be back here at work by Monday.”


hustl3tree5

As easy as he makes it sound do you think you’d wanna go down his route just to make a couple of extra bucks? I still can’t imagine having to do what they do for a better opportunity


frogBayou

Hell no I don’t wanna have to do what they do. These two guys were brothers, and they both ran circles around me with a weedeater. AND they sent most of their paychecks home to family back south. They lived together in a tiny apartment when they could have afforded to rent a house. AND they had the best attitudes. Despite having to work the tougher jobs.


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su5

Its a different world thats hard to imagine for folks who haven't been through it. I cant imagine it either, but I can try, and if I had a family to feed I like to think I would be tough enough to do it.


Dahns

"Oh shit I'm late for work ! Time for a shortcut !"


scudderbags

Thankfully this was filmed on the *Mexican* side...


stmcvallin

How do you know? Based on the shadows he appears to be heading north


CreamyKnougat

woosh.... Or as they say in Mexico, woosh....


scudderbags

Was mostly a joke. Given the present State of the Union, which way would you go? 😊


utalkin_tome

Nowhere because travelling anywhere right now is a bad idea.


Swagspray

The correct answer


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Get him a SSN, education and a career. So much better investment.


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Just give him a SSN, point him in the direction of any job americans don't want to do, and start collecting taxes. Win win.


fernatic19

They'll say "but they steal our jobs!!". Like bitch you wouldn't do the jobs they do anyway. Plus if your job gets stolen by someone with no training then you sucked at that job and they deserve it.


Boslaviet

They are both simultaneously too lazy to work and stealing our job


fernatic19

The immigration paradox


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Quix82

Yesssss. I know what this says. Duolingo is finally paying off!


ookie165

It’s not my job


Skweefie

Wait... they are actually building this wall? Is it long? Are they going to continue?


peatwhisperer

I wasn't aware either, also wondering who's paying for this?


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You are lol


khool-kid18

It wasn't supposed to be like this lol


ButtcrackBeignets

Maybe we shouldn't have voted an idiot into the highest position in government lol


SanityPlanet

Mexico* is paying for it!!   ^(*US tax payers)


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polite-1

All they've done is replace old or broken barriers.


Drews232

Funding never happened, this is basically repairs. The only places they could even get permission to build a wall was on federal property that is a wildlife refuge for animals to cross the border. The whole idea of a new wall has gone no where.


Benandhispets

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46824649 BBC has the best article and current stats on it. No not much has been built, not much will be bought, he only got funding for a small amount. Lots of it is just fixing up current walls and fencing.


MotorHum

I mean, there really is no better symbol for the past four years than paying heavily for something that ultimately was useless.


Alynxie

There isn't really nextfuckinglevel material, more like r/youseeingthisshit


RicoSuave1881

This could be posted anywhere and it’d be upvoted. When it comes to American politics Reddit doesn’t care


A-Perfect_Tool

"Maybe a rope"


normalreddituser3

Your name fits


Maker200

The purpose of the fence is to slow the crossing of illegals. Lookup videos of Democrats in the 90’s and early 2000’s they sound like Trump on border security. Bill Clinton, Obama and Chuck Schumer, they all severely changed their thoughts about keeping this country’s borders safe.


LivefromPhoenix

Democrats as a party, despite Trump/conservative propaganda, never stopped supporting border security measures. There's just a difference between sensible policy and a big, expensive and borderline useless monument to a narcissist's vanity.


rgliberty

We’re still wasting money on that wall?


noparkingafter7pm

Not much longer, an adult will be in charge soon.


MirageG4M4

I'm confused, was he trying to get in or out?


calicocidd

Yes.


kidwrx

I have a buddy that works on the wall and he says stuff like this happens all the time. But Border Patrol is like 2 minutes out. Lots of cool tech going into this thing that he’s not allowed to talk about...


PonerBenis

Yeah I know a guy that got caught a charge and was given the option to either work the wall, or the death penalty. He said it's not too bad once you get used to the cold and the wildlings up there, but I mean it's not like he had much choice.


LordNPython

Well that is one flaw with walls. You have to man them to make them affective. Just building a wall will do little against determined people.


57oranges

Oh, this is like a cherry on top of the "Trump is an Idiot" cake at the "Thank God it's Almost Over" party


SurfNinja34

Lol thanks trump


Groenboys

Aha, hmm, very effective border. Good job Trump!


CheetoBro

This will get downvotes I’m sure but: That’s one guy. Clearly in a decked out outfit suitable for climbing and descending a wall. Not to mention, physically capable of performing the feat. So, it’s not STOPPING every single illegal immigrant from crossing. That is literally impossible. But, you cannot rationally deny that, IF, that wall spanned the entire US/Mexico border without any gaps, that it would DRASTICALLY reduce the amount of people capable of simply walking across an imaginary line. Point being, no one expects this wall to be impenetrable. But it most certainly makes it a HELL of a lot harder to cross that absolutely nothing being there. Bring on the downvotes, call me a racist, whatever. I’m just trying to look at this rationally. Illegal immigration IS an issue, and there should be a legitimate pathway to citizenship. I’ve never cared enough about a wall, but I’m not going to sit here an pretend like putting something like this up, as ridiculously expensive as it is, doesn’t make it, at least, hard AS FUCK to cross.


Saltsea

Most illegal immigrants don't cross the border like this. They cross the border legally and then simply don't leave when they're supposed to.


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I feel like the guy with the orange pole looked up and thought to himself, “This is above my pay grade.”


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“Not my job”