- Upped my NRA membership to Life.
- Joined the Texas Nationalist Movement.
- Emailed Lance Gooden about Term Limits (He supports them and said we would sign the legislator list supporting them)
- Emailed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asking if his department could prepare a report on the representation and results of illegal immigrants detained in Texas, as well as their average length-of-stay and average cost to deport.
Been a busy morning. :)
Please move to either the discussion thread or start a conservative actions thread.
Big ups on term limits though!
TR, what are you looking to determine with the final bullet? I'm curious about similar things. Please respond in the discussion thread if you're open to it.
@MonkeyJenga, I don't mind and will respond over here. Didn't find this discussion at first since it hasn't been used quite as much.
Firstly: Doesn't not allowing "Conservative Actions" posted in the 'Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance' thread feed into the echo chamber that (I swear I remember) the Left swore off after being astonished that Trump won? Shouldn't 'not' allowing a simple post such as mine be posted feed into that echo chamber? I'm completely serious. There were dozens (if not hundreds) of posts to the effect of "We have to listen to the other side's conversation" after Trump won? Has that all gone out the window?
On the final bullet above, I recognize that this a potential issue (and one that clearly existed under Bush and Obama), but I want to know what the current quantities of persons crossing the border at a non-entry point (which is what this is about) in Texas and how much taxpayer dollars are going to detain and deport those persons. Then it is a simple cost analysis to see if spending more on reinforcing the border is worth it financially.
Also, I would like to point out that 'family separations' do not happen if you pass the border at a legal point of entry. The policy to criminally sanction persons only applies to those who
illegally cross the border. Combine that with the fact that minors cannot legally be held in criminal facilities, and you have the conundrum presented.
I also want to know how illegal immigration hasn't been a problem (IE: those on the left pretend it doesn't exist) until now with the family separations. Does that mean we are all finally going to admit that illegal immigration occurs and in large enough quantities to be an issue?
Thanks for any discussion that may occur.
Proof that this was an issue under Obama:
http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/19/photos-obama-immigration-detention-facilities/Proof that there is definitely double-speak on immigration from the left:
Obama speaking about securing the border.Proof that this has been an issue before:
CNN article and that
Catch and Release policies have been an issue for several years, resulting in the No-Tolerance Policy.