Friday, December 6, 2019

BLOG LAUGH OF THE DAY - TRUMP PROMISES 100 MILES OF 'NEW' BORDER WALL - THAT LEAVES 3,000 MILES OPEN TO THE LA RAZA DRUG CARTELS

ANN COULTER EXPOSES TRUMP’S “WALL” HOAX

In fact, Trump is steadily moving in the precise opposite direction of what he promised.

Illegal immigration is on track to hit the highest levels in more than a decade, and Trump has willfully decided to keep amnesty advocates Jared, Ivanka, Mick Mulvaney, Marc Short, and Mercedes Schlapp in the White House. For all his talk about immigration, did he ever consider hiring people who share his MAGA vision?

 

Video shows climbers surmounting border wall Trump claimed 'impossible to climb'




A popular video clip shows two climbers using a ladder and rope to successfully cross a border wall President Trump claimed was "impossible to climb."

In a visit to the southern border in September, Trump claimed that portions of newly built wall along the U.S.-Mexico border near Tijuana were reinforced and even "championship mountain climbers" were unable to cross them. A video posted by photojournalist J. Omar Ornelas, however, shows two individuals using a ladder and other tools to cross the border successfully.
The president also noted the recent throttle in immigration numbers and credited the newly built wall. "People aren't even coming up," Trump said. "You see the numbers are going way down, and we're not doing a catch and release anymore."
The video of the climbers was widely shared as critics of Trump's border wall policy championed the effort of the migrant climbers to disprove the president's claim. Several hundred miles of border wall are currently under construction at the southern border, though no new fencing has been completed since Trump took office.
While the "impossible to climb" claim was disproven, the Department of Homeland Security claims the wall's efficacy cannot be understated. "When it comes to stopping drugs and illegal aliens from crossing our borders, border walls have proven to be extremely effective," a statement said. "Border security relies on a combination of border infrastructure, technology, personnel and partnerships with law enforcement at the state, local, tribal, and federal level. For example, when we installed a border wall in the Yuma Sector, we have seen border apprehensions decrease by 90 percent."

 

 

THE NEW YORK TIMES IS MEX OWNED AND SUBSTANTIALLY NOTHING BUT A MOUTHPIECE FOR LA RAZA 'The Race'


Jared Kushner Fails Up, Again
Having solved the Middle East, the president’s son-in-law tackles the border wall.

By Frank Bruni
Opinion Columnist

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who, reports say, has been given the job of overseeing construction of a wall between Mexico and the United States.Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times
Jared Kushner just got a promotion. Another one. At least I think we can call it that, and it’s a deliciously perfect assignment. The pallid princeling is now responsible for speeding construction of the border wall. In other words, a make-believe fixer will oversee a fairy-tale fix.
Josh Dawsey and Nick Miroff of The Washington Post broke the news, and when I read it, I realized that I hadn’t heard much about Jared — or, for that matter, Ivanka — in a good long while. They’re front and center when the administration is announcing some ostensibly sensible initiative or claiming a pittance of progress. But when its corruption is being exposed and the drizzle of subpoenas becomes a downpour, they vanish, cuddling for warmth under the gilded umbrella of their hallucinatory virtue.
We can pretty much chart the weather of the administration by the relative visibility of Donald Jr., so loud and hirsute, and Jared, so smooth-cheeked and mute. Donald Jr. thrives when it’s nastiest, stomping gleefully through the muck. Jared comes out only if his suit won’t get dirty or his hair wet.
During the impeachment inquiry, we’ve seen a lot of Donald Jr. That’s partly because he has been hawking his new book, copies of which the Republican National Committee spent nearly $100,000 on. But it’s also because he’s such a ready, eager conduit for his father’s wrath, with a talent for exaggeration and misdirection that’s clearly chromosomal.
Jared and Ivanka have been strategically scarce, though Ivanka did flutter into view, in a fashion, when President Trump boasted two weeks ago that she had created 14 million jobs since the inauguration. “Fourteen million and going up!” he clarified, lest anyone get the misimpression that she thought her work was done. Never! On behalf of the American people, Ivanka is tireless. There’s no rest for the weary, and there’s even less of it for those who live at the crossroads of self-infatuation and delusion.
In an interview last month on Fox Business, Ivanka said that she and Dad were “fighting every day for the American worker” and that she was determined to “drive hard every single day to make an impact.”
“Your time and service — our time here — is finite,” she mused, and while I’d love to believe that she was prophesying her and her father’s imminent eviction from the White House, I think she was referring, in her deeply spiritual way, to the span of a human life. “It’s sand through an hourglass.” As Ivanka serves us, she never forgets the sand.
Democrats believe that the Trump administration’s void of ethics will sour American voters on the president. But those voters are likelier to abandon him for the administration’s vacuum of competence — for his nonsensical managerial style, captured in his magical thinking about Jared.
He tasked Jared with reinventing the federal government. Unless constant rash firings, unfilled jobs and shakedowns of foreign governments constitute reinvention, this remains on Jared’s infinite to-do list. The president put Jared in charge of brokering a durable peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Insert punch line here. He followed Jared’s counsel that faith be placed in Saudi Arabia and its crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. We know how that worked out.
The president somehow looked at that track record and decided that the dynamo he should entrust with his central campaign promise — a secure barrier between the United States and Mexico — was … Jared! And so we have the trillionth gorgeous example of his investment in fiction.
Nearly three years into Trump’s presidency, the border wall barely exists. Subtract the upgrading of fencing and such that was already there and Trump has, by some recent estimates,
constructed fewer than 25 miles of actually new barrier. The southwestern border is nearly 2,000 miles long.
But Jared is on the case! According to The Post, he “convenes biweekly meetings in the West Wing, where he questions an array of government officials about progress” and “explains the president’s wishes.” Huh. Those wishes are hardly cryptic, and how complicated can this questioning be? Already, The Post reported, there’s grumbling that Jared is just an annoyance.
That belittles his symbolic significance. Many journalists, including me, have tried to settle on the perfect mascot for the Trump administration. There are choices galore. The greedy, vainglorious Scott Pruitt, who did his best to decimate the Environmental Protection Agency, fit the bill, but he’s long gone. Mike Pompeo embodies the Faustian arc of so many of the president’s aides and allies, from principle-driven dismissal of Trump during the 2016 campaign to reputation-torching submission when he dangled a ticket to the big time.
But for naked opportunism and situational scruples, Jared’s my guy. Remember how he and Ivanka were going to contain the president’s ego, blunt his cruelty, whisper sweet moderation in his ear? That was then. Now he’s devoting himself to an exorbitant, unnecessary monument to Trump’s nativism and xenophobia.
There’s an upside, though. With Jared in the saddle, this horse won’t go far.



More than 100 miles of ‘new’ border wall expected by year-end


The Trump administration expects to have more than 100 miles of “new” border wall built by Dec. 31, according to a top official.
“It keeps pressing ahead,” said Ken Cuccinelli, the acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security.
In an interview, Cuccinelli said about 90 miles of new and refurbished wall had been built under the administration’s effort.
“I would expect us to be in triple digits before we get into the new year,” added the former acting director of the U.S. Customs and Immigration Services.
The administration has struggled to get funding for President Trump’s top 2016 campaign promise and has tapped Pentagon money, which is starting to pour into the effort.
Once it arrives, Cuccinelli said that “we expect to be building at a much faster pace.”
Cuccinelli said that the actual construction hasn’t caused delays. “The hardest part of building isn’t building. It’s getting to the point where you break ground and can build,” he said.
Still, he said, as replacement of shabby fencing and construction of new wall picks up pace, it should reach a total of 400. “I’m still optimistic to get over another 400 milles. It’s a national example of good fences make good neighbors.”
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