No Need to Build The Donald's Wall, It’s Built

This is pretty depressing. It illustrates not only what a douchebag Trump is, but also how pathetic the media is in America.

No Need to Build The Donald's Wall, It’s Built

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Suddenly, there hadn’t been a bipartisan government effort over the last quarter-century to put in place an unprecedented array of walls, detection systems, and guards for that southern border. In those years, the number of Border Patrol agents had, in fact, quintupled from 4,000 to more than 21,000, while Customs and Border Protection became the largest federal law enforcement agency in the country with more than 60,000 agents. The annual budget for border and immigration enforcement went from $1.5 to $19.5 billion, a more than 12-fold increase. By 2016, federal government funding of border and immigration enforcement added up to $5 billion more than that for all other federal law enforcement agencies combined.

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As reporters chase their tails attempting to explain Trump’s wild and often unfounded claims and declarations, the on-the-ground border reality goes unreported. Indeed, one of the greatest “secrets” of the 2016 election campaign (though it should be common knowledge) is that the border wall already exists. It has for years and the fingerprints all over it aren't Donald Trump's but the Clintons', both Bill's and Hillary's.

Bill Clinton increased southern border security considerably, but you must remember that this was a time when the borders were lightly protected and the drug traffic was increasing exponentially. It wasn't a move aimed at Mexican immigrants. That's an important point in differentiating between those events and the Trump racism.

Also, at least half of the increase in border security costs have arisen since 2003; hard to blame Bill and Hillary for that. I don't accept the assertion that the Clintons are similar in any way to Trump and his insidious plans. The comparison is invalid, I believe.

Many problems in the world have no easy solution. Drug smuggling is one of them.

Hillary voted (as senator) in support of various bills to increase border security, so she has had some hand in the current situation. I agree that doesn't compare to Trump's racism. I don't think the author was trying to suggest that what has happened at the southern border over the past 20-odd years was intentionally racist. I think he is saying that (whatever the motivation) the end result has been somewhat similar to what Trump suggests, and that therefore

• Trump is saying he will create something that already exists
  

• the current set-up is racist, whether originally intended that way or not
  

• the media - pretty much all of them - have been grossly negligent in not reporting this.
  

richard09 wrote:

• the media - pretty much all of them - have been grossly negligent in

pretty much everything.