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https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-border-sheriffs-there-is-no-crisis-and-we-dont-want-trumps-wall
President Trump visited McAllen earlier this month to drum up support for spending $5.7 billion to build more border wall segments on the U.S.-Mexico border. He staged a press conference surrounded by piles of confiscated drugs, guns and cash, describing the situation at the border as “a national emergency.” With the government partially shut down over Trump’s funding dispute with Congress, the president is trying to prove that there’s a new, growing “crisis” on the border to pressure Democrats to cave. But law enforcement leaders in at least two border counties, including the sheriff who patrols McAllen, say the picture Trump is painting of the Texas borderlands is inaccurate.
Hidalgo County Sheriff J.E. “Eddie” Guerra, who is in charge of policing the largest and most populous county in the Rio Grande Valley, said that crime rates in his county are at record lows, and that illegal immigration has very little effect on the safety of residents. Meanwhile, Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson, who is responsible for policing the largest county in Texas, said he doesn’t support the construction of a wall along any part of the 192-mile stretch of border in Brewster County, which includes Big Bend National Park.
“Because we’re on the border, the perception is that there’s murders every day and there’s shootings every day. Yet here in our county, we don’t have that going on. It’s very, very safe," Guerra told the Observer.
National emergency my ass.
It's good to see that one person can speak for the entire stretch of the border.
Why not, Trump does? And what part of “here in our county” didn’t you get?
National emergency my ass.
Hidalgo crime statistics report an overall upward trend in crime based on data from 11 years with violent crime increasing and property crime increasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in Hidalgo for 2019 is expected to be higher than in 2016.
National emergency my ass.
Yet Trump has the support of half the country that lends to his call for the wall and I'm not talking about this one mans words. It's the way that people are trying to sell them.
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Wiki ~ Hidalgo County
Hidalgo Crime Rate Report (Texas)
Crime rate in Hidalgo, Texas (TX)
Crime rate is not at near record lows. They are lower than the national average, but not at near record lows.
The good Sheriff in lock step with his party.
Oh! Bye the way.....one of the most corrupt law enforcement office's in the country.
https://www.rollingstone.com/cultur...ne-and-corruption-on-the-texas-border-241579/
And, the democrat judicial corruption?
https://texasscorecard.com/rio-grande-valley/rumors-pending-fbi-arrests-circulate-hidalgo-county/
Try harder next time.
National emergency my ass.
Trump's approval rating is 37%...try harder
Actually, in yesterday's poll it dropped to 36%. Only his base still supports him and even that number has eroded
Manafort, Cohen, Stone - all Trump cronies, all under indictment.
Talk about corrupt.
But go ahead and sling mud at this guy because he doesn’t fall lockstep with the Corpulent One.
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Actually, it’s two sheriffs who are responsible for large stretches of the border.It's good to see that one person can speak for the entire stretch of the border.
You’re two for two being wrong.Yet Trump has the support of half the country that lends to his call for the wall and I'm not talking about this one mans words. It's the way that people are trying to sell them.
OK, so tell me what this person in question has to do with any of your hated for anything Trump?
A liar/hack/partisan is a liar/hack/partisan.
Got anything better to offer up other than Trump's lies, which have nothing to do with the character of the people involved with the Hildago County Sheriff's office?
The good Sheriff in lock step with his party.
Oh! Bye the way.....one of the most corrupt law enforcement office's in the country.
https://www.rollingstone.com/cultur...ne-and-corruption-on-the-texas-border-241579/
And, the democrat judicial corruption?
https://texasscorecard.com/rio-grande-valley/rumors-pending-fbi-arrests-circulate-hidalgo-county/
Try harder next time.
Yet Trump has the support of half the country that lends to his call for the wall and I'm not talking about this one mans words. It's the way that people are trying to sell them.
National emergency my ass.
It's good to see that one person can speak for the entire stretch of the border.
National emergency my ass.
Yet Trump has the support of half the country that lends to his call for the wall and I'm not talking about this one mans words. It's the way that people are trying to sell them.
National emergency my ass.
View attachment 67248779
Wiki ~ Hidalgo County
Hidalgo Crime Rate Report (Texas)
Crime rate in Hidalgo, Texas (TX)
Crime rate is not at near record lows. They are lower than the national average, but not at near record lows.
So? Just because they are all Democrats, does that mean they can twist the facts to meet their narrative?
Evidently, Democrats are against the wall and Trump Republicans are for it. The argument is not about what party wins, it is about whether the wall is needed. You are actually proving my point with this post, inasmuch as you are proving that this is all about politics and not about the wall.
Try harder next time to refute the premise of the OP, which is the fact that there isn't a national emergency.
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