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Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas

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Re: Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are joking…right?

It's satire, because this is an expansion of the border wall. "....the Trump administration's plans to expand the president's border wall across one of the country's most remote national parks."

"I never dreamed leopards would eat... I mean, he'd actually build a wall, sobs person who voted for candidate who said he'd build a wall".

And I do realise that not everyone there voted for him.

Re: Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas

#32
post #27

I mean I can't have much sympathy here, it's Texas. They voted for this.

Highly unproductive to write off the entirety of Texas like this. Have you visited Brewster or Presidio County, where this is happening, or spoken with the people who live there? Big Bend is treasured by Texans across the political spectrum. I know nobody who is happy about this, regardless of how they vote. Environmentalists, ranchers, locals in general, strongly oppose this action by the Federal gov't. The destruct…

Whatever happened to states rights? This Texas we're talking about, nobody living there wants this.

Re: Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas

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I mean I can't have much sympathy here, it's Texas. They voted for this.

The article said 10,000 people Illegally Crossed the border in this region. Its not the VOTERS fault foreigners do not use border entry points. We had a system of immigration that was abused by foreigners and now it has stopped.

It's a small fraction of illegal crossings in a very remote area where it's easy for border patrol or sheriffs to pick them up. A wall will just degrade the park and hurt the local economy.
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