I suspect Trump is trying to promote a crises much like the N. Korean leader Kim. Kim insists there is hostility toward his country to promote his Nuclear weapons program whilst his people struggle to feed themselves. It's more or less a manufactured crises. No such hostility exists and S. Korea is proof. Maybe that's why Trump likes Kim so much, they think alike.
Seems to be working judging from the reaction some people have to an invasion of women and children.
Last edited by Borderland; 04-13-2019 at 11:07 PM.
This is no more than the classic plays of the populist demogogue.
Demonization of a subset of a population, exploiting prejudice and ignorance
Whipping up passions, and ignoring or shouting down reasoned deliberation
A manufactured crisis (that, though unintended consequence, appears to be escalating into an actual crisis.)
Specious claims of a simple solution that, upon analysis, doesn’t hold water.
Claims that ‘powerful others’ are somehow holding the demogogue back from implementing the solution
This has nothing to do with facts or logic and everything to do with constructing claims that sound good or bad, regardless of the facts. The demagogue has a willingness to lie and change positions moment-to-moment to capitalize on the ‘feeilings’ of the audience being appealed to.
What the demagogue and demagogue’s noisy supporters cannot deal with is a cool, rational analysis of the problems, proposed solution(s), costs, timelines, benefits, and predictable as well as potential unintended consequences. Any such attempts are deliberately met with a ‘pigeon chess’ response because rational discourse is not possible.
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New Mexico militia detains migrants at gunpoint until Border Patrol arrivesOf course the ACLU would say that.“It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone,” the governor of New Mexico, Michelle Lujan Grisham, said in a statement to The New York Times, adding that it is “completely unacceptable” that migrants be “menaced or threatened” upon entering the U.S.
The American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement that “the Trump administration’s vile racism” emboldened these groups.
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
What if the wall is built a mile inside the border and that mile is declared an exclusion zone where deadly force authorization exists 24/7/365?
I bet that will slow it down to a trickle.
Border control should be a military problem except at the designated ports of entry, where civilian law enforcement can deal with the control.
Of interest:
https://www.kveo.com/news/local-news...ses/1936727806
Border Patrol identifies over 3,000 fraudulent family cases
https://valleycentral.com/news/local...ly-entering-us
HSI investigates fake family units illegally entering U.S.