Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Mayors to meet with DHS secretary amid sanctuary city debate" video.

  1. Don't forget to open the door so the nice ICE agents wearing black kevlar body armor can check for hidden criminals.
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  2. Best way to protect yourself from overzealous cops. Don't answer the door and don't talk to them. Taking away money from local cops is a good idea. Go Trump.
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  3. A better idea is to put ICE in the freezer.
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  4. The only one capable of destroying his country is you!!! Luckily I only rent a camp space. You want to put all those city cops and county jail guards harboring immigrants in jails in jail fine with me. They could always decide not to arrest anybody then they couldn't be accused of harboring criminals in a jail. You're the kind of idiot who thinks "The Russians are Coming" is a left wing university researched documentary.
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  5. The name was male when I was born check out the book KIM. I was born in a hospital paid for by Smith and Wesson not far from the first armory commissioned by George Washington. As a worker I don't have a country but as long as the United States claims me I'll use the rights entitled to US citizens. If the government sends me a letter making me stateless I seek a hearing at the UN among other things.
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  6. What good is a choice of thieves? I'm not promoting a flood I am promoting a wage increase through amnesty. After Reagan granted amnesty wages went up. They will go up this time as well. The thing Trump is promoting is racism and fear of immigrants blaming them for the failure of the capitalist United States Empire. The only thing that will accomplish is lower wages for all. When any immigrant with or without a green card gets out of line the bosses will call ICE for a deportation. Trump is continuing Obama's record deportation policy. Liberals are promoting a border park with Mexico when the don't even have an open border with Canada yet.
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  7. Wages will go up because skinflint bosses won't be able to impose their sub minimum wage rates. Bosses won't be able to call Immigration when ever someone or a group of workers protest their conditions of work. By getting rid of immigration rules that are used to send back legal immigrants to get a status change on their green card for minor problems that will also help. Let's not forget the bureaucratic bumbling US embassies and consulates that keep those with family petitions waiting for decisions. Obviously when you (you singular tense) are running the most powerful Empire humanity has ever seen things get difficult.
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  8. I edited out Google spell check errors. They are able to impose sub minimum wages at carwashes by paying piece rate wages. Newspaper delivery, domestic labor and some restaurants are exempt from FLSA because they are not within the scope of interstate commerce. Immigrants fill those and many other low wage jobs including farm labor. Despite the propaganda that a rise in the minimum wage will kill jobs just the opposite happens. More jobs are created because the increase in demand for everyday goods rises with wages. While capital creation (profits) go down. Voting for Trump as if you could buy a negotiator to create more jobs by raising or threatening to raise tariffs and kicking out immigrants will do nothing but exacerbate the bad situation working people find themselves in after eight years of Obama and his Obama care. Congress has dropped the healthcare issue for now because the republican majority party like the ruling class that sent them there can't agree on what to do.
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  9. Have any idea what its going to cost to build a wall in the middle of the Rio Grande? Or would you rather seed territory to Mexico?
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  10. I actually live about 30 miles from the border and that's what they were talking about today on the radio. A lot of these real estate people don't want the wall in certain areas for a number of reasons. It's hard to sell luxury homes with a wall in the backyard or across the street. Also a golf course may be split in half. Even though they are Trump supporters and like walls over all. The river is not straight and costs depend on where you put the wall here instead of the Deserts in NM, AZ, and CA. What happen to homes on the wrong side of the wall? Also there is the National park at the Big Bend. Maybe you should keep it real instead of me. You can't just put it on the river bank either without flooding the Mexican side in the rainy season.
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  11. That's What they said. Southeastern Texas is Tropical Texas with palm trees like Florida. Midwestern retirees come her for the winter. Called Winter Texans. We have new Interstates that aren't connected to the rest of the system. Texas is a population growth state.
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  12. Texas is the size of France so if you grew up here or there the place has probably changed. I just reported what's been said. Unless you want to drive at 100 mph it's about 8 hours drive from Houston to Harlingen. You've got sugar cane and shopping malls. Nine or Ten bridges to Mexico in the Rio Grande Valley with another one in the planning. I see more border patrol driving around than troopers or local sheriffs down here.
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  13. I even from a Republicans point of view building a wall a minimum of thirty feet high and six feet deep and twelve inches thick is going to be very expensive unless you compromise on areas. You talking about building the equivalent of three travel lanes of an interstate highway sideways. What type of soil determines what kind of base you need because you don't want to wake up someday and find out that the thing has fallen over. There are areas where the Rio Grande or tributaries have created canyons making crossing possible by rock climbers or trapeze artists to begin with. If the government builds the wall inland without holes or gates for landowners on the other side unlike the current areas then the owners will demand payment for the areas south of the wall. The whole area is going to see a boom for lawyers and federal judges arguing eminent domain cases. Real Estate will be exaggerating values of what might have been built there. I've read articles that say the cartels are already using horizontal pipeline drilling equipment for tunnels in San Diego so it may turn out to be cheaper to burrow under the Rio Grande then blow a hole in a wall with C4 and Dynamite. Building through populated areas close to the border could also result in Mexican teenagers going on a rock and bottle throwing binge at wall builders raising the cost of workmen comp. It might turn out that Trump planners could decide to move the wall and border north by connecting the Sarita and Falfurrias checkpoints then headin west just North of Laredo and get Mexico to buy the area South on easy credit terms paying for the rest of the wall making us Mexican citizens by treaty.
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  14. John Sterling Get out a map!! Brownsville is in the most southeastern part of Texas. The whole US Mexico border is just under 2000 mile long. About 1200 miles is in Texas. River borders are always longer than they appear because rivers always have twists and bends because of the way rivers rise and fall with the seasons and cut into banks and drop silt. Just like a coast line the more accurate you measure a river's length the longer it becomes. Even a straight line border measured a hundred years ago has zigzags because of the accuracy of the instruments used to measure it.
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  15. Great idea send those sneaky wiretapping FBI spies to your neighborhood.
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