NTY Thomas Friedman supports a “high border wall with a large gate”

Been taking lessons from Bill Barr?

Here's his point:




[quote]
In sum: we need new walls; we need a serious strategy for mitigating climate change and offering economic and governance assistance to countries to our south that are being destabilized by poverty and extreme weather; we need to rethink who is entitled to asylum, so people fleeing economic dislocation don’t overwhelm our borders and harden our hearts to people truly fleeing tyranny; we need to encourage legal immigration of people who can help our country thrive in the 21st century; and we need to partner with Mexico on a Mexican-American plan to manage the flow of migrants through Mexico to our border.

None of these alone will work. Anyone who tells you otherwise has not been to the border.[/quote]

[quote]Most of these immigrants come from Guatemala and Honduras (where President Trump recently decided — insanely — to cut humanitarian aid)[/quote]

[quote]Or, as Frum put it: “The gratuitous brutalities of the Trump administration shock the conscience, and fail even on their own terms. Intended as deterrents, they are not deterring. They are succeeding only in counter-radicalizing liberal opinion to stigmatize almost all immigration enforcement against nonfelons as cruel, racist and unacceptable.”[/quote]

[quote]In sum: we need new walls; we need a serious strategy for mitigating climate change and offering economic and governance assistance to countries to our south that are being destabilized by poverty and extreme weather; we need to rethink who is entitled to asylum, so people fleeing economic dislocation don’t overwhelm our borders and harden our hearts to people truly fleeing tyranny; we need to encourage legal immigration of people who can help our country thrive in the 21st century; and we need to partner with Mexico on a Mexican-American plan to manage the flow of migrants through Mexico to our border.

None of these alone will work. Anyone who tells you otherwise has not been to the border.[/quote]

Et tu JJ?

[b]THIS[/b] is the Republican Party. JackJJacksonJr is the face of the Republican Party. Donald Trump is the face of the Republican Party.

The real problem is that laws, policies and regulations, well before DJT became President were in place that adversely affected and exacerbated the current immigration crisis.

Interesting opinion. I agree, he is espousing a comprehensive strategy including a wall to enforce immigration.

Maybe some are starting to wake up to what NanChuck is up too.

We need the right immigrants to become citizens to pay the Social Security for the millennials.

Jeez, that sounds very similar to what our president wants. A wall with a door. Hmmm