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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Bah... I agree with ya that our Gov has ignored the border issue, at just about every turn.
This is why 'we' need to support them, like supporting our troops. They're doing a dangerous job that's only getting worse and the funding, equipment, man power and fed support isn't keeping up at all.
I'm not saying you have to agree with the action that BP agent took... but you can't ignore that the event overall was happening and that's just a few minutes in a day at one location across the border.
If they really don't have the proper equip - then all the more respect.
~ Nite
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(okay, I'm back, easy menu.)
Doc, I do support them. I really do. Just like I said about the police yesterday in a full paragraph at the bottom of that
other thread, that nobody probably saw. (I don't remember the thread title) But I can never support what that agent did.
On a
completely different note, if the BP Agency is the wrong tool for the job, then we need to first define once and for all what "the job" is, then take appropriate action. (Action = Option)
Action 1: We go into hyper-paranoia military state, send the military down there and
secure the border. Not real appetizing for international relations. Really kind of validates all the shit some of these countries talk about us. Actual legal travel and tourism and commerce and trade might just take a ding from that. I don't see a single good thing about that.
Action 2: If instead we're going to somehow assimilate Mexico basically, (to boil it down to its basest brevity), then there is no further need for all the misery and death and border "war" and Mexican hunting. Border Patrol can operate as intended, instead of trying to do a job they cannot do.
or....
Action 3: Continue doing what we are doing right now. If there is anyone that truly believes it's working, I would be honest to Jebus
shocked.
As for the kid, let me just ask you one question:
Our airports are our border as well, as you are aware. TSA and U.S. Customs are the airport equivalent of the Border Patrol. Here's my question, if a 14/15 (I'm hearing both from different sources) year old illegal kid was in the airport, and grabbed a Sno-Globe from a gift shop and threw it at a Customs Agent, would you be just fine if that agent shot the kid while he was running away through the airport?