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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
(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.
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We the people, for sure those here.. already know BP and the States along the border need far more support, if it's Military, more BP, better training, more equip, everything. We know we need it, Washington though has been singing a different song for decades though.
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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
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?
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If a group of young teenage boys started attacking the agents at the airport while arresting someone, after being ordered to stop throwing things but they didn't, and for some reason nobody else stopped them... then of course. You could apply that to any situation with Police type authority, put it in the streets, in a mall, airport or personally on private property. If deadly force was used, then so be it.