Parading Around
Donnie’s Big Beautiful Bill includes $100 billion “to make American communities safer with a historic investment in border security. No more dangerous illegal aliens parading around with no consequences!” I know that I feel safer after ICE swept in and carted away twenty Hispanic workers “parading around” a Bethlehem construction site pouring concrete. That’ll teach those “dangerous illegal aliens” to work for a living.
Trump 2.0’s $100 billion spending for border security is more than was spent Obama’s two terms, Trump 1.0, and Biden combined. It includes:
$46.5 for Donnie’s “Big Beautiful Wall” (The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, and Hadrian’s Wall in Scotland worked so well)
$6 billion for border technology and surveillance (Israel’s border technology worked so well on Oct 7)
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$45 billion for “detention facilities” (There are roughly 60,000 “illegals” in “Alligator Alcatraz”, etc. currently. Donnie wants space for 150,000 more. Only 20,000 of those currently detained have a criminal record. Less than half of those are felons. Donnie wants to “detain” 140,000 innocent folks seeking a better life in America.).
Even Donnie can’t snap his fingers to make fully-functional buildings instantaneously appear. Until construction contracts can be awarded to Donnie’s campaign donors, detainees are housed in tents with their sanitary needs met by porta-potties and communal (in some cases) outdoor showers. Imagine the unavoidable irony of construction day workers building their future detention center.
Meanwhile, Deployed Resources, Inc was awarded a $3.8 billion contract to build a migrant detention center at Fort Bliss, Texas. Fort Bliss is located in the high desert outside El Paso. It is colder than hell in the winter and hotter than hell in the summer. Back in my day, malcontent GIs given the choice between Fort Bliss and Vietnam would often choose Vietnam. Living in a tent at Fort Bliss would be torture. By the way, Deployed Resources “contributed” $500 K to Donnie’s Inauguration Fund.
Still, Fox News assures us that America is safer with those “dangerous illegals parading around” Fort Bliss rather than our construction sites.
By Ed Dufton
