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Originally Posted by Ohio
Obviously Trump was gathering info and suggesting ideas. He was not legislating. It's impossible, however, to have one solution for every school. His idea about armed teachers at your school make no sense. You already have many security measures in place. This underscores my complaints about national policy -- education, security, etc. are far better served on the local and state level, except for perhaps in Broward County due to Obama era policies like PROMISE.
Perhaps you too are a little disturbed about biased news coverage? Consider for example, if it were not for FNC, we would never know about or why we have such horrendous murder rates in Chicago. I find the media totally disingenuous attacking Trump for policies designed to reduce crime and protect our children, i.e. building a wall to stop drugs ad illegals, etc. and then they endorse sanctuary cities.
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I have never had an issue with "the wall". First, we already have a "wall" along part of the border. Second, I am very willing to look at all the measures involved as being "the wall" (Drones, cameras, satellites, seismic listening stations, etc). When they laugh about how expensive the wall will be that always came across as idiotic. We had a space program, we built a national highway system, we built the Panama canal. By comparison extending an existing fence seems like a very minor initiative.
Personally I think the recent legalization of marijuana will have a much bigger impact on reducing cross border crime than the wall. The wall might reduce illegal immigration a little, but if you remove that from the equation I doubt it will have much impact if any on crime.
When these "mules" bring drugs across the border in a car it often weighs hundreds of pounds. It is difficult enough to walk through that desert, much less carrying hundreds of pounds of drugs. Using infrared these illegals stand out. So the main ways they cross that border is by car, truck or tunnel. If they are using a tunnel they want a building on the other side which would have access to a road and which trucks could pull up to without too much suspicion. Therefore I don't see the need for the wall to go much more than 20 miles from the nearest road. Instead more border patrol with dogs, and more monitoring of the border with cameras should be the most efficient way to catch smugglers.