The Glade 4.0

Let's just say that the sequestration cuts are most likely being.. seriously embellished south of the border. As in La Migra won't be working, and if they do, they'll just let you go because there's no more money for deportation.

Predictably, we're totally swamped. Our station is swimming in aliens, and we were catching even more today, and even more got past us. And we won't even see the first real effects on manpower for another 3 weeks.

I'm not looking forward to splitting our manpower to avoid overtime. This is going to get dangerous.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Just **** shoot at them. They'll get the message soon enough.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I'm fairly sure there's going to be some shooting before too long. When it's you and 8 ****, you're well into deadly force territory.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Way I see it, its an invasion. But that's just me.

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Holy shitsnacks!

If you can arrange to get some infantry battalions down here....

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I was thinking armored cav. Or the guys with the helicopters. Garry Owen or something.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Neither would be particularly well-suited to the task in question, although the helicopters would be better.

Artillery would work well too.

However, I don't think we're likely to start slaughtering women and children. I have no problem with dealing harshly with the adult males, but blowing up babies intentionally is.. not funny.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

So, you're telling me there are consequences to the media constantly parroting the President's rhetoric about the harshness of the cuts?

I mean, wow, 2.3% cuts reductions in planned spending and an overall increase in spending year over year.

Don't get me wrong, I understand there are real consequences to reductions, but they're far, far overblown in the news, and it's not too surprising that that news has caught on over the border.

Sorry for the troubles you're in though, DE.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Yes. However, the real problems will come in a few weeks when we do start having to cut manpower. The border will be far from totally open, but there will simply not be as many people available at any given time.

The other problem is that the more people we catch, the more of us need to stay at the station and process them. That means fewer people in the field. It's actually worse than that, but it would take hours to explain all the details.

The 2.3% cut is worse than it sounds because while it's 2.3% of everything, a lot of that everything is debt servicing, which is untouched.

Then, there's the fact that everything the press says gets magnified by about x100 by some contrabandista who wants to make some money getting people across the river, and the sorts of people they smuggle are only too happy to believe them, and don't have the access to information to understand they're being lied to anyhow.

These people call up their primo or tio or whoever here in the US and hear "Oh yeah, everyone can stay now! There's no more deportations!"

A lot of it is a massive exercise in self-deception by the people who we actually catch.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I still think Auto Turrets would be a good idea. I am sure there would be some kind of 'human rights' violations there but the way I feel...

****'em

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Raell Kromwell

I'm sure the 1st Nugent infantry could be there in a day or so. I think you'd have to have bag limits.


I'm on the side of invasion. At the very least property owners should have castle doctrine on their side.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

I think we are all missing the boat on this one. What we should do, is hire the first wave of illegals (since they work for little) and make them guard the border for the following waves. I mean, you could hire 5 illegals for the price of 1 agent.....maybe more!

You can always hire one half the poor to kill the other half.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

If only the US immigration laws were the same now as they were in 1886...

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

I don't think DE is concerned about the Chinese.

Clearly the founding fathers didn't take into account automatic rifles the waves of illegal immigrants that would be here in 2013. Is this argument ironic or just hypocritical from the left?

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Those laws dealt with legal immigrants from a specific geographical area. I think sarcasm is the word you're looking for.



I don't think the author of the poem on the Statue of Liberty was either.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Yeah, no thanks. We have plenty of tired, poor, homeless wretched refuse as it is.

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Holy shitsnacks!

SAW says what?

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

MQ-1 Reaper says HELLFIRE?

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Holy shitsnacks!

More importantly, we need the social net we had then. Immigrants really don't hurt us if we're not paying for them.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

I'm also not concerned with offending a poem written a hundred and thirty years ago, when we had entirely different needs.

Clearly, the answer to our problems is hordes of unskilled workers. You know, since we're still establishing homestead farms in the plains and building transcontinental railroads as major national projects.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

There are good honest skilled people overseas wanting and waiting and doing it right and we're supposed to be sympathetic to the cheaters? They're just a bunch of people cutting in line, the least courteous type human being: those unwilling to wait their proper turn.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Doing it "right" involves forking over more money than these people would earn in a lifetime if they stayed in Mexico.