We need to name the refugees needlessly killed by Texas’ cruel border demagoguery.

  • @JustAManOnAToilet
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    -271 year ago

    People need to understand that do not cross means do not cross. You can disagree with it on principle but trying to brute force it isn’t an option.

    • @[email protected]
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      I hope you never find yourself on the short side of the system pal

      Actually, fuck that. I hope you get to experience every shitty thing about it first hand.

      • @JustAManOnAToilet
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        -71 year ago

        For not encouraging more people to wind up dead trying to cross the Rio fucking Grande? Thanks bud. The coyotes encouraging this need to be put down.

    • FunkyMonk
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      No, I am King, Earth is mine, leave or die, you are currently in noncompliance you unkinglyrespectfulying HEATHCLIFF. It is always known, mine mine MINE MINE MINE ALWAYS MINE ALWAYS VIOLENCE MINE. /s

  • @sugarfree
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    -271 year ago

    It is cruel and inhumane for the local lord to dig a moat, I demand he immediately fill the moat so I can cross and siege his castle.

    • @[email protected]
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      The US is not a castle, immigrants are not invaders, and migrating is not a fucking siege

      This is such blatantly hateful rhetoric

    • @Burn_The_Right
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      121 year ago

      Conservatism is a plague of deception, sickness and death. It always has been.

    • Flying Squid
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      121 year ago

      I can safely assume your ancestors were all Native Americans, right?

  • RaivoKulli
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    -271 year ago

    Seems weird to consider Texas cruel for wanting a secure border when it’s so commonly illegally crossed

    • @chiliedogg
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      There’s a difference between securing a border and intentionally making it lethally dangerous.

      When people are being denied life-saving water or drowning because of concertina wire placed there specifically to make it difficult to get out of the water it’s no longer “securing the border.”

      I can lock my house’s door. I can put in an alarm system and place a barbed wire or electric fence. I can even shoot a trespasser actively breaking into my house.

      What I cannot do is set a trap.

      People who are denied water when turned away at the border cannot safely make it back. People who swim up on razor wire at the shore cannot rest before turning around to swim back.

      If people have no supplies when told to turn around, we need to give them enough to make it back across. If we’re going to build a razor wire fence, it needs to be far enough inland that swimmers can get out of the water long enough to rest so they don’t drown. Even better - we can ferry them back.

      And even better than any of these: we need to actually give fair hearings for asylum seekers.

      • @Mirshe
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        21 year ago

        Let me put it this way: I don’t like kids running into my lawn to get their baseball. I ask them to stop, and I put up a fence. These are both fine.

        What I cannot do is place landmines behind that fence and sit on my porch with a shotgun to kill survivors.

        That’s actively what DeSantis and Abbott want to do : turn the entire border into a deathtrap where even attempting to cross is absolutely going to kill you, one way or another. I believe at least one of the candidates last cycle DID bring up mining the entirety of the border. They want to make the US border look more like No-Man’s-Land in the Somme rather than the Berlin Wall or the Korean DMZ.

      • RaivoKulli
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        If more humane border is feasible for preventing illegal crossing then that’s of course good. I wonder what would need to happen in the US to make the border effective, if it is even possible.

        And even better than any of these: we need to actually give fair hearings for asylum seekers.

        I think that’s often brought up in Europe how illegal crossers circumvent the system and “skip the line” for asylum seekers, also hardening the attitudes towards them. Better border control and more proper asylum seekers would be good.

        • @Papergeist
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          01 year ago

          I think the best course of action is helping Mexico with the cartel problem so people stop wanting or even needing to cross the border. Grain of salt though, the leaders of Mexico are in the pockets of the cartels.

          • RaivoKulli
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            01 year ago

            Tackling the problem at the source is of course best overall, but it is also a lot slower and harder than tougher border control. But of course it’s not just one or the another

    • Flying Squid
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      81 year ago

      Illegal immigration is a civil crime. Do you want to put deathtraps on interstates for speeders too?

      • RaivoKulli
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        -71 year ago

        I mean if it crosses state lines I’m willing to consider it