{"id":35297,"date":"2019-01-10T12:27:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35297"},"modified":"2019-01-10T12:27:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:27:20","slug":"wall-unwanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/10\/wall-unwanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Unwanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don&#8217;t want to write about the wall.&#160; Sadly, it is dominating the news, and there&#8217;s not much else.&#160; However, there are people less interested in having the wall than I.&#160; They are the American citizens whose lives it would disrupt.&#160; Democrats must not cave in.&#160; The more Trump fights, the fewer support him&#160; All we have to do is wait and inform the people of the US.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0110wall\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0110wall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/0110wall.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The serene National Butterfly Center in Hidalgo County, Texas, occupies a 100-acre preserve steps away from the U.S.-Mexico line, where President Donald Trump is expected to visit on Thursday to push for a southern border wall<\/p>\n<p>But for Marianna Trevino-Wright, the center\u2019s director, it is the barrier itself &#8211; not an influx of criminals &#8211; that poses the greatest risk to the sanctuary, given that current plans call for the wall to bisect its property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Why on earth would me and my husband live here, and work here, and rear six children here, if it wasn\u2019t safe?<\/strong>\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In McAllen, the county\u2019s largest city, several officials and residents interviewed by Reuters expressed skepticism over Trump\u2019s claim that a wall is required to end what he described as a \u201ccrisis\u201d in an Oval Office address on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Seby Haddad, a commercial lender at a regional bank, said <strong>he watched this binational community grow for decades because of immigration, not in spite of it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He rejected the notion that a border wall would help stem the flow of illicit drugs, noting that most narcotics are smuggled in vehicles at official checkpoints, according to government data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>It doesn\u2019t fix any problem<\/strong>,\u201d said Haddad, 38. \u201c<strong>It\u2019s an archaic solution<\/strong>.\u201d&#8230;&#160; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-shutdown-mcallen\/in-texas-border-town-skepticism-ahead-of-trump-visit-to-push-wall-idUSKCN1P416F\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Even Republicans are sick of it, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=teN_bFGapCM\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Hayes<\/a> demonstrates.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/teN_bFGapCM?start=136\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don&#8217;t know what Trump will do next, but whatever it is, it will be wrong.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to write about the wall.&#160; 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