Texas Installs Triple Barbed Wire on US-Mexico Border

Sunday, July 28, 2024

To protest Kamala Harris' inevitable POTUS candidacy, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) wasted his state's US Army National Guard assets to install triple-barbed wire fence along the border between El Paso and Ciudad Jurez. "Texas holds the line against illegal crossings," the Governor tweeted along with photos of Texas Guardsmen installing the fence.

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"Texas leads nation in mass shootings, and gun statistics point to why: It's easier for teenagers in Texas to buy an AR-15 than it is a handgun, or even a beer".

Gun deaths in Texas rose from 2,848 in 2014 to 4,630 in 2022, a 63% increase since Abbott took office. Texans are sick of worrying about shootings when they go shopping, head to the movies, or drop their kids off at school. But Governor Abbott is wasting time and resources blaming illegal immigrants and VPOTUS Harris for his state's dismal number of firearms-related deaths and injuries.

VPOTUS Harris has never overseen border or immigration policy for the Democratic administration as the GOP claims.

Sources:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/06/03/texas-leads-nation-in-mass-shootings-and-gun-statistics-point-to-why/

https://giffords.org/analysis/texas-gun-deaths-surged-63-under-greg-abbott/

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Texas! Yeehaw! Bulls, boolshee, and drugstore cowboys galore! Hook em horns? He'll, hook em some people on them wires. Them's just Messicans and such.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-07-28 05:47 AM | Reply

Dotard, Abbott, and GOP allegations about migrants and crime were proven wrong: "US citizens commit crimes at higher rates than undocumented immigrants."

Sources:

https://www.ojp.gov/library/publications/comparing-crime-rates-between-undocumented-immigrants- legal-immigrants-and

abcnews.go.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2024-07-28 05:47 AM | Reply

Mornin' Doc! How are ya?

Between all of the shootings in Texas and Florida, I can't decide which state my wife and I will avoid the most. Unfortunately, we are forced to occasionally fly thru FLL/MIA to board our cruise ships.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2024-07-28 05:53 AM | Reply

Doing good, thanks.

And, yup, these days just doing normal stuff sometimes becomes a risk-assessment exercise. I'm unable to find suitable words to describe my anger and sadness on this topic. Goobers with guns is a bad idea. Period.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-07-28 06:43 AM | Reply

Those who get through the barbed wire still get hired by MAGA Texans.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2024-07-28 08:34 AM | Reply

Somebody has to do the scullery work in the restaurant kitchens, manicure the lawns, work the slaughterhouses, clean the Port-a-Potties.

Here's a recent case:

www.oig.dol.gov

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2024-07-28 08:48 AM | Reply

A nation with truly incompetent identity driven leadership such as Biden & Harris that can't even protect its own borders, or highest level political candidates from attempted assassination, needs to protect itself with every citizen being fully armed.

That this same administration now lies about reality at every opportunity instead of always and openly giving us truth and nothing but the truth just enhances the threat.

#7 | Posted by Robson at 2024-07-28 10:43 AM | Reply

Put 'em on double-secret probation, Greggie!

#8 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2024-07-28 10:54 AM | Reply

#7 | Posted by Robson at

MAGA hires the migrants, that's why they come here.

When they come to my red-necked Texas town they all get jobs.

You people depend on exploiting them for your lifestyles.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2024-07-28 10:56 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Good. Electrify these fences too. Make it so painful to come here illegally that going through an established port of entry is the only real option.

#10 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-07-29 10:12 PM | Reply

Good. Electrify these fences too. Make it so painful to come here illegally that going through an established port of entry is the only real option.

POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2024-07-29 10:12 PM | REPLY

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!"

#11 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-07-29 10:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"Good. Electrify these fences too."

Kind of a weird thing for one of The Retort's most notorious fence sitters to say, no?

#12 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-07-29 11:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I see what you did there, Gal Tuesday!

#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-07-29 11:42 PM | Reply

It is amazing how today's chreeestians will reject every single teaching of Jesus Christ.

You people depend on exploiting them for your lifestyles.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2024-07-28 10:56 AM | Reply | Flag:

No one more famous than Lou Dobbs for that right there.

I have yet to see one, JUST ONE magat come on TV and prove that an undocumented immigrant stole his job picking lettuce or tomatoes.

What did happen though was Raygun ALLOWED the meat packing industry to break the unions so they could use undocumented immigrants and prison labor to pad their wallets and begin the assault on the middle class.

#14 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-07-30 10:51 AM | Reply