People are still tweeting at me the 10 miles new wall figure is not accurate and trump built over 300.
I have receipts.
Bush Signed the border fence act in 2005-2006. the first map shows in red where the work is to be done.
Second is last weeks DHS maps. WHAT DO YOU SEE? THE SAME
2/ here is what President bush signed into law in 2006: ( you can't dispute this because, well it is signed Law and easily searchable)
The Secure Fence Act (2006) instructed the Department of Homeland Security to protect 700 miles of the U.S ( the redlines above are 700 miles)
3/ 123-mile-long vehicle fencing along the southern boundary of Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument forms, one of the longest continuous physical barriers on the U.S. border.
4/ Half of the 650 miles of barriers along the border are designed to stop vehicles only. The rest, like the fencing in Presidio, Texas, is to halt foot traffic.
5/ Secure Fence Act calls for 130 miles of this 18-foot-high metal pedestrian fencing to be built in Texas, mostly near urban areas and international bridges.
6./ If you take the 700 miles of border wall system and look at the DHS " new wall system" is the the fucking same + new 9.4 miles.
Come at me bruh.
7/ Obama admin came and over 8 years issued contracts to replace vehicle barriers like these ones with taller structures. I am trying to add ten all up together to give you the exact miles combined
typos but fuck it I am busy
Yes trump is replacing low normandy beach style barriers with taller bollard fencing that is decimating the environment. the issue remains: trump will claim 400 miles of new border wall. it is not accurate
if you want to explore the Data of the border fence/wall in details, including times-dates-locations, and which segment was built under what admin, go to Reveal's border fence shapefiles on GitHub github.com/cirlabs/border…
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To sum up Flawrida’s new history of slavery spin:
Slavery in the US was a successful voluntary foreign employment, training and personal skills empowerment program.
People across the Atlantic abandoned family and clothes and jumped on ships for a piece of the new American dream.
2/ these volunteers hid deep in hot rat infested tight spaces inside merchant ships & even chained themselves to each other and to the ship’s beams in a form of a modern sit in protest to remain on the ship and not be asked to disembark.
3/ these foreign African workers, determined to live the American dream, overcome with joy and enthusiasm, didn’t even care about food while crossing the Atlantic. They all said: we will grow our own food and cotton when we get to the promised land. Hell we ll even do it for free
If Twitter ends tomorrow or this week, this is my most cherished memory of being in this hellhole.
The Internet Raised $1K to Send Taco Truck, Mariachi Band to Racist NYC Attorney - VICE vice.com/en/article/qvn…
My third favorite twitter event, when I assumed I was crazy when trump started talking about the traffickers and the border and I realized he was basically repeating what he saw in a movie, then, maddow confirmed it a few days later
I remember when former presidents left after a peaceful transfer of power, didn’t take boxes of classified material, didn’t get raided by the FBI but rather got together, roasted each other and raised money for humanitarian causes.
Watch this, then think : Trump.
It is insane
To be fair, this was trumps participation at the event to raise money for hurricane relief
Even when dubya, the guy who started an endless bloody war, black site waterboarding, the patriot act….was likable in these moments when he made sense and inadvertently predicted trump. Listen.