"If we don't have a wall, there will be death. A lot death."

[ksoze]

Just now with Ted Cruz and John Cornyn lovingly watching him spew his fear mongering. Jesus.

[John Fante]

1. David Frum said it best:

Perhaps somebody pointed out that 15-year civil-engineering projects do not look very convincingly like emergency measures. “My house is burning! Time to begin the process of calling for design proposals for a new fire station.”

[keithbvadu2]

2. Like the death of JFK involving immigrant father of immigrant Ted Cruz?

[Vinca]

3. 368 gun violence deaths so far this year. Not at the border.

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/ There's a real emergency, but it isn't phantom caravans.

[Caliman73]

4. That is his "go to" tactic. Lie and stoke fear.

The problem is that reality is not playing along. The people along most of the border know that crossings along the areas that are not covered by a barrier are rare, that the people crossing are trying not to disrupt so as not to be caught, and that crime along the border area is fairly rare.

You get more crime in the large metropolitan areas of the border, Brownsville/Matamoros, El Paso/Ciudad Juarez, San Diego/Tijuana, etc... that is where the drugs flow through and where the populations are larger, poor, and more desperate.

Trump continues to make himself look like the fool he is and I think more people are paying attention.

[dameatball]

5. The reason declaring the border wall an emergency project is partly about money.

Government procurement (funding, design, contractor selection, etc.) is an ordinarily cumbersome project, as pointed out above. However, declaring a project as an emergency generally lifts many of the usual requirements in order to speed up the project. That would include contractor selection. The potential for money changing hands in that scenario is greatly increased.

[maxsolomon]

6. approx. 7,500 people die every day in the US

one every 12 seconds.

whoop de freakin doo, "a lot of death".

https://www.indexmundi.com/blog/index.php/2018/03/05/how-many-people-die-a-day-in-the-us/

[Tech]

7. Where was the bald patrol?