Texas Gov. Abbott sends fleet of cars to form "steel wall" along southern border

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) told Fox News Tuesday that he has sent hundreds of state-owned vehicles to the southern border to form a barrier to prevent migrants from crossing.

Why it matters: It's the latest measure taken to block the entry of migrants around Del Rio, Tex., where thousands coming from Haiti have taken refuge while trying to seek asylum.

Earlier this week, images of border patrol agents whipping and charging their horses at migrants along the Rio Grande drew condemnation from U.S. officials and sparked an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security.

What they're saying: "What we did, we put hundreds of Texas Department of Public Safety cars and created a steel wall — a steel wall of DPS vehicles — that prevented anybody from crossing that dam that you’ve seen people walk across,” Abbott told Fox News.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-gov-abbott-sends-fleet-205725013.html

Lincoln project had a better idea.

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1. Abbott has to be loosing his GM mind. Who can climb over a car?

How many state cars are to be, or have been, taken out of service to "build" this ridiculous semblance of a wall?

I looked at the photo on the link and from what I can see, the cars/trucks are lined up with their headlights on and facing the border. It looks like they are manned and about six feet apart. That's rignt, manned with lights on and spaced apart.

WTH is that? Does Abbott think this can be sustained with men in the spaced apart car?

How ridiculous. Abbott is such a full with this all-in trump playbook tactic. trump's attempt at an actual, physically built wall faied. What kind of stupid thinking believes this make-shift facsimile of a wall will work any better?

Just stupid.

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2. I think these red states want to provoke

the federal government into a conflict, as the means to an end.

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3. A lame stunt by Abbott.

Aimed at trying to make the Biden Administration look bad, as well as distracting from all of his other bullshit.

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4. The reality at least in my opinion is that Abbott falls short in his attempt.

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5. I'm sure he knows the border between Texas and Mexico is 1254 miles long.

Block one location, and they will just go around it.
It's gonna take a whole lot of SUV's to stop them. If you put one every 100 feet, it would take over 60,000.
At over 50,000 a pop, it's gonna cost way over 3 billion dollars.

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6. I can see it now, and all too clearly

"Good morning. Department of Public Safety, how may I direct your call?"

"Ma'am, this is Ellen Jones. I'm currently sitting in a traffic jam on I-35E about five miles south of Italy. There's been a road accident. Three tanker trucks got in an accident. The tanks have been breached and there's liquid spilling out onto the road."

"Thank you, Ms. Jones. Can you see the sides of the trucks? There should be a diamond-shaped sign on the sides of the trailer. If you could, read me the numbers on those signs."

"Yes, ma'am. One of them says 1790."

"Uh-oh. That's a truck full of hydrofluoric acid. You know the scene in Breaking Bad where the two guys melted a hole in a cast-iron bathtub with some weird acid? The stuff that did it is leaking on the road. What's the second number?"

"1005."

"Anhydrous ammonia. Oh dear god. And the third?"

"1824."

"Sodium hydroxide solution. You've just described your worst fear come true. Now honey, I have a very important job for you to do. I need you to go to all the houses in a five-mile radius of the plant and tell them to drive to Waxahachie this very instant. If that first chemical comes in contact with either of the other two, it can kill millions."

"Aren't the police supposed to do that?"

"Yeah, if our idiot governor hadn't sent them all to the border."