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Scruffy1

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5. Maybe he thinks he can get more in bribes from someone else.
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 05:31 PM
Yesterday

Living on the border I've had to endure this shit show way to long. Deployed Resources built a 2500 tent facility about 20 miles south of me in 2019. It never held over 68 people and was closed in 2020. They have been caught faking records to increase their billings. It's like sending the National Guard down here for photo ops even though they are untrained and useless. Same with the State Troopers who park their cars along Loop 375 and have nothing to do except collect their overtime. Of course the media ignores the facts and keeps selling fear. Last year they were forecasting a big rush at the border. I paid my fifty cents walked across the Paso del Norte and within ten minutes realized that the tent city on the Mexican was nearly empty and there were very in the informal camps. You would think that someone in the press could take the 10 minute walk over the bridge and assess the situation. like I did. This whole "immigration crises" is nothing but a massive fraud to get big contracts and I assume big dollar kick backs to government officials.

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