The latest quote from Trump concerning the stalemate over funding his WALL:
“I may declare a national emergency dependent on what’s going to happen over the next few days, we’re looking at it very strongly. We have a crisis at the border of drugs, of human beings being trafficked all over the world. They’re coming through, and we have an absolute crisis-and of criminals and gang members coming through. It is national security. It’s a national emergency.”
Journalist, Michael Greenberg, has written, In the Valley of Fear, the first of a two part series on Mexican migrant and longtime Mexican American farm workers in California’s San Joaquin Valley. It is clear that this group will continue to be exploited, abused and scapegoated by the political establishment over the issue of the WALL whether it is built to Trump’s specs or not.
Thousands exist in a cordon of terror, and this is true in California despite its sanctuary laws. Some Californians argue that sanctuary laws have actually made matters worse, by turning ICE into a roving paramilitary force beefed up by an ever-increasing budget and egged on by the president’s open contempt.
As things stand, there is a labor shortage the magnitude of which hasn’t been seen in at least ninety years. It has prompted growers to rip out labor-intensive fruits like table grapes and plant almond trees, which require relatively few workers……In recent years, millions of dollars’ of unpicked crops have been plowed under or left to rot in the fields.
A mad nation. McQueen got it right in 12 Years a Slave. People whose self-asserted primacy requires them to prove it with enormous cruelty, an exercise that ends in psychotic nihilism.