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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump says he will make a 'major' announcement on Saturday about border and shutdown
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/trump-says-he-will-make-a-major-announcement-on-saturday-about-border-and-shutdown.html?__source=facebook%7CmainTrump says he will make a major announcement on Saturday about border and shutdown
Link to tweet
JDC
(10,152 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,795 posts)He'll do 4 or 5 if these tv news moments until someone stops him...we must Impeach to save the country.
hibbing
(10,113 posts)Maybe followed by some footage of a mushroom cloud.
Peace
triron
(22,031 posts)akraven
(1,975 posts)It's what he's wanted from way before the election. He likes to blow things up.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,128 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,003 posts)Kajun Gal
(1,907 posts)oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)Dem president to declare one regarding the gun death epidemic and the next one about climate change.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)migrants to come in and Pick Crops.
babylonsister
(171,111 posts)Nothing would surprise me.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Have you been to your local Supermarket in the last couple days? As a ex Grocery guy,things are getting ugly.
babylonsister
(171,111 posts)unless we need them. Oye!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Same Rethug talking points since Eisenhower. Back then they used Stock Cars to deport Hispanics back to Mexico. The next spring thousands of Hispanics were brought in order to plant and pick produce. Delmonte and Hunts went nuts demanding cheap labor.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Most people that stay here undocumented would go home during the short off seasons if they had some assurance that they could return for work. Americans are not going to pick vegetables and fruit and there aren't reliable, cost effective machines to do that. Also, Americans won't do a lot of hard physical labor jobs, even for higher pay.
What needs to be done is a assessment of where temporary immigrant labor can help the economy through things getting done that will go undone if Americans had to do them. Once that is done, our government should work with Central and South American countries to background check potential workers. People that pass that check should be given work visas that are renewable on every return to the USA as long as the person has not been involved in crime in the USA and home. Biometrics and other identification techniques should be used when a person first gets a work visa.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)were abused by Farmers and Growers in and around the sixties and seventies. Here is something most probably forgot. In about the Reagan years,Mexico's economy went South in a major way. Cargill ADM and Bunge were selling Corn in Mexico cheaper than the farmers of Mexico could raise it for. Thus a major migration to the northern big Cities of Mexico and those who had work and travel visas stayed in the US.
So the cause and effect of a Agricultural Program helped create what we have today. As well as the Ageing Trend of the majority White Population and the need for cheap unskilled workers. This picture show was plain and in sight in Eourpe in the fifties. Our Politicians did not want to admit this European show was going to happen in the good old USA.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)another temper tantrum and lie, rage and blame the Democrats for the government shutdown and holding the country hostage. And then I am going to get on my knees and beg for more money for the stupid fucking wall."
He's such an asshole!
superpatriotman
(6,255 posts)He is going to shrink the government so it can be drowned in a bathtub.
The right is calling it a Trump Trap.
Theyre expecting Democrats to cave first. If they do not OMB will start the process to administratively re configure the affected agencies - via RIF- thereby sending thousands of federal employees to the unemployment lines and fulfilling another right wing wet dream.
It aint good.
Docreed2003
(16,905 posts)PS...Nice shout out to you on Thom Hartman today!
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,614 posts)he will reopen the government, allow Turtle boy to being the vote to the Senate and blame the D's for the all inconveniences and any future trouble that arises from not having a wall. Then he's on to other things... ..
bdamomma
(63,974 posts)when he gives it? I'm not watching I will be here at DU.
Appropriate day it's a full moon a blood moon, will he turn into a werewolf??
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,899 posts)He cannot so either. That would be unconstitutional because we are a Republic, not a Monarchy.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)...which allows him to agree to sign the previous CR (since the wall is being built regardless) and stop people from blaming him over the shutdown.
Of course, his action will be challenged in court, and will likely lose. But then he can blame the Obama judges in the court system (even if SCOTUS rules against him) for preventing his efforts to Keep Us Safe. And, in the meantime, his approval ratings wont be tanking among his base because theyre being affected by the shutdown.
Seriously, if I was Individual-1, its what I would do its the only way I could get out of the corner Ive painted myself into without risking calls of betrayal from the Coulters and Limbaughs of the alt-rightosphere.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,485 posts)Crying for attention I guess
Hassler
(3,402 posts)slater71
(1,153 posts)That is why his woman came back home last night.
Joe941
(2,848 posts)bdamomma
(63,974 posts)he's making it sound like a game show! Impeach the bastard.
Dr Vegas
(456 posts)in DC at that time, or has that been canceled because of the weather?
Freethinker65
(10,116 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Kablooie
(18,648 posts)It's propaganda he was counting on so he'll get it out this way.