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Remember this day well 11/1/18. The day POTUS announced building concentration camps to house asylum seekers and said anyone throwing a rock at a soldier will be shot.
(Brian Karem)
underpants
(182,626 posts)Runningdawg
(4,514 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Among other things, he said the U.S. military is mobilizing along the Southwest border, and that if migrants try to throw rocks at them, the troops should act as though the rocks are "rifles."
He also said that the U.S. is setting up "massive cities of tents", "thousands of tents" for the illegal immigrants. The overall numbers he claims could be 10, 12 or 20 million people. "The size of Vermont" he says.
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underpants
(182,626 posts)Lots of memes about it at the time. Don't be shocked when I tell you it was blown completely out of proportion. Tent city the size of Vermont huh?
2naSalit
(86,332 posts)the Israelis do so... why can't our troops shoot rock throwing people in dire straights too?