Dem Rep. In Letter To Trump: ‘Take Your Border Wall And Shove It Up Your Ass’

[kpete]

WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela took a poison pen to the Republican presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, in an open letter Monday morning.

"Mr. Trump, you’re a racist and you can take your border wall and shove it up your ass," the Brownsville Democrat wrote in a lengthy missive to the real estate magnate.

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"While you would build more and bigger walls on the U.S.-Mexico border, I would tear the existing wall to pieces," Vela wrote. "Why any modern-thinking person would ever believe that building a wall along the border of a neighboring country, which is both our ally and one of our largest trading partners, is frankly astounding and asinine."

"Before you dismiss me as just another 'Mexican,' let me point out that my great-great-grandfather came to this country in 1857, well before your own grandfather," he continued. “His grandchildren (my grandfather and his brothers) all served our country in World War I and World War II. His great-grandson, my father, served in the U.S. Army and, coincidentally, was one of the first 'Mexican' federal judges ever appointed to the federal bench."

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/06/06/texas-democratic-congressman-tells-trump-shove-it/

[tonyt53]

1. Perfect takedown!

[roamer65]

2. Yeah, baby!

Trumpf is an asshole.

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. I wish I could vote this Congressman Filemon.

Very well written.

[StarTrombone]

4. Why should the wealthiest, greatest country on earth even have a border anyway

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We have plenty of everything here

Jobs, schools, hospitals, affordable housing, plenty of open land and resources.

Hell, we should be encouraging folks from less fortunate circumstances to move here rather than trying to keep them out.

We have no need to know why and how many are here, we should just be thankful that people of the world want to share in what we have.

And the Trumps of this country can go fuck themselves!

[Angel Martin]

6. is this satire or a serious post ? nt

[Hekate]

9. That's just...weird.

[StarTrombone]

12. Was John weird?

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace... You, ..

[Hekate]

16. That's a Sunday school prayer, not real life international relations. Have you noticed Putin...

...working on reconstituting the former Soviet Union, if not the former Russian Empire? How do you think the Ukrainians feel about their borders just now? The Poles, the Czechs? Think they're sleeping easy?

The US is just incredibly lucky to have friendly neighbors, and building a wall is too bloody stupid for words (and all too reminiscent of the Berlin Wall, which was designed to keep people in, not out). But just opening our borders without doing anything to regulate the flow of economic and environmental refugees from Central and South America is a recipe for chaos of every sort, especially given the sheer quantity of privately owned firearms here.

Try again.

[StarTrombone]

19. So, Trump for President it is then

Are you sure that you're on the right board?

[Hekate]

20. Sez the guy who got here day before yesterday to a member since 2002

Cute.

[zappaman]

23. !!!

[phazed0]

26. Members from 2002 don't necessarily need to exude logic, either.

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"The US is just incredibly lucky to have friendly neighbors"

Really, you think that's true? Or does it have something to do with the fact that the US strong arms everyone all the time and it would be stupid of other countries (especially the ones next to us) to go against us? Hmm. Sure that has nothing to do with it.

"and building a wall is too bloody stupid for words"

From the "H" in your logo, looks like that's exactly what you're supporting.

[Hekate]

28. "exhume logic"? The more I try to parse that the funnier it seems. Are the two of you....

....returnees from having been, well, you know, tombstoned?

Oh surely not.

JURY: I am being :sarcastic:

[phazed0]

30. So are you going to discus the issue at hand or

are you going to berate other users for cell-phone spell check? "Exude" was what it is supposed to be. So now that we have that important bit out of the way (more so than say, an election, it would seem) maybe you will be so kind as to stop deflecting on typos instead of offering you're supreme knowledge (JURY: based on a post count, Hekate's rules) on why Hillary, 8 months ago, was for a border wall and has been for some time (and voted for it multiple times)?

Now once, you can answer that, I am interested in hearing how you think it is appropriate to apply criticism upon Trump when Hillary virtually wants the same thing.

Post count. Wow!

[2banon]

35. She's "evolved". She voted FOR borders and walls before she voted.. oh wait

she said this when SoS. ok, so she's evolved now that the Donald wants to build walls, she gets to say she's always been against that idea. cuz she's evolved, she made a mistake.

[phazed0]

40. Notice the crickets.. nt

[nxylas]

46. Lennon himself said that the key word was "imagine"

I don't think he intended it to be a manifesto, more a list of "wouldn't it be nice if..?" pipedreams.

[warrprayer]

27. Yes

John was weird.

So was the post.

[TonyPDX]

5. Don the Con would have to remove his head first. n/t

[Catkin]

7. Finally!

If more people who have a strong voice would speak out like this, creeps like tRump would wither away. Thanks for the post!

[3catwoman3]

8. Well said, Representative Vela.

Very well said.

I second the motion.

[malaise]

10. This is how you deal with

Don the Con

[tclambert]

11. Donald Trump's $20 billion wall can be beat with $20 worth of rope and a grappling hook.

But apparently Republicans don't think anyone could ever come up with a plan to defeat their wall. Climb over, dig under, knock a hole in it. Nope, too sophisticated for Republicans to think up.

Three predictions if they ever start building such a wall: 1) As soon as they finish building a section of it, they will turn around and see people climbing over. 2) They will claim "No one could have foreseen" this failure of the wall to keep people out. 3) Faced with the utter failure of The Wall to prevent illegal immigration, they will call for building a giant moat along the entire border (even on the mountaintops).

[elljay]

14. Don't worry- that's a good thing for them

There will be massive federal contracts build the damn thing. It is a positive to the construction companies and to the Republicans if people can get over/under the wall because repairs and improvements create more profit opportunities. Why build it once when you can keep building it for a decade? No doubt there are construction companies already lobbying the Republicans for this business.

[Ilsa]

33. The irony is that the construction companies will hire the Mexicans

to build it on the cheap for Donny.

[Angel Martin]

32. so if this wall will be so easy to defeat,

why is there such a fuss from illegal immigrants, mexican cartels and this congressman ?

[Hekate]

37. Because it's a stupid & unAmerican plan. Please show links to comments by those you mentioned

The congressman made a righteous rant.

The undocumented and the cartels are not the same people at all, as I hope you know. Links, please.

[Angel Martin]

38. those opposed to the wall include

http://www.mediaite.com/online/el-chapo-allegedly-offers-100-million-bounty-for-donald-trump/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/national-council-of-la-raza-president-trumps-wall-will-be-be?utm_term=.wp3WL4gBY#.akn9a5J7x

[Solly Mack]

13. K&R

[Penn Voter]

15. This Can be a New Country Song

"Take this Wall and Shove It!"

[King_Klonopin]

44. Thanks for the yuk!

I think we are being nearsighted here. If we build a wall along the Mexican border,
in 3000 years or so it will become an obsolete, ineffective tourist attraction --
like the Great Wall of China! Think of all the jobs it will create, too....

[yellowcanine]

17. It could have been worse. He could have said "wrinkled old (Biblical word meaning donkey)"

[yellowcanine]

18. "Border Wall up the Ass" would be a great name for a punk rock band.

[ohheckyeah]

22. .....

Nobody would ever think to swim around. LOL

[ailsagirl]

24. "A request for comment from the Trump campaign was not immediately returned Monday."

I will be interested to hear what that bloody neanderthal says to this!!

[phazed0]

25. Too bad Filemon Vela didn't take the time to write two letters...

Oh, yeah.. that's right, hmm....

You posters might as well apply that to the 'other' person too.

"I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in. And I do think you have to control your borders." Hillary Clinton (11/15)

[malaise]

29. He's on Chris Hayes Now n/t

[The Wizard]

31. The best way to address Repubics

put a finger in their faces and don't back down to their feigned outrage. When their on their heels push them harder.

[Skittles]

34. I APPROVE OF THIS MESSAGE

YES INDEED

[ProudProgressiveNow]

36. K&R nt

[lonestarnot]

39. K & R

[Zambero]

41. Sideways!

Kudos to the Congressman.

[gopiscrap]

42. Excellent

[KelleyKramer]

43. Well that's going to leave a mark!

I guess Trump will throw another crybaby fit over it

[Feeling the Bern]

45. Responses on my facebook

"Spoken by one of the most racist liberal people in Congress." Liberal and racist don't really coincide. But that's the new meme. Disagree with a conservative, you're a racist. Accuse them of racism and you're the racist.

"Unprofessional. How dare he use language like that?" Cheney telling someone to go fuck themselves was okay though

"Deport this Mexican." To where? His family's been here almost 175 years.

[Tarc]

47. +1

[47of74]

48. Can we clone him?

Please. I think an army of him will be enough.

And yes Mr. Trump. Shove that wall up your ass in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and then some.