'Absolutely ridiculous' to militarize U.S.-Canada border over COVID-19, Higgins says
Source: WBFO All Things Considered
Rep. Brian Higgins (D-Buffalo) is blasting proposals in Washington to start sending American military to the U.S. border with Canada to help all of the federal agencies that now patrol the border.
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America's longest undefended border totals around 4,400 miles and hasn't been militarized since after the American Civil War.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a news conference Thursday he is aware the proposal is being looked at by those who say it would help thwart the movement of COVID-19. He said Canada is in talks with the United States in hopes of avoiding the deployment. Trudeau said it is in the best interests of both countries that the world's longest unmilitarized border remain that way.
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I can't wrap my head around this. There is no possible benefit from doing this.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)rocktivity
(44,576 posts)that Mexican citizens have started taking action against possibly infected Americans fleeing across the border, LOL!
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defacto7
(13,485 posts)msongs
(67,413 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)As he struts around, holding the power of life and death over the heads of people he doesn't like, he gets off on the power of it all. This is the malignant part of that diagnosis of malignant narcissist the shrinks have been warning about since the election.
Make no mistake, he is LOVING this. And by throwing red meat to his drooling hoards of mouth-breathing, knuckle-draggers, the biggest chunk he can toss them is a BIG ASS MILITARY display.
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)When Americans start fleeing there to flee the coronoavirus.
It's already started in Mexico: Locals "have shut a US southern border crossing amid fears that untested American travellers will spread coronavirus."
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DENVERPOPS
(8,835 posts)Pretty soon Mexico will be paying to erect a wall against Americans flocking to Mexico......
DENVERPOPS
(8,835 posts)If anything Canada should be arming their side of the border to prevent Americans from going up there.......LOLOLOL
Besides, the border patrol crowd are wussies, and it is cold and snowy up there........
BrightKnight
(3,567 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Blackjackdavey
(178 posts)but this is 100% a thing they believe. I live astride the border. Trust me, it is a thing they believe.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)kedrys
(7,678 posts)Also NO you can't have our maple syrup.
paleotn
(17,931 posts)Nah, nah! But sugar maples don't know no borders, so it's sugaring time all over the north country.
The guys down the road from me have cranked up their operation. Lots of tote tanks being hauled in and out of the woods this time of year.
kedrys
(7,678 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)kedrys
(7,678 posts)Not the wimpy downstream beer you lot seem to favor. Sometimes with maple in it even.
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)...and flexing his ability to deploy the military fetishizes his ego.
No other reason.
paleotn
(17,931 posts)What were they going to do? Hang around the border crossings? Hell, I know of several places you can just walk into Canada, far from any border checkpoint. Handy to know if you're on the run like in The Handmaid's Tale.
BrightKnight
(3,567 posts)As soon as the boating season opens Canadians are gouging to be flooding in for Trump Care ventilators.
Stuart G
(38,434 posts)a hundred miles or so?............. ... or a couple of hundred miles???
How long is the Canadian Border ..........in miles please.........thank you.....
DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW LONG THAT BORDER IS????? I DON'T.......
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OH NO>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>In the original post...OP. top post of this discussion it says............
....................4400 miles......is that correct????? oh ?????
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that is ok...I make mistakes and I am willing to admit them..............unlike some people
bfjd4u
(13 posts)The benefit is to advance their cause. They're probing and trying all kinds of angles to find an excuse for declaring martial law and suspending the election. Since most of the people in this country are content with trading freedom for comfort, there's no reason to think it won't happen. I mean, what do you think these right-wing fascists are doing? Do you think they are just wasting their time in the persuit of media-circus sensationalism? They are taking action to achieve their goals, because well, you know, it can never happen here.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Which he often does, then lie with more exaggerations , but with this out of control compromised criminal he could start suggesting he take them over because of his latest excuse he'll use to justify it, which will be all lies.
BrightKnight
(3,567 posts)Even George W. Bush was smart enough to say Canada is like "a brother" to the United States.
I dont know what Trump is smoking but someone should make him pee in a cup.