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How some CBP agents feel about the wall has no bearing on the actual realities of building a wall. People don’t dismiss the idea out of hand because of the peop
by thr0wawayzh 8y ago
How some CBP agents feel about the wall has no bearing on the actual realities of building a wall. People don’t dismiss the idea out of hand because of the people who hold the idea, but because _it’s an objectively bad idea_. And that’s after “doing my own research”. Did your friend ask those agents how we would pay for the wall? Or how we would maintain 2,000+ miles of wall? Or how we would handle the massive ecological damage caused to migratory species?
And do keep in mind that it’s possible to be a racist without explicitly saying it. This can of worms never opens well on HN, because 99.9% of the people here have always had pleasant interactions with the police (i.e. they’re white), but American law enforcement, especially CBP, tends to hold certain views about people who aren’t white, and that’s how you wind up with immigrants being denied basic things like water and medicine.
- jcoffland 8y ago> HN, because 99.9% of the people here have always had pleasant interactions with the police (i.e. they’re white) I'm white and as a teen growing up in Idaho I had many unpleasant interactions with police. Once two friends of mine and I were stopped at gun point just for walking home at 2am. The excuse was that there had been some thefts in the area. I guess we looked the part. Granted, there are not a lot of black people in Idaho. I was actually quite surprised when I moved to NYC and realized that the cops weren't looking at me any more just because I was white.
- 8note 8y agoi mean, if you'd been black, you'd have been stopped at bullet point instead of gun point...