Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Who will Patrol the Patrol?

Trump is determined to get his way. He did another re-election speech this time in Phoenix and got the police to pepper spray the protesters. He made another speech telling Americans that he will be sending lots more troops to Afghanistan with no end in sight to the fighting meanwhile he criticized Obama for not getting America out of there fast enough. And now he wants to hire 5,000 more border patrol police and will eliminate the polygraph portion to the application process in order to recruit people to take the unwanted job. He knows more than anyone that lies don’t matter! At least not to him.
He lied to us when he said that Mexico would pay for the wall. Mexico emphatically refuses to pay for the wall. Now Trump has new rules for the border patrol. The patrol is not part of ICE but is part of the United States Customs and Border Protection Agency. They wear green uniforms and there are about 20,000 of them who literally patrol the boundaries of this country. In recent years the Border Patrol hasn’t been getting people just for drugs and crime. More people are rushing to our border to escape violence and starvation from Dictators oppressing their people like what is currently happening in Venezuela.
The people are seeking asylum here. They do not run are happy to be caught because anything has to be better than where they are trying to leave from. So a Border Patrol job is difficult in that sometimes they are giving out blankets and offering humanitarian aid and the next moment are chasing down a possibly armed drug dealer. It is a difficult job that needs honest and brave workers. So, Trump’s desire to increase the amount of agents without the proper background checks could leave us with corrupt and dangerous people wearing our green uniforms. People with less important jobs in America have to take lie detector tests. Trump is a desperate man yearning for some kind of praise now at any cost!
The last hiring rush was ordered by Bush after 911. Then he doubled the amount of agents from 10,000 to 20,000 Border Patrol Agents. Then Bush spent $8 million dollars advertising for the job search including sponsoring a   NASCAR   car in races advertising the Border Patrol. The truth is that the job is not so exciting or dangerous. Often one Border Patrol agent has to patrol large desert areas alone. Boredom is a significant part of their job yet they have to be alert when possibly something dangerous should come along. Most of all the law enforcement agencies do require lie detector testing. Without it now it will be real easy for corruption if we hire liars on their applications and those who lie and possibly abuse people or take their drugs and keep it for themselves. We need good honest people to patrol our borders. As usual Trumps not so well thought out comments can be more dangerous than productive.
TRUMP JUST ANNOUNCED THAT HE WILL SHUT DOWN OUR GOVERNMENT IF WE WILL NOT PAY FOR HIS WALL.
Apparently everyone can lie now. Trump got elected partly on his promise to make Mexico pay for his wall.

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