Poll shows federal workers don't prefer a border wall to get paid
"President Trump has claimed repeatedly that most federal workers support his tactic of shutting down the government to enforce his demand for a border wall — including those directly affected by it. But a new poll of government employees shows that few actually do.
According to the survey conducted by the Government Business Council and GovExec.com and released Tuesday, 71 percent of federal workers oppose the shutdown, compared to just 21 percent who support it. Just 34 percent of federal employees surveyed support Trump’s demand for funding for the wall, while 56 percent oppose it. And of those workers against the wall, more than
80 percent say they are strongly opposed to it".
Captain Delirious just can't face the fact that the largest part of the USA doesn't want a wall.
http://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-shows-federal-workers-dont-prefer-border-wall-getting-paid-155101845.html
Fact-checking Trump officials: Most drugs enter US through legal ports of entry, not vast, open border
In their ongoing push for $5.7 billion to expand the border wall, Trump administration officials have repeatedly pointed to the flow of drugs across the southern border as proof that such a wall is needed.
President Donald Trump has used that line. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has, too.
"But an analysis of data from the southern border indicates that the vast majority of narcotics enters through U.S. ports of entry, not the wide swaths of a border in between where additional barriers could be erected.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics, 90 percent of the heroin seized along the border, 88 percent of cocaine, 87 percent of methamphetamine, and 80 percent of fentanyl in the first 11 months of the 2018 fiscal year was caught trying to be smuggled in at legal crossing points. While those numbers deal only with drugs that are caught, border experts say the data accurately reflect the way drug cartels successfully smuggle narcotics into the country".
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/16/fact-check-mike-pence-donald-trump-drugs-crossing-southern-border-wall/2591279002/
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on Wed 01/16/19 11:36 AM