Federal Shutdown Begins Impacting San Angelo

Why are Democrat leaders putting everyone through this? There's a point when people have to stop bucking authority and listen for a change, and this is one of those times. Who cares about their reasons. People need money to live and to be safe. Just be reasonable so we can get back to normal and quit arguing with the President of the United States!

Why are Republican leaders putting everyone through this? There's a point when people have to stop bucking authority and listen for a change, and this is one of those times. Who cares about their reasons. People need money to live and to be safe. Just be reasonable so we can get back to normal and quit arguing with EVERYBODY!!

Three parties came to this dance, the Republicans, the Democrats and the President. The music has been played, and Trump refused the offer of over a billion dollars . Only about half the people want Trump's wall, maybe he should realize that it takes all 3 Branches to operate the goverment. Better a part of a wall this year, than nothing at all. My blame, is placed on the President, he apparently slept his civics classes.

Rita,

The reasons Democrats have shut down the government are fairly simple and obvious.

1. TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) - All Democrats suffer from an incurable case of the malady. They are deathly ill and will not accept a cure.
2. Democrats think illegal aliens add to their voting base - alas, it is true. Most illegal aliens gravitate to the left/right coasts and large cities. Hence the majority Democrat voting records in those locales. Look no further than Dallas or Houston for the stats. The majority of Texas is conservative, except for illegal alien big city hotbeds.
3. Democrats don't care about the safety of Americans - there is no question an open border leads to more crime and violent crime. Not only due to the influx of illegal aliens, but drugs from cartels. If Democrats cared about the safety of American citizens, they would support Mr. Trump's border wall. They do not, so they don't.

The rest is nothing more than political bull hockey from Democrats who haven't recovered from the Hildabeast being defeated in 2016.

Just another attempt by the GOP to deflect blame. If it was such an emergency, why not pass it at the same time the deficit busting tax reform was passed? Well because true conservatives don't want a wall either. It's wasteful and useless. Facts are facts and trump and his bootlickers haven't grasped them. Majority of drugs are driven in, and more folks overstay from legal entry.

3-4 generations of Americans will pay for this useless wall, and many more will see it crumble or rust to the ground. In 2013 then President Obama asked for $3 billion, not $50 to help fast track deportations. It was resisted, by both parties.

"The Secure Fence Act of 2006, which was passed by a Republican Congress and signed by President George W. Bush, authorized about 700 miles of fencing along certain stretches of land between the border of the United States and Mexico.

The act also authorized the use of more vehicle barriers, checkpoints and lighting to curb illegal immigration, and the use of advanced technology such as satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles.

At the time the act was being considered, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer were all members of the Senate. (Schumer of New York is now the Senate majority leader.)

Obama, Clinton, Schumer and 23 other Democratic senators voted in favor of the act when it passed in the Senate by a vote of 80 to 19.

Originally, the act called on the Department of Homeland Security to install at least two layers of reinforced fencing along some stretches of the border. That was amended later, however, through the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008, which got rid of the double-layer requirement.

Currently, 702 miles of fencing separates the United States from Mexico, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection."

COMPROMISE!

Salty...

It's good to see someone posting here who has a functioning brain. You're a rarity.

I can see that I have disturbed the local tentacle of the liberal hivemind with my simple words. I understand that our Democrat Maoists would prefer an enhanced surveillance state—including the attendant costs—to a simple wall between ourselves and the cartel Alaric "Primos" to the south who, perhaps rightly, increasingly see our nation as a laughable target full of rewards ripe for the picking.

For those of us who have thus far enjoyed civic nationalism, rule of law, and the attendant peace and prosperity that these have earned this country, this is unfortunate, but it is, after all, the nature of all things to change. Apparently a wall is impossible because criminal organizations in Mexico learned to dig tunnels. Like bugs bunny.

Take that to heart, American Hispanos. Neither nukes nor armies nor satellite surveillance systems nor the ability to visit distant planets can stop a determined Mexican with a shovel and criminal intent. When they try to convict you, have your lawyer argue that you should be housed in an open field. Walls won't work. Just look at El Chapo...