Won't happen. He doesn't have right of way, plans, bids, yada yada. He can't do it. There's no need to fund the fantasy.
pietro_BOS AP= Propaganda
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Have you ever heard of stairs and tunnels? Well, narcos have and they don’t seem to care about your wall
Only 1 in 5 vehicles is searched at the border. Approx 400,000 vehicles legally cross the border daily. That means 320,000 vehicles ARE NOT SEARCHED, allowing a shxt ton of drugs to be transported hidden in cargo, personal trucks/cars in the wheel wells, etc. 116 Million/year
FACT CHECK: = RealFakeNews
Now would be the perfect time to smuggle in all he's fearmongering about. That's what him & Putin's meeting was about shutting down the govmt,distracting to lift sanctions & do other Russian business👀
Just as Border Agents have said as well; most smuggled drugs and smuggled humans enter thru ports of entry, not the areas where Trumpet wants to 'build a wall'. He is ignorant of life realities, like being hungry or homeless.
Ap you are fake fact check
How the heck would they know if they didn't catch them? Just another talking point. Do they not understand how stupid that sounds.
Fact check the AP is fake news
Trump is a NAZI liar. Americans had better think very carefully before you become Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia. If you take that path, then there is no return for you.
It would be better to open up discusion with Mexico they need help
Yes, we know that, but trump keeps pretending otherwise, which tells us how little he thinks of our intelligence. He really counts on us being totally stupid; aren't you insulted by that?
FACT CHECK: The AP, a once prominent news source, has been reduced to just another media booster for the liberal Democrats. There really is no difference between the AP and Buzzfeed.
Oh AP why would any American listen to you 😲
So you say
JohnWesleyShipp For 45 'Fact Check' = 'Bullshit Thermometer'.
Does trump even care about drugs?
Can’t we get an iq test on this one I’m guessing 20 at best...
Not the Mexico/US border
Build the damn wall!
Who gives a crap? Little harder to smuggle warm bodies at a point of entry and that’s the real point of the wall.
I guess you missed the part about using other tech to inspect vehicles. The money also goes to that not just the wall
Mexico is paying for the wall. Trump said he is keeping his promises.
We’re living on Earth 2 where facts are as meaningless as Trump University.
If they know how the drugs are getting here why do they let them in
This is some seriously dumb stuff right here. Isn't it amazing that the only place on the border where we are catching this, is where we actually have an impediment. While having exactly no clue, how much comes across the parts that aren't impeded.
Lets fact check AP. If a wall would free up more border patrol agents would we be able to better police entry ports?
President Trump , don't fear calling for a state of emergency You have more support then you know . People now see the evil of this women , Nancy Pelosi has just become the most hated women in America , When you call for the SOM deport her to mexico that's where her heart is .
trump claims, trump says, trump believes that is the problem
That is exactly the opposir
despite its grandeur, it often proved ineffective as a defensive barrier... Guess realDonaldTrump what this is in reference to. senatemajldr SpeakerPelosi JohnCornyn tedcruz SenateDems SenateGOP WhiteHouse HouseDemocrats HouseGOP
Most not all. We miss much at checkpoints and 50 pound bails come over the wall or cross Rio in boats.
Huelfox2 Reportedly, the narcotics from Mexico is brought in on seafood trucks. Said narcotics are buried in ice(cf. to prevent detection) and shipped up to Denver, Colorado. Sometimes, the tires of said trucks have human blood smeard on them to repel K-9 units(cf. drug sniffing 🐕 dogs.)
realDonaldTrump’s wall will do nothing to stop the flow of drugs into this country. The problem is Americans are making a big market and the cartels are only serving that lucrative market. The flow of drugs will stop we Americans stop buying.
Why don’t you buy more drug dogs SpeakerPelosi NoWallEver
Maybe Americans should stop taking drugs, that are being trafficked. This is a drugged up nation.
He won't listen to facts, that's why this wall is more about something else besides national security. Like personal profit.
Fact check, be nice if you showed the numbers we could reduce or thwart with efforts made to improve our borders. What that we might save your cousin, or your child, then you would report otherwise. Ignorance is an excuse, but placing misleading advertisements like this is Wrong
I mean did trump ornhis supporters even think the wall would stop drugs I mean you gotta be a total fool to believe that. America is a massive drugs market and as long as there is demand it will always get through, always. Them smugglers will always find a way.
Exactly.
You purposely misrepresent the facts. The DEA is reporting what they FIND....The FACT is, they are more successful at the ports. NO ONE knows how much crosses the border between ports. Smugglers go where it's easy.....no walls = easy
Besides 400 people just dug under a wall in AZ. So there!
How many drugs are smuggled across the border undetected? No one knows....
BonHommePS What a fake news source. Let me explain for your tiny liberal brains to comprehend. If there is a wall. Everyone will be funneled to a port of entry where there would now be more security and agents as the wall is doing their job now.
Ask El Chapo Guzman and recheck your facts.
Wall is only about Bigotry and the empowerment of white Christian supremacy. The symbol of Hate!
So your saying that the 10’s of thousands of illegal crossers who don’t get caught, some of them are not carrying drugs? I say build the barrier and let’s see what happens to the drug levels. That way you can know for sure! Win win situation I think!
and the majority of illegal aliens fly in (usually Canadian overstaying) so how would a wall help if it doesn’t help stop the drugs or the ‘illegals’ ?
No. Alot comes through the entire border.
realDonaldTrumpIsFakeNews
Go further. Most immigrants do as well. The 'wall' is not going to fix that.
Trump's border wall is nothing but a monument to white supremacy. It is just another version of those old statues of confederate generals on horseback.
Yeah No drugs come over the open POUROUS BORDER are you kidding me .. shameless remark Fake news for sure.... Mexico cartels are at war on the other side while murders cross border.democrats get your act together and one American DYING IS TOO MANY NEW IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE NEEDED
With his magic wand Pooooof....the economy is at it's best in fifty years... Unemployment down GDP up
Of course drugs are being smuggled accross the border
Stupid Donald Trump is the king of Fake News
Avoiding the truth For years Politicians get ta stepping Do you duely duty..... Represent Americans Not illegals
Those damn facts anyways. I want my wall, so I can talk about it till I die.
Fact check: the HOR Democrats’ refusal to pass a CR with border wall $ is what is keeping federal workers from being paid.
Yeah so there’s a wide open border and most drugs come through port of entry where it’s crawling with CBP and DEA. That must be a fact in Bizarro world. Buildthewall
Like the DEA knows. If they knew, we wouldn’t have the fucking drug problem we have
Why do they always leave out the part about corrupt personnel who take bribes to look the other way. Not saying they all do it. Just a tiny faction.
So are you confirming or denying that the Texas City of San Antonio has been moved 150mi to the USA-Mexican Border and has a wall?
How exactly are you measuring the drugs that cross the border between Ports of Entry that are NEVER Seized. Are the Drug Cartels calling you guys up & giving you the amounts or are you guys just that fucking stupid to think anybody believes what you say.
Then you haven’t been to border check here in Temecula. You would be amazed at the amount of drugs that they try to bring in here. Smugglers try everything they can think of to get the drugs here to the states.
Kawika1123 This isn’t fact checking. This is opinion checking. Fact checking is checking facts. You aren’t checking facts. You are checking opinions. Please be honest...
We need to boost our law enforcement. Add more law enforcement personnel. Add technology. Punish companies that look the other way. Better vetting programs. More technology along the border and more border patrols. As seen recently a border wall is not going to help.
IndivisibleIL Those pesky facts again.
Still doesn't know what he is talking about. Just spouts off with no facts...45 needs help....
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- Thank you! Too little coverage manages to contrast claims with the truth.
And you know this because every lb and ounce of drugs sold is accounted for from production to end user?
Gee didn't know the banks of the Rio Grande River was a port of entry as 700 pounds of Cocaine found there.
*most*. What about the other *49%* of drugs smuggled between points of entry? If CBP is so effective finding drugs at PoEs, why are there so many drugs from Mexico getting to Americans? Drug cartels are making a lot of money from drugs not interdicted at or between PoEs...
But if u have less places to enter, doesnt that mean u can concentrate ur efforts with manpower and tech?!? airbasedefesne101
Fact Check: Border wall WILL stop drug smugglers. He didnt say all drug smugglers and you know it. Devious little FakeNews pimps, arent ya?
Can someone Please in Heavens Name tell me why he stoped Nacy P from going on her trip. And then has a Meeting without Her? Is he Retarded?
BuildTheWall
Considering we really can’t account for how much crosses illegally since those folks aren’t caught! Brain surgery
Say it's all over Twitter about that 700 pounds of drugs found not coming through a Port of Entry this week. Did y'all report that?
Be aware that the drugs that crossed undetected between ports of entry were not included in the tally. themoreyouknow
who in the DEA? do you have a source? copy link? sounds like fake news
The same ports that are secured by the Coast Guard, whom are not getting paid. Just sayin
We only seize a tiny fraction of the drugs entering the country. We have no idea where the majority are coming from
AP fake news
'From the late 1990’s until 2014, Colombian sourced heroin was the most prominent form...available in the U.S. Since 2015 most of the heroin sold in the U.S. is from Mexico.'
He only listens to the sound of his on voice. The data shows that the bulk of drugs come in through legal entry points. Get a clue for crying out loud. You claim you’re a billionaire, but one for bloody sake!!
It will at legal border crossing. Talk about that.
What they mean, is that they 'find' more coming through the entry ports, due to much more security, inspections, and choke points. No one really knows how much we don't catch and it is misinformation to claim otherwise.
When republicans controlled both houses he couldn’t even get their support for the wall
The AP is fake & Bias News
Is your point that we should just ignore the S. border because the “ports” are more important? If you get shot twice, and have one wound bleeding worse than the other, is the solution to fix the worse one and then just, what, leave the other one alone?
The fentanyl is coming here from China. Most heroin from the Middle East. Fact is, no wall will stop addicts from getting what they use. Only way to stop supply for drugs is to find new paradigms to treat/dry up demand for them here. Trump is OCD on a wall/not thinking.
What is wrong with you? Have you not heard the DHS, CBP and Pentagon all say that a Wall would make the US safer?
Did he say it would stop all? No You fools need to quit putting words in his mouth Will it stop everything? No. Will it stop much of it? YES! Stop supporting criminals
Can't trust a trump. Never could, never will.
senatemajldr this is not NEWS! TrumpAddress Pick up head up and educated your president! OpenTheDamnGovernmentMITCH
The President’s Border Security plan gives more money for the ports of entry so they can have more people and technology to assist their efforts to stop this drug trafficking at the border of Mexico.
i guess you idiots didn't hear his address. He is asking for more resources for ports of entry etc to stop the flow of drugs. Stop trying to tear the President down and see If you can help heal the country or simply stop being biased in your reporting.
Trump is always right remember. He knows everything.
How can you say 90% of illegal drugs come in through the ports...when you don’t know for certainty how much drugs IN TOTAL came into the USA? The size of Illegal Drug Seizures by DEA cannot be equated to the unknown size of an unknown quantity.
Smugglers have money and are in cars planes and boats. They don’t have to walk.
I'm pretty sure the POTUS knows more than the 50 year old, dedicated drug task force.
If those trucks are driven by white guys it really isn't a focus for us. We are concentrating on the drugs being nuked by the godless non-whites
If it’s true, that drugs are coming in through vehicles, then we need better checkpoints ....
Fact check: the DEA doesn’t know the quantity of drugs being smuggled across the border that goes undetected. Because ...it’s undetected. Don’t let that get in the way of your guys’ Trump hating though. Carry on
Fact check. The President also said he wanted “ $805 million for drug detection technology to help secure our PORTS OF ENTRY.” If you are going to fact check something try using facts. DemocratLie FakeNews
Probably why his plan includes more feet on the ground, more technology, and more checks SPECIFICALLY at ports of entry! Also, he plainly stated we have natural borders that do not need a wall but need other methods of protection! Damn. Half story reporting!
The package he describes seems pretty comprehensive and address most of the requests by Border patrol officers, I'd think the guys that patrole the border would have the best view of what's neede
Because that's where they catch them! They have no idea the numbers that get through non entry points if they don't get caught? Who writes this nonsense?
Drugs get past the U.S. borders mostly 'by land, not by sea,' said Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson... a 2015 Washington Post series on the surge of heroin puts the border detection rate at a scant 1.5 percent.”
There is nothing magical about a wall. Thank you, AP!
He never said it would 'stop'. AP.....😒
Please, spare me the BS. What kind of idiotic statement is that?
The wall is a useless distraction
Trump claims a lot of thing, very few of which are true. He relies on people believing what he tells them to believe.
DEA = CIA. of course they don't want a border wall. would ruin their business. maga qanon qarmy .chuckwoolery .PatriotNewsChan .GenFlynn
AP is so out of touch and tainted. Not real news anymore but part of the deep state. ap is FakeNews
That is why President Trump said Wall is KEY - but we also need more security at ports of entry and tech ... etc. .. but the WALL IS KEY!
We need to protect America from Trump and all of his Nazi henchmen
Let’s just do nothing then
And just who is fact checking AP's fact checking.
This point has been made many times before. He just keeps repeating the same thing. Not dealing with logic or the logical here.
They same organization that coined the phrase,' fake news', turns out to be the greatest source of lies in media.
The “wall” is ridiculous!
I would imagine that Trump is a compulsive liar. Compulsive liars do not even see their lies in the way we do. They have an automatic response to come out with whatever they think will serve them best. Whether it is true or a lie simply does not enter their consciousness.
You can't confuse him with the truth....
realDonaldTrump false claims that drugs pour through illegal immigrants crossing our border has been refuted time and again ~ yet he still touts the same retoric to his Base, and they lap it up.
Drug smugglers are also known cartel members not just the actual drugs.....the people who make it move too.
I honestly feel what the wall may do is decrease the amount of illegals crossing the border.....unless of course, if they choose to swim or tunnel through, what can stop that?
Hey SenCoryGardner read this!
Makes no sense. So since 'most' drugs comes through points of entry the rest of the drugs that come through other pionts is ok.
When the more powerful country in the world consider more important whether to build a wall or not rather than figuring out better ways to provide shelter, food and healthcare for every soul on this planet it means hate and lack of empathy are winning and I can only be ashamed.
That’s a problem best solved by technology & more agents to inspect. But that does not take away from the need to secure the portions of the border outside of the port of entry. Illegal immigration is bad for American workers, something dems have suddenly forgotten.
AP=FAKE NEWS, we know exactly how illicit drugs enter the US
He thinks San Antonio's WALL brought crime down immediately. San Antonio and so many other places...ha ha ha ha ha! Could you be more stupid realDonaldTrump DidTrumpOpenGovernmentYet ResignOrBeImpeached CadetBoneSpurs
Fact check: a border wall WOULD stop drug smugglers who cross illegally. It's a fact, Jack. The equipment they need at border entry would stop drug smugglers at ports of entry, which he also asked money for. You left that part out. Semi fake news, !!!
And the terrorists try to come in from the northern border.
So did you miss the part about the 805 million for ports of entry? 🤔
'Most' is not all. This fact check is a lie.
Most drugs dea find come thru the controlled points. But a lot comes thru where there is no barrier the dea is only aware of what the hey are seizing not what’s getting thru collectively.
Oh yeah, those stupid drug runners send all their goods through our ports of entry, rather than using areas where our border is wide open. This really explains the more than 79k deaths from heroin each yr in our country. The Associate Press, where Buzz Feed writers are educated.
He didn't say it would stop
Facts elude trump. NoMoreLies NoMoreTrump EndTrumpShutdown RadicalRacistPresident
If we had more barries, resources could be shifted and targeted to those gaps. BUILD THE WALL
Why are you misleading? The 2500 agents and technology will help find narcotics. You are FakeNews
Build the wall.
SOLUTION: funding for the Wall for fully funded Obamacare. Wall4Obamacare
I heard many border patrol officers say just the opposite...the wall will alleviate the flow.
Here’s a suggestion: America, stop consuming drugs!
This is bull. People walking across the border unencumbered in some cases and they are not carrying drugs? Stop it ... I am sure they are just carrying a spare toothbrush with some extra underwear.
If a wall will substantially reduce illegal dru trafficking, it is a worthy endeavor.
U don’t know what u don’t know. How do they know if drugs passed through open borders that r not monitored? Not just about drugs. About child trafficking too.
It's a known fact that Donny really doesn't know anything.
BS
How many times have I seen this fact? Trump continues to lie and people continue to believe him. I do not understand why.
People need to remember that during the 70's and 80's cocaine got to South Florida from Columbia without a problem. A whole ocean could not stop the cocaine train. Supply meets demand.Also a whole lot of illegals arrived too. We need to rethink the wall. Maybe another option?
Since when has realDonaldTrump ever let the facts get in the way?
Yes, but does that tell us how much also get through where there is no barrier, no. How do we know if they are not caught what actually gets through?
That's why the president's proposal includes $805mil to develop tech to detect these drugs. Don't go there way of BuzzFeedFakeNews
Drugs would stop flowing, if people quit using them!! Sounds so simple, but it costs money to help people combat that need!! Invest in people!!
With wall they could focus more manpower and attention on Entry ports as opposed to chasing people around in the desert where they're free to roam into this country with no barrier idiots.
Trump hurts people. That's what makes him happy. The GOP supports that. Health care, hurricanes, families at the border, tariffs, shutdown, taxes, and trade war just to mention a few.
Most drugs that are 'seized' are in ports of entry. So AP how much comes across border not 'seized'. Exactly. 26% of our prisons are filled with illegals. At 31k per yr that's 22 bill. A yr!! They're not sending their best. Fact Check my a..
Can’t change idiot, just not enough brain cells to come out on top !!!
I would imagine that Trump is a compulsive liar. Compulsive liars do not even see their lies in the way we do. They have an automatic response to come out with whatever they think will serve them best. Whether it is true or a lie simply does not enter their understanding.
The wall isn't just about drugs AP. At least we know what this President is doing for this country. Many others before him were all about being political correct.
Isn’t that why he asked for 800 million in drug detection technologies?
It is clear that only the wall is a whim.
And he is asking for additional money for that, judges and housing for the illegal immigrants. Tell the truth fake news.
The statistic you use is false, you only know about the drugs you detect. You don't detect those coming over undetected. Somebody needs a true journalist.
Don’t try to confuse him with facts! It messes up his hair when you do that. He makes up a story and sticks to it.
The wall isn't just about drugs and he is not just building a wall to address this countries drug problem. At least we know what this President is doing for this country. Many others before him were all about being political correct.
Don’t be obtuse
Did you not listen? He talked about adding technology to find drugs at the border
Does anyone ever think it’s Americans who buy all these drugs? The Mexicans aren’t forcing them down anyone’s throat. They just fill a demand. I guess it’s easier to vilify the brown guys than to look in the mirror at our one country.
Sign up the order to build the wall and resign to maga today +++++++++
'I will take the mantle - I will be the one to shut it down... I'm not gonna blame you (Chuck ) for it...' DJ Trump. LockHimUp GovernmentShutdown 25thAmendmentNow abdicate
Holding firm on wall ...... DACA three years extension ... report the damn news
So what is your solution
RussMarasheski Delusional man. Should not be making any kind of policy
A wall will not eliminate the DEMAND by Americans for drugs and is a typically political bromide that ignores the depth of the problem. Where there is DEMAND there will always be SUPPLY and any strategy that doesn't address both components of this economic axiom is futile.
Fact check this: your a biased organization. AP associated with liberal Trump hating reporters and media. You will never be perceived as fair ever again. Alternative news abound
That’s the $800 m to enhance security at ports of entry. So if you stop them at the ports where do they go next? Open borders. Keep up, it’s not that hard.
That border wall is not a magic bullet for anything. A wall would still require all the other means of security, plus additional costs of maintaining it. Much of what a wall would discourage would find its/their way here in another manner anyway.
So Obama and Schumer were wrong when they said that the US needs a wall?!! Lol! UcN’t make this idiocy up!
BUILD THE DAMN WALL!!!!
Trump is stuck on stupid.
The fuck is this fact checking? You breakdown that more focus could go towards ports which could crack down on it? Eliminating problem A puts focus on problem B. But don’t let common sense get in the way of your “facts”.
Ap you are just like the rest fake news
One would have to ask yourself. Why would the government fight so hard to keep thousands of miles of border so easily accessible, to keep the drug trade and human trafficking trade alive? Follow the money into their pockets
This story is a perfect example of the corruption in our government. Using the media to end common sense thinking and facts. One would have to be a moron to think the majority of drugs are sent to a border crossing full of police when we have thousands of miles of nothing to cros
Not true, Read the DHS report. More drugs may be found at border crossings because that's where the walls and officers are. They are only measuring what they find. They find drugs where the protections are located.
AP FACT CHECK, FACK CHECK: most means not all.
ArkansasBlog It won’t stop all narcotics, but it will help a whole lot, and anyone who wouldn’t want that is crazy....if it saves one life it’s worth it!!!
Are you implying that POTUS45 is blatantly lying? If so, you should just say so.
Building the Border wall will half the Crime in The US...really!?! 😝
This whataboutism argument really makes you look even more stupid. Its akin to saying to a person with two gunshot wounds you'd rather watch them bleed out rather than tend to one wound and then the other.
FACT CHECK: The AP stands for ALL PROPAGANDA
Lorileereed realDonaldTrump facts do matter.
The last drug bust was in Philadelphia..,
Actually the wall might promote more drug smuggling within the area because the area will not be watched as closely and patrol schedules can be worked around.
What?! Trump lies and gaslights again!! 🙄
DEA does NOT patrol the border
williamspat929 Trump should watch narcos Mexico it'll give him a good idea of what's going on.....
Trying to justify the unjustified.
AP news is fake news you cant trust there reporting
How would they know that?
This wall isn't about stopping drugs. Do something about these racist Americans who hired immigrants to clean, watch their children, do their landscaping, roofing, etc, etc! Knowing their background, and paying them less than minimum wage. Just using people!
So don't the narcos during El Chapo trial
Real life fact check: check with local Tribal, city and county Police along the border and you will get a different answer. DEA does not count what they don't find and they only find drugs at check points.
Below, you will find people so indoctrinated by the mainstream media to blindly hate Trump that they'd actively oppose the safety of their countrypeople, just so they can feel superior. Don't worry. We'll pray for you too.
AP and Buzz Feed on the same IQ level. Trump has done won 2020 and 2024.
How about the other 40%. No need to stop that? This stat is a a guess. How do they really know how many drugs come into the country? I mean, how do you quantify something you don't have?
U know the proposal includes more than just added barriers.....smh
michaelwhudson No most opiate abuse can be traced to the Sackler family.
Ever hear of mules
Maybe could use a little common sense! Even better, go take a look for yourself!
There is no magic bullet for drugs. But it will assist Border Patrol with keeping the area secure. It will reduce traffic not at points of entry. Witch will help DEA and Border Patrol find more drugs
How come no one fact checks news articles like buzzfeeds
Ridiculous headline. Yeah, its clear a wall wouldn’t help. Drug smuggling would obviously go up w a physical barrier. Funniest part of msm is how DUMB they assume their consumers are...
Barbiewithatude
Maybe not all drugs but some and some is better than none. And same could be said for illegal entry.
Just last Monday hundreds tunneled under the wall. Wasn't very was breached by shovel technology
Most not all
Hence the 800 million for drug detecting technology at the border entry ports.
We are getting closer to a solution Fences, as they have been put there by Clinton, Bush and Obama, serve a purpose. Repairing and extending them in strategic places will enhance border security. DACA should be permanent. And the gouvernment should open now. No conditions.
Helenhs It's over, Trump Pence Show is now off the air. No more drama. Please reinstate the Real President Hillary Clinton. This Trump Pence Show is horrible, pls cancel now for the sake of this country. FBI SpeakerPelosi NewYorkStateAG PreetBharara RepAdamSchiff CREWcrew maddow
You should report when Trump shares real facts. It would make your job easier because that rarely happens.
Helenhs A bit hypocritical standing there off his tits on Adderall.
is He God that he cant make a mistake...... Come on
InactionNever He’s full of shit.
You’ll never be able to stop drugs. It was here in the past, present, and future.
Media speculation
Fact check this: “if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor”
I live by the border in South Texas. Every so often we hear stories of drug bus by legal points of entry. What good is a wall to start drugs coming in?
Who believes the media. You people say everytjing trump says is lies.
Facts are what we all need to coincide on and perhaps we can ……. THEN …… get somewhere? 2+2 is still 4 ……… right?
Haha, idiot! They’ve been going under or by air for a looooong time. He brings the sins out of me!
cryborg Don’t forget the massive amount of drugs brought in by BIG businesses. They are the biggest and worst culprits.
all news source are allowed to lie to us all!!!! Don’t believe any of it people. We are all being played as fools
Now if people are successfully entering illegally how would they know most are entering this way 8f they are entering, for the DEA to know this would mean they knowingly are allowing them through. Anyone who makes such statements have flawed logic.
Bullshit that mean they don’t do their jobs at the entry points
It's all going to be improved. Fact check your own gibberish
cac_ac22 Bone Spurs has created a National Crisis. He has weakened our coastal defence, as well as our Air Sea Rescue capability, and made air travel less secure. He has done this in the name of National Security. He is derelict in his duties as CIC. Congress must act DJTDONTSPEAKFORME
And through tunnels. And on planes.
randydrsmith also there's the opioids...WallAroundBigPharma?
Now do gun laws
A ton comes over that border too.
Most ? So we need a wall to stop the rest just proving his point
And therefore nobody needs to care about further protection...at least close certain loopholes...?! “If one window doesn’t properly close, just leave the complete house way open...” Is that what you’re saying?!
randydrsmith SanAntonio
Trump is trying to improve border security what is You problem AP ?
Texas_Dexter Yes! That's has been said dozens of times, already. Why it hasn't penetrated Donald's thick, orange-tinged head yet is because Coulter and Limbaugh run this country. They're calling the shots.
False. You know it, too. Try reading before making up fake facts.
All Dictators are Dishonest and Scammers and Liars and Psychopaths!
Read it!
DEA letting the drugs through? My question to them is what percentage is coming through ports? Percentage around the walls? Percentage by boat? The only way to make that statement is that you know where ALL the drugs are coming across. Or does DEA stand for Dems Elicit Alliance
Our ports of entry could be better staffed and supplied if we had a wall and weren't wasting our resources elsewhere.
trump HAS ENDANGERED AMERICA,LEFT US WEAKENED%&DEFENSELESS. AMERICA IS IN DISARRAY, PROFITEERS of PURE HATE are ENRICHED THEMSELVES setting America AFIRE with their US versus THEM. CATHOLIC YOUTH are ACTING LIKE SUPREMACISTS.. AMERICA HAS BECOME ROME B4 IT'S FALL
If there are any drugs coming across the border then build a wall. Only a fool would believe that it will stop all drugs. Your politics is showing.
Or not
FakeNews... my God, AP you are scrapping the barrel. We all know drugs flow through in all areas, but FactsMatter. The borders elsewhere are heavily watch, armed and patrolled. The Southern Border is not, and drugs, guns and people flood over. STOP PUSHING HATE FAKE NEWS
Won't happen. He doesn't have right of way, plans, bids, yada yada. He can't do it. There's no need to fund the fantasy.
BlckdByJilZarin
He said to improve security at both points of entry as well as the barrier. The border patrol catches folks regularly walking across with drugs as well as at points of entry. Improving both is good for America. Just sayin
AP should watch Clint Eastwood's new movie 'The Mule', instead of doing the Dem's propaganda !
Dhhhhhhhhhhhh About drugs traff. What about A.S.L Air Sea Land Mr President Changing the subject from Migrants to drugs is a false assumption ! Treating Migrants as a problem is your main !
Why are you ok with ANY drugs coming across the border?
LOL. How would you know how drugs not being caught are smuggled? Obviously those getting nabbed at border don’t make it into the states. Ignorant logic.
Easier than transport through the stricted border!
He never said it was a silver bullet. You fail to mention additional measures like increased detection equipment, etc. FakeNews
We're getting the wall, deal with it.
You forgot to mention that American citizens are being murdered by Illegal aliens. Which Trumps any kind of rebuttal someone may have. People are DYING. Drugs would be secondary to people DYING. At the hands of illegal aliens. Does that make sense? Jesus Christ man.
Diana_Chumley Just assume everything is a lie. Might be easier to fact check
BL_St1 Hey, realDonaldTrump ...read this! What a chump! TrumpFM
That is a true statement but it assumes transport and checks at entry points will remain static.
At least by 50% he said.. Idk but something has to be done.
So Obama Bush were all wrong too !!!
This is more fakenews.
So what is the percentage of smuggling not through ports of entry? Numbers please, otherwise it is obfuscation.
Please stop your unfact checks against Trump. Horrible twisted reporting 👎
And not a word about the actual issue at hand: The government shutdown. Re-open the government & we can negotiate about border security.
They didn't talk to the agent who spoke to us yesterday.
Oh you mean the statistic that cannot know the number of drugs that get through the border and pass points other than points of entry How can they possibly know .
What's the big deal about building a wall?
Obviously the author of this story is Anti-Trump. Look at the hatred in this story. This is not an unbiased story
Fake News. Like the DEA knows how much drugs comes across the border for all of the traffickers that they don’t catch
DEA report linked says the bulk of heroin in U.S. comes from Mexico. It does not say most of it is hidden in trucks that pass through entry points. If they knew that the trucks passed through an entry point that would be an admission that they allowed it to pass.
The largest amounts -- tons of pot, 1000's of kilos of coke, dope, meth, fentanyl come from underground train systems it's amazing the size and sophistication of some of the tunnels that have been discovered by law enforcement agencies DEA ETC
Remember, Trump's wall is not about border security, it's about collecting 'Royalties' from the construction firms building the wall. Everything Trump did in the last 2 years was for himself and his family. The wall runs under the same profit-making scam.
Lies lies lies TheEnemyOfThePeople
border security as anyone with a head knows requires a wall after we have a wall then we can think about fortifying ports of entry and amping up their security
martyvidnovic Facts mean nothing to him
ITS WIRED THAT IN AMERICA , OUR FLAG AND ARE CULTURE OFFEND SO MANY PEOPLE . BUT OUR BENEFITS DONT . DEMOCRATS ARE NOT WORKING ,AND THEY CAN CARE LESS ABOUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE . THEY A GLOBEL WORLD I GOT SOME NEWS FOR YOU THERE ARE MILLIONS THAT ARE WILLING TO DIE TO STOP IT .
Mojocitarita Trump is using the wall for a distraction to cover for himself
damian_godden Such a liar!! If only lightning were used to fact check this shitgibbon turd. He's be roasted to the same crispy critter, that Pervitin has left his tiny brain condition in. Oh did I mention the racist concepts that he presents so easily as true facts. Brain is toast. 🐘💩
How the fuck would we know if there’s no wall to stop them?
Then I suggest the entry points be beefed up & trained better!! Make more check lanes and slow down. The commuters can wait their turn, just like at airports!!! Cry-babies 👶👣
Fact check this. If they know it all comes through there how does it make it's way across the country? The easiest method is the unsecured places along the border. And the method is people used as drug mules, and backpacks. Doesn't take much to make up losses at the ports either.
There is no denying it will mitigate illegal immigration, however. Res ipsa loquitur.
Lets say that’s true. So what ? “Most” could be 60% or 70%. That means a large portion are still coming through at other locations where there are no barriers, natural or otherwise
rmojomojito1 I think I’ve seen the facts on this and I would hope most Americans have, obviously realDonaldTrump has no grasp on reality or facts.
COMMON SENSE: AP spins narratives because they only hire nitwit leftists.
So that is your reason for opposing a secured boarder Your fact check only proves that we should secure the boarder and place efforts into stopping at the port of entry
Dum as a rock. I'll bet your so dum you can't figure out who I'm talking about. Let me help Donald. You can take it from here right.
If ending the shutdown was based on Trump telling the truth then the government will never fully open.
He can’t even tell the truth on prompter
livegreenordie The drug epidemic that we currently have don’t cross the border, but from citizens doctors and pharmaceutical companies!
“Most”.
Why even fact check anymore. Clearly facts don’t matter
AP FACT CHECKS? 😂😂
Hey AP the wall funnels the drugs to the port of entry check your facts
The wall is a smoke screen for Russia investigation just like everything else he throws out there For some reason this seemed to stick the longest on getting more coverage then his others Hopefully people will loose interest and then we can see what WHOPPER he throws out next
5.7 billion dollars should be going to America's infrastructure not some damn fence that a majority of Americans don't want!
True, much of the DRUGS go through the entry ports. However, those drugs are shuttles by ONE GUY. Once they’re over the border, mass distribution takes place. How do you think THOSE GUYS sneak into the US?
Trump talks and then fact checks prove him utterly incredulous to actual facts. What is new?
I don't believe Trump when he says anything. He created his image in the style of deception & dishonesty. I don't doubt that he has a plan to take over as dictator. He's using the GOP now, but he'll toss them when he's done with them. realDonaldTrump MSNBC FoxNews CNN ABC
Well he is pretty dumb, so the fact he doesn't know this is no surprise.
Do not let the Flood of drugs reach us! We want mental freedom!
AP Fact Check. Now that’s some funny shit. AP is a BS want to be professional journalism company.
Can somebody just show him Breaking Bad
We need an expanded border fence. Illegal immigrants cost taxpayers money and they are sometimes violent towards women, which is more socially acceptable in their homelands. Trump definitely exaggerates the degree to which they negatively impact the US.
It’s impossible to know that, unless you actually caught each and every illegal who crosses, and determined if they have drugs. You people are stupid!
gracels Which is why he called for better drug detecting technology at ports of entry in his announcement today, as part of the overall funding. Try to keep up, AP.
You are supposed to be 'News' not a propaganda outlet for the far-left Democrats.
Ohhhh, so the drugs come thru legal P.O.E. so its all ok then, no need to spend any money on additional border security🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Not this week!
Let's not deny the fact that pharmaceutical companies are the biggest drug cartels in America.
C'mon that isn't his reason for wanting a 'Wall' built
ElsaRamonOnAir So... It's not going through the wall in San Antonio Tx? 🤔
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Wanderer19 MAGAts are as dumb as IQ45 who thinks San Antonio is a border town with a wall that’s very effective!😂
Trump will say anything to get his way. For him, it is about his perception of winning. NoWallAtAll OpenTheDamnGovernment UnfitToBePresident
That’s why POTUS proposed money for technology improvements at ports of entry to detect drug smuggling.
That's a completely separate issue.
Trump refers to the wall as southern border & wall. So when he says drugs at sb it means entry ports where people check in before coming in.
I think we discussed this a couple nights ago. I think it was with you... greatcarpentry2
Will there be a retraction for this story too
dmrider It's as if he has no idea what he's talking about. trump
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️if the DEA knows where it’s getting in why aren’t they doing a better job of stoping it . Answer It’s getting in from everywhere !!!! Build the wall and stop that part and Fire the DEA if they know how it’s getting in but aren’t stoping it
He didnt say the wall would stop drugs..he said it would greatly reduce drugs...
Or in the mail from China, or in southern waterways CoastGuard. Then you have over our northern border. Or ones medicane cabnet at home. Wall will not stop drugs.
Most that are caught are at entry points.
he said it would help. Quit twisting words. You are the deciever. It is for an area they request a wall. Quit lying to the public.
Except you didn’t listen to what he said. His proposal includes fund for new high tech drug detection equipment to be used at points of entry. You guys literally can’t get anything right anymore, huh?
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Why the hell isn't anybody talking bout our home grown drug smugglers & dealers? There is so much drug manufacturing in America. How bout American terrorists? We acknowledge how wrong this wall is but we also need to remind everyone nothing is done bout our own hand in this.
He wants technology to be put at those points. Quit grasping at straws.
Drug smugglers bring 700 lbs of cocaine into US, then flee into Mexico across border with no physical barrier
By definition, how undetected narcotics enter the US is unknown.
So why does the border patrol want it? And if, we increase security at the ports of entry, I wonder where the smugglers will try and bring them across? 🤔 AP is going all MSM ... 🤦♂️
Build that big beautiful wall.
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Its fascinating the concerted effort to find ways to pretend there isn't s problem on the border with many of the people or fentanyl crossing through open areas. Activism by the media should be tempered by fact not ignoring them out of blind hate.
Another day, no dollar; we the people got shafted again! I find it absurd to shutdown the government over funding the frivolous wall which is really about a gimmick to payback the contractors or others who contributed millions during political campaigns! Sign of incompetence!
What does he know? He doesn’t smuggle drugs just use em
Just a conman, he can't help himself. He certainly can't help US. Everything he is involved with has a 'bubble' (which could burst with bad results); nothing is ever settled at home or abroad- Putin, NKKim, MBS, Syria, tariffs, XI, NAFTA, border orphans, + TrumpShutdown CNN
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There’s no need to deal with the facts in this!
Valid point but 200 more miles of barriers frees up hundreds of Border Patrol agents to conduct more extensive searches at check points. Think of it in terms of automation...
crazyfamilyomg And then there's that pesky business of all the meth being made in hick towns
The wall won't happen. Years of legal challenges & billions $. Two years in & Trump decides he wants a wall. He's been more interested in pandering to dictators, dismantling policies & destroying relations with allies.
Nothing is 100% jerks it wintbstop it but it can help
burgerplanets Should have stopped all vehicle traffic coming in from southern border years ago to stop the drugs if they really wanted it to stop
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Does anyone else think that maybe this administration wants drugs to come through the ports of entry? Why else would they suggest such an antiquated method of stopping them instead of using high technology scanners and other methods that might actually work?
Really? When we really have no clue how many people came here illegally. But we are positive most drugs go through ports of entry? Having a hard time believing that.
FACT CHECK: A wall would help
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All rational people know this. But tRUmp isn’t rational. Whimsical madman 🙄
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Never said a barrier in and of itself is the silver bullet. Any rational thinking American knows that. Come on, we didn’t fall off the turnip truck, we are driving it Nancy.
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ActorAaronBooth Don't forget those people who make the long walk up here and giving their kids birth control pills... Yet lack shoes, water, and only the clothes on their backs.
Fake news....he said it stop a lot more... not all
A border wall would free up more agents for the border crossings.
'The government would have to seize a lot of land to build a wall. That didn't end well for many Texans the last time that happened.' We investigated with ProPublica in 2017:
He saw his shadow today, so we get 28 more days of government shutdown.
Why don’t you try something unique and say something positive about Trump for a change? I believe you Fake News outlets don’t have itbin you. The hatred is so bad for realDonaldTrump you will do anything to try to stop him. God bless POTUS! FakeNewsMedia
What us your point?
Like planes, trains, ships, cargo drop, helicopter, most of them at ports along the coast. But a wall will totally stop boats shoring up at New York and San Fran. Totally.
They really have no way of knowing since they only seize a small fraction of what enters the US each year.
Funny, boarder security does not agree.
So because most of it came by tucks... Nothing should be done for the one that came by foot? Make little sense.
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what a garbage article by the because realDonaldTrump did talk about enhanced port of entry drug prevention. one would think after the fake ass BuzzFeed crap that wouldn't push fake news about the President but Calvin Woodward just couldn't help himself! FakeNewsMedia
realDonaldTrump will say anything to secure his vanity wall. He’s not to be trusted nor believed. NoWall🚫
Facts !
RadioChio Close the border then.
AP fact check....
Did y’all fact check Buzzfeed too or y’all just save that treatment for Trump? Fake News
Drug Smugglers Debunk Democrats, Smuggle 700 lbs of Cocaine Across Border READ MORE: © Neon Nettle
SinCityChrisS1 Facts do not matter with this guy.
And to see the words associated press and fact-check together is absolutely hysterical! The leaders next to CNN of fake news
More fake news from the AP! He did not say it would stop drugs from entering our country he said it would greatly reduce the drugs coming into our country! and if you don't believe a wall would stop some of the drugs then you all are definitely a liberal idiots
It will slow them down UNLESS we have some Sic new Tech going down 2 the port of entry that can it ALL! Awesome we shall see
The wall is just a visible structure for Trump to strut in front of and spout his rascist lies on immigrants. Nothing more. It will be of minimal use to help border security issues. Obvious to anyone who can read and think rationally.
'Most' is not all. 'Most' is how the Dems justify fighting against a secure border. Trump never said the wall was the sole way, but the Dems hate him so much they'll lie. They love their lie more than America, and the MSM are the paid puppets of the left.
DEA is well aware that seaports and airplanes are the main methods. Small airfields all over the country.
Yolie_Rios Everyone knows that except him!
No argument, Trump's claims are lies at worst & misdirection at best. Nonetheless, his latest proposals include significant investments in human & technological resources to tighten up contraband detection at points of entry. Wall claims aside, this represents a step forward.
Let’s make a deal with Fat Nixon. We will let him build the wall but if there is one drug bust afterward. The wall comes down and he resigns.
Most 'seized drugs' are at ports of entry. Now do the 'unseized drugs' that kill our citizens.
Trump is accustomed to making deals through lies, deception, cons, scams, fraud, tricks, threats, bribes, etc., so he is lost and bewildered dealing with facts and truth.
TheEliasRework Most of the drugs enter through legal ports, which means that border agents, some of them, must know when and where drugs are entering. It would be naive to think that without authorities helping them cartels could transport them so easily.
Those are the facts but like most facts, the Trump admin denys them, twists them or ignores them. potus is wrong and is holding thousands of innocent gov workers as hostage like a terrorist. Doesn’t he know America doesn’t negotiate with a terrorist?
FakeNews fact check most narcotics caught are captured at border crossings because most drugs pass through the desert unchecked
TheRealDjango This is a man's hand! realDonaldTrump
That's it? That's all ya got?
DEA May have said it & maybe you just pulled 1 guy out that claimed it big difference
How would they know?
Drug smugglers go over and under fences too!
How much heroin can you carry across the border in a backpack?
Trump knows more than everybody including facts!
You might want to relisten to the rest of Trumps speech. It includes upgrades at entry points and new technology. Get real people.
American Fact Check. If we had a wall to stop illegal crossings then we reallocate manpower to ports of entry to help stem the tide smugglers and sex traffickers.
You might bebright,but trump too is right,and he never means that only wall is enough,surely way and posts controlbwd be much eadierthen.
You obviously skipped over the fact that he's demanding funds for new drug detection technology at the points of entry but alright, you keep doing you fakenews
He also thinks San Antonio is on the border...
Why do banks have vaults when there is a lock on the front door?
Only 30% of drugs come thru the border? That's billions in drugs AP.
APneed is pathetic.
OK. Along with the wall being built w/ only 4 ports of entry, all commercial vehicles must stay in their country of origin. All goods moved, searched, scanned, sniffed and X-rayed. Then loaded onto trucks in destination country. realDonaldTrump DonaldJTrumpJr BuildTheWall
We all know this.
Wall is 'part of stopping drugs not the grand solution, this isn't hard idiots.
How do the dealers and gang members enter to sell the drugs? Fact check if there is a problem on our borders with Mexico.
Once the wall is up we can correct that issue also
Dea agent:if this people(smugglers) put their mind in other endeavour they would have solve a lot of thw world's problem, cuz they keep find new and ingenious way to hide their contraband.
Oh you’re right You leftist series of fish wraps...A wall will never work since walls have worked for centuries. Your side of the argument is sooo wrong to the point beyond absurdity!!! MAGA
And go through Canada as well.
Ya but it wasn’t just a wall you ap assholes. It was also extra hired security with higher technology. AP you are as communist as it gets
Most but not all. It’s moronic to think a wall would not make smuggling drugs into our border more difficult.
Most but not all. If it cuts it down even at 25% or so, it’s worth it.
This dude is obviously stuck in the past and never heard of a drone. Even Amazon contemplated using them for deliveries.
dustyedwards I nominate Trump to be the best snake oil salesman in America and maybe even the world.
After building the wall, it will definitely reduce those border crossing smugglers, and they can use more patrol source on the entry ports, I don't know why people are so against it, it's not apartheid, it's just a visible border
When you have to use the term “most”. Kinda loses the impact
By using the term “most” you are now comparing apples to oranges. Trump didn’t say it would stop ALL drug smugglers and it doesn’t matter if MOST drug smugglers come in a different way. Another example of the media contorting what Trump says to make it seem like a lie. FAKE!
Fact Check: AP Sucks!
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“We can stop heroin” - my ass.
Did you guys really pay attention to speech? Reply with pause to digest
That may be the case but just ask the ranchers that live by the border where there is no fencing or barrier and they will let you know people cross there all the time and so do DRUGS!
IF the DEA knows this... Then why aren't they doing something about it? This is just another ridiculous article meant to sway public opinion and nothing more. BuildTheWall
But it would help and of course the extra funding for security at ports of entry would help as well.
Serious question: how can this be known? The success of drug smuggling depends on the authorities not knowing how it's coming in.
Maybe if we had a wall we could staff the ports better?
Logical fallacy..... soo tired
Ah, Trump was also asking for $$ for 2400 border guards, and new equipment to scan for drugs at the legal crossings. Didn't you report the unvetted, unverified FakeNews from Buzzfeed?
Trump’s silent organized crime partners more likely to be involved in Drugs...
How many times did you fact check the last guy in charge what’s his name, eight years of no fact checking, imagine that
Why does the host of 'The Apprentice DC' kept making up his lines? The ratings are in the toliet.
And then there is this
how does the brilliant DEA know how much of the drug trade comes through ungarded portions of the border? Sounds like more fake news!
ap and fact check. Please stop. I am laughing too hard. Please stop
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Oh my gosh. Then the wall must not be about drugs coming across the border after all!
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I guess AP is pro drug smugglers.
I’d say the POTUS Would have more info than 2 bit media org.
AP your part of the problem not part of a solution!
Fact Check. The angry left claims banning AR's will stop gun deaths but statistics say most gun deaths are committed by bad guys with hand guns.
Then why did Democrats support it for years? Bologna! He called for all kinds of border control.
Yeah. And he mentioned that as well. What the hell has happened to our press
JxnFreePress U intend to capitalize off that wall . A blind man can see through that hustle !
Maybe that's where it is mostly caught. However if they are catching it at the border where are the drugs coming from? The ones they catch are not the drugs that make it in.
Fact Check it wouldn't!
if you have more agents at the ports because of a wall freeing them up, doesn't that make sense? Sorry, I am middle of the road on politics, but that one makes sense to me.
I mean he is a compulsive liar soooooo🤥 and he should definitely be fact checked
Didn't we go over this already? You👏are👏not👏getting👏a👏wall (unless you get Mexico to pay for it in full like you promised)
This administration knows this. Its just not scary enough when you are trying to scare people into buying the lies
More fakenews! Sheesh. You have no shame even after the Buzzfeed debacle. What's most? What's the % that goes undetected? Wow.
If it stopped one delivery and saved one life, wouldn’t what President Trump is doing be worth it?
'Beautiful concrete walls around all of the trucks and other vehicles as far as the eye can see!!'
I mean.. now you’re pretending he said it would stop all...
It always works when people read a bogus headline.
FAKE NEWS/FAKE FACTS................. I mean do you zealots/propagandists think you have any credibility left?
Trying to communicate FACTS to an ignoramus like Trump, is like trying to teach a snail how to speak. It ain't gonna happen, you're wasting your time
Ok so let’s give up? AP do better u idiots
This is about 36 months late
So they can't stop it, but they know how much gets through?
More AP fake news
But it’s the illegals that come here to coordinate the operations of these loopholes that allow them to supply MS13. Stop with your liberal foolishness and to protect the democratic agenda to keep disregarding American born families. Immigration reform is a 1 priority now
Fact check: POTUS said drug smuggling would decrease not stop all together. The world is much better when it’s not viewed through the lens of black and white
FACT CHECK - The government can't even keep drugs out of prisons & they have walls, razor wire, 24/7 guards, cameras, body searches, room searches, & more.
FACT CHECK, DEMOCRATS NEED TO DO THEIR JOB!
Known known
You obviously didn't listen to the whole speech. He also is asking for over 200 million for advanced screening technology at ports of entry to scan vehicles for narcotic substances within body of vehicles
CNN said 60% come through legal ports of entry. That means 40% dont
And no border patrol profits from it?.. that's hard to believe.
Trump knows more than the DEA, remember? He knows more than any general or politician, and his wall needs to have big gold 'T's every mile so we know its his wall...
AP are you telling us news or are you Donald Trumps political enemy if all your good for is to carry water for the the Democratic party why should we believe anything you say including world market and world events.!!
Anyone trying find out who might be making money on this Wall thing yet ?They are pushing it someone s making money on it the other reasons are a given if the gop get the win that means they are still in control votes will not madder
Wait are you saying that Trump lies. Shocking.
So...Donald has no idea what he is talking about? No way!
Common knowledge. Our so-called president is a moron. And that might be his best trait.
anyone with 2 brain cells would know, the border is about so much more than drugs, and human traf. the west is under attack, we do not want to become Europe with all it's problems, so using the talking points that won send the snow flakes into freakout mode is the way to get it
BethCas63738975 And adderal enters through his snout.
JxnFreePress AP fact check is an oxymoron.
“Most” is the key word. Small amount to pay for the drugs, lives lost and cost to taxpayers each year (more than 100 billion a year). But AP, you keep fighting for illegals over American citizens.
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...any amount helps...
White nationalists don’t care. They don’t care about actually stopping drug smuggling, it’s about keeping a white majority in the US. That’s their true agenda.
A fact Trump knows well - it has only be repeated a billion times. He never lets inconvenient facts get in the way of what he wishes people believe, or in the way of calling these inconvenient facts 'fake news.'
So he gets the TSA to admit they're useless. He gets the DEA to admit they're useless too.When does the winning stop, and when can we start appropriating the funds for those useless organizations to something useful? Let me guess. Orunge man bad, TSA, and DEA gud.
Exhausting narrative.
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The president said did it would stop most drugs crossing our border. 'Fake News' is a polite way to refer to the old Soviet style disinformation campaigns. It's planned, deliberate and focused. It's frightening and shameful that this is taking place on American soil.
Yep, he's a liar!
I used to work for a media outlet where was considered a highly reliable source. What has happened? You are now nothing more than a mouthpiece for the left!
poozer87 It's a start. It's a commitment to sovereignty. We demand it. BuildTheWall or watch this federal kudzu shrivel and die. It works for WeThePeople, not the other way around.
So our check points need the funds and the attention, right?I can support that. An extended wall is a stupid boondoggle and there is no support from me for that. Yep, better border security would be good, more wall, no.
You missed the parts where he said improvements in ports of entries and technology to detect drugs.
The President is right.
THAT is not what I and many tohers are hearing from them and Border folks....
Fact Check: leaving out word “siezed” changes meaning. Most illegal narcotics siezed.....It is easier to catch them at entry point. It doesn’t mean there are not more getting in elsewhere. If a tree falls in the middle of the forest, does it make a sound?
He also stated ports of entry need better drug detection technology. So no your headline is incorrect.
beverly44889890 Yeah,the entire 'factual info from his own administration' thing is just so hard for him to wrap his head around.
Associated Press has no idea what facts are.
He included $800,000 in technology to help identify drugs coming through the ports. The wall would help with the rest.
Just so we are all clear, POTUS is a compulsive liar. He is also a criminal. His children are criminals and everyone he associates with is a criminal.
Another Fake News story by
Most, but not all. So don’t try. Genius.
If true, if we had a wall, we could focus our efforts on vehicles going through an entrance point versus focus on a thousand miles of terrain.
In other words: Trump lied. Again.
Once you create a bottleneck then you check all vehicles.
hey numbskulls! DEA IS CORRECT... I can pass an 18 wheeler every hour on the hour into Mx.....a Wall with entry points WILL STOP ME DEAD! You have b*lls...I’ll take you into Cartel land past Federal with bribes and head lined streets in the middle of no where! Most Ghost Guns
Heres a memorial, with pictures & stories, dedicated to some of the thousands of Americans murdered each year by illegals. Seems like common sense that if we stop illegals from coming, we can save some American lives! Is that too much to ask?!
Imagine those coming through the open section of the border...Why not do a real investigation before the fake fact check.
Why can’t we just go with facts and put more resources to the things we know are factually happening. “Drugs are coming here OK let’s put more security and resources where the drugs are coming in”
I hope Pelosi will add provision of a mandatory minimum of 3yrs & $30k fine per undoc worker to the same Senate bill past 90-10! Let's see Republicans Vote down the bill for adding holding business & individuals criminally & financially accountable for hiring UNDOCS workers!
He needs to stop watching cable news and flip on Narcos on Netflix.
Interesting! He knew drug smugglers pass through the border! But he didn’t know that he had sex with pornstar and asked micheal Cohen paid for it! Made up and lied!!!
ABC NBC CBS CNN please have a real time lie counter every time he speaks. He would be so good intimidated.
Yeah AP, but do you think it might help stop the thousands of Americans that are killed by ILLEGALS each year If we stop the illegals, then maybe we can stop Americans from being murdered by them!! I think 1 life is too many, you don't apparently.. APISFAKENEWS FAKENEWS
paulsperry_ Jim_Jordan AP all propaganda didn’t take long, so no drugs human trafficking illegals crime gets thru border elitist media is enemy of Americans
But, but, but, doesn’t he know more about this than the DEA?
Anyone with more than 2 brain cells knows this.
And don't forget the private planes and yachts like those that Trump owns.
AP Fact Check : AP get facts wrong on a daily basis.
Well good thing part of his proposal is for technology at ports of entry. 🙄 if you make it harder to get through ports of entry, where do you think they’ll try to get more drugs through. Hint: unprotected border with no barrier. This is not hard. You need to do both.
I'm just over here still confused how Trumps stupid F*N wall will stop them from tunneling ..We just found tunnels under walls 2 weeks ago .....The Cartels/smugglers have gotten quite good at tunneling ..What good will it do ? NONE
So...where do we get these numbers? What is the total amount of drugs that cross our border Are the drug dealers keeping track for us Oh yeah that’s right we don’t really know how much is coming in we just guess!
There is absolutely nothing that comes out of trump’s mouth or phone that can be believed.
Makes sense, drugs you don't discover, you know how they get here...that's some effed up logic
I don't waste time fact-checking Trump. I just assume he's lying at all times, it's easier that way.
OzKaterji If facts mattered, we wouldn't even be having this debate
The wall is not all he asked for
All these stats are based on assumptions. It is not knowable how many drugs come across an unsecured border.
The trump wall is all about greed and power. The wall is not going to stop anything or any one...It's just Theatre for the President's base/Voters...
Trump failed the fact check test bigly.
He also said that the so call wall ( 250 miles of it ) will reduce crime in the country by 50% . Where in hell does he gets this number , his speech writer makes him look like a fool , not that he is not .
Hmmm in the tank for libs AP
If we don't do it with him, where is the bar? Impeach the potus.
A biased news organization isn’t worth reading. Try being impartial
Except when they aren't...
If that's the case, so,
Keyword 'MOST' Let's stop 'ALL' from crossing the border
Serious question. If the DEA “knows” how the drugs come in to the US, how are they not stopped? Secondly, if you don’t know who is coming in or how, how do you know what they are bringing with them?
Oh, Humpty Trumpty has it wrong again. ImpeachTrump
I agree that the wall and increase in technology to stop them at the port will work. Can’t stop them all, but most.
NO WAY! 😒
Well if it saves one American from being murdered by some illegal immigrants I say stick your fact check up your.....
So if we had just put a wall up years ago we could have won “The War on Drugs”’that we’re never going to win? 🤔
Here is a question: when asked to provide a budget for what the $5.7 billion will buy, Trump’s DHS has refused to supply such a budget. Why is that? Why won’t Trump supply budgetary numbers? Answer: Because he is a fraud & Trump is looking to rob the American people!
Ya right
Everyone knows that. DidTrumpOpenGovernmentYet
Most “detected” ...They have no way of tracking “undetected” drugs coming over the open border. Non sequitur. Obama’s border patrol chief said last week that the walled areas pushed drug traffickers to resort to legal entry points at which point they are more easily interdicted.
There is no way the DEA could know this unless they were aware of all illegal drugs passing into the USA and the mode by which it crossed the border at the moment it did so. If they know this, why did they not stop the drugs at that moment? Just more fake news.
For some reason the last five Presidents wanted some form of a wall.
Did you see that over 700 lbs of coke were seized by Border Patrol agents in Rio Grande City, TX?
'DEA says most illegal narcotics reach U.S. hidden in trucks and other vehicles that pass through entry ports.' Are you serious? How do you know how much narcotics reach the US not going through entry points if there is no border security?
Both drugs and people are generally smuggled in in trucks thru border crossings.
Desperation is a stinky cologne.
FACT CHECK, FACT CHECK, FACT CHECK.... The AP and other leftist media outlets continually report biased, fake and fabricated stories. Drugs come in all ways but make no mistake, a wall would definatley lessen the drugs pouring into our country. Hundreds of mules cross daily!
Ap =buzzfeed
It won’t stop it all but, just yesterday 400 pounds of cocaine was found trying to be smuggled in at an illegal crossing point? A single solution doesn’t exist
except he proposed '$805 million for drug detection technology to help secure our ports of entry' that you conveniently left out and no one bothers to confirm for themselves
376 migrants tunnelled under the border wall at Yuma Arizona today and immediately asked for asylum. Wall is stupid. Wall doesn't work. azcentral
Childish jibberish over, and over. Pay attention elites this is your role model. Do you honestly think there is anyone that wants to hear any of this nonsense again in 3 years.
Guess you didn't listen to his speech where he mentioned money appropriated for POE too
How about we build the wall and find out? It's fairly cheap in the big scheme
GFYS
I don't know... I'm looking at you BigPharma
People still believe what that guy says? Come on 😑
More shit we already knew.
Why no fix all of it?
Would they be able to spend more resources at the point of entry and less on chasing illegals in the desert?
Trump lies everyday.
.Exactly. That is why the offer includes more enforcement, CBP and ICE agent funding
Narrator: It will not
More fakenews
I guess he’s never watched Breaking Bad.
Sad! This is what the autocratic Trump’s MAGA has come to stand for? Democracy is being split into two by this POTUS! Such a sad thing to see the GOP are teaching there children to hate our diversity because they are not white like most of the far right republicans. So let down!
The man is so ignorant, but the people who listen to him are more so....keep leading your lambs to slaughter....a revolution is near.... DRAINTRUMPSSWAMP ENDTRUMPSHUTDOWNNOW
realDonaldTrump nytimes Exactly - drugs come from many ports of entry that are NOT even close to that stupid wall he preaches about. He is placing American in deeper debt for a damn wall that will not do a damn thing. He said Mexico would pay, well deal maker-have them pay!
4 drones available at Amazon once interconeted with a kit and harness would be able to lift and deliver a 200 payload up to 300 Ft high and 1 mile
We need everything on the book to stop all the border issues! Wall, technology and manpower!
How come there are not many articles and other information being posted constantly about these statistics. The border wall is not going to solve most of the problem.
Trumps built a wall & 800,000 hard working Americans are paying for it. Tear down the wall, end the shutdown!
Trump supporters could amass on the border and build the wall for free!
I think he said that he was going to give millions for electronic drug detection at the ports of entry.
susandtom Very true! Trump thrives on fear mongering as a tactic to get our mind of his Impeachment.
And everyone gets a cut.
Should have tweeted this 6 hours ago
His fear mongering only works on his low-information base.