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Ben Carson Calls for Airstrikes,,,,,,On Mexico
So, I guess Scott Walker will be calling for Nuking Arizona to save it by week's end? 
Carson flanks Trump, floats drones for border wars
Published August 25, 2015FoxNews.com
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is going a step beyond rival Donald Trump in his hard-line proposals to curb illegal immigration, suggesting drone strikes along the southern border.
Carson first suggested last week, during a border tour in Arizona, that such efforts could eradicate border “caves” where smugglers hide illegal immigrants. He's since defended his comments, while also fighting back against any suggestion in the media that he wants to use drones to target actual border crossers.
Carson said in an interview on Sunday that the caves “can be eliminated” as “one of a number of possibilities” toward stopping the flow of illegal immigration.
However, he also told CNN, “In no way did I suggest that drones be used to kill people. … And I said to the media at the time, ‘Some of you are going to say Carson wants to use drones to kill people on the border.’ How ridiculous.”
On Monday, Carson communications director Doug Watts told FoxNews.com Carson was convinced after his border visit last week that a network of smuggler tunnels could be eradicated and acknowledged that the candidate has vowed to “do whatever it takes to protect the American people.”
But Watts also repeatedly said Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, has never intended to use drones against people.
“After hearing what he heard, seeing what he saw, [Carson] believes that the American people will stand behind what he said,” Watts told FoxNews.com. “We have a security crisis on the border. This is not about illegal immigrants. We’re at war with hardened criminals, drug smugglers and human traffickers.”
To be sure, Trump, who is now leading the GOP field, has forced essentially all 17 major GOP candidates to take a position on difficult illegal immigration issues, and Carson is no exception.
The billionaire businessman began his candidacy in June by vowing to build a wall along the southern border. And most recently, he suggested the country’s longstanding birthright citizenship policies are open to legal challenge -- effectively pushing the GOP field further to the right on the issue.
Carson spoke at a rally in Phoenix on Tuesday and gave two interviews on Wednesday during his visit to Arizona’s border with Mexico that included talks with sheriff officers and a helicopter tour of the region.
“I’d get rid of [smugglers'] hideouts,” Carson said Wednesday, as part of a larger plan that includes surveillance drones, the U.S. military, more border agents and a more formidable border wall to stop the flow of illegal immigrants.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Ben Carson Calls for Airstrikes,,,,,,On Mexico
Did anyone look in to how many illegal immigrants he employs?
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Conspiracy Theory wrote:
Did anyone look in to how many illegal immigrants he employs?
It is amazing that every election cycle the republicans try to play up fear of Illegals to gain political advantage.
Is illegal immigration a problem? I think so.
Is it a "crisis that threatens our way of life". Absolutely not.
Last week Scott Walker stated that illegal immigrants were "Pillaging our economy".
Imagine. Some incredibly poor people cross the border in the hopes of gaining a better life starting on the lowest rung of the employment ladder. And Scott Walker refers to them in terms traditionally reserved for Attila the Hun.
Whatever problem is on the national stage at the moment, Scott Walker is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in three things: making you afraid of it, telling you who's to blame for it, and claiming that he's the only guy who can save you from it.
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Re: Ben Carson Calls for Airstrikes,,,,,,On Mexico
What does Mr. Walker have to say about the employers that hire illegal immigrants? What should we do with them? Last time I heard that 8 million of the estimated 11 million illegals were employed. Maybe it's the employers who hire illegal immigrants are the ones 'pillaging our economy'. 
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What does Mr. Walker have to say about the employers that hire illegal immigrants? What should we do with them? Last time I heard that 8 million of the estimated 11 million illegals were employed. Maybe it's the employers who hire illegal immigrants are the ones 'pillaging our economy'.
Oh no, no, no . . . Scott can't indict "employers who hire illegal immigrants".
That pathway might lead directly to the gates of one of Chuck & Dave's business interests. He doesn't want to piss off his main benefactors.
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True. rather than doing something reckless, that might offend GOP donors, we should follow Ben's sensible advice to drop ordnance on a sovereign state that we are not at war with, and happens to be our neighbor and third largest trading partner. Now, that's a big idea. 
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