Solutions are out there

April 8, 2019

We are hearing about all sorts of capacity problems that our feral government is having with the migrant flood.

Whether we should be accommodating the migrants or not is a policy issue that our local government workers cannot control.  Our current laws evidently allow the flood to happen.  The government employees need to find a way to handle the issue.

Some of the problems sound like they either don’t want to solve the problem or they aren’t thinking.

As an example we heard the other day that they don’t have enough buses to transport the migrants  to wherever they are going to be housed.

We all know that the city has extra Sun Metro buses.  We know that the school districts have a lot of big yellow buses that are not in use during the middle of the day.  For that matter Fort Bliss has buses that they use from time to time.

The readers can probably suggest additional bus sources and alternative ways of transporting the people.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Time for new immigration rules

April 7, 2019

Wow!

This migrant crisis certainly has people writing in strong terms.

I try to read each comment on the blog carefully and often don’t understand how some of them indicate that the writer has come to a conclusion about what another writer believes.

Maybe congress should do something about it.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Not in my backyard

April 5, 2019

It appears that the old Hoover manufacturing plant located on El Paso’s west side is being considered by the feral government for use as a migrant processing center.

This idea is not being well received by some of El Paso’s business community.

“We urge the GSA and CBP to develop a long-term solution, which addresses these needs, which may involve new construction and which does not compromise the economic development opportunities in El Paso or the Borderplex region,”

Economic development

It seems that economic development is more important to some than finding a way to try to take care of the basic needs of the migrants.

We have a crisis in that the migrants are being housed under dangerous conditions.

Whether they should be let in the country, or how they got here, or who they are is not the issue right this minute.

If our policy is to let them in the country while their individual stories are being evaluated, then we need to provide them with adequate shelter.

Our congress needs to fix our immigration system.  Few of us have hope that they will do that soon.

In the meantime we need to deal with the mess that has been created.

We deserve better

Brutus

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local presidential candidate

April 2, 2019

We have not had a discussion about our local candidate for the presidency of the United States.

What do you think his chances are?

We deserve better

Brutus

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Traffic investigations

February 3, 2019

We had another tragic event on I-10 last week.

A young man lost his life.

Our condolences go out to the family.

Unfortunately the accident is another example of where the authorities need to rethink their procedures for handling such events.

I-10 was blocked off in both directions for more than three hours.  I’m not familiar with the procedures that the authorities follow in order to investigate and document in these cases.

What I do know is that they take too long.

We deserve better

Brutus

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