[Hoot Gibson]

^^ Post 39 & 40. This thread was put up October 23, 2018. I usually don't like to quote myself but this time, 'I told you so' don't quite cut it.

You also assured us that Trump was serious about securing our southern border during the campaigns of 2016 and 2018 and that among the Republican candidates for the presidential nomination that he alone was tough enough on illegal immigration to fix the problem.

Yet, here we are, as the 2020 presidential campaign begins, and there has been no meaningful progress in building a wall on the Mexican border. Talking tough and taking action are not the same thing. If illegal immigration is a national emergency, and I believe that it is, then this country should not be releasing illegal aliens into the general population because of a shortage of detention cells.

I am truly glad that Hillary Clinton is not in the White House, although she should have been locked up following a legal process to deliver justice, but it should be clear by now that Donald Trump is more committed to winning campaigns with tough talk than to taking tough action.

There are no credible Democrat presidential candidates and Trump's failure to keep his signature promise of the 2016 campaign of securing our southern border threatens to deliver the keys to the Oval Office to another socialist in 2021. The Democrats did not promise to build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it. Trump did.