cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31570120
Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border.
That decision, made in the waning hours of this year’s legislative session, leaves the future of the state wall unclear. Just 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to date. The Texas Tribune reported last year that the wall is full of gaps that migrants and smugglers can easily walk around and mostly concentrated on sprawling ranches in rural areas, where illegal border crossings are less likely to occur.
State leaders suggested the federal government could pick up the effort. However, during President Donald Trump’s first term, when wall building was his top priority, his administration completed just 21 miles in Texas — about a third of what the state was able to build over the past four years.
The Tribune reported last year that the state’s wall program would take around 30 years and more than $20 billion to complete.
Unreal how gullible republican voters can be despite having information readily available
The quality of research done by people who advocate for “do your own research” is only as good as their education.
I have a friend who is my age, graduated college with me and likes to do his own research. I love the guy, but his ability to parse complex information is simply bad. He thinks that his own research on medical issues is superior to that of all doctors simply because he interprets what he reads in whatever way he wants it to mean. He never even tries to debunk anything.
I love the guy, and I’ve known him more than half my life now, but I have to simply humor him on medical advice.
Well a lot of their “ready” information is outright lies.
Multiple sources is so important.
Maybe I take it for granted but school hammered in how to get information properly for over a decade of my life.
It’s also wild that the older generation started my life telling me “don’t believe everything you see on tv”.
Now they believe everything on tv and the Internet. Makes no sense.