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    Carson flanks Trump, floats drones for border wars

    Published August 24, 2015
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    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.

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    No drones. Oh my God, is he insane? No drones in the US. No bombing of our own country to stop illegal immigration. No destruction of our own nation by our own hands to stop illegal aliens.

    Just. Deport. Them.

    Get them out and keep them out.

    Stop giving them money, jobs, advocacy, tax credits, citizenship, welfare, drivers licenses, municipal ID's, law degrees, access to our Capitol, stop the nonsense.

    But, no bombs, no drones.
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    NO AMNESTY

    Don't reward the criminal actions of millions of illegal aliens by giving them citizenship.


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    I can see our area (where sanctuary policies, and day labor centers have been an "achievement" of liberal government) experiencing a runaway population increase and endless construction projects. The officials simply claim they are going with the flow, and accomodating the population increase that is predicted. BUT, it also just so happens that all of this benefits the illegals and their fly by night construction enterprises. Even after prohibiting them driver licenses you still see them everywhere hustling after the next job.

    I just had a sewer line estimate--- and a guy that looked like he probably migrated twenty years ago and got himself embedded here was telling me several thousand $$ more than what other contractors have said. Yeah, right, I'm just going to give you that job because you think you're charming?? But this could be our future if we don't deport the illegals. And as time goes forward their citizen children will be entrenched here, and then they will petition the old folks to stay, with advice paid for by the taxpayers.
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    Dr. Carson is not familiar with surveillance technology. Aerostats are a far better platform. They are already being used to detect vehicles crossing the border. Lower altitude versions could be developed with different sensor systems to detect people.

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