Union Official: Trump to Tour Texas-Mexico Border

[big_dog]

Source: The Texas Tribune- 3 hours ago

Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate who has drawn fire for his inflammatory comments on illegal immigration, is making a trip to the Texas-Mexico border, a Border Patrol union official said late Tuesday.

Trump is visiting Laredo this week to tour the border, according to Sergio Moreno, secretary for National Border Patrol Council Local 2455. No other details about Trump's trip were available late Tuesday.

The billionaire businessman has been the subject of intense criticism since his presidential announcement speech, when he characterized people in the country illegally as rapists and other kinds of criminals.

Local media first reported Trump was visiting Laredo in the coming days to see the border. A spokeswoman for Trump's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2015/07/21/union-official-trump-tour-texas-mexico-border/

[busterbrown]

1. "Border Patrol Union?"

Unions in Texas? Oxymoron? Morons? WTF!

[kentauros]

8. There have been unions in Texas for decades,

mostly in the petrochemical industry. And, like every other part of the country, there are police unions here, including for border patrol officers. I would guess, though that because they are Federal employees, that they are in a union representing border-patrol officers all across the country.

In fact, it is exactly as I guessed: National Border Control Council

[Fearless]

2. Hiring for his new venture capital project?

[TexasTowelie]

3. Maybe one of the Mexicans will confuse the real thing with a piñata made in his image

and react accordingly?

We'll see if that Yankee can take the Texas heat without melting.

[jmowreader]

4. I'd prefer he tour Ciudad Juarez instead

[truthisfreedom]

5. Make it stop.

Enough with the Dumbold.

[jtuck004]

6. "candidate who has drawn fire" < You may want to copy those words to your clipboard. n/t

[denbot]

7. If he wasn't such an self absorbed ass..

I'd think he's setting himself up to ba a martyr.

[marble falls]

9. Maybe INS'll confine his pet badger.....

Donald Trump sans the pet badger.

[think]

10. MSNBC just said Laredo boarder Patrol Union will not be part of Trump boarder visit /nt