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Texas Border Patrol on Horseback and the Whip/Lasso Debate
from Price Of Poison | The Tim Dillon Show #379 · #379
11 min
Tim discusses the border crisis, the standoff between Biden's federal government and Texas, and dissects viral footage of mounted Texas agents using reins/whips or lassos on migrants, calling it "their culture."
- Texas sends people on horseback with whips to wrangle migrants — that's their culture, not some new invention.
- The optics look bad because nobody respects the Western way of life anymore, but this is how law enforcement has always operated there.
- Debate over what the border patrol is actually doing: whipping versus lassoing, and whether it serves a tactical purpose.
- Lassoing many people at once from horseback while they're running is difficult; it's not just one person occasionally.
- The alternative would be pulling out a gun and shooting migrants, which nobody would support either.
- The real problem is lack of resources — states and cities don't have room, space, or money to handle the influx.
- There has to be some process by which people enter the country; this is a core reason Trump won his first election.
- Rich people like Tim are barely affected by immigration; they benefit from cheap labor and lower costs.
- The middle and lower classes bear the brunt of immigration's negative impacts: job competition, drained local resources, crowded hospitals and schools.
- Some immigrants inevitably turn to crime to make a living, just as some citizens do illegally.
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