There's been a very noticeable drop in Illegals coming through - none of them were really staying too long because there's not much economic reason for them to but there were times when I'd see bunches of them pan-handling on street corners or lined up at a church downtown that was somehow involved in "migrant services" and that has all stopped as of late. I've been hearing a bunch of helicopters in the area the last couple of days. I haven't seen any up close but I believe them to be military because we don't get a lot of chopper action on the regular - just a couple medivacs a week to local hospitals would be the usual traffic. This morning I heard them for almost 2 hours solid just after dawn. Border fence was pretty complete close by but big gaps exist starting about 20 miles west of here. Local news covered construction happening 24 hours a day on those areas starting mid last week. My local libtard city government is putting out policy statements about being a "Welcoming community" that will not be cooperating with federal immigration enforcement - I'm pretty sure that will all change once the first city official tries to interfere with the process and winds up in cuffs. Anyone else close to the border encouraged to share what they're seeing.
Edit: I'll be making a trip this weekend that has me passing through the Border Patrol checkpoint. The last several trip through (all during the Biden era), stations have been mostly waving people through without asking citizenship and even have had them closed and unmanned at various times so they could help process illegals at the border instead. I will make a new post if I notice any tighter enforcement (drug dogs, more CBP vehicles than usual, vehicles pulled over for closer inspection, etc.)
Not near the border fren, but in Houston Suburbs. Many Home Depot stores are empty. Almost no workers in the store or customers in the aisles. There are also zero, and I mean zero, illegals gathered in the parking lot looking for odd jobs.
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Aisles dammit man, aisles, not isles ; )
Doh... I gotta stop trusting spell check. I did this on X yesterday with there, their, they're.
Spell check doesn't care if you look like a moron.
Thanks!!
I blame autosuggest for making us dumber. I've realized I didn't used to make so many typos in the past.
neat trick: when you're trying to put an accent on a letter like in the word resumé, first intentionally mis-spell it, then use the cursor to select the word, left click on it, and it will show up in the list of suggested spellings.
I only jest because this happened last night, and then my wife, daughter and I were laughing about the misspelling of words at the dinner table tonight - insure/ensure; their/they're/there; etc.
I'm horrible at spelling so I really do appreciate you catching that. I already fixed it to reduce my embarrassment.
Back when we actually wrote letters, I wrote a love letter to the girl that would later become my wife. In this letter I used the word sweat everywhere it should have said sweet, She said nothing about it at the time. But she saved it. After we were married, I walked into the kitchen one day to find her and her friends passing it around and laughing their asses off at my expense.
This is a recurring problem for me ;)