City Council Can’t Have it Both Ways

I read where City Council wants to change the free bridge to pay for more Customs’ Agents to decrease border wait times.

Sounds like a wonderful idea.

Until you realize how dangerous of an idea it really is.

When it comes to enforcement of immigration policy, city council has consistently said it’s a federal issue and they are right. Feds should do their job, city should do theirs.

But this move by city council sets a dangerous precedent. What happens when some other city gets a whiff of what El Paso is up to and they decide they should come up with a special little project to pay for something like, oh I don’t know…say MORE BORDER PATROL AGENTS?

Let’s not forget, this is the state that produced Farmer’s Branch. Anything crazy can happen here.

Fix the fuckin’ streets. Open more pools, libraries, and rec centers in the summer. Address homelessness in El Paso. Bring more jobs to this city. Improve tourism. Do ANYTHING related to problems in the city of El Paso and stop coming up with stupid shit like legalizing pot, funding Customs’ Agents, or giving out Conquistador Awards to people caught up in the public corruption scandal.

Oh yeah, and fee increases like the ones they are talking about at the bridge disproportionately affect the poor.