I went home early today, getting a ride from one of the other supervisors, because I was sick and vomiting at work. Woke up very tired and nauseous and shouldn't have gone to work, but then I never expect anyone to believe me if I call in sick, so I go to work sick and hope for the best. Anyway, I was home early today. Since I have been working so much, I've somewhat neglected my responsibility to the neighborhood so I spoke to a few people I haven't spoken to since before Christmas. The big topic in the 85006 of course today is the Wall and the National State of Emergency BS. I can tell you from what I'm hearing, not only am I against the wall, and the Emergency Declaration, too, but so is the 85006. We seem to be joined by many others nationwide, which is an inspiring thing to see.
For my part, I would once again agree that there are issues at the US/Mexico border but they are of a type that a wall is not an answer to. My take is that drugs, especially narcotics such as fentanyl are getting across in produce (and other) vehicles. Why not invest in more US CBP agents, maybe build an extra lane or two into the US, get more drug sniffing dogs, do whatever can be done to further inspect more vehicles/persons entering the US within a reasonable amount of time. I do not see a crisis at the border in the sense of an "alien invasion" - nope, not at all. Rob