"At any moment, FedEx can tell you where that package is. It's on the truck. It's at the station. It's on the airplane," Christie said, speaking at a VFW hall in New Hampshire Saturday morning. "Yet we let people come to this country with visas, and the minute they come in, we lose track of them."
As president, Christie said, he would enlist the help of Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express, to show Immigration and Custom Enforcement how to track immigrants who might otherwise overstay their welcome.
"We need to have a system that tracks you from the moment you come in, and then when your time is up, we go get you and tap you on the shoulder and say, 'Excuse me, thanks for coming, time to go,'" Christie said.
Later a Christie spokesperson clarified the statement to suggest that Christie is suggesting the use of technology, such as drones, to keep track of immigrants.
I wonder if Christie understands that Fed Ex is able to keep track of a package because it is constantly in one of its warehouses, planes, or vans at all time?
Surely Christie is not suggesting that we warehouse human beings so we can keep track of them?
What did they call that during World War 2?
Interment camps I think.
Or perhaps Christie is suggesting that all new immigrants visiting the country using a Visa have a microchip tracking device implanted under their skin?
That WOULD achieve the same purpose, I but I think there might be a little pushback from religious fundamentalists who consider that to be in the same category as the Mark of the Beast from the book of Revelations.
I think it's time to remind Christie that "people are not packages."
I guess I should thank you for saving me money, Gryphen. I was pondering a run to McD's for grub, but the return of that picture at 8 in the morning makes me second guess any need for breakfast.
ReplyDeleteRibald old lady: What an odd comment from a man with a left-leaning package. If that is what that is. I have misplaced my magnifying glass.
ReplyDeleteChristie's wife called FedEx to help find Chris's lost "package".
ReplyDeleteLMAO!
DeleteIt's buried under the overhanging cliff...
DeleteBut packages are people, my friend.
ReplyDeleteI am a FedEx retiree after spending 34 years, almost all as an executive. I am sure that Christie knows FedEx is a world wide concern and has employees of all colors including various shades of brown. Mexico, with it's Mexican workers is an important market. I am sure the Chairman bristled at this statement just as I did.
ReplyDeleteDoes Chris Christie mean he has a solution to track Mexicans? Will Christie also track Canadians with ankle bracelets too?
ReplyDeleteNo need to, once Snotty Walker builds that wall between US and Canada!! One of my sons was 9 lbs. at birth and had a bigger package than Tweedle Dum.
DeleteHas Walker outlined his plan how the wall will be built in the middle of the Great Lakes? He is from Wisconsin, certainly he must have heard of the Great Lakes.
DeleteReligious fundamentalists would have NO problem putting microchips in anyone not identified as a religious fundamentalist.
ReplyDeleteI can think of a country's leader in the past that wanted identification numbers tattooed on people's wrists...
DeleteIt didn't end well...
People are not packages, dum dum. That's why you would not be able to keep track of them from the time they enter the US.
ReplyDeleteThat's got to be the most ridiculous statement every uttered.
Christie's target audience operates at the 3rd grade victim level. Christie's dog whistle hits the nerve if you are convinced migrants took your job, your pension, your gold-plated health insurance.
ReplyDeleteThe "Fed-Ex Solution" is the "Final Solution" sugar coated.
"The Fed-Ex Solution"!! LOL I do believe you've just coined the phrase that will end Christie's candidacy. EVERYONE needs to start using that! Bye Bye Christie Creme... :))
DeleteIf he walks roo fast in those pants, his thighs rubbing together would start a fire!!
ReplyDeleteCorporations are people, people are packages, and Twinkies are health food.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it funny how it's always the "freedom loving constitutional patriots" who come up with this oppressive tyrannical shit?
ReplyDelete-The same ones who've bitched and moaned for seven years about the "illegal imperial presidency" and are now running on the idea that if they're elected, they'll ignore the Supreme Court and do whatever they want.
Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to live each day with no sense of irony and no capability for self awareness...
Also, they blather about requiring strict adherence to the Constitution and then yammer on and on about changing it.
DeleteMaybe Fed Ex could help him find his.
ReplyDeleteMildred
They have minimum sizes for packages: they have to be bigger than the barcode.
DeleteFedEx has weight limits, you would have to use an industrial crane to lift his gut to find it.
DeleteChristie's plan to track people here on visas using Fed Ex methods reminds me of an equally absurd plan of Trump.
ReplyDeleteTrump plans on impounding all remittances of monies sent to Mexico by illegals. He linked to a Fox News source how much money is sent to Mexico annually. Maybe he can use Fed Ex strategies to track and confiscate all mail, packages and wire transfers to Mexico from family members then sort out who is legal and illegal. No doubt countries will not mind Trumpeteers thanks Palin!) confiscating all correspondence and packages in search of monies. His rational is we are losing tax dollars and the cost to America for immigrants is more than costs to block them from coming into or staying illegally.
Trump alleges 40% of black teens are unemployed because illegal Mexicans took their jobs. What is missing are white teen unemployment statistics Trump conveniently overlooks. He suggests employment of illegals jobs is preventing blacks from being middle class and hurting the middle class which is ludicrous.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
Donald Trump doesn't understand demographics or, apparently, economics.
DeleteWhich is pretty strange for a "really smart" guy who "went to Wharton."
Is he really dumb or just pretending to be?
There is no some questioning of his academic history, given that no one who supposedly graduated with Mr. Top Of the Class even remembers him. Much like his BFF Sarah?
DeleteTwo of his three wives are foreign born. So, THEY took "jobs" away from American gold diggers, didn't they?
ReplyDeleteSsssssss-- ouch!!
DeleteTrump is a Classy guy...
DeleteBut his wives look like Eastern European Truck Stop Hookers...
Famous for being famous.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/2015/08/31/this_incoherent_donald_trump_interview_proves_one_thing_sarah_palins_descent_into_obscurity_is_complete/
Great pic for helping me stick with my cut-down-on-the-junk-food diet, but the only one I want to see of this GOP offender is where he's handcuffed in an orange jump suit.
ReplyDeleteHow did he get Mary Pat pregnant with that tiny instrument? He should get DNA tests done on "his" kids.
ReplyDeleteA dixie cup, OXO good grip turkey baster, and porn? Eww I think I made myself throw up a little....
DeleteAssholes want to track people, but not guns. This is exactly what they need to do to every gun in the possession of a police officer, federal official, anyone who officially issued a gun. THEN, when the gun is stolen they can track it down before someone uses it to kill someone, either purposefully or accidentally.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever seen a green card?
ReplyDeleteThey probably CAN track them like a fedex package.
Except for one thing: Packages don't move on their own. Ever tried to disappear in a huge crowd? It's easy when you have something called FEET!
DeleteThey may be able to track the CARD, but, again, people aren't cards.
Yes, "people are not packages". In fact, some people don't have much of a 'package'. Right Mr Christie????
ReplyDeleteI doubt Christie has seen his own "package" in decades and most likely has to hold that gut up to even take a piss.
DeleteWe should track Christie's trips to the donut shop and bakery too!
ReplyDeleteChristie is nothing more than a fat-assed jerk! Where do the Republicans get these ridiculous people that will NEVER make it to the White House. Their party is nothing more than a joke!
ReplyDeleteThank God we have had President Obama for near two terms. No one is ever going to be able to compare to him - his hard work, kindness, black skin, education, being smart, thoughtful, steadiness, respect to and for others, successes, etc.
"We need to have a system that tracks you from the moment you come in, and then when your time is up, we go get you and tap you on the shoulder and say, 'Excuse me, thanks for coming, time to go,'" Christie said.
ReplyDeleteChristie there is an approved system already used in the United States of America. When my cousin Jose leaves the house, his parole officer tracks José.
Then the police taps José on his shoulder and handcuffs José but they don't tell José, 'Excuse me, thanks for coming, time to go,'"
They tell José you're going back to the yard then they remove his state approved ankle bracelet and off they go.
He's not a FedEx package. He's a USPS standard parcel.
ReplyDeleteWell you would have to use a freight shipping company to keep track of Christie.
ReplyDeleteBut no worries, after his people put out that picture, that is less than a presidential look and more like a humpty dumpty look, there is no chance of him ever being elected on a national level.
He acts as if native-born Americans never commit crimes. By his logic, why don't we track EVERYONE just in case they commit a crime? That's the logical conclusion to his idea.
ReplyDeleteThis is so mean I'm surprised I said it.
ReplyDeleteLord forgive me.
If Chris Christie is elected President he needs to hire the founder of Fed Ex to help track what Christie eats just like they do packages.
Judging from the photo, he may want to check his pants for a stowaway.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I call a MANGINA!!! Crispy, did you even look in the mirror before you left the house in that outfit? Your kids must be so proud. Sheesh!
ReplyDeleteI worked as an Immigration Paralegal for a few years before I found out how companies are "getting around the law" and the biggest problem is not making new laws but enforcing the ones that exist, they need more man power.
ReplyDeleteWe worked with HIB1 tech people, they have a visa for 3 years on the condition they are working- when they were not working instead of sending them back to India or Nigeria as the law states, instead they were sending them over the bridge to Windsor Canada until another job opening.
I had a call from the INS, now homeland security, 2 years after I quit my job asking if we still wanted a visa for a certain person !!!
As for Green Cards, companies are suppose to log all the job postings and interviews for all positions in order to prove they can't find Americans for the positions- most companies just post the ads, not interview anyone and say their are no Americans. They get away with it because no one check up on them.
And yes, we had employees whose visas expired, did not leave the country and were not working. When they found a job, they would go to Canada for the day and return to the USA with a current stamp in their passports and then the company applied for a new H1B1 visa.
At least some the states are now requiring these workers actually show they have a current visa before they can get a drivers license.
So tracking who is coming into the country is not a new idea at all. Companies are suppose to be audited and everyone is suppose to be accounted for. In two years I saw only one INS agent walk in and ask for documentation and we live on the border ( metro Detroit).
Looks like Christie is hiding an illegal alien in his pants. Or is that his mangina? Anyone who would dress himself up in that ridiculous-looking excuse for a uniform is not fit to be president of the United States, FedEx him back to Jersey.
ReplyDeleteWhy would anyone listen to Tweedle Dumb? He makes me lose MY over zealous appetite.
ReplyDeleteWeebles wobble, and I bet that one falls down...
Nice Try, but Trump's still miles ahead, blubbo.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans get their panties wedged into their brain cracks over "government intrusion", and this asshat thinks this is gonna fly? Go for it, what have you got to lose???
The idea of bar codes and microchips in people sounds a bit beyond the pale, but it's the next logical conclusion. Lets start with the gun fetishists and see how it goes.....