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Mar-a-Lago has been a porous place ever since Donald Trump declared Donald Trump candidacy and started winning primaries several years ago, if you were any intelligence service, friendly or unfriendly, worth their salt, they would be concentrating their efforts on this incredibly porous place. – Aki Peritz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If we had to isolate someone on-campus, we would want a room that's a single room that has its own bathroom where a person would isolate, and my recommendation would be that there's no porous-type furniture in there. You wouldn't want an upholstery type of thing, no rugs, because it makes it easier to keep clean afterwards. – North Florida	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It affects every community, and the fact that this has been opened up along a very porous border … further reiterates the fact that every city in this country is a border city, every street a border street. and so as the Biden administration continues to ignore this, which is what they're doing. They're hoping it will just go away, and that people won't talk about it. … The mainstream media is not talking about it because again, as usual, they're protecting and the Democratic arm of this government. And that's a tragedy. – Greg Murphy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
China is taking a huge role in pouring these poisons into the United States via the porous southern border. China needs to be held accountable for this, they're utilizing the vehicles, that I'm going to identify as the drug cartels, they're utilizing those to infiltrate into the United States and cause this crisis. – John Joyce	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Time and again, the Biden administration has refused to take concrete action to quell the worsening border crisis, inviting the cartels and human drug smugglers to take advantage of our porous border, without a border wall, illegal immigrants, coyotes, and bad actors can simply march across our southern border and into the interior. The border wall needs to be built, the funds have been appropriated to continue to build the wall, and yet the Biden Administration outright refuses to do so. – Eric Schmitt	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think that's one of the ways we have to sort of approach this issue, the prevention side of this is so key, but we just need to know that drugs are not coming into our country. We can not have a porous border for drugs. – Jim Carroll	Found on CNN 2 years ago
[We] feel it's very important for Americans to have compassion in this situation. These are not random, uninvited immigrants pouring over a porous border. These are people that we gave our word to, they worked alongside us, believing in our cause. And we gave our word that if … they needed to leave because there were danger from the Taliban, then we would help them do so. – Ellen Perez	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Some exceptions to the order -- which takes effect Saturday -- are caring for a relative or their pet, a child, an elderly or disabled person, visiting someone in a health care facility, or attending a funeral with fewer than 10 people. MICHIGANS WHITMER SAYS LACK OF NATIONAL STRATEGY HAS CREATED POROUS SITUATION FOR CORONAVIRUS TO SPREAD All public and private gatherings of any size are prohibited. – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Yes, they are too porous. They don't work. – Steven Corwin	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Jupiter is a very inefficient gatekeeper, its like a porous border [through which] immigrants from the outer solar system would have flooded the inner solar system. – Stephen Mojzsis	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We face very real security threats today, porous borders and lax immigration enforcement have left us vulnerable not only to terrorist attacks but to increasing levels of crime in our communities. Those already accustomed to flagrantly disregarding our laws do not hesitate to traffic their deadly cocktail of drugs and gang violence into Virginia. – Ken Cuccinelli	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This border is very porous, you will not know who has passed if the person went through the unofficial border posts, in most cases. Now there is anxiety and so on. We have heightened our alertness. – James Mwanga	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Women are so porous. – Fiona Arrigo	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I'm very worried about Venezuela because there's no sanitary conditions and that means they could have the fungus and not even know it, and with such a porous border, illegal commerce and migration, it could be dangerous. – Carlos Soto	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Turkey is a longtime friend of ours. It's a NATO ally. We're strongly in support of it. We stand with it in terms of defense of its own territory, but the reality is it shares a big border with Iraq and Syria, which border has been porous to foreign fighters going in both directions and I think the Turks could do more. – Defense Ashton Carter	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Turkey must do more to control its often-porous border, saudi Arabia and the Gulf states joined the air campaign in the early days, but have since been pre-occupied by the conflict in Yemen. – Defense Secretary Ash Carter	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There is a boundary that is being constructed around the Kenya Somali border, it has been porous for a long time because the previous government have not taken serious action. [ But ] in the recent past we have established a border patrol police, a specialist police. – Mwenda Njoka	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal opportunity for success that made America exceptional, we're watching career politicians throw away our kids' future through bankrupting public budgets and ripping open our porous borders which, obvious to all us non-politicians, puts us at great risk. – Sarah Palin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Sophisticated travel networks operate to take recruits across the porous borders, and sometimes through areas where trafficking in people and illicit goods may not be effectively controlled, testimony has documented that the routes taken entail travel through Libya, then Turkey and its border at Antakya, and then Syria. – Elzbieta Karska	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Having these highly porous 3-D structures that are composed of nanofibers that are approximately 1,000 times the width of a hair produces a huge surface area of reactivity between the skin and patch, and allows for more of an interaction. – Kasia Sawicka	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Deep fried ice cream is really the perfect analogy, because the interior of the comets should still be very cold and contain the more porous, amorphous ice. – Murthy Gudipati	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
And that border is very, very porous. – Rick Francona	Found on CNN 9 years ago

Mar-a-Lago has been a porous place ever since Donald Trump declared Donald Trump candidacy and started winning primaries several years ago, if you were any intelligence service, friendly or unfriendly, worth their salt, they would be concentrating their efforts on this incredibly porous place.

– Aki Peritz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we had to isolate someone on-campus, we would want a room that's a single room that has its own bathroom where a person would isolate, and my recommendation would be that there's no porous-type furniture in there. You wouldn't want an upholstery type of thing, no rugs, because it makes it easier to keep clean afterwards.

– North Florida

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It affects every community, and the fact that this has been opened up along a very porous border … further reiterates the fact that every city in this country is a border city, every street a border street. and so as the Biden administration continues to ignore this, which is what they're doing. They're hoping it will just go away, and that people won't talk about it. … The mainstream media is not talking about it because again, as usual, they're protecting and the Democratic arm of this government. And that's a tragedy.

– Greg Murphy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

China is taking a huge role in pouring these poisons into the United States via the porous southern border. China needs to be held accountable for this, they're utilizing the vehicles, that I'm going to identify as the drug cartels, they're utilizing those to infiltrate into the United States and cause this crisis.

– John Joyce

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Time and again, the Biden administration has refused to take concrete action to quell the worsening border crisis, inviting the cartels and human drug smugglers to take advantage of our porous border, without a border wall, illegal immigrants, coyotes, and bad actors can simply march across our southern border and into the interior. The border wall needs to be built, the funds have been appropriated to continue to build the wall, and yet the Biden Administration outright refuses to do so.

– Eric Schmitt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think that's one of the ways we have to sort of approach this issue, the prevention side of this is so key, but we just need to know that drugs are not coming into our country. We can not have a porous border for drugs.

– Jim Carroll

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[We] feel it's very important for Americans to have compassion in this situation. These are not random, uninvited immigrants pouring over a porous border. These are people that we gave our word to, they worked alongside us, believing in our cause. And we gave our word that if … they needed to leave because there were danger from the Taliban, then we would help them do so.

– Ellen Perez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Some exceptions to the order -- which takes effect Saturday -- are caring for a relative or their pet, a child, an elderly or disabled person, visiting someone in a health care facility, or attending a funeral with fewer than 10 people. MICHIGANS WHITMER SAYS LACK OF NATIONAL STRATEGY HAS CREATED POROUS SITUATION FOR CORONAVIRUS TO SPREAD All public and private gatherings of any size are prohibited.

– Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Yes, they are too porous. They don't work.

– Steven Corwin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Jupiter is a very inefficient gatekeeper, its like a porous border [through which] immigrants from the outer solar system would have flooded the inner solar system.

– Stephen Mojzsis

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We face very real security threats today, porous borders and lax immigration enforcement have left us vulnerable not only to terrorist attacks but to increasing levels of crime in our communities. Those already accustomed to flagrantly disregarding our laws do not hesitate to traffic their deadly cocktail of drugs and gang violence into Virginia.

– Ken Cuccinelli

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This border is very porous, you will not know who has passed if the person went through the unofficial border posts, in most cases. Now there is anxiety and so on. We have heightened our alertness.

– James Mwanga

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Women are so porous.

– Fiona Arrigo

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I'm very worried about Venezuela because there's no sanitary conditions and that means they could have the fungus and not even know it, and with such a porous border, illegal commerce and migration, it could be dangerous.

– Carlos Soto

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Turkey is a longtime friend of ours. It's a NATO ally. We're strongly in support of it. We stand with it in terms of defense of its own territory, but the reality is it shares a big border with Iraq and Syria, which border has been porous to foreign fighters going in both directions and I think the Turks could do more.

– Defense Ashton Carter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Turkey must do more to control its often-porous border, saudi Arabia and the Gulf states joined the air campaign in the early days, but have since been pre-occupied by the conflict in Yemen.

– Defense Secretary Ash Carter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is a boundary that is being constructed around the Kenya Somali border, it has been porous for a long time because the previous government have not taken serious action. [ But ] in the recent past we have established a border patrol police, a specialist police.

– Mwenda Njoka

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal opportunity for success that made America exceptional, we're watching career politicians throw away our kids' future through bankrupting public budgets and ripping open our porous borders which, obvious to all us non-politicians, puts us at great risk.

– Sarah Palin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Sophisticated travel networks operate to take recruits across the porous borders, and sometimes through areas where trafficking in people and illicit goods may not be effectively controlled, testimony has documented that the routes taken entail travel through Libya, then Turkey and its border at Antakya, and then Syria.

– Elzbieta Karska

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Having these highly porous 3-D structures that are composed of nanofibers that are approximately 1,000 times the width of a hair produces a huge surface area of reactivity between the skin and patch, and allows for more of an interaction.

– Kasia Sawicka

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Deep fried ice cream is really the perfect analogy, because the interior of the comets should still be very cold and contain the more porous, amorphous ice.

– Murthy Gudipati

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

And that border is very, very porous.

– Rick Francona

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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