Jon Stewart One-Ups House GOP With Creative Border Solutions (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart offered some very creative ideas for solving the border crisis instead of the House GOP's "draconian" legislation.
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Jon Stewart offered up his own creative solutions to solve the border crisis on Monday’s “The Daily Show.”

The comedian was dismayed with both what he called House Republicans’ “draconian” immigration legislation and the Ku Klux Klan’s “shoot to kill” policy for undocumented immigrants.

“Why not have some fun with this?” he said. “Minors must be deported via circus cannon, or replace the border fence with a ‘Wipeout’ course and if you get through, eh, you’re in! Dress the border patrol up as Mounties so they think they’ve come here and gone too far and turn back around!”

Stewart also found it pretty rich that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said President Barack Obama could be taking action without Congress to address the border situation.

“Did John Boehner just suggest that if Congress won’t act to change a law it doesn’t like, the President should?” he said. “Because I’m pretty sure there’s a guy right now suing the president for — that.”

Watch below, courtesy of Comedy Central:

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  1. John Stewart, just pointing out the painfully obvious. John needs better foes 'cuz he could dissect a lot more intelligence than this.

    The Republicans, AKA, the deadend/boring as fuck/useless clown Party, are just sucking up air at this point. It has lost all sense of humor and everyone gets it. The Republicans will play the class clown, the geek, the town idiots and do it with foolish pride if they can just wreck a few more years of American development. No matter the issue or challenge, they are the same destructive idiot, the aire of surprise is over.

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