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Maybe because immigration laws were never enforced before.
The LEGAL immigration laws were never enforced? The laws regarding people getting work permits that you claim Trump wants to cut down while asking for MORE work permits for his own businesses?
Walls properly used can be a perfectly reasonable thing. A suitable wall along the border in San Diego makes reasonable sense.
Political walls built for the purpose of showing disdain for our neighbors to the south make no sense. The attemp to make a large and domineering wall would appear to be of the political wall type. In fact the most successful wall would be a much more subdued multiple wall with significant spacing and roads between them. And if proposed in suitable locations they would likely not be controversial.
it is a show wall that is dumb.
I've read such tripe before to where some might agree before realizing the additional "if neighbors" from the south is relevant.
You cannot honestly (in all good consciousness) believe that the best and brightest are illegally coming across our southern border, can you?
Considering how short people south of the border are, it would be even harder for them. I just wish there were videos posted of these tests. I will email the White House to suggest it. If you agree, do it, too. "The squeaky wheel gets the grease."
oh massive fail for the showman President. Those videos need to be all over the air waves. A little write up in The Daily Caller just isn't going to cut it.
It is difficult to believe that these "commandos" were actually Seals or Delta guys. I kept occasional company with a couple of them in my younger days. Not at the same time, of course.
There is no way anyone I met during those years would given up on getting over a 30 ft. wall.
Mocked? I should say. They'd have been ridiculed mercilessly.
Maybe standards have fallen over the years.
The story suggests that the testers worked alone in trying the scale the prototype walls. In operations, I would think they work as a team.
I cannot think of any endeavor that would be as big a waste of money as the border wall. Except for just literally firing up a pyre of cash, on what could this country throw away so much money with so little return?
If they ever remake Brewster’s Millions, Monty Brewster could just spend all his money on a border wall and the movie would be over in 5 minutes.
Good post. Facts are facts and a fantasy wall that costs billions and only stops a small percentage of the problem is a waste of money. I think we can all agree that we need border security as well as taking away incentives for illegals to come. I think the money can be better spent else where. Maybe a satellite surveillance system monitoring activity 24/7 with additional boarder patrol in sensitive areas? It creates jobs as well. How do you track people who come and over stay visa's and disappear? Maybe create more jobs to monitor the visa's and who leaves the country and who doesn't. I think jobs are a better way to spend those billions vs a wall. Then there's the bottom line. Anyone who hires an illegal is fined and possibly jailed. It won't be a popular bill to the donor class. That's why the incentive remains for cheap labor. As long as cheap labor is popular, the politicians will look the other way and try to appease the low information crowd with build that wall.
EVERYTHING you have suggested here has been tried. Most of them are on the books. Obama's border sensors were left in boxes and never installed. Satellites can be turned off and they don't keep anybody away. You are either misinformed or just parroting Washington.
I cannot think of any endeavor that would be as big a waste of money as the border wall. Except for just literally firing up a pyre of cash, on what could this country throw away so much money with so little return?
If they ever remake Brewster’s Millions, Monty Brewster could just spend all his money on a border wall and the movie would be over in 5 minutes.
Waste of money and the good walls don't work? Little return? I refer you to the links in my post #248.
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I refer you to the links in my post #248.
