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To be fair, a border wall is much less expensive than what illegals cost the government each year. And, the Border Patrol supports the idea of a border wall. So, I think it's worth it. I trust the opinion of the people who actually have to deal with the problem on a daily basis.
Exactly! The good walls in place have been proven to be 90% effective in deterring illegal entry. Trump built nearly half of it already. Just complete the other half which is a total of 1,000 miles. The rest of the border is nearly impassable terrain so fewer will try in those areas and fewer will succeed.
You're right. Last I heard the total of the completed wall was to be $25 billion while illegal aliens cost us over $100 billion a year! Not only should we deter these economic migrants that are raping our country financially but there are criminals, drug runners and those from known terrorist countries slipping through our southern border to.
These anti-wall fools refuse to listen to the Border Patrol and Homeland Security's statements about needing those walls and it's because they have a pro-illegal alien agenda. They fool no one!
Considering that republican party is anti union, anti universal healthcare, wants to weaken safety nets and so forth...I am no fan of the woke left but I still have too many issues with the platform of the republican party to join them on the national level.
This. I like a lot of the OP's ideas but none of it is possible when we are forced to deal with the Party of Trump, which is what the Republican party has become.
We would need a new party to work with. We won't move the needle with this iteration of the GOP.
This is hilarious. I was a moderate democrat/independent (most lean Libertarian) and Trump was the reason why I voted for Republicans for the first time. In the past, I seen the Republicans as those who back the bankers and wage war for oil. They were also the ones that started the war on drugs which has become a complete failure, and started the outsourcing of jobs as well as opening the door for China. I backed the democrats because they seemed to be the party for the environment, poor people and minorities like myself which is a woman in a man's field (mechanical engineer and land lord). But then the democrat policies like open borders and letting all of these illegal immigrants in is destroying the environment. They are making it hard for the small time farmer via huge tax increases to pay for their programs in the city. The middle class can't live in a democrat controlled city much longer because they are the ones that get taxed the heaviest. They make too much money to qualify for welfare, and not enough to donate to charities like the rich to get the tax cuts, and with rising property taxes and rents, they are forced out of the city. And now that the democrats want to tax gas/miles per driven, when people move away from the city (where the jobs are) so they can find an affordable place to live, they will be hurt again by democrat policies.
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