Trump really wanted to build the wall, but it has come to the realization that it's going to be very expensive now that he has no idea on how to make the Mexicans can pay for the wall. I believe that the wall will be a very good security for the citizens of the USA because most of the Mexicans who come there engage in illegal activities like drugs and murders.
NO they do not.
Only a small percentage are criminal, but that small percentage is a big problem, because they freely roam around, back and forth across the border.
valid point.
should we then embark on a multibillion dollar infrastructure project, which will take years to build, in order to attempt to deter a "small percentage" of immigrants that would be criminals? certainly easier to simply police the border a little harder, a lot harder even ( I shudder to think of the abuses people will suffer at the hands of overzealous border agents). agents are much cheaper than rebar and government contracted work. seems like sweeping policy change is the answer here, not infrastructure spending. and thats coming from me, so that should say a lot.
The rhetoric Trump espoused worked; people that would come here to work and not cause trouble, are scared to come and are preemptively leaving, to avoid being deported. that means, only the bad actors that dont really give a fuck about being deported are the ones that would come, and possibly cause crime.
how is a wall going to stop someone like that?
the wall is silly. the concept the wall represents is not. but the wall is a red herring, just like locking her up, and draining the swamp.
not an attack, I know we butt heads alot.
and the wall wont stop drugs so much. Mexican-produced recreational drugs (coke, heroin, some opium, and a bunch of stale ass pot) come over the border via car, on boat, and via the mail system. Its not smart from a business standpoint to simply walk a package of that value across an open, unprotected space that could be compromised by not only border agents, but possibly rival cartels. smart money would hide the drugs, and not compound the misery by attaching them to human smuggling/border violation. hence cocaine submarines, gas tanks full of weed, and shipments of lollipops getting caught in customs with delicious heroin centers.
how many licks does it take to get to the middle of a heroin lollipop?
you dont have to answer that, im good.