Trump figured this out long ago. He’s a businessman he understands how to generate revenue, unlike bathhouse barry who thinks the payroll tax is the only way to generate revenue.
Facts. Facts are to “Progressives” as Garlic is to Vampires.
This is a mis-characterization of Obama's actions.
Obama's deportation number skyrocketed because his administration started counting people that were caught while, or shortly after they crossed the border.
Prior administrations only counted people that had settled in the US, and subsequently found to be in the US illegally.
Why stop there, I'm thinking more like 40 Million.
4 million? Let’s shoot for 40 million.
Only four million? That’s the number in Los Angeles County alone.
Offer Mexico $20 billion in exchange for the land 10-20 miles south of the existing U.S.-Mexico border. The cities within this land would need to be evacuated within one year. This land would completely be federal land, so there's no issue with property rights from landowners on the border, with 5 checkpoints, and we can open military bases on it.
A wall simply cannot be built on most the current border, especially along the TX line. Some parts of the border have high cliffs or has the Rio Grande River. Building a wall on our side of the Rio Grande is tacky and will destroy the natural environment of the riverbank.
We need this 10-20 mile buffer zone. This will cut a diagonal swath from the Gulf of California all the way south of Brownsville TX. I understand that cities such as Juarez, Tijuana, and Mexicali would have to be abandoned, but with the $20 billion, these people and businesses can relocate. We would own a piece of Baja California as well.
This buffer zone will eliminate illegal aliens smuggled by coyotes. It will destroy the drug cartels. It will destroy tunnels and drug trafficking at the source. It will improve commerce, trade, and relationships between the two nations.
Many FReepers don't know about the history of the Border Wars from 1910 - 1920. There were a series of raids by Mexican guerrillas on border towns, and efforts by General Pershing and the U.S. Army failed to eradicate the problem.
Our current border is irregular. It is time for a straight-line border, complete with a wall and backed by the U.S. military, that provides a buffer zone between the US and Mexico.
Let’s make the wall ten feet higher.
Let’s make the wall ten feet higher.
I’ve opposed Trump for most of this election cycle (until recently) and even I recognize that this is a promise Trump can easily keep. The only proof you need is how foreign banks reacted to the IRS last year when they fully implemented the Foreign Accounts Transaction Compliance Act (FATCA).
Many speculated that foreign banks would stop doing business with Americans, rather than comply with the reporting demands of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, who really had no jurisdiction to make such demands. It turns out, they were wrong. Nearly all countries and foreign banks have complied with FATCA, because the alternative of losing American business is much more painful.
This is an example of a time when the Obama-led IRS was fully committed to carrying out a mission, which was to reign in American taxpayers who were hiding money in foreign bank accounts. And when they were committed, and everyone else knew it, the rest of the world backed down. The exact same thing would happen if we were committed to building the wall and sending the bill to Mexico. They WOULD pay for it, because they want to continue doing business with us.
Trump could deport 4 million over his first term, just from new arrivals.
Cutting off welfare would send millions packing on their own.
Other policies would cause even more to leave on their own (employment enforcement) or be deported from the interior of the country (like speedier deportation of criminals).
It’s of no use baling the water out of the boat until you put a “plug” in it first.
Trump should deport 320 million people.
Just leave the Freepers behind.
They each bring back home with them, not just their motivation, but also the knowledge, skills, experience and wealth they've acquired while away, almost all of the key things that are missing in Mexico now because it left and came here.
If, while enforcing its border and law, America is a good, strong and encouraging neighbor, then the potential for an "everybody wins" happy ending is very high for both sides of that border.
It's a big ass mess on both sides now, but it doesn't have to be like this.
What has been done unto US, can be undone by US, but...
We'll have to vote for Trump in November for that change to have a chance of happening starting next January.
Make that 34 million. Thank you.
as far as paying for the wall is concerned, trump could enlist billionaires like Lorenzo Zambrano, who ownes Cemex, one of the largest cement makers in the world, to pressure the Mexican government.