Illegal immigration is down app 65% without a wall. Check out scott adams, of dilbert fame, he explains a lot about this
Trump will not always be President. We need the wall.
I thought about that too.
Here’s the problem.
The lower numbers of illegals is based on the idea that the effort and danger of jumping the border is not worth it because Trump will quickly arrest and deport them.
Some of that is happening but it will never be enough.
Integrity of borders is a basic function of gov’t, that precedes the 20th century welfare state crap by hundreds of years.
This is a $4 trillion per year gov’t that RINOs and DEMONRATs claim “can’t afford” to build a $20bil wall.
This is a hill to die on. If gov’t can’t even secure the borders it should just be shut down.
I’m not sure when is best to try that. On this illegal immigration issue, Trump is, in effect, a third party president supported by a minority of Republicans - and that’s it.
His greatest leverage may be at the debt ceiling in July. If he intends to do that he will not signal it in advance.
Build the wall !
Does anything sum up politics in 2017 better than, “Go read the Dilbert guy to figure out why this is good?”