This proposal is really elegant, in how it takes money away from the incentives for illegal immigration, to pay for the deterrent. Kind of a twofer.
It is also elegant in how its effects dis-proportionally target the most undesirable of the illegal immigrants - criminals who can’t pass through ports of entry, and the unproductive/unskilled/lazy who become public charges.
Yet another elegant aspect is that the revenues continue in perpetuity, even after the wall costs are paid.
I don’t know, but I hope that this proposal is designed to pass the scoring criteria needed in the budgeting process, where new spending must be “offset” by other savings or revenue increases. If so, it could be an essential element of a coordinated GOP strategy - but maybe that is too much to hope for. In any event, it is a mighty solid proposal, in terms of being an effective measure to address the problem.
President Trump himself was recently promoting a similar argument, proposing that the wall funding could pay for itself in other cost avoidances - in a matter of months, because the costs of illegal immigration are so high.
Yep