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So, by your reckoning, since the government will just find something else to spend money on, we should just keep our mouths shut and take it? That's kind of like telling a rape victim to relax and enjoy it.

That wasn't what I was trying to relay actually. I was just saying that to assume that stopping illegal immigration would suddenly give us a huge boon monetarily would be rather unrealistic.

After all you'd have to protect both boarders and the US has thousands and thousands of miles to protect between Canada and Mexico and not all of it hospitable and easy to monitor. The cost to monitor all of that on a 24/7 basis would most likely outweigh or at the very least equal what we spend right now in civil services. Not to mention the huge capital expenditure to get monitoring basis set-up and ready. Money that we're already short on.

Then of course there's also the loss of a major labor force which would have to be replaced with citizens who would be in a position to demand higher wages raising the cost of many staple supplies to many American families. Unless of course those supplies were to end up being subsidized by the American goverment which then it would still end up costing the taxpayer money either way. Or it could also just destroy the American farming industry as consumers resorted to purchasing less expensive produce from across the boarder. So in the end I'm not quite sure if we benifitted or lost?

Append to last reply: I guess my point was that I cannot forsee a savings to the American taxpayer if we were to just plug up the boarder and stop illegal immigration.