Cheaper than giving them welfare, food stamps, phones, healthcare until hell freezes over.
Remember when they were selling NAFTA?
They the Mexicans would stay home once they had jobs.
Add it up -
25,000,000 illegals collecting (on average) several hundred dollars per MONTH x 12 months/year = ....
... what, $50 Billion for ONE year? And that’s each and every year, year after year, cumulative; if anything, the yearly number only increases as the families expand.
And that doesn’t even include the crime factor - the misery, the waste of police & judicial resources, etc. In the end, it’s all a freaking lot of money.
Obviously, cheaper in the long run just to build the damn wall.
For umpteen generations into the future, multiplying like rabbits...