How about an invisible fence?
Posted on 04/06/2016 2:41:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Republican front-runner has released new details on his plan. Here’s an attempt to take it, and his foreign policy, seriously.
Maybe it’s because Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexican border has more than doubled in height over the course of his presidential campaign, theoretically soaring past the Berlin Wall and Great Wall of China. Maybe it’s because Mexico’s former president said he wouldn’t pay for “that (expletive) wall.” Maybe it’s because the idea has been reduced to a call-and-response mantra at rallies. Whatever the explanation, Trump’s critics tend to dismiss his pledge to make Mexico “pay for the wall” as a cheap, chauvinist applause line at best and a dangerous deception at worst—an attempt to foist an impossible dream on an impossible benefactor.
“The most beautiful tall wall, better than the Great Wall of China, that will run the whole border, that he would somehow magically get the Mexican government to pay for,” Hillary Clinton mused in March. “You know, it is just fantasy.”
Is it?
There is good reason to treat Trump’s plan to build a wall on Mexico’s dime as the opposite of fantasy....
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Trump was skyrocketed to being the frontrunner because of the ‘wall’ - actually his entire policy to fix illegal immigration and give jobs and the country back to Americans.
Cruz copied after he saw it was indeed popular.
If it wasn’t for Trump, it would’ve never even been discussed and Cruz would’ve been like Hunter and Tancredo as candidates years ago, with Jeb, Rubio, and Kasich leading the field in not discussing the elephant in the country.
BUILD IT ANYHOW! MASSIVELY increase the rate of deportations.
Simple question..
Should someone that’s in the country illegally.......
Be allowed to transfer money in or out of the country?...
and that’s irregardless of the wall
after all someone that’s illegally in the country should not be able to legally physically pass across the border back and forth...
And therefore someone that’s illegally in the country should also not be able to legally pass funds/money back and forth across the border
There are many ways to get Mexico to pay for a BIG WALL that REALLY protects the real citizens of America. Something our Federal stooges have deliberately failed to do for soooo long. (It is called MONEY).
Just thinking.....
agreed.
The article is VERY long but brings up some points. enviro whackos, lawsuits, making sure congress funds it will all be obstacles.
But It can be done.
If Donald Trump had not made all the running Ted would be no where to be found.
Why don’t we just use the drug cartel money we’ve confiscated?
Maybe they'll infest our cities with tiny but overweight women pushing baby carriages. /s
Sure looks like a mine.
Even if by some miracle Trump is elected, there will never be a wall. Trump has no intention on building a wall. It’s a campaign gimmick to get angry voters to flock to him.
And they will self deport if we disallow funds transfers to Mexico
Put a sign on it: “What’s mine is yours.”
Not to mention obtaining the land the wall will be built on. A strip of land a thousand miles long and several hundred feet wide running primarily through private property. Probably far more property than that since you won't build the wall along the banks of the river you would build it several hundred feet or more from the waterline so you would also have to buy all the property south of the wall. The money required for that would run into the billions as well, and the legal challenges to the eminent domain acts will probably take decades.
Be allowed to transfer money in or out of the country?...
The question is how do you stop them without disrupting the billions in legitimate transfers.
Our street is swept every third Thursday.....
“OK, we paid for it. It’s OURS. Touch it and there will be trouble.”
***********
In Texas it will have to be either on the Mexico or Texas side as the
border is the middle of the Rio Grande River in most places.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
