[angelrod]

Totally agree. I always thought the insistence on Mexico paying for the wall was silly. We should build the wall because it is in our own interest to do so. Building it will more than pay for itself in decreased welfare payments to illegals.

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Right, but Trump moved the goal posts, right from the start.

It became understood and accepted that there would be a wall, it was mainstreamed and expected, at least by 99% of us. No IF’s.

Now, it’s just about the details- how to do it and how to pay.

And we have the perfect legislation that does not require a vote or debate to build the wall- The Secure Fence Act which was only funded with 1.2 billion rather than 7 billion by Congress in 2006.

How much money have we blown in foreign aid, building infrastructure in foreign lands, much of it permanently squandered and flushed down the toilet? All from US tax dollars.

[Dr. Sivana]

I always thought the insistence on Mexico paying for the wall was silly.

Yes, but it ups the ante. If Trump capitulates on Mexico paying for it, or gets weaselly about Mexico paying for it indirectly in some general way, folks on the other side can say they beat him, because Mexico didn't pay for it, but we still have a wall. Great tactic. It also removes the disingenuous argument that we can't afford to build the wall, the kind of thing leftists bring up after justifying federal expenditures for cowboy poetry.