Unlike liberals, I don't believe that money grows on trees and that the billions of dollars it will take to build a wall must come from somewhere. If we are going to have solutions that don't work, we might as well go with the cheapest one. We've never even tried enforcing our laws. Maybe we ought to look t doing this before a multi-billion dollar wall?
Anyhow, why not a minefield? It's probably an order of magnitude cheaper than a wall and immensely more effective.
The billions that California alone would save if illegals were not here could pay for the entire wall.
Taxing remittances going to Mexico could pay for the wall.
Paying for the wall is not the problem. Preventing the entire country from becoming a disaster like California is the problem.
There has to be a wall/secure fence. Otherwise nothing else works, people deported simply come right back and that is what has been happening for years.
We must have a secure border or nothing will work. We also have to enforce immigration laws. There are many steps to making this work. That is why it has not worked in the past, we have always done one thing or another.
There is not even one issue. Cracking down on illegals working is great but they don’t all come to work. Cracking down on illegals working and getting social services is also great but they don’t all come for work or welfare. Some are engaged in the lucrative drug trade that is also tied to illegal immigration and open borders. We must attack from many directions to make it work.
The process has already begun and is beginning to build which is how it has to work. The media is not reporting on what is being done or how effective it is though.
Don’t ever believe something is not happening just because you are not hearing about it in the media. Don’t believe things are not happening even if the media is reporting they are not happening.
I live on the border, there are things going on that the media is not reporting. There are things happening that the media claims are not happening. It is looking good from where I am, the ball is beginning to roll and I think it will gain a little at a time (already is) and at some point it will begin to roll down hill.
We did not get in this mess overnight, and we will not get out of it overnight either. What I do see is ducks are being lined up that will make it all move faster.
We need to be behind President Trump on this, and not waiver- it is the only hope we have.