Ray From Cleveland
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Right now our country is 21 trillion dollars in debt and this year we are on pace to add another 2.5 trillion to that amount. So, I think we need to spend our money wisely. If a fence can do the job of a wall at half the cost, why build the wall? Sooner or later we have to start to do something about it.
I'll trust the engineers over you; no offense. I'd hate to spend the money for a fence only to find out they figured away around it. And did you ever go to the site Open Secrets and see what we are spending money on? Are you worried about the money we spend for abortions? Are you worried about the subsidizing of NPR and PBS which has been outdated for over 20 years?
When you consider what we spend on illegals in this country, a wall would actually be an investment that pays for itself.
There is no way to say this without sounding harsh, so I will just say it...nobody made those two young men take drugs, no illegal immigrant forced them to do it, they made a choice. A wall will not stop that from happening. Meth is made locally from cold medicine, no wall will stop that either.
You are correct, but on the other hand, if it wasn't here in the first place, maybe those people would still be here with us.
With over 60,000 Americans a year now dying from drug use, not to mention the ten times more that were saved, I think it's high time (no pun intended) to limit the drugs coming in. If we can't save the people who are hooked already, the least we can do is try to stop more people from getting hooked. In order to do that, limit the supply as much as possible. Given that most of our opioid products come across that border, it's the best thing we can do for drug prevention right now.