More to point, what makes you think Trump will be successful in building it before he leaves office?Heh. What make you think it can't be reversed?When laws don't work, we change them. We had prohibition for over a decade, tried to use federal law enforcement, then local law enforcement. We closed up saloons, stopped shipments coming from outside the country, jailed saloon owners and bootleggers. After a decade, we came to our senses and changed the law and made the entire industry legal.Yes, if you're a picker, domestic worker, a semiskilled worker in the construction or stand in front of Home Depot looking for temporary work. The solution is relatively simple but controversial. Allow undocumented immigrants to apply for legal status. Then employers will have to pay the going rate for the job and won't be able to hire people below minimum wage.
Haha...more backwards ass LefTard logic.
“Don’t enforce the law...just take the law off the books.”
“Don’t arrest the guy dealing heroin to our kids...just make heroin legal instead.”
Haha...holy shit...only in LibTardia!
Illegal Immigration has been a problem now for over 60 years. Deportation and building fences and walls have never work and never will because most of the people in the country don't support it. In fact, a large percent of republicans about 35% and 90% of democrats don't agree with Trump. Six states and hundreds of cities and towns refuse to cooperate with the immigration service. To make our immigration laws work, we would need strong continuing support from both sides which we don't have. When Trump issue orders to change immigration policy around country, democrats will just reverse it when they get in power. We have to come up with new ideas, if not nothing is going change over the long run.
Maybe, but the one thing Democrats won't be able to reverse is a wall; that's why they are fighting so hard against it.
What do you think they would do, tear down a 30 billion dollar wall? That would be political suicide.
- Trump has back down from the huge beautiful wall on the boarder to "a physical structure might not be needed where you have rivers and mountains and everything else protecting the border."
- He has made statements indicated that his wall may turnout to be fencing in many places.
- Congress has still not allocated any money to build the wall which means no property has been purchase, nor have bids gone out for the construction (except a prototype).
- Recently a Homeland Security report put the cost of the reinforce steel fence on the boarder in California at a small fraction of the cost the wall and is said to be over 95% effective at stopping climbers.
- Since there is no money specifically marked for the wall this year or the 2018-19 budget, the actually construction may not start till the last year of Trump's term and even that may not happen.
If was always difficult to justify the need for the wall to Congress but it's going to be much more difficult today because the number of illegal crossing has fallen sharply. For example, in 2000, there were over 1.6 million illegal crossings. By 2005, the number had dropped to 265,000 and by 2016 the number was down to 170,000. Trump is asking for 18 billion for the wall construction. That puts the cost per per person at over $22,000/yr per person including maintenance and added personnel over a 20 year period. If immigration laws are changed to increase work permits or quotas which is being proposed, there would likely be and even bigger drop in illegal crossing making the wall a monument to stupidity.
Trump's border wall: A look at the numbers
Border Crossing by the Numbers | Blog | Independent Lens | PBS