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Originally Posted by Rochard
Everyone is against illegal immigration. However, we do not need to spend twenty billion dollars on a wall in the next two years. Walls work great in some areas, but not in others. Why spend a billion dollars on a wall in an area where no one crosses when a handful of border patrol agents and a single helicopter would easily cover it?
Building a wall is not cost effective. At the same time, illegal immigration is down. Why spend money on something that is not cost effective to solve a problem that is becoming less of a problem every day?
Even more so now after our deficit is through the roof because we gave the rich a hug tax cut.
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Going after the people that regularly hire illegals and ending birthright citizenship would be a much more effective deterrent than a wall. The wall will only be as effective as we are at defending and patrolling it. Right now (and for the past several years) there are more than 1,400 unfilled requests for more border patrol agents. It's a shitty job and they are having a nearly impossible time finding enough people to do it. Unless we plan to use the military to patrol the wall or we add some serious technology to it, people will just go over or under it and it will do no good.