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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
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Do. Not. Ever. Quote. Fox. News.
We don't need to "slow down migration". Illegal immigration slowed down under Obama, and we did this without building a wall. What you don't understand is that Trump and the Republican party is screaming "We need to protect our borders" when the reality is illegal immigration is down, and building a wall would be a huge expense that wouldn't make a difference in slowing down illegal immigration. The vast majority of people here illegally actually cross the border legally and then fail to go home.
Stop listening to and reading Fox News - they are heavily biased. Look at the pure stats.
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/il...on-statistics/
Arrests on the Southwest border peaked in 2000 at 1.64 million and have generally declined since, totaling 303,916 in 2017. That is more than an 80% drop - and without spending billions and billions of dollars on a wall.
At the peak in 2005, we had over 12 million illegals in the United States. Now we have 11 million.
Keep in mind that when we say "Illegal immigration" we are also talking about Canadians, Europeans, and people from Asia.
Why is it that Democratic president did so much more to fight illegal immigration, deported more illegals then any other president, and did it with shouting about it and without spending billions of dollars for a wall?
In very simple terms a wall is a waste of money.