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Originally Posted by Rochard
We already did this. In 2006 we spent $2.3 billion dollars on fencing, protecting 700 miles of fencing. It's like pouring money down a bottomless pit. The vast majority of people entering the country illegally are doing so through the ports of entry. If not... they go over, under, around, or through fencing and walls.
It's not that I am "anti-American"... I just see no reason to spend billions of dollars when it will accomplish nothing. We already spent billions of dollars, and now we have to spend billions more to house the people that came over, under, around, or through the 700 miles plus of border fencing we put up.
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So lets get it right. You are glad that no more money is being spent on strengthening the border. You are against Obama erected fences along the border. Do you want more more money spent on detecting and detaining Visa over stayers or not?
But you lie about the numbers.
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But the fact is that more illegal immigration stems from visa overstays than illegal border crossings. In fiscal 2017, for instance, the most recent year for which both metrics are available, the Border Patrol apprehended just over 310,000 undocumented border crossers. But more than 700,000 foreigners overstayed visas (out of a possible 52.7 million people issued temporary visas for tourism, business, education, etc.), according to the Homeland Security Department, and more than 85 percent of them were thought still in the United States at the year’s close.
https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...-visas/587485/
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As you can see Border Patrol would have to apprehend nearly 50% of illegal crossings to claim the top number of illegal immigrants is over stayers.
Lets now talk about quality and control. There is no control of the quality of people who can walk across an open border. They can be low skilled, not working, criminals, etc. On the other hand it's very easy to control the people who receive visas. Cost of a holiday, students, work visas are easy to control and raise the standards.
Building a wall isn't going to stop all illegal immigration, but it will stop some and the amount spent of illegal immigrants pales to what's needed to strengthen the border.