Too often folks can’t seem to see the forest for the trees. Allow me to take a simplistic approach. Basically common sense.
Are people attempting to enter our southern border illegally? It’s unequivocal. YES
Do walls provide a barrier to entry. Again, unequivocal: YES
We can site statistics until the cows come home, but I prefer to use common sense. Bad people want to enter our country, and bad people want to sell bad stuff to our citizens for profit. Again, the point is irrefutable. And I haven’t even mentioned the terrorist threat...
If extending the wall will add a measure of additional security and stop a percentage of the illegal flow and the drugs, why would anyone oppose it.? The counter arguments are a distraction from the point. Even if one could prove that the illegal flow issue through the southern border is only a small part of the problem — an argument I do not buy, by the way — that doesn’t weaken the case for the wall.
Again, a penny out of every $10 of the budget is all Trump is requesting. That amount times two or more probably disappears out of the budget every year.
Finally, the argument that illegals commit crimes at a lower rate than citizens already here has no relevance. How many crimes would illegals commit in this country if they couldn’t get here? The answer is zero.
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Last edited: Feb 10, 2019