Democrats like to say a wall won't help anything. I beg to differ

[Remodeling Maidiac]

In 2015 alone 300k+ illegals were caught trying to sneak across our southern border.

Report: More Than 331,000 Illegal Immigrants Snagged at Southern Border in 2015

Now consider how many were not caught in that same time period.

Those people weren't over staying visas as the left likes to divert to. They simply walked, drove or rode across. The impact on our social safety net is tremendous as well as our schools, and medical facilities. Combine that with them depressing the wages in certain industries and their overall impact leaves quite a large impact on our economy.

While the flow of illegals has a natural ebb & flow based on economic & political factors, the bottom line is it is a MAJOR problem.
A wall would stem the flow just as a tourniquet stems the flow of blood. Would they tunnel under? Likely to at least try. But with a real wall in place the border agents would be freed up to perform other tasks and monitor other devices to detect the ones who do make it under or over.
I firmly believe that we can probably cut the flow by 90% or more and that positive impact on our services that they used would also help offset the cost of the security measures, even if only a small amount.

A presidents most important task is to protect Americans from both foreign & domestic dangers. An unsecured border is a huge danger.

 

[TheDude]

Dems. can't get out of their own way Gramps.

 

[candycorn]

If you’re going to talk about depressing wages….you also have to allow for lower overall costs to the consumer. If Olive Garden can pay their dishwasher less than the going rate for labor, it would be reasonable to expect that the price to the consumer would be less.

 

[JoeMoma]

Mending Wall
Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.'
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.'