We've all heard the snowflake lies about the cost of the wall and the cost of illegal immigration. Here's a more credible examination of the facts.
President Donald Trump announced that he will fulfill his campaign promise to build a nearly 2,000 mile long wall (not a fence) along America’s southern border with Mexico.
The idea is that a physical barrier will act as a low-cost deterrent, and will help stem the flow of illegal immigrants entering America via Mexico—the hope is that once an illegal alien (particularly a criminal migrant) is deported, they won’t return.
The plan is simple and time-tested—China’s Great Wall did it’s job, so did Hadrian’s Wall in Roman Britain—and yet it’s come under fire from the mainstream media.
They claim that the wall will be prohibitively expensive, that illegal immigrants contribute to America’s economy (so there’s no reason to deport them), and that the wall won’t work.
They’re factually wrong on all accounts—let’s look at the numbers.
How Much Will Trump’s Wall Cost? $21.6 Billion.
The first question we must address is very straightforward: how much would it cost to build a wall along the Mexican border?
We don’t know for sure (construction costs rarely align with initial estimates), but we have a few good estimates.
Senate leader Mitch McConnell said Congress estimates the wall will cost $15 billion at most—he said it would likely fall within a range of $12 to $15 billion.
However, according to more recent information acquired by Reuters, the border wall will cost $21.6 billion, and will take roughly 3.5 years to build. This is according to a document from the Department of Homeland Security.
It’s probably our best current estimate, and this article will proceed under using this cost assumption.
On the high end (which can’t be totally discounted, given the nature of construction projects), the left-wing advocacy group cum “newspaper” the Huffington Post said the wall would cost roughly $40 billion. Their evidence is based on a study done by MIT (although their assumptions about the size and building materials may be why the projection is so high).
Either way, the cost of the wall pales in comparison to the cost of illegal immigrants in America.
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The left only bitches about cost because they know the people are fed up with government spending. They can't very well be honest about why they want illegal immigrants. It's about votes. Period.
Leftist ideas cost a lot of money and never work. But, it makes the useful idiots feel good, as if government really does care about them. So, while the left increases the amount of crumbs they hand out, always with the promise of more freebies in the future, the right actually cares about the safety of people. And the right actually wants to help people succeed rather than sit and wait their entire lives for government to do something.
Liberals are total hypocrites. Watch what they do, not what they say.
Border security isn't about money.
Gun control isn't about safety.
Choice isn't even about choice. (you are free to choose as long as you do what the left wants)
Welfare isn't about helping people. It's about ceding rights to big government so people can be taken care of.
Tax increases aren't about paying down our debt or solid programs. It's about weakening middle class and collapsing our economy.
Minimum wage hikes aren't about helping the low income people. It's about eliminating jobs so more will turn to government and eventually be willing to cede their rights.
It's all about liberals gaining a stronghold in government and controlling us. Everything they do leads to the same thing- a massive, controlling government. And remember, they will never suffer by having to abide by the same shit they force on the rest of us.
