...We have done quite well for 200 years without a wall of hate
We have no 'wall of hate'.
We have a wall protecting our southern national border.
We have that wall because of a flood of refugees and illegal aliens crossing our border in recent decades.
A flood that at an given time accounts for anywhere from 10,000,000 to 30,000,000 Illegal Aliens upon US soil without our express prior consent.
A nation that cannot enforce its own national territorial sovereignty is no nation at all.
We are - and intend to remain - a nation, regardless of how many globalist internationalist leftist freaks come out of the woodwork howling otherwise.
Illegal Aliens do more harm than good to the American Economy.
They depress wages in various trades and undercut the livelihoods and career-paths of countless American Citizens and have been doing so for decades.
Enough is enough.
The wall is merely a tool in a larger tool-kit designed to begin reversing that trend and to regain control of our border and that aspect of our national sovereignty.
It's one of the primary causes for the Democratic Party humiliation in 2016, and those idiots never seem to learn from their past mistakes - ideological fools.
The frigging Democrats are so busy kissing Latino a$$ that they've lost sight of the vastly larger audience of American Citizens who might otherwise vote for them.
Kinda like spending a dollar to make a dime ( wasting the votes of those who might otherwise vote for them, merely to gain Hispanic support ).
Well... even though the Pubs have no room to talk in other areas... in the above context, Dems aren't exactly the brightest crayons in the box, are they?