What do you think they would do, tear down a 30 billion dollar wall? That would be political suicide.
More to point, what makes you think Trump will be successful in building it before he leaves office?
- Trump has back down from the huge beautiful wall on the boarder to "a physical structure might not be needed where you have rivers and mountains and everything else protecting the border."
- He has made statements indicated that his wall may turnout to be fencing in many places.
- Congress has still not allocated any money to build the wall which means no property has been purchase, nor have bids gone out for the construction (except a prototype).
- Recently a Homeland Security report put the cost of the reinforce steel fence on the boarder in California at a small fraction of the cost the wall and is said to be over 95% effective at stopping climbers.
- Since there is no money specifically marked for the wall this year or the 2018-19 budget, the actually construction may not start till the last year of Trump's term and even that may not happen.
If was always difficult to justify the need for the wall to Congress but it's going to be much more difficult today because the number of illegal crossing has fallen sharply. For example, in 2000, there were over 1.6 million illegal crossings. By 2005, the number had dropped to 265,000 and by 2016 the number was down to 170,000. Trump is asking for 18 billion for the wall construction. That puts the cost per per person at over $22,000/yr per person including maintenance and added personnel over a 20 year period. If immigration laws are changed to increase work permits or quotas which is being proposed, there would likely be and even bigger drop in illegal crossing making the wall a monument to stupidity.
Trump's border wall: A look at the numbers
Border Crossing by the Numbers | Blog | Independent Lens | PBS
Perhaps, but there has also been an increase in drug flow across the border now killing more Americans than any other time in our history.
You can't blame Trump for not getting the funding for the wall when it's Democrats threatening to shut down the government if it's part of our budget. Why are Democrats so frightened by the wall? For one, it will not be destroyed if Democrats take control. Two, it will actually provide results that the Democrats fear because they've been lying to the American people that it won't do any good.
When Trump realizes that we support his efforts even if it means shutting down the government, he just may move forward on it. I hope he does. It would give credence to my signature.