Suppose We Actually Build a Wall

[hawkifann]

Well, first off they would have to physically remove the wall and then publicly explain why they were doing that....

A wall is only as good as the monitoring effort put behind it. If this administration, or some other administration, gets lax on border security, they'll just understaff it and people will climb over, dig under sneak through checkpoints, etc.

 

[ft254]

A serious wall. Tall, not porous, well-patrolled, lots of surveillance gear. Done right.

What changes would you expect to see? For example...

What impact would that have on illegal immigration? Would they just come by different routes? Would there be a huge drop in illegal immigrants?

What impact would it have on illegals already here?

What impact would there be on trade - both legit and smuggling?

What impact would it have on drug traffic?

How would communities and states bordering the wall be affected? Would the existence of the wall make them relax about immigration and, perhaps, become more liberal about it? Or would they become even more bigoted and hateful with the wall to hide behind?

How would it affect our relations with Mexico? Would Mexico move closer to Latin America and away from the US?

And so on....

Drugs don't come across the border in a manner that a wall will have an effect. Legalize drugs and there will be no cartels. Get rid of the dick heads in the WH and the right wingers and deal with the problem.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

I encourage you to view my newly started thread over Trump wanting to gut the State Department by 25%. As for cuts, Trump has already directed the State Department to slash the number of people it employs by 8%. So not only are they facing a budgetary crunch, they are facing a staffing crunch as well. Not a smart strategy considering that the State Department is also responsible for many of the trade deals we have. Less people means we have less salesmen to pitch our exports worldwide.

Fortunately we are increasing Defense spending. More dramatically than any time in the last 15 years according to McConnell.

That's a good thing if we are going to cut back on diplomacy, replace mere generals with ideological war hawks in the White House, and start trade wars. Because it sounds like we are going to need an improved military to deal with the blowback.

 

[Raglefant]

Are you being facetious in this thread? Apologies if my detector is off.

You're using the wrong device. Try the retard detector.