Trump orders wall to be built on Mexico border

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Thanks for the response scoob. And I'm sorry, but I still fail to see how the wall will help keep people from sneaking over the border. I know you said it's just "one thing" but it's one very expensive thing. Spending so much money on something that probably won't do anything to help seems very foolish and a huge waste. Don't you agree that anyone who wants to get through it will be able to do so just fine?

Roughly 59% of the illegal immigrants in the US are from Mexico, which is why the wall on the southern border makes a lot more sense then it does to make one on the northern border with Canada.
http://immigration.procon.org/view.resou...eID=000845
That being said, there are other ways to get in. 20 billion although sounds like a lottery jackpot is not that much money in the form of an investment. When you avoid illegals coming in and sending money back to their home countries, you start to have citizens work for those jobs, and since business pays for labor they are going to finally have to pay a higher wage. This will translate into higher prices in some industry, but will be offset by trade, and wages of the consumer. We have a major trade deficit with Mexico since NAFTA was signed. Billions of dollars per year. If we could get to a trade surplus by bringing manufacturing here, which is already being planned, we will start to get rid of the national debt, and build local economies bringing success to this country. It's not about race, it's about national preservation. 
Although you never pull the race card, as a former leftist, I understand why the left does. It's a way to shut down opposition to viewpoints. A border wall is simply common sense for national economic security which benefits all citizens. The left are like teenagers who use the families wealth to by drugs, and leave the door unlocked when they come home drunk and go sleep in the basement because they don't have jobs and really no loyalty to the family unit.

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It's really not an invasion, it's a way to destroy a culture from within to the point they lower their defenses and eventually destroy themselves. You should watch that video. I'm speaking as a former leftist who used to push a lot of what I know now to be leftist propaganda.

Just stop, you have no ability to gauge your audience, as though pretending to be or even -being- a former "leftist" would mean anything to me.

The more I researched, the more the left I identified with resented me,

Maybe you're an easily resented acquaintance?

to the point that I found conservatives understood the threat much better then those who were being led by "socialist equality" which I found out was a scam by the ultra rich to control the poor.

....you found that out....because "the left" resented you?  I think what you're trying to say here is that you spiraled into neatly pre-packaged paranoia.

Those that rant against nationalism are the ones who are a threat to the nation. They are reckless and don't understand how important it is for national unity, solidarity, and freedom.

You think nationalism is important for all of that?  Gee, how -have- I managed to stumble my way through life not requiring any batshit nationalist propaganda?  

The US has a lot of freedoms for citizens, along with the self preservation of prosperity,

Not for long, your boy is seeing to that.

I really wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

-and the rest of the world breathed a collective sigh of relief.

Have to ask, what country are you from, and where do you currently live?