Trump orders wall to be built on Mexico border

[Thumpalumpacus]

So since I appear to be one of the few with inside sources talking to Trump, the plan is to limit the wire transfers to Mexico in the form of remittances from immigrants sending money back to Mexico instead of spending their wages in the local economy, which is about 25 billion dollars a year, and using that as leverage for negotiation with Mexico that if you want that money you pay up, or it's not going your way. This actually helps Mexico because it prevents illegal immigration from it's southern border of people crossing through Mexico into the US. Mexico already has a border wall/fence.

http://www.cairco.org/issues/remittances

Who is this source of yours in communication with POTUS?

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23 feet ladder

... and a small piece of plywood. Easy-peasy!

[Tiberius]

Wire cutters.

It's electric.

Hate to break it to you but wire cutters with rubber handles exist.

[Anomalocaris]

It's electric.

Hate to break it to you but wire cutters with rubber handles exist.

Don't even need rubber handles if you are standing on a wooden ladder while using the wire cutter.    Or you can just throw some grounded bare metal cables or carbon fiber filaments over the wires to short out the whole fucking thing.

[Aegon]

Alright guys debating how people will get over the wall is stupid because most illegal immigrants coming from Mexico are using a 40,000 foot ladder. It's called a plane.

[Ben Davis]

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order for an "impassable physical barrier" to be built along the US border with Mexico.

So no planes then? I understand that approximately 40% of illegal immigrants get in by flying in legally and simply outstaying their visas. What's a wall going to do there, eh?

He also signed an action to strip funds from US cities that are sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants.

So it's the cities' fault?

Mr Trump said in a TV interview that Mexico would "absolutely, 100%" reimburse the US for his wall.

Is this his 'trade tariffs' thing or does he think he can extort cash from them? Pro-tip: both are a bad idea.

Building a 2,000-mile barrier along the Mexican border was one of his key pledges in the election campaign.

Indeed it was. How we all laughed...

Mr Trump spoke of a "crisis" on the southern US border as he signed the directives during a ceremony at the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday.

Yeah, everything's a 'crisis', isn't it Donny-boy Trumpington.

The orders also called for hiring 10,000 immigration officials to help boost border patrol efforts.

Also to be paid for by the cities?

"A nation without borders is not a nation," he said. "Beginning today the United States gets back control of its borders."

It already has borders. Does it really need the old East/West German model?

Mr Trump was joined by parents whose children, he said, had been "horribly killed by individuals living here illegally".

He read out their names and invited the parents to stand.

So failures in policing are directly attributable to border controls are they? Not police funding?

"For years the media has largely ignored the stories of Americans and lawful residents victimised by open borders," he added.

"To all of those hurting out there, I repeat to you these words: we hear you, we see you and you will never ever be ignored again."

The media may have, I couldn't tell. The important thing is that the legislature hasn't and it has tried to deal with them in far more humanitarian ways, realising that illegal immigrants are human too. This is just spin.

As we all know, a better solution would be to better fund border police and maybe help Mexico improve it's economic situation, making it better for people who live there.

[Neo-Scholastic]

I don't know if a wall would work or not. Heck I don't even know what kind of wall we're talking about. What I do know is that illegal immigration makes many bad things worse like drug smuggling, human trafficking, the spread of disease, and low grade-level competency in schools. It's corrosive to the rule of law in both the US and Mexico and it is fundamentally unfair to law-abiding immigrants. For years and years and years politicians have either promised to something and didn't or exploited the situation for political gain. Trump isn't just doing something different; he's actually trying to do something. Whether it works or not remains to be seen.

[The Grand Nudger]

He's trying to do something roundly terrible....firstly by building a dumbasss wall that no-one....no-one will pay for.  Secondly, by threatening to -not- pay for the wall by extorting a foreign government for a paltry sum of money that will not cover construction in the slightest, with the threat of confiscating money from the poor - legal immigrants, illegal..doesn't matter.  All with a legally questionable reading of the patriot act, whose language does not apply to the remittances in the first place even if it weren't questionable.....which can be defeated by simply opening an account at bank of america, or any other bank which operates in both countries freely.  Deposit here, withdraw there.  Then, the icing on this shit cake is, ofc, that any success in curbing immigration of any kind would only mean that there we no remitttances to confiscate with which to fund the wall they're totally building...and totally not squandering on "planning". These walls never materialize, but the money sure manages to go somewhere before people forget about them.

It's already a national embarrassment, regardless of whether or not -anything- comes of it.  All of this....all of this...... because "Boo!  Brown People!".

[Neo-Scholastic]

Doesn't like policies, makes accusations of racism. Typical.

[The Grand Nudger]

Racist policies are racist....I don;t make them so, that's on the trumpster and his supporters.  

OFC, I did lay out all of the reasons that this was a silly idea from the floor to the ceiling, didn't I?  Care to take a crack at any of that?

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Here are two questions that might...I say might, give you impetus for introspection.  

Why is it that you've bought a factually untrue and overtly racist immigration ideology hook line and sinker?  

Why is it okay to confiscate money from -legal- immigrants (I know you don;t give a fuck about illegals, so I won't bother asking)?

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Why is it that your main concern is whether or not it will work...rather than whether or not we should do it at all?

Do you have any reservations about the call..in that executive order, to construct concentration camps?  

Do you have any reservations about the call, in that executive order, to threaten any city or entity aiding or abetting illegal immigrants?  

Do you have any reservations about the call, in that executive order, to deport anyone accused of a crime....no conviction required, or anyone an immigration officer feels is a "threat" without the necessity of any charges against them existing?

Do you have any reservations about the call, in that executive order, to recruit a force of 10,000 immigration officers to enforce any of the above?

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Is there any specific reason, that you can think of, that caused you not to notice any of the above, or..if you did notice it, lead you to feel as though none of these issues are as pressing as the immigrant threat?

[A Theist]

It's electric.

Hate to break it to you but wire cutters with rubber handles exist.

Yup. I have a few of those. But I think it'll take a bit more rubber insulation than that, like thick rubber gloves in addition to wearing rubber boots. Just to be sure. Ladders can be pretty heavy. Once atop the wall how will they get back down to the other side? Will they jump down 18 feet? It's a bigger drop than some would think. It would also take a bit of strength and coordination to pull the ladder up from one side of the wall and to slide it down set against the other side of the wall, even for two people working together.