(January 5, 2019 at 5:00 pm)Lek Wrote:(January 5, 2019 at 2:49 pm)Mermaid Wrote: We have border control. A wall won't help that. That's not how things work.
We don't have border control. If we did there wouldn't be thousands per day crossing illegally.
A quick Google tells me:
-The US employs about 20 000 Border Patrol agents. This number does not include non-field personnel.
-The USBP has a budget of about US$4 billion.
-The USBP operates (depending on how you count them) 10 000-12 000 vehicles.
-In 2017, the USBP either apprehended or turned back a little more than half a million people.
-The CPB estimates (hard to get exact figures) that around 300 000 people successfully and illegally entered the US in 2017, and that it has declined since then (so, it isn't 'thousands per day').
It that's not border control, it'll do until some comes along.
Boru
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