Illegal Immigration

[Cecelia]

The my-country-is-like-my-house analogy is starting to make me sick.

The primary reason for the wall is that Trump doesn't want to 'look foolish' to his base.  The primary argument against the wall is that walls don't work.  You lot may as well spend the $5 billion on a huge pile of candy floss along the border, hoping migrants will get stuck.

If you think the two sides on the US political divide are going to agree amount of legal migration, you're living in a fantasy world.

Boru

I'm going to disagree with you here.  The primary argument against a wall isn't that walls don't work.  That's a red herring.  Republicans want us to argue that walls don't work because they can argue right back that walls do work.  But whether walls work or not isn't the issue.  The issue is that THIS WALL isn't cost effective.  You're spending what will probably be $50B to increase the ladder and shovel market in Mexico. 

THIS wall has hundreds of problems.  Cost, Upkeep, Ineffectiveness, Environmental issues, Property Rights issues, structural issues, size issues, and more. 

All the wall really is a monument for Trump to build for himself on Taxpayers dimes.  (And possibly divide the country and shut down the government for Putin)