Why Is Trump's Wall A Bad Thing?

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(01-28-2019, 05:03 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Exactly, and it will cut down the area that border patrol agents have to cover by a great deal.

People build walls around their houses and property all the time, even though there is usually no evidence that anyone has tried to rob them, but Trump wants to do it when people have been crossing illegally and it's a bad idea?

Comparing it to a fence around a home would make more sense if you acknowledge that the majority of the people illegally on your property aren't walking onto your property on the south side of your yard but rather are coming up the driveway with your permission and staying after you asked them to leave. Certainly you'd focus your attention on the more urgent and pervasive problem, especially if the number of people crossing into your yard had been on a steady decline for years. You wouldn't falsely claim there was a new, urgent crisis. Even then, it's a poor comparison for many reasons.

Many reasons backed by studies have been provided in this thread that have explained why a border wall is ineffective and costly in both the short and long run.