Was Ending The Shutdown Honorable?!

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(01-30-2019, 12:15 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Well if you do find some evidence that it'll actually save money, please quote this post so I can read it. 

Read away:

It looks like this is assuming the cost of the wall would be 7 billion instead of 5, and it STILL PAYS FOR ITSELF:

Quote:

• This means that for each 100,000 illegal immigrants stopped or deterred by a wall, the saving to taxpayers would be nearly $7.5 billion.
• If a border wall prevented 160,000 to 200,000 illegal crossings (excluding descendants) in the next 10 years it would be enough to pay for the estimated $12 to $15 billion cost of the wall. 1
• Newly released research by the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) done for the Department of Homeland Security indicates that 170,000 illegal immigrants crossed the border successfully without going through a port of entry in 2015. While a significant decline in crossings from a decade ago, it still means that there may be 1.7 million successful crossings in the next decade. If a wall stopped just 9 to 12 percent of these crossings it would pay for itself.2
• If a wall stopped half of those expected to successfully enter illegally without going through a port of entry at the southern border over the next 10 years, it would save taxpayers nearly $64 billion — several times the wall’s cost.
  

There's more in the link, but there's your savings.