Why Is Trump's Wall A Bad Thing?

[Mike M (the other one)]

(01-29-2019, 03:54 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Will it put a serious curb on it? What exactly are you basing that off of?

1993 –  President Bill Clinton mandates construction on a 13-mile “Border Wall” along a line in the sand between San Diego and Tijuana. It is projected to cost $39 million and reduce border apprehensions from 100,000 per day to 5,000 per day for those 13 miles. Emigrants find other paths. 
2005  –  More than one million people are arrested crossing into the United States from Mexico. More than 500 die crossing. 
2006 –   President Bush signs the Secure Fences act, promising 700 miles of fencing on the border, plus a virtual wall across the entire 2,000-mile border.
2008 – The U. S. announces that a section of the barrier had been mistakenly built from 1 to 6 feet (2 meters) inside Mexican territory and must be moved.  Congress approves the Department of Homeland Security’s right to circumvent more than 30 environmental laws in a push to get fencing constructed by year’s end.
2011 –  The Department of Homeland Security completes 649 miles of barriers, including 350 miles of pedestrian fencing, at an estimated $6.5 million per mile, and 299 miles of vehicle barriers that cost approximately $1.7 million per mile. But $1 billion spent on a pilot program for “virtual surveillance” in Arizona yields only 53 miles of coverage. With the backing of the DHS, the Obama administration cuts funding for the rest of the hyper-expensive “virtual wall.”


Is it a coincidence that illegal immigration started going down after 2008 and has continued to decrease with walls and barriers in place in almost 1/3 of the total border length??

10 Years before wall vs 10 years after wall started, illegal immigration cut in half.