Why Is Trump's Wall A Bad Thing?

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(02-01-2019, 02:04 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: 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.

The San Diego Border Wall didn't start to deter crossings until they added hundreds of agents there. Even then, it just pushed crossings further down to places without as many agents.

Bush doubled the number of agents on the border during his time in office and Obama added another 25% on top of that. 

Walls didn't do anything. Double agents did.