Why Is Trump's Wall A Bad Thing?

[Benton]

(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.

For the most part, yes,it's a coincidence.

That's around the time when our economy tanked. Jobs are far and away the biggest reasons immigrants come here. No jobs, no point. By that point, most of the auto manufacturers that left had opened factories in Mexico (something that started in the 90s and continued through today).

Basically, immigration is becoming less and less of a problem because Americans allowed politicans and special interests to lower our economy enough that immigrants don't have the incentive to come here.