The news is filled with images of migrants massing at the U.S-Mexico border near the San Ysidro crossing in California. Why haven't they been able to enter the United States? Because a physical barrier prevents them from doing so.
It is just another example of a barrier — a fence, a wall, whatever — providing real border security.
Of course, building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border was President Trump's premier campaign promise. So far, in nearly two years in office, he has made almost no progress toward making it happen. Trump has had opportunities to win wall funding in exchange for amnesty for recipients of President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, policy. But the White House loaded its wall proposal with add-on demands, and it never happened.
Building a wall would cost an estimated $25 billion. Trump often says that he has already gotten $1.6 billion to start work. But Congress has specifically dictated that most of that money not be used for the president's wall. Some of it can be used to build new fencing — not the wall designs that the administration has tested — while other money is restricted to the replacement of existing fencing.
There was talk that Trump might win $5 billion for wall funding during the lame-duck session as House Republican lawmakers finish their last few weeks in power. The chances of that happening are not good.
So what now?
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4 comments:
No need to build any wall. Just pass a law that fines employers who hire illegals. And another law that requires employers to use "E-Verify" and finely, a reward system to whomever turns in an illegal and the employer.
Just think, a fine to the employer of $50,000 for each illegal hired, and a reward of $10,000 to whomever turns them both in.
This is the way to end this problem, no jobs, no illegals coming in.
Keep them out to begin with 10:32. If they are here and not working at all, you had better build a wall around your homestead.
Gerald...while all of your statement sounds appealing, we have to consider the others that are not interested in working here..and there are many! The ones bent on our destruction, one way or another. Think about it...
The Dems have chosen to support illegals over Americans. They love power so much even if it means letting America turn into a third world slum.
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